Friday, March 9. 1979
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Harriers to NCAA; lack qualifiers for title
By GENEMYERS
Sports Writer
KU won't be in the title charge at the NCAA
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next week.
With athletes qualified in only six events, the manpower just isn't there to capture them.
But KU head coach Bob Timmons said he hoped his squad could finish high in the standings, improving on last year's tie for 43rd.
Last year, KU's only points came from Lester Mickens' fifth-place finish in the 600 yard dash. The junior speedster is back home after winning races in two events, the 600 and mile relay.
"We don't have the opportunity to go after the team championship." Timmons said, "but we do have the opportunity for some fine individual efforts."
HE IS AGAIN among the favorites in the league. He has best posture (1.09/1.43) on his knees, and he's an eye-catcher for the Big Eight Indoor. The NCAA meet will be run on the boards at Detroit's Cobo Center.
At the Big Eight Indoor, Mickens said back and came from more than 20 yards behind to defeat Missouri's Scott Clark. Mickens said he planned to use the same strategy on his chief competitor in the national, Maryland's Chris Persons.
Mickens is also a vital link on KU's mile relay team. Both Mickens and senior
captain Stan Whitaker said the Jayhawks were the team to beat.
"Villanova and Tennessee are probably our ton competitors." Whitaker said.
KUS MILE RELAY will include Jimmy Little, Whitaker, Tommy McCall and Mickens. Both Mickens and Whitaker team in last year's NCAA Outdoor, in last year's NCAA Outdoor.
Senior All-American Kevin Newell, who also ran on the NCAA outdoor team, qualified in both the 400-yard dash and mile relay but will miss the meet. He pulled a rookie into playing the Big Eight Indoor. McCall, whose specialty is the half-mile, is taking his place.
Also mission the NCAA Indoor will be Anthony Coleman, Big Eight champ in both the 60-yard low and high hurdles. He is hamerped by a sore hamstring.
KU's two other qualifiers are freshmen.
Jeff Buckingham has met the NCAA
standards in the pole vault and Sanya
Owolabi has qualified in the triple jump.
Buckingham has the best title shot of the two. His career best of 17-4 at the Big Eight meet gives him the third best bault in the nation.
The undefended collegian trails only Oregon's Teint Muhmuth (17-8) and Ablene Cullen (20).
Whitaker also will compete in the 440 yard dash. Mickens also qualified, but he will bypass the event because it is scheduled too close to the 600 mile relay.
KU takes 2nd twin bill
Sparked by the hitting of Bob Halastik and the baserunning of Steve Jelt and John Spottswood, KU's baseball team swept a doubleheader with Fort Hays State
Halatik had a double and a base hit for one HR1 in the first game and two base hits for another.
Kansas beat the Tigers 3-1 in the first game. The second game was cured after 45 minutes.
"Halastik has really been impressive," KU coach Floyd Temple said of the senior rightfielder who hit only .088 in 23 times at bat last year.
"HE'S MADE A complete switch in his hitting style. He used to have a real big swing, but he now has shortened his stroke—it's a bit more compact. It shows what you can do when you make up your mind."
What Halaat has done is hit .482 in KU's first four games after listening to suggestions from Temple and his assistant, Stan Hall.
Jeltz and Spottswood continued their two-day baserunner spree. Jeltz had four stolen bases in the two games, and Spottswood had two.
Swimmers sure shaved
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For KU swimming coach Bill Spahn and nine of his swimers, the dry look is in. But it would be hard to say what look is in.
"ITS THE FIRST time I ever done
Spain, spain, wearing a beaver stocking cap,
it's so cute. It's funny, looking wear this in 80 degree
weather. The only way I do it again is if
I wear a ski mask."
The relay team of Rick Jenkins, Jim Sauer, Brent Barnes, Steve Graves found the offer hard to refuse. They won the event in record time, qualified for national competition and won the barber bet.
Although Spahn might be a bit uncomfortable with his new hairstyle, it is a tradition for junior tri-captain Sauer, who the won 100-vard butterfly.
For Spain, the reason was the 400-yard medley relay team. He told the team that if it won, the seniors could shave his head.
For various reasons they either shaved or cropped their hair last weekend at the Big Eight swimming and diving championships in Lincoln, Neb.
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"The relay was on the first day of the meet, and KU hadn't won it in twelve years," Spain said. "I wanted to get the guys up for the meet."
"It's my fourth time so I'm used to all the jokes," Sauer said. "I shave my head before the big meet and I are ready to go fast.
Most of the swimmers agreed that shaving or cropping their hair gave them a psychological edge. Bill Crampton, in the 2004 garden butterfly, is one of them.
"It feels like jumping into the water with no head."
"I BURRED my head because I needed to get pachy," Crampon said. "I didn't have that good of a season, so I needed to get me up."
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Crampton shaved his head last year but wasn't satisfied with the results.
"I didn't like the feel of it in the water last year," Crampton said. "I left it a little longer this year. It isn't quite as abrasive.
"Last year my head would stick to the pillow, and it felt funny when I wore a hat."
"You're kind of laughing to yourself because you know everybody is wondering what happened." Flasla said. You are the worst; they just look at you.
"I not going to bring it up and say,
'Oh, by the way, I have my head for the Big Eight meet.' I like to let them wonder."
"I shaved last year and have had only one haircut since," sophomore Jay Keruits said and get weiried out, telling everyone something like this you expect the reaction."
Senior Jesse Gray, who placed sixth in the 100-yard freestyle, went all the way
According to senior tri-captain Kris Flaska, who placed sixth in the 100- and 200-yard breast strokes, it's different to go to classes with a buried head.
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Freshman John Amsler's decision to shave his head for the first time was difficult.
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and shaved his head with soap and razor. It was the third time he has shaved before the Big Eight meet.
CARRY-OUT
STRANGERS' AND friends' reactions vary when they first see the swimmers' new hairstyle, but the swimmers are ready for different reactions.
"I like to do it because it's that much less resistance in the water," Gray said. "But you can't help feeling an abrupt change." It's like growing old in a day.
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"Resistance in the water is a part of it, but for me it's a commitment to get it done." He says the meet we all kind of get the fever, and it's not too hard to go through with it. But every time I look in the mirror I tell myself that it had better hurry up and grow back."
“YOUR HEAD really shines after you’ve shaved. I’ve got a few nubs now but there is no way my hat is going to work.” He’s even hard to pull a shirt over his arm.
"I WAS ONE of the last guys to do it," Amster said. "The guys on the team least expected it from me.
Sophomare Jenkins, who swam a leg in the 400-meter medley and placed second in the 200-meter backstroke, cropped his hair to put pressure on himself.
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"I've lost a few girlfriends over it.
They just wired out about it."
"When I came into the team meeting the guys went crazy. It bothers me a little bit now, but the Big Eight championship is nothing to be ashamed of."
NCAAction here
DRIVE-IN
Associate Sports Editor
By JOHN P. THARP
In the December finals of the All-City basketball tournament in Oklahoma City, they lost.
KEN HAYES, the Agnes' coach, is in his 22nd straight winning season. This year, his team is 22-9 and runner up in the Missouri Valley conference. He's expected to start a
He's concentrating on tonight's game, and is expected to start only one senior. 6-7 Kurt Moore, a forward averaging six points a game. David Johnson, an inch taller, is averaging 14.7 points and will start in the other forward position. At center will be the tournament's only 7-footer, Richard Smith, who has 16.2 rebounds, 9.1 rebounds. The guards will be 6-5 Bruce Collins, averaging 16.7 points, and 6-6 Mark Mattos.
Neil McCarthy, Weson State's coach remembers the loss, only one of eight his Wildcats have received in 32 games, and realizes the strengths of the Aggies.
"We have got to stop their rebounding and end a break," McCarthy said yesterday. They outspent him in 12 innings.
WEEBER STATE, from Ogden, Utah,
became the Big Sky conference champion
by winning the league race and the post
season tournament. McCarthy would like to
get past the Aggies from Las Cruces, N.M.
and play Arkansas Sunday in a round two
game. Last year in the playoffs, the
team was led by 7-5 defeat, banding them the 7-52 defeat. But like most coaches, McCarthy won't comment yet on Arkansas.
McCarthy hopes to stop the Agkies when the two teams meet in first round NCAA playoff action in a 7:06 game tonight in Allen Field House.
In the second game, at 9:36, Jacksonville faces Virginia Tech.
All four teams arrived and practiced yesterday.
Locke probably will start three freshmen. Two of them, 6-7 Singh Guram and 6-8 Paul DeVito, averaging 7.5 points a game, will team with Cricket Williams, averaging 7.3, at guard. James Ray, a 6-9 center, is the first to score more than 10 points for the MVP on the Sunbelt tournament.
pair of seniors -6-7 Robert Gunn and 6-7 Cyrus Cormier-at forward. they average 14 and 10.9 points respectively. At 6-7 and averaging 16.5 points and 8.5 rebounds is approximately 16.3 points. Myers, a pair of 6-8 guards avering 9.8 and 8.5 points respectively, will also start.
HIS SCHEDULE fit into the Dolphins timetable to turn around last year's 14-14 season. In his first year he has lost a total of eight games, bad to NCAA by winning three straight in the Sun belt conference's third post season tournament. It is the Florida school's first NCAA
The Gobblers of Virginia Tech are coached by Charlie Mills, now in this third season. The Gobblers will Louisville enroute to the Metro Conference tournament championship. The Gobblers are a member of the
A former NBA coach, Tates Locks is back where he wanted to be—coaching college basketball as the head man for Jacksonville.
"I wanted to get back into college when I left," Locke said. "My personality was not meant to be around that many eyes at one time. But I had no timetable on getting back to college."
Moir is expected to start 6-9 freshman Dalore Solomon, the Meton MVP in that tournament. At forward will be 6-9 Wayne Robinson, leading the team in rebounds with 10 points. Jackson also averages 14 points a game. At guard are Dexter Reed and Marshall Ashford.
From Kansan wire services
Hurdle hits homer, Royals win 2
FORT MYERS, Flai—Clint Hurt driver in two runs with a homer and a single yesterday to pace Kansas City to a 7-0 win over James Madison College.
The victory gave the Royals a sweep of their double-header against the team from Harrisonburg, Va. In the first seven innings, the Royals allowed four hits and pitched three shutout innings, allowing only
Rookie left-hander Mike Jones, and two
one hit and striking out five. Kansas Ca$_{2}$ won 7-4.
Rookie left-hander Mike Jones, and two rookie right-handers—Renie Martin and Ben Grykeby—combined for the shutout in the second game. They allowed a half dozen shots and singled three times and U.L. Washington doubled twice for Kansas City in the game.
INTRAMURAL SOFTBALL — 1979 Manager's Meeting —Robinson South Gymnasium
Tuesday, March 20
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- Co-Rec. League at 6:00
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