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Monday, April 23, 1979
University Dafly Kansan
Newell wins 3, edged by Kenyan for Relavs' honors
By GENE MYERS
arte Writer
The last event of the Kansas Relays almost ended in a dead heat.
By a half vote, Kipsuibai Koskei, a native Kenyan who runs for New Mexico, edged KU's triple winner Kevin Newell for the Outstanding Performer honors.
But this was hardly anything unusual for the 54th edition of the Relays. Dead beats and tight battles were commonplace on Saturday's final day of competition.
In addition to the feats of Koskeli and Newell, an estimated crowd of 6,250 watched in the bright sunshine as KU snapped a three-year relay drought when pole vaulter Jeff Buckingham won a sudden death jump and former and former Kansas State University kansas Relays championship in the steeplechase, something he was unable to do as Jawhawk.
ON THE COLD, wet track Friday afternoon, Newell coated the final 220 yards to secure the 880-yard relay title for KU. The victory was KU's first in three years on the victory
Texas-Kansas-Drake relays circuit, and it also mark the start of a big weekend for the team.
"This has got to be my biggest day ever," Newell said. "I'm tired of people saying that I've been running in Clifford Wiley's shadow. I'm tired of people saying that I could only run the 60 and the quarter and nothing in between."
Saturday, KU captured two more crows,
the 440 and mile relays, and Newell silenced
him.
LESTER MICKENS, Tim Jones and
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Buck luck
Terry Porter, former KU Olympian, congratulates KU's Jeff
Buckingham after Buckingham beat Porter in the pole vault in a marathon contest Saturday at the Kansas Relays.
KU jump champ fails to repeat
By DAVID PRESTON
Sports Writer
Corwin had the last chance to clear the bar in a battle with four other performers, but she just missed on her third and final attempt.
Shawn Carpin, KU's leading high jumper and the 1978 Kansas Relays champion, was a little detached that she had failed to repeat as the high jump winner Saturday. But what really hurt, Carpin said, was that she had been the winner but would have been the winning jump at 5-9.
"I was over the bar," an exasperated Corwin said after her miss, "but I just forgot to kick my heels. That's what makes it so hard. I was actually over the bar."
Corwin, a sophomore, won the Relays last year with a jump of 5-8, which is her personal best outdoors. She said she knew she could go higher.
"I KNOW THAT I can go 5-10 outdoors," she said. "I jumped 5-10 indoors this season, and I sure that I can do it. And I know that I can make 5-9.
"That's what makes this miss today so hard to take."
Corwin ended in a tie for third in the event because of the number of misses she had at the lower heights. Oklahoma University's Rene Nicken won the event and Sandy Schultz of Central Iowa finished second.
"Losing the event is not really the most important thing." Corwin said. "I just want to do the best I can, and I know I can do better."
and 5-3, and it's those misses at the lower heights that really hurt."
It cost her the championship in this meet, but she said she was still confident that she could win the Big Eight Outdoor championship in May.
"I missed on my first attempts at 5-3, 5-4
"I've never jumped against her (Nickles) before because she wasn't at the Big Eight Indoor." Corwin said, "but I've got to worry heights I jump, I who I jump against."
The Royals, who have given up 9 runs in the last seven games, have not lost five live games this season.
Sox beat KC 6-0, sweep series
SERVICES
BOSTON—George Scott, 73, plays four runs with a pair of singles and Topekan Mike Torrez threw a four-hitter yesterday as the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game series sweep with a 6-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Fred Lynn had a double and a pair of singles to extend his hitting streak to 11 games.
But it was Newell who captured all the attention after he won the open 100-meters race in Mexico.
David Blucker joined Newell on the 800 and 440 teams. Deon Hogan, Stan Whitaker, Tommy McCall and Mickens ran the mile relay.
homer of the season. Torrez, 1-1, walked five in the first three innings but escaped trouble as Boston pulled off double plays in each game, and added fourth double plays in the seventh.
Newell's goo boot began early Saturday afternoon when he exploded out of the blocks to edge Wiley, John Garrison and Willy Snoddy in the 100-meters. That trio was the elite of the Big Eight sprinters from 1975 to 1978.
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In the open 200, Snoddy held off the charging Wiley and Newell. He won in 20.72. Wiley finished second in 20.97 and Newell was third in 21.09.
Newell finished first in 10-42 seconds,
Smody took second in 10.50 and Wiley was
Burleson hit his boner in the first inning off Kansas City starter Ricky Hale, who took a walk on a pitching dugout.
"I TRAINED PRETTY hard," Wiley said, "but it just wasn't a very good meet for it. It was a long trip pretty much for nothing.
Amos Otis, Hal Maker, Al Cowens and Clint Hurtle were the only Royals to get hits. The Royals return home for a 7-35 tonight against the Chicago White Sox.
Despite his performance, Newell lost the outstanding performer title to Kokesh, 15% votes to 15. Kokesh won the 1,500-meters on Saturday, and the 1,000-meter on Sunday, both in meet record times.
"Now it's back to the drawing board. I don't think I ran as good as I could have."
in the Wes Santee 1,500, Koski was clocked in 3:44.4, almost two full seconds faster than the old mark. He shattered the last half second and half seconds in the 5,000 finish in 13:51.3.
"I am very,very happy,happy," Koskei
KU FRESHMAN Buckingham was also a double winner, capturing both the University and open pole vault competition's first-place victures were 174 both times.
Before he could win the open event, he had to battle for crown KU Lyman Terry Porter in a sudden death jump-p off that lasted almost two hours.
said. "This is my fastest time this year. I like it very much."
The regular competition ended when both vaulters failed to clear 17-4/8% in the allotted three attempts. The bar was moved down until they both cleared 16-4/8%, then it was back up to 16-3/8%, and again at 17-5/8% and Buckingham won when he made 16-11½ and Porter missed.
"That was quite a bit of fun," Buckingham said. "I've never been in this type of situation before, jumping against another guy this long."
"I M A LITTLE tired, but not physically. There was so much psychology and strategy; it's your mind that is working here."
Rick Musgrave, assistant track coach at Oklahoma, said he didn't have any set strategy in the Glenn Cunningham mile, and he also didn't have enough to out-learn Irish. He did O'Shaughnessy. In the last 100 words, Musgrave thought fourth-place to what he thought was a victory
Musgrave didn't believe it at first, but he was convinced after seeing the photo that showed O'Shaughnessy's torso breaking the tape before Musgrave's shoulder.
HOWEVER, THE ACCUTRACK timer saw the outcome differently, awarding O'Shaughnessy the victory by one hundredth of a second in a photo finish.
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"Well, if I was a girl, I would have won." Musserra said.
Lundberg was just a few yards behind Mason before the final water jump, but he landed wrong, broke stride and could never recover.
O'Shaughnessy also thought Musgrave had won.
"I VE RUN AGAINST Bill enough in the past to know that he has a better kick, and even though I was leading on the final lap, he was able to force it and is awfully hard to force." Mason said.
In the 3,000-meter Larry Winn steeplechase, Mason won in 8:39.48 and beat another KU former standout, LandLiberg, by almost six seconds.
in the longest of the open events, the marathon, Anthony Rutiez of Milwaukee won.
Joseph Coombs, Alabama senior, captured the open 400-meters in 45.82. A second-place finisher for KU was Jimmy Little in the Ciff Cushman 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Matt Friedman took third in the discus.
Green shines in photo finishes
BvCARLOS MURGUIA
Snorts Writer
KU' s Lori Green put on a quite show at the Kansas Relays Saturday when she won both the IndyCar and the NASCar championship.
Green impress writers in the press box enough to receive four votes in the meet's outstanding performer competition. The only woman to receive votes, she finished second in the national university's Kipuabai Koskei and KU's Kevin Newlin, had 15% of all votes respectively.
"I'm so glad that that's over," she said. "The last time we ran, Jenie beat me. I wasn't pleased with my time in the 100, but this was the race I wanted to win."
Both of Green's victories came in photo finish. She pulled out of the startling blocks to take the lead in the 100 and on to tip the ball with a winning shot, in the 11 of a second. Her winning time was 11.74.
GREEN WAS PLEASED after the 200.
Later, Green, a Topeka freshman, faced Emmons and prep star Jennie Gorham, who was running for the Kansas City Northstars Track Club, in the 200. Green won in a record time record of 24.15, with Gorham second with a time of 24.25.
Green was not the only woman to excel in the Relays. Iowa State's national champion in the 1,300-meter run. Deb Vettet, won both races and won an honored SWL's winning two-mile relay team.
"The hardest race was the two-mile relay," Vetter said. "I was behind and I had to catch up. I ran harder in that race than I did in the other two.
"This is the first time this year I've run the 400 and 1,500 and I was really happy at the end of it."
THE 1,500 was indeed a fine race for Vetter, but third place finisher Michelle Brown of KU also ran impressively. Going ahead, the two made up a pack of runners, but turned on her speed.
"Around the last turn I decided to run all out because I was worried somebody was going to kick by me, she said. "It was tough competition and it was a close finish."
In the 400-meter hurdles, KU's Lori Lowrey was third behind江山 State's Deb Esser and Ellie Mahal. Esser, the national champion, event, won in a meet record time of 60.14.
Esser and Lowyre finished behind the 100-meter hurdler winner, Texas &M&s' Linda Waltman. Waltman's time was 13.93, Lowrey's 14.19 and Esser's 14.41.
"ESSER IS REALLY tough in the 400." Lowrey said. "I didn't run as well and I think I'm capable of running, I need to work on my technique and be smother."
Esser's victory was one of five the Cyclones earned during the meet. Green's
two triumphs were the only first-place finishes for the Jawhawk women.
KU coach Teri Anderson said that the team had had good individual efforts and that she was pleased with the team's performance.
"We had outstanding performances in the 100 and 200, the 1,500, both of the hurdle events and the two-mile relay race," she said.
The 54th Kansas Relays will be remem-
bered for some fine individual and relay
performance.
Texas A&M's Vickie Colem won the discus competition with a throw of 141-3; the women's division winner was the shot put with a heave of $48^4$; the University of Oklahoma's Jill Lancaster won the long jump with a 19-4 leaf and OU's Katie McCarthy won the high jump with a jump of 5-7.
Besides winning the two-mile relay in a time of 8:54.65, Iowa State also won the mile relay in a meet record 3:44.57. Kansas State won the race with a meet record 3:49.01. Iowa won the sprint medley relay in 3:88.77.
Other KU finishers and their times and distances were: the two-mile relay team of Deb Hertzg, Denise Homa, Vicki Simpson and Brown, third, 9:10:34; the 440 relay team of Claire Overtake, Gwens Poass, Lowrey and Green third, 48.2; Shawn Corwin, high jump, third, 5-7; and Tami Rose, javelin, fourth, 132.2.
By Kansan Staff and Wire Reports
Javhawks split twin bill with Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo.—Shortstop Monty Martin singled in the tying run and scored the winning run on a double by John Spoottwood in the top of the seventh Sunday to give the Kansas Jayhawks 84 victory over the split Big Eight conference double-header.
Missouri won the first game 5-1 behind sophomore Tom Heckman the four-hitter. KU's only tally came on a home run by center fielder Bitch Vickers.
on Saturday. A Al Hightower, Tiger left fielder, hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh to win the second game. 4-2. The team went first in the 3-0 four-hit pitch by Ron Mathis.
The second game was tied 3-3 before Missouri's Ed Woolbeel scored on an Al Hightower double to give the Tigers a 4-3 sixth-inning lead. But Kansas came back in next inning on consecutive hits by Bager Riley, Martin and Spotwood to gain the Riley.
Missouri swept two games from Kansas
KU COACH Floyd Temple expressed
interest in his team's come-from-behind
suitry.
"The dirt was on the coffin and all the nails were in," Temple told his team after the game, "and then we kicked the dirt off and pulled the nails out and won it."
Clayton Fleeman, 3-1, picked up the
Kings drop to Phoenix 108-93
TEMPE, Aiz. (AP) — The Phoenix Suns got 20 points from forward Walter Davis and a total of 51 from their bench, including 16 from guard Mike Brazot, to defeat the NBA Western Conference semi-final playoff game yesterday afternoon.
Phoenix leads the best-of-seven series 2-1 going into Game 4 Wednesday at Kansas City. The fifth game will be Friday in Phoenix.
The Suns built their biggest lead in the third quarter as Brake hit a 20-foot foul at the home plate.
The Kings shot only 29 percent from the field in that quarter, hitting on seven of 24
Kansas City's fourth loss in four tries this season on the Phoenix's courts.
In the final quarter, the Kings could cut the Suns' margin to only 13 points en route to
The Kings were led by Oti Birdsong and Scott Weddine with 22 points applued. They built a 20-10 lead with 5:04 left in the opening frame, having come back from a six-point deficit.
DV makes Pan Am
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - KU guard Darnell Valentine and a dozen other players were named last night to the U.S. basketball games by the United States team, games July 1-15 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The team was chosen from a group of almost 70 players at last week's tryouts.
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