University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 6. 1975
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KU readies for NCAA
By KEN STONE
Sports Writer
Waddell Smith, a spinner on the University of Kansas track team, was thumbing through the most recent issue of *NCAA*. The university will also meet predictions.
Smith was annoyed. He brought the magazine into talk Thad Talley, KU assistant track coach, and showed him the article. It said Kansas would probably finish sixth in the state's tournament of Texas at El Paso, UCLA, Southern Cal Tennessee and Brigham Young University.
Talley told Smith, who has qualified for the NCAA meet in the 400 yard run and mile race. "We had to be strong," Talley said.
Talley said Monday that the prediction, which was made more than two weeks ago, didn't take into account the KU performances in the Drake Relays, where two Jayhawk relay teams set school records and ran the best times in the nation.
Nor did it take into account that there have been few opportunities in the past two
months for individuals to qualify in them events.
Randy Smith, one of the four team co-captains, said Monday that KU had a chance to win the NCAA meet, June 5-7 at Provo. Utah.
"I think we have the best shot at it in the four years that I've been with," Smith said.
Smith said he hoped that he was right up there in his event - the high jump. His 7.2" high jump best, along with the 7.2" best of teammate Keith Guinn, are among the nation's five best outdoor jumps by collegians this year.
But before the NCAA meet will be the big Eight meet at Norman, Okla., the United States Track and Field Federation meet on Saturday at Calif. for a major invitational stage there.
KU golfers to try for 4th at Big Eight tournament
With hopes of a finish in the first division fading, the University of Kansas golf team will compete in the Big Eight golf tournament May 14-17 at Norman, Oklahoma.
The Jayhawk golfers have a chance for a fourth-place finish in the tournament, but will compete without Mike Fiddelke, their top score. Fiddelke has taken an assistant role with the New York and will be unavailable to play. John Wauk, KU golf coach, said Monday.
On the chances of Kansas winning its ninth consecutive Big Eight outdoor title, Larryjackson, the anchorman on KU's 402 victory team, said simply, "We should win."
Fiddelke had the lowest average score this Spring for each competitive round on the KU squad. His eight competitive rounds this spring averaged 77.5 strokes.
"It'll hurt us not to have him." Waugh
told him. "It was what it was an opportunity
his cousin pass up. I guess."
Despite Fiddelek's absence, Waugh said he thought the team had a chance for a fourth-place finish behind Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Missouri. Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska will be the most difficult obstacles for KU, Waugh said.
The players competing for KU are John Goss, Marc Morozov, Tom Peterson, Rick Lester and Billy Johnson.
KU netters tied for fourth
The Big Eight Conference tennis teams could be placed on three tiers on the basis of their records, and the University of Kansas is on the second one.
Missouri, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma are on the first tier with powerful teams fighting for conference championship. KU and Colorado have been able to win easily over the teams on the bottom tier—Nebraska, Iowa State and Kansas State university-but haven't performed well against the three top teams.
"We just hoped to be competitive and I wouldn't say we had to be said. We weren't blown out of any snatch."
Going into the Big Eight tournament, KU and Colorado are tied for fourth place. Finishing third or second in the league was the goal of most of the players at the beginning of the season, John Farrar, KU's No. 6 player, said Monday.
Steve Vann, assistant coach, emphasized the experience gained by the team this year. He said that he never really expected the team to win the conference title.
The KU team will compete in the Big Eight tournament on May 16-17. Vann said that the team had been working toward the tournament and that the players were planning to reach their peak performance then.
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lowest average for each round of the five, at 78.9 strokes. Following Goss are Morozto at 80.5; Peterson at 81.9; Kennedy at 82.6; and Idelman at 83.7.
"The kids are playing better," Waugh said, but they haven't improved like we did.
The KU team will have a veteran squad in the fall, Waugh said. Joining Kennedy, Peterson and Ideman in the Jayhawk lineup will be BOennis and Corky Ek. Dennis and Ek have played for the team at times this year.
Waugh is also looking at three high school students from the Kansas City and Wichita girls' schools.
"We have too many good sprinters here," Jackson said.
KU's sprinters are good enough to cause the coaches a problem of sorts: Which of the six sub-47 second quarter milers on the KU team will run the mile relay?
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In the 80 or so years that Kansas has fielded a track team, only eleven athletes have run a 440 leg on a relay faster than five. Five of those runners are on this year's team.
They are: Waddell Smith, 45.6. Eddie
Benson, 45.4. and John Cornwell, 45.4.
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"I think in a lot of ways we will be
Toburn Tombons,
bead KU track coach, said
In the high jump and long jump KU hopes to win some national titles. Randy Smith is the defending NCAA high jump champion. Theo Hamilton and Danny Seay, who grabbed the top two long jump spots in the 2015 U.S. nation's last March, are threats at win at Provo.
So far, 15 KU athletes have qualified in 11 events for the national championships.
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Many words can be used to describe the season for the University of Kansas baseball team. "Disappointing" "frustrating," "heartbreaking" and "were a better team than we are today." Dayhawk players used to sum up their season so far.
Baseball season 'heartbreaking'
The Jayhawks are 13-22 and 4-11 in the Big Eight Conference with five more games scheduled. They play a 1:30 p.m. doubleheader today against Northwest this weekend and out the season this weekend with a three-game series at Kansas State University.
Flayd Temple, KU coach, said Monday that she disagreed with disappointed with the team's report.
"I thought we had 15 to 20 per cent better than last year, but those early, five one-run losses on the Texas trip hurt our record." Temple said. "Of course, losing Roger Slagle, who won six games for us last year, had an effect on us also."
Single had a shoulder injury and only pitched one inning for the team all year. Temple said KU had a relatively young player who made definite progress during the year.
"I've really been impressed with the
recent play of Brian Ribodes and the hitting of Ron MacDonald and designated hitter Jimmy Johnson from his greatest pitch. Gilmore itch was great potential and Gary Nekke has played well all year."
Temple said he was looking for another infielder, a strong pitcher, and an outfielder.
who could swing the bat to help the 'Hawks next year.
"We didn't have that one big stopper this year, the guy who could come in and shut them down for three or four innings. The guys depth hurt us this year," Temple said.
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