University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Feb. 13, 1962
Cowboys Defeat KU 72-68 on 'Hot' Night
By Steve Clark
If a basketball team can hit 50 per cent of its field goals it usually can expect to win the game. The Kansas Jayhawkers shot 50 per cent last night at Stillwater, but the Oklahoma State Cowboys shot 65.9 per cent to win 72-68.
Yesterday afternoon the temperatures soared to near 90 in the Oklahoma college town. A hot and humid Gallagher Hall was like an oven to both player and spectator.
PLAYERS SWEATED profusely and their uniforms were dripping wet. Coach Dick Hart watched from the sidelines in his shirtsleeves. The
HOT NIGHT — Eddie Bunch Oklahoma State's 6-8 center, scored 23 points as the Cowboys handed the Jayhawkers their fifth straight defeat.
Hawk Gymnasts in Only Home Meet
The Kansas Jayhawk gymnasties team will hold its only home meet of the season Feb. 24, at 5 p.m., in Robinson Gymnastium. The meet will be triangular, with Fort Hays State and Northwest Oklahoma State.
This year's squad is led by two seniors, Captain Bill Steele, San Marino, Calif., and Clayton Lang, Emporia. Lang is rated by many as one of the Big Eight's best performers on the parallel bars.
Coach Bob Lockwood says the team lacks depth, but knows they can provide strong competition against any opponent. "Because of our lack of depth," Lockwood said, "this will be a building year. We have a good number of freshmen out who show lots of potential. It is hoped that by next year they will have developed enough to give the team the support it needs."
Oklahoma State Cowboys were hot too, very hot!
Both the Cowboys and the Jaya-
hawkers had four players who scored
in double figures. Eddie Bunch, 6-8
senior center, led both teams with
23 points. KU's Nolan Ellison was
close behind with 22 points.
Cecil Epperley, the Cowboys' leading rebounder with 203, was second-high in scoring for Oklahoma State with 18 points. He and Bunch led both teams in rebounds with 10 apiece.
OTHERS SCORING in double figures were Jim Smelser with 14 and Gary Hassmann with 11 for Oklahoma State, and Jerry Gardner, 16, Love Sparks, 11, and Lee Flachsbarth with 10 for the Jayhawkers.
Kansas, after trailing 34-33 at halftime, was down 54-42 with 10 minutes remaining to play. Ellison scored on a field goal and a free throw, and Gardner and Sparks each scored from the field to narrow a 56-46 margin to 57-53.
Bunch and Epplerley retaliated with field goals to pad the Oklahoma State margin to 61-53 with 5:41 remaining to play.
The gymnastics team will finish its season with two meets at Kansas State on March 2 and 10. On March 16 they will travel to Alda, Colo., to compete in the All-College Championships.
THE CROWD cheered as the Cowboys started their slowed-down "stall" offense. The Jayhawkers guarded the Cowboys closely on defense, but eventually Coach Hank Iba's boys would break men loose for easy lay-ins underneath the basket.
The Jayhawkers led early in the game, holding a 14-8 margin with nine minutes elapsed in the first half.
Bunch scored on a field goal with 4:47 remaining in the first half to tie the game at 22 points. Sparkes scored on a free throw to give the Jayhawkers a one-point lead, but Bunch arched a hook shot into the basket to give the Cowboys their first lead 24-23 with 3:18 remaining.
THE LEAD changed several times before OSU's Smelser tied the game at 31 points, after the Jayhawkers had taken a momentary lead.
Flachsbarth scored two free throws to put the Jayhawkers ahead 33-31 with 28 seconds remaining. Sparks fouled Eperley with 10 seconds remaining, and Eperley made his first, but rebounded his missed, second try and scored to give the Cowboys their narrow halftime margin.
Flachsbarth, who started at center, looked like a time-tested veteran in his first starting assignment in his first year on the varsity basketball squad. He had a 100 per cent night, scoring three out of three from the field, and four out of four from the free throw line for his 10 points.
THE JAYHAWKERS were held off the backboards by Bunch, Epperley and Hassmann. Jim Dumas and Ellison were KU's leading rebounders with four, and the entire team had but 21.
Dumas picked up four fouls in the first half and fouled out early in the second half to weaken the KU rebounding attack. He leads KU in rebounding with 177, a 9.8 per game average.
The loss dropped the Jayhawkers' league record to 1-6, a last-place tie with Missouri. The Jayhawkers' season record now stands 5-13 while the Cowboys boosted their overall mark to 10-9 and their league mark to 3-5.
IN OTHER conference play Colorado defeated Oklahoma 64-58 at Boulder, and Iowa State won over Nebraska 79-66 at Lincoln.
The Jayhawkers were shooting for a fifth straight win at Gallagher Hall which would have made them the only team to defeat the Cowboys that many consecutive times on their home floor. Last night, however, was just not a night for history to be made. It was just too hot.
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KU Bowlers Defeat Wildcat
The Jayhawker bowlers downed the Wildcats 3,347-3,189 in singles competition and 2,852-2,655 in the team division. On a point basis, the Hawk keglers won 10-8 and 20-0 in the respective matches.
Despite the loss of two key team members, the University of Kansas bowling team defeated Kansas State Saturday at Manhattan.
By Roy Miller
The KU team was without the services of John Hember, formerly the top University bowler, and Jim Kartsonis, a returning letterman from last year. Kartsonis graduated at the end of the first semester and Member has been declared scholastically ineligible.
Bill Miller fired the best Hawk series with a 194-217-202 — 613. Terrel Hays had a 200-210-202 — 612 and Dick Groner racked up a 179-188-242 — 609.
Saturday the KU team travels to Lincoln, Neb., to compete in the
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Region Eight National Intercolle ate meet. The five top bowlers that meet will qualify for the tional meet to be held April 8 9 at Des Moines, Iowa, site of American Bowling Congress pl offs.
Leading KU's hopes in the qualifying meet is Paul Hammar. Hammar has a 192 average for 18 gas bowled in qualifying tryouts.
Region Eight of the national s dent union program includes sch efrom Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri Kansas. According to a Region El official, the meet will include greatest number of participants its history.
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