Thursday, March 11, 1965 University Daily Kansa
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Jayhawk Fencers to NCAA Meet Next
One of the most active athletic teams at KU this semester has been the four squad fencing team.
Although the intercollegiate fencing season has ended, KU fencers will go to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships at Detroit University, March 19 and 20.
Tim Mitchell, Salina senior and captain of the fencing team, will represent the sabre squad. Mike Munson, Salina junior and Esem-El Shafey, Prague, Czechoslovakia, junior, will represent the mens' foil and epee squad respectively.
KU WILL HOST AN unclassified sabre tournament and women's foil open March 27. There will be a women's team meet at Wichita, April 10. Two weeks later there will be a four weapon meet in Wichita.
These tournaments will prepare teams for the Kansas Divisional Championships which will be held here May 1. The first four place winners in each weapon become qualified to go to the nationals this summer.
KU Coeds Capture Rifle Team Honors
The KU Women's Rifle Team coped high honors in the women's division at the National Rifle Association sectional held at Laramie, Wyoming recently. Members of the team were presented first place medals by Professor Henry A. Shenk, Kansas University physical education director.
Members of the team are Melba Moore, team captain, Grenola sophomore; Judi Zook, Kansas City freshman; Geraldine Rinker, Lawrence sophomore; and Carol Mesigh, Toppea sophomore.
KU's distaff sharpshooters are members of the university rifle team which is coached by Sergeant Humphrey Jones, Army ROTC staff member. The Big Eight rifle matches will be held at KU on April 2 and 3.
The team has competed in three tournaments since semester break, including a triangular meet against Illinois University and Iowa State University, and a competition against the Air Force Academy.
In the triangular meet KU lost 23 to 4 to the Illinois University team. But, the Kansas team beat Iowa State University 22-5. Dave Truxel, Vicksburg, Mich., junior and El Shafey, fencing sabre and epee respectively, did outstanding jobs in the tournament, John Dillard, assistant instructor of physical education and fencing coach, said.
THREE WEEKS AGO the team traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo., to meet the Air Force Academy fencing team. The KU team lost 24 to 3.
"Truxel and William Dorzab, Kansas City sophomore, really distinguished themselves in the Air Force meet." Dillard said. "Dorzab is just a beginning fencer but he has shown a lot of talent and has a very promising future.
Jucos Will Tangle
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UPI)— Six teams from Missouri, three from Kentucky and one from Kansas clash today in the Region 16 Junior College Basketball Tournament at the University of Missouri.
The winner will advance to the National Junior College Tournament at Hutchinson, Kan., later in the month.
Moberly, Mo., Junior College is the pre-tournament favorite with a 23-3 won-lost mark, although Highland, Kan., 21-1, has the best record. Other highly rated teams are Linsey-Wilson of Columbia, Ky., which defeated Moberly 75-73 earlier this season, and Southwest Baptist of Bolivar, Mo., last year's champion.
A problem for Moberly will be replacing Guard Rodney Jones, who sprained an ankle Monday night and will not play in the tournament.
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"The Air Force cadets and Illinois University team are more experienced than us." Dillard stated. "These two teams are among the top in the nation."
FENCING IS A varsity sport at these two schools and it isn't at KU and the Illinois team has had men on the Olympic fencing team. Both schools have had All American fencers.
"Although our budget and program are limited, we do a lot with
what we have," Dillard explained. Last Saturday two men went to Stillwater, Okla., to fence competitors from seven colleges. Munson, foil squad captain, took first place in foil. Steve Wells, Salina senior, took first place in epee. Then he switched over to foil and took third place.
"This shows that once you have mastered one weapon in fencing, the other weapons come easily," Dillard said.
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