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University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1983
Decathlon kicks off schedule
Soviet athletes spur Relays spirit
By BOB LUDER Sports Writer
With the addition of the world-class Soviet track athletes, the men's collegiate division of the 58th annual Kansas Relays promises to be more competitive than ever. The Soviets will be the only noncollegiate athletes in the men's division.
Boy Timmons, KU track coach and Relays meet director, plans to enter a team of 24 athletes. Last year, after a long debate over which team won the meet, it was decided that KU tied with the championship. To avoid the same problem this year, Timmons decided to drop team scoring.
IN KEEPING WITH tradition, the INALYS will begin tomorrow afternoon with the start of the Jim Bauch Deathball, joined by the women's
The men's decathlon promises to be one of the most hotly contested events of the meet. The 14-man field is led by two Soviets, Grigoriy Degtyarev and Alexander Nevsky. Degtyarev was ranked fifth in the world last year by Track and Field News and a score of 2.28 in the events. Nevsky is a top mark of 8,133. The Soviet Union is rich in decathlon talent, with 16 men over the 8,000-point mark.
The Jayhawks counter the Soviet attack with the second and third best decathletes in KU history, with seniors Owen Buckley and Jeff Jaquga. Buckley posted his best score of 7,503 at last year's Texas Relays, the second-best score in school history, and Jaquga scored 6,955 at this year's Houston decathlon to move to third on the all-time Jayhawk list.
THE MEN'S POLE VAULT on Saturday afternoon should be another
hotly contested event. Soviet vaulter Alexander Krupskiy leads the field with a vault of 18·8¼. Krupskiy was ranked fourth in Track and Field News' world rankings.
But, unlike the Soviet decathletes, Kruskiy should have plenty of competitive company KU's Jeff Buckingham is close behind with a jump of 18.74$. He is the NCAA record holder in the indoor vault. Oklahoma State's Joe Dial, at 18.34$, and Kansas State's Doug
is 264 feet, followed closely by NCAA champion and Norwegian national record-holder Richard Olsen, whose Kansas has no entries in this event.
Jayhawk athletes lead the fields in three of the 26 events in the men's division. Their strongest event comes in the 400-meter dash, which probably has not been achieved by Sunder Nix from Indiana leads the 19-man field with a time of 44.68
Soviet team to arrive today; welcome planned at Holidome
A group of Soviet athletes will arrive at 2:15 this afternoon at Kansas City International Airport on the campus of Lawrence and the Kansas Relays.
coach, and Marian Washington. head women's basketball coach.
The athletes also will be welcomed by a group of Lawrence children, some of whom wrote letters asking the Soviets to visit.
The Soviet athletes and coaches will be met at the airport by Gov. John Carlin and other state officials; officials from the sponsoring group, Athletes United for Peace; and by KU representatives Jo Jo White, assistant KU basketball
There will be a public welcome for the athletes at 4:30 p.m. at Lawrence's Holiday Inn Holdmile, 200 W. Turnpike Access Road. The team will stay at the Holdmile during its visit.
Lytt at 18-0 should also be in the running for the Relays title.
Two Soviets lead the field in the men's triple jump. Gemady Valyukevich, ranked fourth in the world at 57-2, and Nikola Musenyuen at 56-3'\nlead the list of competitors, which includes the Jayhawks' former national indoor champion, Sanya Owolabi. Owolabi has a best jump of $55-7\mathrm{~s}$.
seconds, the fastest time in the world last year. He is followed closely by KU's Deon Hogan and Rodney Bullock with best marks of 45.38 and 46.03. Also in the field are K-State's All American Mike Bradley at 46.58 and last year's champion, Mike Franks from Southern Illinois.
THE HAMMER THROW, an event rarely contested in the American collegiate ranks, will be highlighted by Russian Yuri Tami, whose best throw
KANSAN ALSO HAS the fastest qualifying time in the Chuck Cramer One Mile Relay with a time of 3 minutes, 7.80 seconds. Clint Johnson of heads the field in the O1. Oval Disc Throw. With a best throw of 192-7.
KU spinter Anthony Polk ranks second in the men's 200-meter dash and sixth in the 100 with times of 20.81 and 10.50.
John Sease is the only Jayhawk in the 110 hurdles, with the second fastest qualifying time of 13.82.
Mark Rau holds down the fifth qualifying spot in the Cifffushman 400 Meter Intermediate Hurdles at 52.14, with Kansas State's Julius Mercer third at 51.32. Darin Hill will also compete in the event for KU.
VAN SCHAFFER, the Big Eight champion in the indoor 1,000-yard run, leads Kansas in the 800 run with the seventh fastest time of 1:50.10, and Tim Gundy holds KU's hopes in the Glenn Cunningham-Wes Santee 1,500 Meter Run with the seventh fastest time of 3:48.
In the long distance events, the Jayhawks will be represented by Brent Steiner and Greg Leibert in the 5,000 run. Steiner his personal best in the event last weekend with a time of 14:19. He will compete in the Billy Mills 10,000 Meter Run on Friday before stepping to the starting line in the 5,000.
The Jayhawks have a team entered in every relay event except one, the 880-yard relay, and hold the fastest relay in the Chuck Cramer One Mile Relay.
Gate Mile Ride
SENIORS WARREN WILHOITE and
Mark Hasson hold the third and fourth
qualifying marks in the long jump and
Randy Howard and Jimmy Metzger
back up Buckingham in the伏特. Pat Craig is KU's only entrant in the Carl V.
Rice High Jump.
Tim Friess is positioned third in the javelin throw. This, and the placing of Clint Johnson fourth in the Bill Nieder Shot Put round out the KU squad for what should be one of the more interesting and exciting Relays in years.
Harroom Bashir came from behind and won the third game, but lost, 1-4, to John M幢alek last night in the final match of the men's advanced division of the Intramural Racquetball Tournament sponsored by the KU Racquetball Club.
Meyer wins Boston race
By United Press International
BOSTON — Greg Meyer hit his stride on the second Newton hill and passed Benji Durden of Stone Mountain, Ga., who had set a torrid pace for the first 19 miles of the Boston Marathon.
meyer, 27, went on to win the grueling 28.2 mile race yesterday in 2 hours and nine minutes, the third fastest time ever for the Hopkinton-to-Boston course, ahead of Ron Tabb of Eugene, Ore., and Durden. It was Meyer's fourth win in seven marathons and his first at Boston. It stirred his emotions and made the Wellesley, Mass., resident feel at home.
meyer told me. Two years ago, Meyer set a blistering pace but faded and finished 11th in his first Boston Marathon.
"WHEN I GOT TO THE top of Heartbreak Hill — it sounds silly, I know — but I felt like I wanted to cry." Meyer told a victorious news conference.
Rodgers, 35, who has won four Boston Marathon, finished fifth Monday and is
"Boston is special — especially if you live around here," said Meyer, who came to the Massachusetts capital a few months ago in guiding gear store owned by Bill Rodgers.
constituting K. B. BEARDED Meyer was all smiles, but said his leg muscles felt tight for the first 13 miles.
At 59, 146 pounds, he is big for a marathon. But his strength carried him across the finish line just 47 seconds off the world record and nine seconds behind Alberto Salazar's Boston standard set last year.
Meyer said he took the lead away from Durden at the second Newton hill, just about where his leading pace was coming him to drop back and finish 11th.
A WORLD-CLASS runner at several long-distance events, Meyer automatically qualified Monday for the World Track and Field. He is one of just two to host. The top three Americans at Boston won the right to represent the United States in Finland.
But Meyer said he planned to concentrate on the shorter distance races this summer.
"I don't think I'll run the marathon this summer," he said.
NBA playoffs begin
By United Press International
The Denver Nuggets venture into the Valley of the Sun and the Atlanta Hawks journey into the dark catacombs of venerable Boston Garden in opening games of NBA mini-series tonight.
The Hawks, 43-39, are in Boston for Game 1 of a best-of-three Eastern Division preliminary series, with the winner to face Central Division champion Milwaukee. The Nuggets, 45-37, take the highest-second place to Phoenix in the Western Conference mini-series against the Suns, with Midwest Division champion San Antonio awaiting the victor.
ATLANTIC DIVISION champion Philadelphia meets the winner of the mini-series between the New Jersey Nets and New York Knicks, with Game 1 slated for Meadowlands Arena tomorrow night. Defending NBA champion Los Angeles, which won the Pacific Division by six games over Phoenix, will meet the winner of the Seattle-Portland
series, which gets under way tomorrow night at the Kingdome.
Until Sunday, the Hawks didn't know whether they would be playing Boston or New Jersey in the opening round, but it was obvious they preferred playing the Nets, whom they beat twice during the regular season. Atlanta won only one of six games against the Celtics.
THE CELTICS, WHO haven't had a mini-series since 1977, pasted a 56-26 mark and tuned up Sunday with a 114-101 triumph over the 76ers. Larry Bird finished 11th in league scoring (23.6), ninth in rebounding (11.0) and ninth in free throw shooting (84 percent).
"I think we're ready to go," said coach Bill Fitch.
Denver's forwards posted an impressive daily double in 1982-83, ranking 1-2 in the NBA scoring race. Alex English led the league with a 28.4 average and Kiki Vandweheg ranked second at 26.7.
"Phoenix is playing very well and it'll take a bell of an effort to win," said Denver coach Doug Moe.
Seitz, Cobb lead KU to 6-0 win
Jayhawks split double-header
Sports Writer
By COLLIN HERMRECK Sports Writer
Kansas pitcher Colette Seitz gave up only four hits and Kim Cobb knocked in two runs to lead the Jayhawks to a 6-0 nightcap victory over Missouri for a split in yesterday's double-header at Holcom Sports Complex.
Hoboken sports team Missouri outlasted the Jayhawks in the first game for a 4-1, 11-inning victory. Tiger pitching veteran Teresa Wilson gave up on five hits, and raised her record to 15-5 for the season.
Wilson was the losing pitcher in KU's 14-victory Friday night at the Missouri Invitational. That game lasted 14 innings. Yesterday's game was the third extra-inning contest between KU and Missouri in the last four days.
and misses. TRACY BUNGE, NOW 19-4, took the loss for the Jayhawks in the second game, scattering 12 Tiger hits.
The most important of those hits came in the 11th innning when Mizzou routed Bunge and the Jayhawks for three runs with six of their 12 hits.
KU had foiled an earlier Missouri
threat in the top of the fourth with Tiger runners on second and third, and no outs. However, a line-drive to Bunge, a runner called out on a bunt for interfering with the play when she was hit by the ball and a grounder to Seitz at second got the Jayhawks out of the inning.
The lone Jayhawk run came in the top of the second on a Missouri error. The Jayhawks committed four errors.
"I WASN'T PLEASEDwith the way we played the game," KU coach Coach Stancil said, "both pitchers were out of shape. I think our kids were mentally tired."
KU's only other real threat besides the second innning was in the KU half of the sixth, with Jayhawks on first and second with only one out. Lori Suffecel grounded out, and Candi Boyer popped out and stalled the attack.
KU came right back in the second game with three runs in the second inning for an early lead that would provoke give the Jayhawks all they needed.
The big inning started with a walk to Debbie Randel, followed by a Becky
Ascencio hit. Ascencio, who leads the team in batting with a .360 average, went three-for-three in the second game.
Rapping out a total of 10 hits for the game, the Jayhawks got three more runs as they routed Lawrence-native Tate to bring Massachusetts' record to 22-6.
ASCENCIO'S HIT was followed by a sacrifice by Cobb, a single by Boyer and a bases-loaded walk to Am Brent for KU's first score. The Jayhawks got their two other runs in that timing on a fielder's choice and a single by Seitz.
Seitz, in getting her seventh win, struck out three Tiger batters and allowed only 27 batters to the plate.
show CAME BACK with Colette and they had their same lineup except for their pitcher. "Stanclift said,
"There was no way I was going to put Tracy back in there after all the innings she had pitched. Colette needed the work, and she did well."
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