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University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1983
Despite slow start, KU tops Maine
By GINO STRIPPOLI Sports Writer
The Kansas Jayhawks played two onments on Saturday.
One opponent was the Maine Black Bears, who were 4-7 going into the contest.
The other opponent was the Oklahoma Sooners, the team the Jayhawks open their Big Eight season against on Wednesday.
"We have had Oklahoma on our minds for a couple of days and that might have contributed to our slow start," Coach Ted Owens said.
But even a slow start, which saw Kansas shoot just 40.7 percent in the first half, could not stop the Jayhawks from beating the Black Bears, 79-68, before a crowd of 10,110 at Allen Field House.
THE KANSAS offense in the first half was almost non-existent. The Jayhawks attacked the Maine zone by repeatedly throwing cross-court passes and failed to get the ball inside against the Black Bears. The Jayhawks managed only four assists on 11 field goals in the first half.
"I felt we would be loose going into the game but we weren't, and they took advantage of that," Owens said. "Their defense gave us a lot of trouble in the first half. We didn't know how to attack it and we were also sluggish."
"We weren't looking totally at Oklahoma, but I think we just wanted to get this game over with." Henry said. "We were tight at first but we came out and attacked the zone a lot better in the second half."
THE JAYHAWKS were a different team in the second half. Using a starting lineup of Henry, Knight, Lance Hill and freshmen Kerry Boagni and Calvin Thompson, the Jayhawks went from a 34-31 deficit to a seven-point lead, 41-34, with just 2:40 gone in the half.
the stars of the opening spurt were the two freshmen, who combined for eight of the 10 straight Kansas points. The streak's last basket was a thunderous dunk by Bougni on a feed from Thompson, who had a team-high five.
With 10:07 left in the contest, the Black Beans, paced by center Jeff
Cross, closed the Kansas lead to three,
51-48. But then Martin, who started the game but did not open the second half, took command.
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HE OPENED the streak by hitting two free throws then tipped in a missed shot by Henry. After Thompson hit a 22-foot jump shot, Martin scored the five next points on a stuff off a feed from Thompson, a free throw and another tip-in to finish the Black Bears.
"The coach sat me down after the first half, and that pumps me up more," Martin said after scoring a career-high 16 points in them to play that well, and we took them lightly. In the second half we just came out and played."
the Jayhawks, who shot 88 percent in the second half, placed three players besides Martin in double figures. Henry and Knight each had 13 points and Thompson, who had never scored in double figures for the Jayhawks, hit a career-high 12 points against added to give the Jayhawks their highest point output since they scored 86 against Alcorn State.
KANSAS, which outshot Maine both from the field and the foul line, also outbrouded the Black Bears, 43-31. Martin led the Jayhawks in rebounding with nine. Kelly Knight added eight and Heinr and Boagin each bed seven.
For Maine, Cross led all scorers with 28 points and collected nine rebounds. Jeff Topliff and Jeff Wheeler each had 10 points for the Black Bears. No other Maine player was in double figures.
The Jayhawks closed their non-conference schedule with an 8-8 record and open Big Eight play on Wednesday against the Oklahoma Sooners in formative weeks. The Jayhawks to Stillwater, Oka, to take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys, Jan. 22.
IN OTHER BIG EIGHT action on Saturday, Kansas State trounced Northern Iowa, 69-48; Colorado beat Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 81-66; Nebraska destroyed Southwest Missouri State, 98-46; Oklahoma beat St. Mary's, 83-69; Oklahoma State ran by Centenary, 78-65; and Missouri whipped Dayton, 78-64. Iowa State, the lone Big Eight school to lose on Saturday, dropped a 73-56 decision to Iowa.
KU's Brian Martin outjumped Maine's Clay Pickering to tip in two more for KU as Maine center Jeff Cross looked on. Martin scored a career-high 16 points against the Black Bears to lead KU to the victory.
BY DAVE MCQUEEN Sports Writer
Sports Writer
'Hawks fall to Mizzou despite lineup changes
For the first time this season, the KU women's basketball team had some height in the lineup as they went up against Missouri Saturday night.
The Jayhawks had control of their game early, holding the Tigers scoreless for the first three minutes as they jumped out to a 7-1 lead. KU built that lead to 12, 39, 18, with 8:26 left in the half.
but despite the debut of 6-6 center Phillicia Allen and the return of 6-1 Vickie Adkins, the Jayhawks couldn't overcome two long scoring droughts and lost to the 12th-ranked Tigers, 69-61, in Columbia.
Then the Tigers turned things around. Missouri outscored the Jayhawks 20-7 the rest of the half and took a 37-36 lead with 1:46 left on a three-point play by Joni Davis. Davis sank a free throw after being fouled
KU guard Mary Myers. The Tigers lead
29.37 at the half.
KU TIED the game three times in the second half, but could never regain the lead. The last tie came when 5-10 forward Angie Snider hit a basket with 6-17 left to knot the score at 53-83. But then the Jayhawks won, and only six more points the rest of the game. At one time the Tigers had a ten-point lead, 67-57
Smider lead the Jayhawks, 1-1 in conference play and 3-10 overall, in scoring and rebounding, with 22 points and eight boards. Vickie Adkins, who played for the first time since september shoulder last November, had 12 points.
ALLEN, WHO was ineligible last semester after transferring from South Carolina last year, scored four points and grabbed seven reboundes in her first game for KU. Plagged with foul trouble most of the game, she played only 19 minutes before fouling out late in the second half.
McKnight jumps fourth to qualify for nationals
Tudie McKnight, KU's women's long-jump record holder, placed fourth at the Indoor Rosemorton Horizon Goodwell Track Championships held Saturday in Rosemorton, Ill.
Landing in first place with a 20-7 mark was Carol Lewis, from the University of Houston. Kathy McMillan, from the Coast Athletes team of Greensboro, N.C., took second with $20.2\cdot 1/2$ mark. Taking third was Donna Thomas, from North Texas University, with a $20.2\cdot 1/4$ mark.
McKnight said she was satisfied with her 19-10 $^3$a mark that placed her fourth in the field of seven. The jump qualified her for the NCAA Nationalists to be held in the Silver Dome at Pontiac, Michigan, March 10-12.
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According to McKnight, to qualify for the NCAA Nationals she had to surpass the NCAA division mark of 19-5.
"It seemed everyone had trouble
getting off the right foot at first." McKnight said of the competitors. "But overall, we all went into this meet and competed very well."
Macknight said the meet enabled her to view where she stood among some of the best women long-jumpers in the country.
McKnight said she was satisfied with the fourth-place finish and credited her success to the coaching she has received from Theo Hamilton, a KU assistant women's track coach.
I am is my fourth year on the team and the fourth year that I've worked with Theo, "McKnight said, "During that time, he's been behind me 100 times. If it hadn't been for his coaching, I wouldn't be where I'm now."
McKnight competes next at the All-City Meet Saturday in Allen Killings.
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Bill Bridges fought for the ball with George Yurnovich of the alumni blue team while Pete Woodard watched the action.
Alumni roster of KU greats relive glory in Allen
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Writer
The roster read like a who's who of Kansas basketball.
Otto Schnellbacher, a two-sport all-conference performer who graduated in 1948, sank two underhand free throws that brought the crowd to its feet.
Jo Jo White played with the same intensity that he had when he earned All-American honors and led the Boston Celtics to the World Championship.
Dale Greenlee, Roger Morningstar and Tommie Smith were careening around the court just as they had when they led the Jayhawks into the final four in 1974.
These men were only a handful of the former outstanding KU athletes who revisited Allen Field House for an afternoon of memories. The game was won by the White squad, 70-56, but the final score did not seem to matter to the players or the fans.
FOR THE RECORD, White had 18 points for the winners, and Smith added 12 points in a rare starting assignment for the former Jayhawk renowned for his sixth-man role on the 1974 final-four squad. Bruce Sloan, who graduated in 1967, led the Blue team with 12.
Most of the afternoon was spent
reminiscing by the men who have made the Kansas Jayhawks the third most successful college team in history. Perhaps no one looked back with as much pride and warmth as Bill Bridges.
Bridges, an All-American in 1961, is the leading rebounder in KU history, grabbing more than such names as Wilt Chamberlain and Clyde Lovelette. After graduating in 1961, he went into the National Basketball Association, where he gained recognition as one of the toughest forwards in the league. In 1972, he teamed with Chamberlain to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA championship.
LAST WEEKEND marked the first time that Bridges had returned to the Lawrence campus since his graduation. It brought back a lot of fond memories for the three-time all-conference player.
"It was like I never left," Bridges said. "The relationships that I made here are some of the most meaningful relationships I've ever made in my life.
"I meet people on the business level; now and then I see them a week later and I don't feel anything for them. I haven't seen some of the people haven't changed."
"I miss the fellowship of people and the action and reaction of the nervous system," Bridges said.
Gringes is living in Los Angeles and completing the transition from life in the NBA to the daily routine of the business world.
system, "brings me".
"The thing I probably miss the most are the paychecks," he added with a laugh.
BESIDES THE people that he met while he was in college, Bridges said he remembered playing in Allen Field House, which at the time was one of the top basketball arenas 17 the nation.
"It was a great atmosphere to play in," Bridges said. "It was playing for fun and not for the money. The enthusiasm was great. The seats were always filled and the fans were always behind you."
Bridges followed Chamberlain, one of the greatest names in basketball history. He said he felt some pressure when he started playing.
when I came here, there were a lot of ghosts, and I'm sure there have been a lot more after I left," he said. "It's great being a part of the great tradition here, both athletically and academically."
Eridges has so much respect for the University that he said he considered the pinnacle of his career to be the attainment of a college degree.
"I ALWAYS thought that winning a world championship would be the ultimate thing to achieve." Bridges said, "but after we won it, it wasn't what I thought it would be. I have a lot of badges up on my wall, but the thing
"It was more than work. Everything that has happened since then is because of that degree from a great institution like this."
that means the most to me is the degree that I got from KU.
Bridges keeps in touch with the game. He said he was astounded by the physically gifted athletes playing the game today. In the physical sense, the game has transcended anything that founder James Naismith could have dreamed of, he said.
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"The game has evolved a generation of poets," Bridges said. "Looking back, we were so methodical compared to the game today. Players that are 6-feet-4 are dribbling the ball up the floor. When I played, players like myself, Paul Silas and Bailey Howell were all the same type of player. All we did was play defense and rebound.
"TODAY, there isn't anyone that I could put in that category. Buck Williams of New Jersey is probably close, but he also scores 20 points a game, blocks shots and dribbles the ball. We couldn't carry these guys' jock-straps."
In the alumni game, Bridges scored four points and grabbed two rebounds despite a right bad knee. The smile on his face never dimmed throughout the game. For Bill Bridges, it was a homecoming to one of his favorite places, and everyone could tell that he was glad to be back.
Comets feel sting of Chicago attack
CHICAGO — Charlie Fagus, Ingo Peter and Pato Margete each scored two goals as the Chicago Sting, 14-6, rallied to beat the Kansas City Comets 8-4 Sunday in a Maker Industries Soccer league game.
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Greg Makowski of Kansas City scored back-to-back goals to open the game, then Peter cut the gap to 2-1 at the end of the first quarter. Fajku scores to tie the game, but Kansas City jumped to a 4-2 lead on goals by Elson Seale and Tim Clark before the close of the half.
By United Press International
In the third period, Fajkus scored,
but Yilmaz Orhan got the first of his
two goals to give Kansas City a
two-goal edge again. Peter closed
the period with penalty kick goal to
make the score 5-4.
Chicago scored three straight goals in the final period to ensure a victory. Tim Twellman scored a shorthanded goal at the start of the period to tie the game at 5. Karl-Heinz Granitza got the next goal, and Margetic scored the one after that
Kansas City pulled its goal keeper with three minutes left, and Oran scored in the 14th minute. Margetic followed with an open-net goal to pad the lead to 8-6.
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