Monday, March 19. 1979 University Dafly Kansan 3 Relay falters; cindermen take 4th tie in NCAA meet Sports Writer By GENEMYERS Stan Whitaker had been certain KU's mule relay team was headed for the gold medal in the NCAA Indoor Championships March 9-10 in Detroit. "We will win the mule relay if we don't drop the batton or anything else tragic happens," he said. Villaina his optimism, disaster structu and villainaćť‘ used KU's misfortune to capture The Wildcats slipped past KU in the mile relay, 3:15 to 3:18 to 3:16. The victory gave Villanova the points necessary to tip Texas-El Paso, 32-91, for the NCAA crown. Auburn was third with 27 points, and KU tied Tennessee for fourth with 24. KU's disaster was not catastrophic but enough to dash its mile relay hopes. On the opening leg of the relay, Jimmy Little and Toledo's Herman Stallworth bumped several times. Stallworth eventually fell to the sideline. 58 LITTLE MAINTAINED his balance but couldn't compensate for the collisions and a toe injury suffered during them. He posted a dismal 151.1 quarter-mile split. "That guy kept stepping on my foot," Little said yesterday. "I thought he was trying to knock me to the sidelines so I gave an ankle because he kept hurting my toe. Whitaker and Tormy McCall put KU back in contention at 47.8 and 48.4 quarter "That took a lot out of me and I never could get it all back together." Region VI champion Kansas failed to make the final four in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national basketball tournament. KU stopped in sectional A loss to No. 2 ranked Louisiana Tech Fight in Carbondale, III, 100-61, spiked KU's hopes to win the Central sectional and top-tier semifinals in Greenshore, N.C., this Friday. KU, which had advanced to the sectional after beating Kansas State University in the finals of the regional, came back Saturday to whip Southern Connecticut State 87-71 and take third in the sectional. The Jayhawks their best season ever with a 30-4 record. Louisiana Tech went on to win the secreta- tion by downing Northwestern 88-52. Tech will play the winner of the East sectional in one semifinal game. Old Dominion, winner in the South sectional, will play the West sectional in the other semifinal game. KANSAN Sports miles. Lester Mickens anchored KU to first in its heat with another 47,8, but Villanova, which ran in the following heat, still won the event by a scant half-second. WHILE VILLANOVA was upsetting favored UTEP, a team loaded with foreign talent, the Jayhawks were surging to their first victory of the season and the memory of last year's for sale for 43rd. KU athletes competed in only five events but secured three second places, worth eight points. "We were so far behind for so long," KU coach Bott Tommings said, "we honestly weren't paying attention to team scoring. Then we get three seconds in the final four "KU has always taken pride in its NCAA achievement, and we can be proud, this year." AN HOUR BEFORE anchoring the mille relay, Mickens stormed to second in the 600-yard dash with a 1:09.72 time, finishing second in the men's national's 1:09.41. Mickens, whose fifth-place finish in the 600 last year accounted for KU's only points, entered the meet at the nation's nationals on Friday, 10.91. Mickens said the reasons for his defeat were the track in Detroit's Cobo Arena and the meet format. Because the track is a narrow, four-lane wooden structure, the dashes are in run sections, and under NCAA rules the two fastest qualifiers are placed in separate heats. Mickens had the fastest qualifying time and Tafuriello was second. "I've met Tufariello before, head-to-head," Mickens said. "I beat him. just wish we could have run in the same heat. "I would have beaten him." The beat. "THIS IS THE only competition I know of where the best don't eventually meet," he said. "in a national meet they should put the heat in the same heat and let them go it." Freshman pool vaulter Jeff Buckingham has sued his undefeated collegiate status slip away when he got KU's other second place jacket and Harvard's Geoffrey Cleary cleared 17.3%. Buckingham, who set a career best of 17-4 SOFTBALL OFFICIAL'S CLINIC Thurs., March 22 5:00 p.m. 205 Robinson Center Boasting a 10-3-1 record after the Citrus Tournament in Edinburgh, Texas, the KU baseball team will face Oral Roberts in a single game this afternoon in Tusas, OKa 'Hawks face Titans Kansas went 5-3 in the tournament, losing twice to Central Michigan, 5-3 and 9-3, and losing to Oklahoma State. The 'Hawks are hitting well, with seven regulars averaging over 300. Their worst showing was the second loss to Central Michigan, in which they made only four hits. The Hawks hit a third straight hitstreak, with at least one hit in each KU15 games. He carries a 404 average. Pitcher Dan St. Clair is 24, adding a four-hitter victory over Northern Illinois and a first-round pick in the season-opening victory over William Jewell. Junior Terry Sutliffe lost two games in the tourney, his first losses since his freshman year. Coach Nathan Morley led KU's pitchers with a L13ERA. Gymnasts net 3rd The KU women's gymnastics team surmised nearly everyone by finishing third in the AIAW Region VI tournament Friday and Saturday in Ames, Iowa. KU scored a season-high 131.2 points and trailed only Southwest Missouri State, which won 137.8 points, and Nebraska, 135.7 points. Final foursome set Michigan State and the University of Pennsylvania, winters winners in NCAA basketball regional finals, will join Indiana and Ohio State for the tournament and finals in Salt Lake City this weekend. The Spartans of Michigan State beat Notre Dame 80-68 to win the Mideast regional, and Penn beat St. John's 64-62 to win the Eastern regional. Building Bridges Between Cultures International Skating Party Tonite: 7:30 LAWRENCE SKATE CENTER 1003 E.23rd Street (no experience necessary) Funded by Student Senate and the Baptist Student Union Funded by Student Senate and the Baptist Student Union For those who help themselves Introducing the Noon Buffet Help yourself to all the soup, salad, and pizza you can eat $2.99 Mon-Fri 11:30-2:00 Admiral Car Rental Toyota Firebird Buick Regal Monte Carlo Culligan Mark V Thunderbird 2340 Alabama 843.2931 DEADLINE FOR ENTERING INTRAMURAL GOLF Wednesday. March 21st 4:00 p.m. Information Available in Rm. 208 Robinson Center Recreational Services 208 Robinson Center University of Kansas 864-3546 or 864-3556 11-year-old meet record of 36:56 set by Jim Hrym, a Kansas distance star from 1965 to Feb. 24 at the Big Eight Indoor, needed two attempts to clear 1-7 and two more at 17-3. Stiles, however, cleared 17-3 on his initial attempt to win. The meet's only double winner was UTEP's Suleiman Nymbui, a 24-year-old Tanzanian who won both the mile and two-gallon race. He is not good enough for first, but it also broke the record. Neither vauler could go over 17.6, even through Buckingham barely nicked the bar WHITAKER AND freshman Sanya Owolahi also competed in individual events but failed to place. Whitaker had qualified in the triple jump and met the standard in the triple lump. Because they made it to the finals, Buckingham, Little, McCall, Mickens and Whitaker qualify as NCAA Indoor All- Americans. Mickens is the only repeater. 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