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The University Daily KANSAN
February 20,1984 Page 12
Phil Mahre's gold medal loses luster next to new son
United Press International
SARAJEVO. Yugoslavia - Phlj Mahre leans around a gate on the way to his gold medalwinning performance in the men's slalom. Mahre's brother Steve took second yesterday on the final day of competition.
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — In a highly emotional wind-up to the most memorable day of his life, there was nothing left for Phil Mahre to do but break down and cry.
By United Press International
Early in the afternoon he won an Olympic gold medal, and a few hours later he learned that his wife had given birth to their second child. The 8-pound, 13-ounce boy was born to Holly Mahre of Oakland, Calif., at Hospital A at 1:37 a.m. MST. four hours before Fili checkes his gold at 1:40 p.m. local time.
"SHE WAS DOING all the work and I was out playing." Mahre joked yesterday. "It's just unfortunate she can't be on this day. My heart goes out to her."
Not only did Phil Mahre win the slalom, becoming the first American man ever to take that event in the Olympics, but his twin brother Steve finished a fraction behind to capture the silver medal. Afterward, with the tears in his eyes, Phil said he'd trade the gold to be with his
And on such epic proportions, with a soft snow settling once again on Sarajevo and a Hollywood script to provide a suitable ending, did the 14th Winter Olympic Games come to an end.
"I wish I was home right now," he said. "It's not worth missing."
THE GAMES WERE officially declared over in a simple half-hour ceremony ending at 8:35 p.m. (2:35 p.m. EST) with Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, calling upon "the youth of all the world to assemble four years from now at Calgary in Canada, there to celebrate with us the 15th Olympic Winter Games."
In the 48 years that Alpine skiing has been a part of the Olympic program, no American man has ever won a gold. Then Bill Johnson came through with a downhill victory on Thursday,
So close are the Mahre twins that when one completes his run, he radiates advice about conditions to the other at the top of the hill before he attends the at the time that did for Phil during the first run yesterday, and then Phil returned the favor when he was leading in the second run.
and three days later Phil Mahre provided his epoch, one called "a dream come true."
"HE HAD THE gold in his hands, but we've always worked together." Steve said, crading his 2-year-old daughter. Ginger. "If I don't win, he'd better."
East Germany was the gold medal leader with nine in the 39 events, three more than the runner-up Soviet Union. The United States tied with Finland and Sweden for third place.
The wind-up enabled the United States to finish the Olympic Games with four gold and four silver medals. The entire output came in fifth place, but Americans winning half of the six Alpine events.
THE SOVIET UNION edged East Germany in total medals, 25-24, followed by Finland with 13. Norway with nine and the United States and Sweden with eight each.
The Soviets regained the hockey crown from the United States, beating Czechoslovakia 2-0 in yesterday's final. Sweden defeated Canada by an identical 2-0 score for the bronze medal.
In the only other closing-day event, Thomas Wassberg and Gunde Svan gave Sweden a 1.2 finish in the 50-kilometer cross-country ski race. Aki Karvonen of Finland took the bronze.
The Mahres almost gained their 1-2 finish by default when seven of the first nine racers in the first heat missed gates and were eliminated. Only 53 of the 103 starters completed both runs. Steve Mahre led after the first run with his brother third, seven-tenths of a second behind.
BUT PHIL MAHRE, with the information supplied by Steve, responded with a near-
perfect run in the second heat to win by 21 hundredths of a second. Didier Bouvet of France was third.
"Today I was just lucky," said the 26-year-old winner, who was a silver medalist in the slalom at Lake Pikechin. "The way he was skiing I didn't think I had a chance. He was unfortunate to make some mistakes. On the second run I was relaxed and I had a lot more confidence."
Steve Mahre said he was guilty of at least three mistakes on the second run, the most costly one coming after 15 gates from the end. He got locked to one side and couldn't turn left.
It was only later, when Phil Mahre was leaving the Olympic Village to receive his award, that he received an acceptance letter.
REPEATING WHAT HE has been saying for several years, Phil Mahire stressed that the Olympic gold wasn't as important to him as the World Cup championship he captured three times. The Olympic is a one-day test, while the World Cup requires season-long performance.
"This is just another victory to me," he said. "I wanted to win here but it wasn't mandatory. This is just another notch on your skis. I was never in the sport to win just one thing. I'm in the sport to be victorious. I was never here to set records. I was here to compete."
"This is a dream come true. Everyone dreams of gold, but it doesn't really compare. But this is it."
Both Mahres intend to compete in the United States later this winter. Phil Mahre said, "I feel the American public has a right to see me if they want."
But both possibly could retire at the end of the season.
Asked what Pihl Mhahre would be doing next winter, the new father said, "T'll probably be bad. I'll do it."
Women's basketball
Nationally ranked MU routs Jayhawks at home
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
The Kansas women's basketball team found out something Saturday that most Big Eight conference teams already knew — the Missouri Tigers are a very tough ballclub to beat at home.
The Jayhawks, 10-12 overall, lost to the ninth-ranked Tigers 92-61, dropping their conference record to 6-4. Kansas remains in third place in the Big Eight race, one game ahead of Oklahoma State and Oklahoma.
Missouri, 20-3 overall and first in the conference with a 9-1 record, hasn't lost a conference game at home this year, winning six times by a 25-point average margin. Twelfth-ranked Kansas State is the only conference team to challenge the Tigers at Columbia, losing 66-62.
Kansas began to whittle away at the Tigers' lead. Mary Myers tied the game with 5:58 left in the half on a 15-foot jumper, and consecutive field goals by
Missouri raced to an early lead in Saturday's game behind the passing of point guard Dee Dee Polk. With 12-28 at home, the team ended up scoring 10 points off assists from Polk.
Valerie Quarles gave the Jayhawks a 22-18 lead.
But Missouri responded with 14 unanswered points, eight by reserve forward Renee Kelly, putting the ball through at midfield. 32-18. Missouri led at halftime, 34-24.
The Tigers dashed any Jayhawk hopes of getting back into the ballgame by scoring the first six points of the second half. Missouri outscored Kansas 24-11 in the first nine minutes to lead by 23, 58-35.
The Tigers shot 73 percent from the field in the second half and made 57 percent for the game. The Jayhawks connected on 39 percent from the field.
Kansas wasn't much better from the free-throw line, hitting 45 percent on 9-of-20 shooting. Missouri made 16 of its 23 foul shots, good for 73 percent.
Turnovers also hurt the Jayhawks. They committed 35 turnovers in all, 18 coming in the first half. Missouri had 22 turnovers in the game.
Kansas did outbroreuck Missouri, 45-36, with the help of center Vickie Adkins' 18 boards. The total was 98, which was at the highest by a Javakhwak this season.
Adkins was the only Kansas player in double figures, scoring 17 points.
Arkansas swimmers beat KU; coach looking for consistency
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Writer
The Kansas men's swimming team, tuning up for the Big Eight Championships, lost to the Arkansas Razorbacks in a dual meet at Robinson Natoratum.
"I was a little bit disappointed," Kemp said. "We didn't swim with intensity throughout the meet. We just watched that consistent aggressiveness."
Kansas placed first in three of the 13 events, and Jayhawk coach Gary Kempf said that his team needed to be more consistent.
Wells placed first in the 200-yard backstroke in 1 minute, 54.18 seconds and third in the 200-yard freestyle in 3 minutes, 66.19 seconds in the 200-yard butterfly in 1:56.59.
Kempf said that he was pleased with the performances of many of his swimmers, particularly Brad Wells and Jay Engel.
Ammons placed second in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.87 and third in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.25. McCool, a freshman, medal in 1:58.74 and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle in 48.37.
"We also saw continued good swimming out of Jim Ammons, Chris McCool and Todd Neugent," Kempf said.
Neugen placed first in the 200 individual medley in 1:56.84, second in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:42.52 and in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:12.79.
Jayhawk women lose first tennis match
By the Kansan Staff
Friday's 6-3 loss to Michigan, the Jayhawk's first loss of the season, left women's tennis coach Scott Perelman optimistic though disappointed.
"I'm disappointed in a lot of little things." Perelman said. "We're much better now than we were in the fall, but our players still lack the intensity to play well in the rain when things get tough. We looked a little tentative out there today."
The Jayhawks won only one singles match but rebounded to win two of the
"I thought that if we could go 2-4 in singles we could win, because our
Christine Parr, the team's no. 4 singles player, picked up the Jayhawks' only singles victory, winning 7-6, 2-6, 6-2. Laura Runnels and Steffanie Dicke, the 2 doubles team, and Cynthia Bregin and Janelle Bunel, the no. 3 team, both won in straight sets.
doubles teams are our strength.” Perelman said.
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Editor
"Christine Parr had a real gutty win," Perelman said. "She was playing a girl she had played against in high school." The first time Christine had beaten her."
COLUMBIA, Mo. — With slightly more than one minute left on the clock, KU's Kelly Knight couldn't keep his feelings suppressed. He broke into a big grin while looking at the Missouri Antlers, a group of fans that had taunted him throughout the afternoon.
Knight was smiling because the Jayhawks dominated the Tigers, winning 72-62 Saturday, in their third consecutive victory. KU is still two games behind Oklahoma, which will win Allen Field House Wednesday night.
The women's team will be off now until March 10 when it begins a five-day, five-match stretch in Honolulu.
KU silences Antlers, whips Tigers 72-62
"WE HAD A lot of fun with the Antlers today," Knight said. "When we were out shooting before the game and they were on us worse than anytime since I've been here. We've been waiting for them all year long."
Knight scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds to help give the Tigers their third consecutive loss at home. Carl Henry led KU with 18 points.
Missouri led only once, at 2-0, and that lasted all of 19 seconds. But the Jayhawks did have a few anxious moments.
AFTER KU BOLTED to a nine-point lead in the second half, Missouri outscored the Jayhawks 10-2 to close the gap to 48-47 with 7:38 left to play.
The Tigers mounted two charges — one at the end of the first half and the other mid-way through the second half, they never get ahead of the Jawhaws.
But Henry, who sat out much of the first half with three foals, hit a jump shot and drove into a goal.
back. The Jayhawks missed the front end of five 1-and-1 foul opportunities in the final two minutes, but it didn't matter.
"Everytime they got back into the game and got the crowd involved, we got a big play from somebody." KU coach Larry Brown said. "They hurt us at the first half, then closed to within one in the second半, but Carl comes down and hits a big shot."
Brown got a taste of the Antlers before the game. One tandem of signs read, "Larry, my son is 7! I Can I"
The KU players were unaffected.
The only phase of the game KU did not dominate was rebounding, as Missouri outrebounded the Jayhawks 43-28. But the Tigers shot 41 percent from the field, 37.5 percent in the second half.
"I KIND OF liked it," Henry said. "They did their homework and had a lot of different phrases."
The KU players weren't the only ones fired up. Brown and MU coach Norm Stewart met in a stormy confrontation at mid-court during the game, but Brown and of intimidating the officials in the earlier game in Lawrence.
"WE'RE IN A situation where we're not playing well at home," Stewart said. "They're pressured and some of that's coming from outside sources. Now we can't play against a
Ron Kellogg, who scored 10 points,
said that the Antlers' heckling
complished the opposite of what it was
intended to do.
"The stuff we were saying got us tired up," he said. We went out and bought a car.
"We kept Malcolm from scoring early and that helped a lot," Brown said. He came on and played great in the game, but we did a pretty good job on him."
zone and we're not as efficient at home."
The KU zone defense helped shut down the Tigers' Malcolm Thomas early in the game Thomas scored 12 runs in the final 10 minutes of the game.
KU's Calvin Thompson scored 14 points while Mark Turgeon added nine points and eight assists. Prince Williams scored two Tigers while Ted Murphy added 10.
Mimitz, a freshman, hurt his right
arm when he shot and the injury
affected his shooting.
"ITS A STRAIN," Stewart said. "I hope its nothing that will keep him out very long. He shot well early, but it was a tough one for our youth is going to create sports."
After the game, Brown said that Oklahoma would still be hard to catch, but most of the KU players are ready to concede the Big Eight title.
"Every game seems like the biggest game," Thompson said. "Now we go home with the crowd waiting for us."
Brown is happy with his teams progress, and especially with the Big Eight tournament coming up in March.
"I honestly see every one of them trying to get better every game," he said. "It's important for us to improve our ability to time is such an important time of year.
"Missouri will definitely be a factor. They show me something by
bouncing back and beating Iowa State. Its a new season for everybody."
JAYHAWK NOTES — In other action around the Big Eight Saturday, Oklahoma beat Colorado 9:30 to retain first place in the conference going into Wednesday game against KU.
Iowa State, behind Barry Stevens,
routed Nebraska 69-48 while Tom Alfaro scored 14 points as Kansas
State beat Oklahoma State 72-56 in a tie
in a tie for third place in the conference
behind Oklahoma and Kansas.
Kansas (72)
Mn  FG  MF  FT  Rb  PP  TP
Carl Henry  31 7 14  14  8  19
Kelly Knight  13 5 11  34  9  14
Matt Wright  21 5 11  34  9  15
Mark Turgeon  21 5 10  37  9  16
Cal Thompson  33 47  67  6  1  14
Ramell Kehoe  21 4.0  6.6  2  1  14
Tim Banks  21 4.0  6.6  2  1  14
Tim Banks  5  0.1  0.2  0  1  0
Brian Martin  13 0 0  0.2  0  1
Percentages: 450, PICT. 30, 799. Tinned shirt
Knight, Drilling I, Turnovers? 12; Henry 4;
Thompson 3; Turgorm, Drilling 2; Hanks 1; Stewkes
6; Thomas, Drilling 4; Thompson 3; Knight,
Banks 1, Royce 1
Malecolm Thomas 36 6/13 FG, FT Rb PP T1 TP
Ted Mirrith 29 4/8 1-2 2 5 16
Kimitzler 20 4/8 1-2 2 7 16
Tonnie McIlroy 10 1/8 2/2 0 10
Cecil Estes 9 0/1 0-1 1 0
Prince Ridge 9 0/1 0-1 1 0
Jon Jones 9 1/3 0-1 0 0
Blake Worthham 28 1/4 2-3 14 4
Ron Jones 28 1/4 2-3 14 4
Matt Kearns 19 4/4 3-4 13 42
Missouri (62)
Percentages: 45, FIG. 40, 117. 622 blocked shot (Cavener, McDuffie Worthing. 1 Turnovers). 18 Cavenger, Estes. 4, Thomas, Wortham. 3, McDuffle. 2, McDuffer. 1, Steals. 4, Mimita Mimita
Half Kansas 31.28, Officals, Mayfield, Pickett
Urash
A 41.70
(COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri's Malcolm Thomas reaches between the scored 12 points, all in the second half, but the jayhawks won the game legs of Calvin Thompson in a fruitless attempt to steal the ball. Thomas 72-82 to stay in second place in the Big Eight.
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN