Runyan, Hutch Juco triumph
44th Kansas Relays in familiar setting
You could tell Relays weekend had arrived at KU, but you had to venture to Haskell Institute for the action.
The 44th Kansas Relays were launched yesterday with a painful sort of appropriateness. Intermittent rain, the bugaboo of the past three years, forced the opening competition to be shifted from the muddy Memorial Stadium track to Haskell.
Colorado distance star Craig Runyan sloshed to victory in yesterday's headliner—the Julius Marks Six-Mile run. The event, formerly run at 10,000 meters, was new to the KU Relays schedule.
And groundkeepers again undertook the tedious work of drying the track while a cloudy sky—and forecasts of more rain-threatened to dampen today's and Saturday's competition.
KU runners trail
Finals were held in three junior college relays, and Hutchinson Community Juco streaked to a double victory.
Behind the Jayhawk runners were Dennis Delmott (30:10.3) of KSTC and Kirk Hogan (30:14.1) of Missouri.
Runyan finished well ahead of KU's Rich Elliott and Jay Mason, winning with a 29:44.3 clocking. Elliott (30:03.3) and Mason (30:05.6) placed second and third.
Jim Nichols, Vince O'Neu, Brad Swiggart and Maurice Bastion zipped to a winning 43.7 clocking in the 440-yard relay. The wet track conditions protected Texas Southern's 1967 record of :41.1 for that event.
Double victory
Hutchinson also triumphed in the 880 relay—and with the same squad. The double was accomplished in 1:31.3, nowhere near the Relays mark of 1:26.1 set by North Texas State in 1967.
Fort Scott, running in a different heat, placed second to Hutchinson in both events with :44.0 and 1:32.7 clockings. Florissant Valley ranked third in the quarter-mile relay (:44.1) with Allen County third in the 880 (1:33.5).
Butler County easily outdistanced three other schools in the distance medley with a winning 10:34.7 effort. Haskell just nipped Hutchinson by
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six-tenths of a second (10:52.2)
for runner-up honors.
Peggy scratches
KU's Peggy Grinvalsky scratched from the special women's 880 race, and a pair of
Colorado Pacers—Barbara Lawson and Janet Roussear—headed the field. Miss Lawson triumphed in 2:20.7, followed by Miss Roussear's 2:28.7 clocking.
This afternoon's highlights include the University four-mile and sprint medley relays. KU's Jim Ryun will anchor the Jayhawks in the four-mile at 1:50, taking aim at the 16:36.8 Relays record set by Kansas in 1966.
Action was set to resume this morning at 8:30 with preliminaries in the high school high hurdles, continuing through the University mile relay prelims at 4:35.
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Kansas State's crack sprint medley crew, anchored by Ken
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Swenson, could easily lower the record of 3:19.5 established by Oklahoma in 1958. The Cats clipped off a winning 3:15.6 at the Texas Relays, and will be shooting for the Kansas standard in the 2:35 o'clock event.
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Other finals scheduled today include the Cliff Cushman open 440 relay at 3:15 and the University mile run at 3:40.
JUCO FINALS
Yesterday's results:
440 RELAY - 1 Hutchinson
43.7; 2 Fort Scott 44.0; 3
Florissant 44.1; 4 Wentworth
Military 45.3; Allen County 45.8
880 RELAY—1 Hutchinson
1:31.3; 2 Fort Scott 1:32.7; 3
Allen County 1:33.5; 4
Wentworth Military 1:35.4; 5
Floristan 1:36.0.
DISTANCE MEDLEY—1
Butler County 10:34.7; 2
Haskell 10:52.2; 3 Hutchinson
10:52.8; 4 Florissant 11:14.8; 5
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OPEN EVENTS
6-MILE RUN — Craig Runyan, Colorado 29:44.3; 2 Rich Elliott, KU; 3 Jay Mason,
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WOMEN'S 880 RUN-1
Barbara Lawson, Colorado
Pacers 2:20.7; 2 Janey Roussie,
Colorado Facers 2:28.7; 3 Kathy Rogers, McPherson 2:30.3; 4 Deanna Duffey, Topeka Cosmos 2:33.5; 5 Debbi Lewton, Topeka Cosmos 2:34.5
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