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Thursday, May 3, 1979
University Daily Kansan
'Hawks seek track coup
By CARLOS MURGUIA
Snorts Writer
Iowa State University is the strong favorite to win its fourth straight women's Big Eight outdoor track title this weekend in Manhattan.
But if the Cyclones falter, Kansas should be in a good position to take advantage of it.
KU women's track coach Terri Anderson said that some of Iowa State's key athletes were injured and that KU could give the Cyclones some competition.
"We're coming around and we're peaking at the right time," Anderson said. "We're not as deep as Iowa State but we're improved from last year. We'll need a total team effort at the meet and I think we'll produce one."
Last year Kansas finished third in the meet with 95 points while Iowa State had 165. This year, Anderson said, she expected the team to collect points by having top-five finishes in each event but not necessarily in each event—except in the 100 and 200 positions.
FRESHMAN LORI GREEN has the best times in the Big Eight in those two events—the 100 (11.67) and the 200 (23.9). If she doesn't easy win them it'll be because of competition from her teammate, Sheila Calmese.
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Calmese is the two-time defending
champion in both the 100 and 200, but is coming from a muscle injury that had gone to another place.
Besides competing in the 100 and 200, Green will join Deb Hertzog, Claire Overstake and Gwen Poss in the spring medley on Saturday. Poss and Lori Lowrey in the 440-yd relay.
Lowry has a tough race facing her in the 400. She'll have to beat Iowa State's national champion Deb Esser, who has the conference's best time (60.9).
Lowey and Poss are also entered in the 100- and 400-meter hurdles. Lowey has the best time in the conference this year in the 13.9) and the second best time in the 400 (61.3).
"LORI GREEN and Lori Lowey have "good chances of taking firsts," Anderson said; "it's definitely a plus for our team to have Sheila back competing. Also, Bev Fuller will be competing for the first time in the playoffs, which is a good chance of winning the pentathlon."
Iowa State is traditionally strong in the long and middle distance events and this year it has made a name for itself.
national champions Deb and Diane Vette. National champion Deb has the best times in the 800- and 1,500-meter run but KU has runners who could be right behind her.
Junior Michelle Brown will have the team's best shot at Vetter. She has the third best time in the 1,500 (4:29:2) and the eighth best time in the 3,000 (10:12:2). Brown will be joined by Louise Murphy in the 1,500 and Maurie and Maureen Fimbolin in the 3,000.
FINHOLM AND KAREN Fitz is scheduled to run in the 5,000. Fitz has the third best time in the 5,000 (17.20.1), In the 10,000. Fitz and Bennett are Bennett and the Jayhawk's representatives.
In the field events, KU's entrant in the long jump and high jump will be Shawn Corwin. Corwin has the third-best long jump (5.27), the fifth-best long jump (5-4). She'll be trying to catch Nebraska's Sharon Burrell who owns the long jump (19-1) conference bests.
Other KU athletes competing will be Tami Rose in the javelin, Gayle Crane in the discus, Debby Doughles in the shot put, Denise Homa in the 400-meter run, Hertzog and Vickie Simpson in the 800, the two-mile relay team of Marianne McCowen, Hertzog, Homa and Simpson and the mile relay team of Simpson, Homa, Lowrey and Hertzog.
Chiefs appear ready to draft Bell
NEW YORK (UP1)—Tom Cousineau appears set for Buffalo and Mike Bell for Kansas City but then the mystery begins. The game continues as the stadium stages its annual college player draft.
The Bills are expected to make Cousineau, the outstanding linebacker from Ohio State, the first selection when the draft begins at 9 a.m. Lawrence time. Kansas City is expected to follow by selecting Bell, a defensive tackle from Colorado State.
But how the draft will go from there on is anyone's guess. This year's crop of talent is one of the most well-balanced in recent years and there are as many as a dozen running backs who have been classified as first-round material.
BUFFALO EARNED the right to choose first when the Bills traded star running back O J. Simpson to San Francisco in 1978 for several draft choices, including the 49ers' top pick this year. The 49ers finished with 25 of L.'s worst record, 2-14, to earn the No. 1 spot.
Dallas and Pittsburgh, the Super Bowl
calls, complete the first round in 27th and
34th place.
Four teams--Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati and Los Angeles—each have two picks on the first round. San Francisco, Tampa Bay, Washington and Oakland do not have first
The draft will consist of 12 rounds and 330 players will be selected. Four teams—
Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and New England fortipped competitive violations while Houston and San Francisco used choices in the 1978 supplemental draft.
MINNESOTA AND Pittsburgh will be without third-round choices. Los Angeles has lost its fifth-round pick and New England its seventh-round choice.
The Jets lead all teams with 17 picks and Miami has 16, Buffalo, Dallas and Pittsburgh have 15 each. Washington has the fewest choices—five.
There is a 15-minute time limit for each selection in the first two rounds and a five-minute limit for the remaining 10 rounds. The draft is expected to end early tomorrow
There are a number of top running backs but none in the class of Campbell or Terry Miller, the high picks last year. They include Charles Alexander of Louisiana State, Ted Brown of North Carolina State, Eddie Brown of Notre Dame and Miami Fla., Steve Akins of Maryland, Thelws Brown of UCLA, Kenny King of Oklahoma and Tony Nathan of Alabama.
The top wide receivers are Jerry Butler of Clemson, Gordon Jones of Pittsburgh, Robert "Spider" Gaines of Washington and Ernest Gray of Memphis State. The leading tight ends are Kellen Winslow of Missouri, Eric Holliday of Colorado State and Ronnie Lee of Baylor.
ONLY TWO QUARTERBACKS, Jack Thompson of Washington State and Steve Fuller of Clermon, are considered possible NFL starters next season but several others are Steve Dils of Standard, Joe Montana Notre Dame and Jerille Rutledge of Alabama.
The leading offensive linemen are tackles Kelvin Clark of Nebraska, Keith Dorney of Penn State, Bill Dukef of Michigan and Matt Milor of Colorado; guards Pat Howell of Southern California and Greg Roberts of Illinois and center Dave Huffman of Notre Dame.
Defensive linemen expected to be drafted quickly include Bell, Willie Jones of Florida State, Marty Lyons of Alabama, Al Harris of Arizona State, Rich Dimier of Southern California and Don Smith of Miami (Fla). The leading linebackers behind Cousineau are Jerry Robinson of UCLA, Barry Krauss of Alabama and Bob Golie of Notre Dame.
Among the top defensive backs are Lawrence Johnson of Wisconsin, Don Bessallien of Georgia Tech, Henry Williams of North Carolina, State and Ricky Sanford of South Carolina.
Several kickers are high draft possibilities. They include Russell Excelenbos of Texas, Tony Franklin of Texas A&M, Matt Bahr of Penn State, Dave Jacobs of Syracuse, von Schmanm of Oklahoma, Jesse Calif of Kansas's Calif, and Berj Yeperman of Florida.
Relays' end means new track outlook
With the Midwest Relays circuit finally over, the emphasis has switched for the KU men's track team.
By GENE MYERS
Sports Writer
No longer are the relay races and special individual events the top priority. Now, with the Big Eight Conference Outdoor Championships just two weeks away, coach Bob Timmons has to reorganize and compete in the Big Eight Outdoor.
The first step is this weekend in Wichita. The Shockers, KU and Kansas State are set to compete in a triangular, KU's second meet all season in which team scores will be kept. The triangular is also the 'Hawks final tune-up for the Outdoor'
"We need to feel our way through this one," Timmons said. "We're anxious to get our full squad together and get most of our people running in their normal events.
"IN THIS MEET, everybody counts. On the relays circuit, there are a lot of important people who we can take with us because they haven't met the qualifying standards. But we need them for the Outdoor."
"They're a real contender for the conference title," he said. "They've had some injuries lastly, but if they're healthy this weekend it should be a neck of a meet.
Timmons said he thought the com-
pany should be first-class if K-State were healthy.
“Wichita State has done well on the relays circuit this year. They're on the unswing.”
Turtons is not the only one who is glad to see the close of the Relays circuit. Sprinter Kevin Newell echoed the sentiment.
"Now that the circuit is over," Newell said, "everything can get back to normal. We can work on our individual events and not practice baton exchanges all year."
Deon Hogan and Lester Mickens have qualified in the 400-meter dash. Anthony Brown has qualified in the 100-meter dash.
NEWELL IS ONE of the Jayhawks who
packed for the NCAA Outdoor with a
10d lock system.
hamstring, has made it in the 110-meter hurdles. It has. Buckingham has hit the pool on the podium.
The 1,000-meter relay duag of Hogan, Mention, Newell and Tommy Call has been run.
One obvious absentee for the 'Hawks is freshman triple jumper Sanya Owolabi, who was named prep athlete of-the-year as a senior in high school. Owolabi has jumped 51-24 during the outdoor season and that mark leads the Big Eight. It is the shortest of the 52-0 qualifying standard, a mark he consistently in high school.
LAST WEEKEND, Owolabi went to the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, where he has jumped more than 82-4, while the rest of the team had trouble. But that did not snip his jumping slump.
"I just don't know," Owolabi said about his latest performance. "Last year I jumped 52-2% there and then I come back as a colleague and do 49-11.
"It's been like this all year, but I still have two more meets to qualify for the big season," Owainli, who finished second at the Big Eight Indoor in February, has a career best of 53-4-4. And despite the outdoor season slip, he is probably the favorite for the All-Star game.
MISSUUR'S AJAI Agabeka, who won the indoor triple jump, has been hurt most of the outdoor season and his status is still uncertain. Last year's champ, K-State's Vince Parrete, is out for the year with a harringin injury.
KU also sent Steve Rainbolt to Penn last week, and he left there with a fourth-place finish in the decathlon and a school record. In the decathlon, he marked 6,907 out of 6,907 marks by Jim Curtier in mark 1.
Rainbolt, however, will not be competing in the decathlon this weekend in Wichita. KU will send Mark Graham, who was a marshal and arist and Mike Zipay to the competition.
The decathlon competition will begin at 9 a.m. Friday and conclude Saturday. The triangular's field events will start at 5 p.m. on Friday, the running events will follow at 6:45.
Long leap
Sanya Owolabi, Kansas triumphepian, practices in Memorial Stadium. He hopes to regain his triangular meet in Wichita.
KU-Washburn double-header rained out
games are scheduled for Saturday. Kansas must win all four to get into the tournament.
Kansas' baseball games with Washburn yesterday were rained out and will not be rescheduled, KU coach Floyd Temple said yesterday.
day." Temple said.
"I looks doubled for Friday," Temple said yesterday, gazing out at Quigley Park.
The Jayhawks next scheduled action is a double-breaker tomorrow with Nebraska when Kansas will have a chance to go to the Hawks. The Titans will be Oklahoma City, Okla. May-16 20. Two more
Kansas has until Monday to play the games, according to Big Eight rules.
"It would be nice if we could play two on Friday and then be rained out until Mon-
Kansas would then be able to start its two best pitchers, Terry Sutcliffe and Dan St. Clair, in double-header. As the games are scheduled, Sutcliffe and St. Clair will start on Friday, and Kevin Kerschen and "staff" will go on Saturday, Temple said. Friday's games will be at 1:30 p.m. at Quirley Field.
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