Swimmers return to host Cylcones
"Generally pleased but not overly excited" was the comment of University of Kansas swimming coach Dick Reamon regarding the Jayhawks recently completed road trip to Texas and Oklahoma.
While meeting defeat in three of four dual outings, the KU
Bob Hines
tankers displayed great individual efforts and much promise for the future.
Beginning the trip on January 26, the University of Texas at Arlington, lead by double Olympic gold medal winner Doug Russell, swam by the Jayhawks, 68-45. KU, being only one of two teams to beat UTA in the past two years, was completely outdistanced by Olympian Russell and his Rebel teammates.
On the following day the Texas Longhorns showed surprising strength as they handed the Jayhawks their second 68-45 loss in as many days.
The Southern Methodist University Mustangs, the only team to defeat KU in nine dual outings last year, did the trick again as KU fell to its third straight defeat, 75-38.
Returning to Big Eight Competition, the Jayhawks easily defeated the Oklahoma Sooners, 84-28, to conclude the four day trip.
While unsuccessful from a won-lost standpoint, coach Reamon did feel the trip benefited the Jayhawks as it provided some of the best competition in the nation and gave the team the experience of competing for four straight days, experience that will be needed in March when KU travels to Ames, Iowa for the Big Eight championship meet and to Salt Lake City, Utah for the national championships.
Solid individual performances were in high praise by Reamon as he pointed out Kim Bolton (sprint and middle distance freestyle), Bob Hines (sprint and middle distance freestyle), Tom Ellis (middle distance freestyle), Steve Rice (distance freestyle), and Steve Trombold (backstroke) for exceptional effort.
Saturday night KU returns to Big Eight swimming competition as the Iowa State Cyclones visit Lawrence in a dual set to begin at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson gymnastium. The Cyclones Lst heavily from graduation but Coach Jack McGuire recruited an impressive list of freshmen including highly regarded Derk Hanson (breast-stroke and individual medley) and Steve Spikes (diving), both high school All-Americans.
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Reamon's tentative lineup for the Iowa State meet;
50 freestyle--Bob Hines, Roland Sabates, Hal Kennedy.
100 freestyle—Hines, Kim Bolton.
100 freestyle—Tom Ellis, Bolton.
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200 freestyle—Tom Ellis, Bolton,
Mike Boyle.
500 freestyle—Marc Wagoner, Ellis,
Steve Rice.
1,000 freestyle - Wagner c., Bob Mauer, Bruce Bove.
200 breaststroke—Bob Wright, Dana Staats.
200 individual medley—Wright, Bo Darrah.
One-meter diving—Bob Bishop, Ray Powers.
Powers.
Three-meter diving—Bishop, Power.
400 medley relay—Trombold, Wright,
Tookalt, Hiper
400 freestyle relay—Bolton, Darrah,
Sabates, Ellis.
Gymnasts looking for sweep of tough weekend clashes
Kansas' gymnastics squad will feel the full weight of their Spring schedule this weekend as they host always tough Oklahoma in a dual meet Friday at 7 p.m., and then go against Western Illinois and Northern Iowa Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Both meets will be held in Robinson Gymnasium.
Oklahoma is perennially a strong performer in the Big Eight and their last three meets with KU have been decided by a single point.
KU coach Robert Lockwood again anticipates a close meet pointing out that last season after defeating OU by less than a point in the dual they came back in the conference match to slip by the Javhawks and finish second.
The Jayhawks' strongest suit will be the high bar. Heading the crew on the horizontal bar is Gerald Carley, ranked ninth in the nation, Roger Hemphill, who was fourth in the Big Eight conference last year and John Brouillette, who Lockwood termed "greatly improved on the high bar" over a tough summer work-out. Lockwood said that the high bar team will "hopefully average 9.0 points per man," out of ten points possible in gymnastics scoring.
Two of the Sooner's top performers are Jim Johannasen, who ranked third in the conference last year on the parallel bars, and Odessa Lovin, a floor-exercise man, who is a transfer student from Odessa, Texas Junior College.
One of the weak points the Jayhawks are fighting, according to Lockwood, is consistency on the side and long horse, but he emphasized that KU is a young
team.
The Jayhawk squad is composed of ten returning lettermen with only one senior, six juniors, and three sophomores. Also the team has a promising freshman Mare Joseph from Lawrence High, who Lockwood said he hopes will replace last year's captain, Bob Pierson, in the all around category.
Fred McCracken, the only senior, will be temporary team captain going into the meet. He is the Rocky Mountain Open parallel bars champion, the Big Eight Open Champion, placed second in the Iowa Open meet, placed second in the Midwest Open meet in Chicago, there receiving a 9.55 which is the highest score that any Jayhawk has received in a gymnastics event, and is ranked second in the nation.
Stan Clyne, junior, returning letterman, broke an arm during conference championships last year but has made a comeback and "done a very good job," according to the coach. Last Friday he placed first on the parallel bars at the Wichita Invitational with a score of 8.65, though the coach said mainly he will be using Clyne on floor exercises.
Floor Exercise—Dan Bradfield, Stan Clyne.
Dude! Horse—Marc Forkins, Richard Schertler.
Still Rings—Mark Hannah, Kirk Gardner.
Long Horse—Ron Faunce, Dan Bradfield.
Paul Fielding Bars—Fred McCracken, Terry Blanchard.
High Bar—Roger Hemphill, Gerald Carley.
All-Around—Marc Joseph, John Broullette.
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