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The University Daily KANSAN
January 24,1984 Page 10
Jayhawks top Drury after loss to Tigers
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Writer
The Kansas men's swimming team bounced back from Friday's dual meet loss at Missouri to defeat Dratury College Saturday at Robinson Natatorium.
The Jayhawks finished first in all 13 events against Drury on the way to a
But Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf said he was disappointed with his team's performance against the Cardinals, who won only four of 13 events in a 70-43 loss.
"Against Missouri we were, plain and simple, flat." Keen auf said.
"We gave a good effort, but Missouri
is very bad," he said. "They've beaten
them."
With the win over Kansas, Missouri established itself as the early favorite in the conference race. Nebraska reigns as the defending champion in the Big Eight after winning its fourth game. Oklahoma and Jayhawks finished second in that meet.
Despite the loss, Kempf said he was happy with the performance of his freshmen, particularly Todd Neugent. He was also pleased to have a time with a call of 4 minutes, 40.99 seconds.
Neugent also won the 1,000-meter freestyle against Drury, posting a time of 9:41.86.
Also swimming well against Missouri was senior Brad Wells. Wells won the 200-meter backstroke, setting a new Missouri Natatorium record of 1:55.44.
As an exhibition entry against Drury, Wells placed first in the 500-meter freestyle with a time of 4:41.06.
"Probably the best thing to come out of our Missouri meet was our diving." Kempf said. "Our diving situation seems to be getting better."
Mark Murphy led the way for the Jayhawks in diving against Missouri, winning the 3-meter event. Mike Prangle finished third in the 3-meter and second in the 1-meter.
Against Drury, Prangle won the 3-meter diving event, while Murphy took first in the 1-meter.
KU's 400-meter freestyle relay team of Chris McCool, Doug Estrahm, Jim Ammons and Wells defeated Missouri to win the championship dayhawks only other first place finish.
Brad Coens, Aammons, McCool and Wells combined to win the 400-meter freetree relay against Drury with a time of 3:10.65.
KU's users were ranked 13th in the NCAA poll released yesterday.
Kempf said he expected tough competition for the women's team at the Midwest Invitational, which will include Iowa and Colorado State.
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Wearing black — not in mourning, but in triumph — nearly 1,000 fans were kept behind fences as they welcomed home the Los Angeles Raiders, the city's first-ever Super Bowl victors.
LA fans welcome team back 'home'
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Wearing black — not in mourning, but in triumph — about 1,000 fans crowded an airport runway yesterday to welcome home the Los Angeles Raiders, the city's first Sister Bowl champions.
A plane full of VIPs, wives and cheerleaders returned to Los Angeles in mid-afternight, more than two hours before the players and coaches were to arrive on a second flight aboard a chartered 747
Actor James Garner, who spent Sunday on the Raiders bench, said that the team had proved itself to the Los Angeles fans.
"They're already loved." Garner replied when asked if he thought the team had been accepted by Los Angeles fans, who left the 92,000-seat Coliseum half-empty much of the season.
"A lot of people love the Raiders. As soon as the press stops asking when they're going back to Oakland, more people will love them."
"They set out to accomplish something — Al Davis and coach Tom Flores — and they did," he told reporters.
Ginny Boyle, wearing a Raiders
top hat, shared Garner's sentiments, saying she had adopted the team that moved to Los Angeles from Oakland two years ago.
"We love the Raiders," she said. "They're so exciting. I'm still hoarse from yelling yesterday."
Fans wearing the team's silver and black colors began lining up behind a chain-link fence hours before the first plane arrived.
One celebrant placed a placard reading, "Be Right." Just Win, Baby, referring to team owner Al Roehl, before players before the Super Bowl victory.
A teen-ager said yesterday's celebration was for the "real fans" who couldn't watch the game in person.
"This is for the die-hard fans," he said, "the ones who couldn't afford to go to Tampa."
One fan dressed his huge, shaggy dog in a silver "Super Bowl champion" shirt, on sale by hawkers for $10 each.
In response to pleadings, three team cheerleaders, Rarderettes, walked over to the fence and led the fans in a cheer.
Mayor Tom Bradley has declared today "Raiders Day" and will host an 11 a.m. public reception.
Author's son 2nd to die from wreck
By United Press International
SPOKANE, Wash. — Author Ken Kesey's 20-year-old son, Jed, died yesterday from injuries received when a van carrying the University of Oregon wrestling team skidded on an icey road and plummeted down a steen embankment.
He was the second wrestler to die in the weekend accident in the hilly country near Pomeroy, in a remote section of southeastern Washington.
Kosey's parents and other members of his family were at Deaconex Medical Center in Spokane when the wrestler died of head injuries.
Ken Kesey was an early hero of the 1960s counterculture whose use of LSD was chronically by Tom Wolfe in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid He is also the author of 'One Flea' and 'Sometimes a Great Notion.'"
During his student days at Oregon from 1953 to 1957, Ken also was a wrestler, finishing second in the 167-pound class at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Championships for the 1955-56 season.
The author also sponsors an annual "Ken Kesey Writing Scholarship," which is awarded each year to a wrestler.
While his sons were growing up,
he set up wrestling mats in the barn
on their farm at Pleasant Hill, Ore.,
and worked out with them.
Deaconess upgraded the condition yesterday of two other wrestlers from critical to serious condition. Two others were in satisfactory condition at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lewiston, Idaho.
Jed Kesey wrestled mostly at 150 pounds this year and had a 1-7 record.
Three other coaches and athletes were discharged following treatment for injuries.
"What do you say?" asked coach Rin Finley, who kept vigil in the intensive care unit where his wrestlers were being treated.
KU's Metzger qualifies for NCAAs with career-best finish in pole vault
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
Kansas pole-vaulter Jim Metzger cleared 12-7<sub>4</sub> Friday and captured first place in the collegiate division of the East Tennessee State Eastman Invitation at Johnson City, Tenn.
Metzger's vault was his personal best and qualified him for the NCAA Indoor National Championships scheduled for March in Syracuse, N.Y. This was the second year in the season at Metzler, a college division of the East Tennessee meet.
Metzger's teammate Tom Hays tied for fourth place in the pole vault, going 15-0 KU's distance medley relay team of B Billen Bruce, Connelly Greg Dalzell, and Greg Leibert placed six out of 11 teams with a time of 10
minutes, 3.3 seconds. Villanova won the race with a time of 9:34.0.
In women's competition, the only Jayhawk to place was shot-putter Stine Lerdahl. She threw the shot $47.8_{14}$ finishing fourth.
Former Jayhawk standout Jeff Buckingham won the meet's open pole vault event Saturday night by leaping 34.5 feet in indoor record holder Billy Olson.
Seven men and nine women from the KU track squads competed in the meet. The remainder of the men's and women's squads stayed at home to compete in the All-Comers Meet Saturday at Allen Field House.
The open competition of the meet included athletes from Kansas, Kansas State, Wichita State, Emporia State, and several state junior colleges.
said those competing for KU's men's team went unattached to keep open the possibility of being redshirted later in the season.
The Jayhawks' Clint Johnson, who has already been redshirt, won the shot-put with a toss of $63.2\%$. Scott Huffman, another redshirt, finished second in the pole vault by clearing 16-5.
KU assistant coach Roger Bowen
In the women's open division, Jayhawk long-jumper Kim Jones jumped $ 18.71_{2} $ and won the event.
Other Jayhawk women placing in the top three included Vicki Fulcher, first in the 440 yard dash with a time of 57.78 and third in the 60 yard dash with a time of 7.06. Vyette Grove, second in the sixty-ary hurdles with a time of 8.35; and Kelly Wood, third in the mile with a time of 5:09.70
Despite effort, Buffs still 0-3 in Big 8
By United Press International
The production of the Colorado basketball team may rate a zero, but not the effort.
The Buffaloes are 0-3 in Big Eight Conference play but they certainly aren't playing like a last-place team. Colorado lost its conference opener at Kansas 53-48 after trailing by a mere point and in possession of the basketball with 90 seconds remaining; then came a 109-89 double overtime loss at home to No. 17 Oklahoma and a 76-74 overtime loss at Oklahoma State.
Colorado had two chances to win in the final 10 seconds of regulation play against Oklahoma State but Jay Humphries mided a 25-foot shot with seven seconds remaining and his backcourt running mate Tony Pruitt then missed a 15-footer at the buzzer to force the overtime.
The Buffalooes, who have finished in last place in the Big Eight in each of Apke's first two seasons and were the preseason choice for eighth again this winter, have the chance to restore some of their credibility in conference play with four of their next five games at home.
"We've done a lot of things well," Colorado coach Tom Acke said. "We could easily be 3-0 and the toast of the league instead of 0-3 and as frustrated as we are. I tell our players, 'We've played well enough to win — now let's do it.' We've got to get a win and go headened in a positive direction."
Colorado will be host to Kansas State, also winless in league play at 0-2, to begin that stretch tomorrow night and will also be home Saturday against Nebraska. After visiting Missouri for a game Feb. 1, the Buffaloes will return home for Iowa State Feb. 8 and Oklahoma State Feb. 11.
"I think we're much improved over last year," said Apke, whose team is 9-7 overall. "We can play with anybody in the league. But I'm getting tired of coming up short. I think we've got a win. We've just got to start proving it."
Nebraska center Dave Hoppen was ill Saturday night and it was reflected in his play against Missouri. The 6-foot-2 center scored 12 points, seven fewer than his team-leading average, and only managed four rebounds before fouling out in the closing minutes of a 50-48 home loss.
the flu but his illness has since been diagnosed as strep throat, which makes him a questionable starter tomorrow night at Kansas.
"David just couldn't play (against Missouri)." Nebraska coach Moe Iba said. "He didn't have any energy. We might have to hold him out of a ball game to him well. And if we don't have him, we've got problems . . ."
Hoppen was initially thought to have
In games tonight, Missouri hosts Iowa State in a battle of 2-1 teams and unbeaten Oklahoma State, 2-0, visits Oklahoma, 2-1.
Iowa State is 12-4 overall and a victory at Missouri would equal the Cyclones' win total of a year ago. Iowa State has won four of its last five games, including impressive victories over Big Eagle and Big Eight favorite Oklahoma. But the Cyclones have also lost in their last five visits to the Missouri campus.
"We feel as good or better than we've ever felt down there that we have a chance to win," Iowa State coach Johnny Orr said. "This is the strongest team I've ever had to take down in the state this season on the road (wins at Drake, Colorado State and against Ball State in the Hoosier Classic) . . ."
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Nation's top scorer Tisdale is Big 8 Player of the Week
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oklahoma forward Wayman Tisdale was named the Big Eight's Player of the Week yesterday for his combined 66 points and 15 rebounds in road victories last week over Colorado and Kansas State.
Kansas State The 6-foot-9 Tisdale collected 36 points and 10 rebounds in a 100-89 double-overtime victory over Colorado and had 30 points and five rebounds in an 83-80 triumph over Kansas State.
Tisdale has now topped 30 points in nine of Oklahoma's 17 games this season and leads the nation with an average of 29.8 points a game. He was 16-of-20 from the field against Colorado and 12-of-24 against Kansas State.
"I thought we had a great defensive game plan against Wayman," Colorado coach Tom Apke said. "We wanted him shooting the ball in traffic and I thought we did a pretty good job of executing our plan. But he still made 16-of-20 shots and none of them were easy."
McEnroe named 1983 Mr. Nice Guy
RADNOR, Pa. — John McEnroe, known as well for his temper tantrums as his tennis-playing ability, has been named the winner of TV Guide's 1983 Mr. Nice Guy Award.
The prize, established 10 years ago, is given annually to a sports figure who has displayed "special boorish actions" during the year, the magazine said.
McEenroe, the youngest winner of the award, displaced New York Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner, who won the award for a record three straight years. This year, though, he fell to third place behind Art Schleicher, the former Cola quarterback who was suspended from magazine said.
McEenroe was fined $3,000 in France by the Men's International Pro Tennis Council for "ball abuse" among other offenses, and he was willed $500 at Wimbledon for "verbal abuse." He was also fined $1,650 at the U.S. Open and $1,500 in Australia and suspended for 21 days for his ill-tempered actions.
Oilers say Gretzky trade not in plan
EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton Oilers emphatically denied yesterday any suggestion center Wayne Gretzky could be part of a trade to boost the popularity of the National Hockey League in the United States.
"Wayne Gretzky will not be sold or traded as long as Peter Pocklington is owner of this hockey club." Oilers' spokesman Bill Tuele said yesterday.
Gretzky was quoted as saying such a trade was possible in a televised edition of the Sports Hot Seat.
The edition, pre-recorded in June, was broadcast Saturday. The program gave no indication when it was taped.
Tuele said Gretzky's comments were entirely hypothetical, and have since been denied by both Gretzky and the Oilers.
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