SPORTS
The University Daily KANSAN
January 30,1984 Page 10
Carl Henry, who led KU with 23 points, scrambles on the floor for a loose ball during KU's 65-54 victory over K-State Saturday. Jim McCrossen/KANS
Carl & Kelly are 'Hawks' heart and soul
A dirty white sheet, slightly wrinkled and covered
wrapped and blue-and-brown string, hung in the northwest
ward.
It was a banner among many banners, but this one had a special significance after Saturday's 65-14 game.
"CARL & KELLY,The heart & soul of the Hawks."
The other banners advertised fan clubs for Mark
JEFF CRAVENS
Sports Editor
Turgene and Greg Dresling, the shortest and tallest Jayhawks, two players who stand on the court.
But the one lone banner extolling the talents of Carl Henry and Kelly Knight stated what has become the obvious. The two senior forwards have come under the leaders of the first place team in the Big Eight.
KNIGHT DOMINATED the boards in the first half, claiming 10 rebounds while getting a hand on what seemed like every loose ball. He ended the game with 13 points and 13 rebounds.
Henry played a near-perfect game, missing one shot out of nine from the field while hitting all seven of his free throws. He scored 14 points in the second half to keep the Wildcats at bay.
"I think Kelly and Carl have especially been sensational since the start of conference play. They've taken on the responsibility," Larry Brown said.
In the conference season, Henry is averaging 19.8 points and 7.4 rebounds a game. Knight is averaging 10.2 and 8.4. Both players have improved their statistics to slow start in the non-conference schedule.
There are two reasons why Knight and Henry have emerged during KU's five conference games. One reason, as Knight puts it, is that it is their "last go-round" in the conference. The second is that both are healthy after nagging injuries early in the season.
"IT'S A COMBINATION of both," Knight said. "I went through a spell there when my wrist affected
Whatever the reason, the two played instrumental roles in KU's first victory over the Wildcats in almost three years. It was the second consecutive victory after having problems with his heel and hamstring.
"As I go on, I think I can get better and better," he said. "I just took my time and when the shot came, I took it. I'm a lot better. I can move around a lot more."
Knight's outstanding first half helped KU jump out to a 29-20 lead at the intermission.
"I was over-ready," he said. "It was probably the last time for me to play K-State in Allen Field House and I was ready to take on the challenge. There was no way we were going to get beat."
HENRY PLAYED GUARD last season for the 'Hawks, but Brown has shifted the 6-foot-5-inch senior from Oklahoma to forward for his rebounding ability. KU's starting front line outfielder Michael Wilson
"Our big guys play an important part of our offense and defense," he said.
For Knight, a fifth-year senior, the victory over KState meant a lot, but not as much as KU's gaining ground.
"For me, this is the last go-round," he said. "It's my last chance for a Big Eight championship."
For KU to win the conference title, it's clear that Knight and Henry must lead the way. Big Eight officials have put the clamps on Dreiling, and they experienced conference competition for the first time.
"I would agree with that," Henry said about the banner. "We also have a lot of other guys responsible for the team, though."
Knight iust smiled.
"I THINK THE TEAM looks to me and Carl," he said. "We're probably the two most experienced players on the team. It seems that if we play well, then the team plays well, so I guess I agree."
'Hawks take Big 8 lead, dominate K-State 65-54
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Editor
The wait had seemed like an eternity. It had been two years, 10 months and 21 days, to be exact, since both the KU fans and players had seen the Jaya-hawks beat their cross-state rivals, the Kansas State Wildcats. After Saturday's 65-54 victory, the waiting was over.
The victory not only ended the waiting, but put KU into sole possession of first place in the Big Eight. 'ɡa game ahead of Oklahoma. But the Jayhawks were in Tuesday when they travel to Norman to take on Wayman Tisdale and Co.
Kansas State, on the other hand, is still looking for its first conference win.
The Jayhawks all but decided this game by outscoring the Wildcats 13-0 in a seven-minute period in the first half to take a 21-7 lead. After that, it was just a matter of when the game would finally be completed.
"THEY'VE GOT A young team and helped us to get out to an early lead," KU coach Larry Brown said. "When you lost three games in the conference and get behind early, that puts some pressure on you."
"That was the longest game I've ever seen." Brown said. "They had some really good shots in the first half. Elder had some shots that he hit in the second half, but he couldn't get them to fall early."
Carl Henry, who hit eight of nine from the field and all seven of his free throws in the game, hit a 15-foot jump shot. The Jays trailed 2-4. The Jayhawks never trailed.
Even with Calvin Thompson and Greg Drilling on the bench in foul trouble for most of the half, KU continued to build its lead. Only five straight points by K-State's Jonas Cody and a couple of baskets by Tom Alfaro and Elder helped the 'Cats close within nine. 29-20, at the half.
The visitors came in shooting better than 50 percent as a team, but the Kansas 2.3 zone defense turned in five of 16 shots. His 8.5 shot only 35 percent in the first half.
"I asked the guy at Colorado why our zone was doing so well and he said we are just very big." Brown said "And our little kids cover a lot of ground
"WE ARE NOT giving up many cheap baskets. Most of the shots were from outside and your'e not supposed to make every nump shot. Another thing is we are at home and they had to shoot jump shots on our court."
KU's front line of Henry, Kelly Knight and Dreiling dominated its counterparts from KState, outscoring 45-22 and outbounding them 24-14.
"There's no doubt that the team
depends on the big guys dominating the boards." Knight said.
Knight dominated in the first half, claiming 10 rebounds and keeping the ball alive countless times so another teammate could get the ball.
"Couch always told us that in December, every team we played got the loose balls," Knight said. "And that's just effort."
IF THERE WAS ANY doubt about this one, it ended quickly in the second half. KU outscored the Wildcats 10-3 at home and led by a score of 76-25. KU pass from Mark Turpenec to Kouflon.
Turgpeen, a freshman from Topeka,
dealt out nine assists for the second
game.
The Jahawks led by as many as 19 in the second half and K-State had to outscore KU 12.5 in the final two to make the final score respectable
"I never really liked them," Turgeon said of the Wildcats. "I've always been a KU fan. I couldn't wait til warmups seemed like warmups took forever."
"Let's give Kansas credit," Hartman said. "They played well and we just didn't compete. And when I say there's nothing you've got to hit shots that are open."
"I don't know what has got those guys to pull the trigger so fast. Brown said, "The police are going to investigate."
HENRY FINISHED with 14 points in six games and silenced an omaha hope KState had for it.
"I know he hit some big jumps," Brown said of Henry. "Everytime we needed a hoop, it seemed like Carl would hit a baseline jumper."
Henry, from Oklahoma City, was the only Jachack starter not from Kansas.
"Yeah, I was pumped up as much as the guys from Kansas." he said
After playing four of its first five conference games in Allen Field House, KU now faces Oklahoma, which was losing to Memphis on Saturday.
"WE'VE GOT A BREAK in the schedule with four of our first five at home." Brown said "Now we have to win on the road."
Saturday, Tisdale scored only 12 points, which tied the lowest output of his college career. Last season, in the Jayhawks' two victories over the Sooners, Tisdale managed 12 and 13 points.
"I just hope we can hold him twice more. " Knight, who guarded Tidale late
Dreiling said, "I'm just gonna have to come and give it all I've got to me."
SPORTS BRIEFS From Staff and Wire Reports Streak ends after 51 games as LA stops Gretzky again
EDMONTON — Though the Los Angeles Kings have proven adept at little else for the past two seasons, they seem to have mastered one art — stopping Wayne Gretzky's record-breaking, point-scoring streaks.
The Kings halted Gretky's point-scoring streak at 51 games Saturday night while defeating the Edmonton Oilers 4-2
The 23-year-old center, who had his previous record of 30 games with at least one point snapped by Los Angeles last year, has been plagued by an injury to his left knee.
"I pondered the last couple of nights about not playing," said Gretzky, who compiled 61 goals and 92 assists during the streak. "But if I was going to be stopped, I wanted to be stopped playing, not sitting in the stands.
"But the shoulder's no excuse. They did a great job, they deserved to win the hockey game and deserved to stop the streak."
DENVER — Julius Erving and Andrew Toney of the Philadelphia 76ers combined to score 15 points in overtime yesterday to bring the East a record-setting fifth consecutive victory over the West, 154-145. The highest-scoring contest in the 34-year history of the NBA All-Star game.
Gretzky's best opportunity to extend the streak came in the first period. He set up defenseman Charlie Huddy, who missed a wide-open net on a two-on-one break. Gretzky also had two clear shots on net in the third quarter, both foiled by goaltender Matsusson, who turned back 27 Oiler shots.
Isiah Thomas of Detroit, voted the game's outstanding player from a host of superlative performances, scored the first three points of the game.
Thomas, Erving lead East to victory
Bernie Nicholls scored two goals for the Kings.
Erving scored 34 points, eight short of an All-Star Game record, while Los Angeles' Earin "Magic" Johnson produced a record 22 assists for the West.
Theismann hot as NFC pounds AFC
HONOLULU — Washington's Joe Theismann passed for a record three touchdowns yesterday to lead the NFC to a 45-3 victory over the AFC in the Pro Bowl.
Theismann atoned for a less-than-spectacular performance a week ago in the Super Bowl with scoring scores of 16 yards to William Andrews of Atlanta, 8 to Green Bay's James Lofton, and 6 yards to another Packer, Paul Coffman.
The NFC, in rolling up a record number of points and the largest margin of victory, got its other points on a 5-yard pass from Joe Montana of San Francisco to Andrews, a 44-yard pass interception return by Nolan Cromwell of the Los Angeles Rams, a 14-yard run by Eric Dickerson of the Rams and a 23-yard field goal by Ali Haji Sheikh of the New York Giants.
Women whip Ladv 'Cats for 1st-place tie
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
The Kansas women's basketball team, much like the men's team, ended over two years of frustration by knocking off 10th-ranked Kansas State 71-58 Saturday afternoon in Allen Field House.
The victory broke a four-game, two-season losing streak to their arch-rivals. The women's team had not defeated the Wildcats since 1981.
The Jayhawks, 7-9 overall, have won their last three Big Eight conference games after losing their conference opponent to Missouri, Kansas, Missouri
and K-State are tied for first place in the conference with records of 3-1.
"I THOUGHT WE established ourselves in the first 10 minutes of the ballgame," said Kansas head coach Marian Washington. "There was no question in our minds that if we played our game we had a shot at them."
The Jayhawks' game in the first half was based on getting the ball inside to center Vickie Adkins. She responded by hitting eight of 12 shots from the field. Adkins scored 19 points in the first half. Atake Kansas to a 36-28 halftime lead.
Adkins hit 11 of 18 shots from the field in the game and led all players with 29 hits.
an average of 21.5 points a game in
conference games and 16.4 in all
Kansas never trailed in the game. A basket by Adkins with 16-04 left in the first half put KU into the lead for good at 10-8. Leading 19-16 with 11-27 left in the third, Jayhaws scored eight unanswered pts., six by Adkins, to put them up by 11.
THE, WILDCATS, who had been ranked in the top 10 in the national coaches' poll, fought to within one point and knocked out the second half but never gained the lead.
With 9:01 left in the game, two free throws by Wildcat center Angie Bonner pulled them to within one at 52-51.
BONNER SCORED 15 points to lead the Wildcats. Cassandra Jones and Sheronda Jenkins followed with 16 and 12, respectively.
Angie Sniper then drilled a 16-foot shot from the right side to give the Jayhaws some breathing room. They outscored K State 17-7 through the rest
Six-foot three center Tina Dixon, K-State's leading scorer, saw action for the first time in five games after a knee injury. She scored four points.
Two ranked teams take dive as KU women take first place
"I thought we played good man-to-man defense the whole ball game," Washington said. The Jayhawks held their third consecutive field goal shooting for the game.
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Writer
The Kansas women's swimming team defeated two nationally ranked teams to take first place at the Midwest invitational at Robinson Natatorium Saturday.
Kansas scored 745 points, easily outstanding sixth-ranked Southern Illinois. The Salukis finished with 527 points. Colorado State placed third with 391 points, and 12th-ranked Iowa finished fourth, scoring 383 points.
"It's very nice for us to handle the sixth and 12th-rated teams in the country as well as we did," Kansas swimming coach Gary Kemp said.
"THE BEST THING about this wrestler is that the entire program sworn stanch."
The Lady Jayhawks placed first in 12 events and second in four events
Tammy Pearce and Jenny Wagstaff led the Jayhawks with two first-place finishes each. Pease won the 50-meter freestyle in 24.08 and the 100-meter breaststroke in 1 minute, 7.17 seconds. She also swam on the first-place 200-meter freestyle, 400-meter medley and 200-meter medley relay teams.
Pease has the fastest time in the
peace this year. He was on his
freeze and was on his fastest time.
IN DIVING, Celia Gales placed third in both 1-meter and 3-meter diving. Gales' scores of 377.35 in the 1-meter and 419.05 in the 3-meter qualified her for the zone NCAA national meet. Gates first tru KU diver to qualify in seven years.
Wagstaff, who has one of the top five times in the nation in the 200-meter butterfly, placed first in the 100-meter butterfly in the nation in the 200-meter butterfly
the 100-meter breaststroke.
In the relay events Pease, Tana Bowen, Taryn Gaulien and Liz Duncan placed first in the 200-meter medley relay with a time of 1:49.10. The 200-meter freestyle relay team of Pease, Wagstaff, Duncan and Celine Cerny placed first in 1:39.07 and Cerny, Pease, Gaulien and Darcy Gregor combined to finish first in the 400-meter medley relay in 4:06.
Kempf said he was surprised that his team defeated the others so easily.
"I EXPECTED the meet to be closer." Kempf said. "I can't say we were fast, but we were much stronger than the other teams."
Gregor, Wagstaff, Marcie Herold and Chris Wright placed second in the 800-meter freestyle relay in 7:46.59. The 400-meter freestyle relay team of Wright, Cerny, Duncan and Gregor also finished second with a time of 3:19.55.
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Celia Gales, Wayne, Ill. freshman, executes a one-and-a-half back somersault during the Midwest Invitational Saturday afternoon. KU won the meet, which featured two other nationally ranked teams.
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