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Wednesday, March 7, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Gymnasts get close; Colorado edges past
By BRETT CONLEY
Sports Writer
Despite scoring its second highest point total this season, the KU men's gymnastics team was edged by Colorado at Saturday in Robinson Gymnasium.
KU set a school record of 299.75 points two weeks ago against Northern Colorado, and Bob Lockwood, men's gymnastics coach, said it would take a similar effort to defeat Colorado. But KU could not pull it off.
The key event for KU was vaulting, where three performers missed their landings.
"We knew we had to hit vaulting and we didn't," Lockwood said. "We sat down on three vaults and that cost us a total of 1.5 points."
Lockwood said the floor exercises also hurt KU because Ron Ortman and Chris Phillips both missed parts of their drills, and they were high as they had been most of the year.
KU WAS CLOSE to Colorado all the way and going into the final event, the high bar, only trailed by .15 point. However, while KU scored close to what it had been scoring all year in the high bar, Colorado didn't miss a routine and
outscored KU by 1.15 points to win the meet.
Colorado coach Sid Freudenstein said he did not expect the meet to be as close as it was.
"We tried to give away the whole meet on rings." Freudentain said. "However, the guys performed fantastically when they knew the meet was close."
Freudenstein said Colorado's performance was affected by the fact the team didn't arrive until 4 a.m. Saturday and it got snowed in at the Denver airport.
"WE MISSED THINGS today that I attribute to falling asleep during routines." Freudenstein said. "The guys were energy well considering the problems we had."
"High bar was by far our outstanding performance. We have had high bar troubles all season long and I was glad to see we hit when we had to."
KU was led by Marshall Kelley, whose score of 9.4 on the high bar tied the KU record.
Pompey horned; 1-Beer, 9.35; 3 Hill Harbor, 8.15;
rings - 1-Bettworth, 8.15; 2.1tern, 8.13; 3.1real
vaulting - 1-vaulting, 8.13; guardians - 2-
Mercer, 8.13; guardians - 2-Kellman, 8.13;
all and all-round - 1-detail, Kelly and 0.80, 8.13.
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By RICK GOSSELIN UPI Sports Writer
The Big Eight had a regular season basketball race this winter whose competitiveness was matched only by that of the Big Ten. At one point early in the season, all eight teams were tied for first place. A week later five teams were deadlocked in first place.
KANSAS CITY, Mo — Big Eight basketball hit rock bottom in 1879, both from the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
By RICK GOSSELLEN
UPI Sports Writer
The Big Eight teams took turns knocking each other off and in so doing, damaged seasonal marks that mean so much when it comes to the home court. Named narbors bids. Oklahoma finally won the title with a 10-4 record with Kansas, Kansas State and Alabama all tyring for second with Alabama.
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Hunter scored in double figures for competing for Maryland in the rugged ACC tournament, where he was Newcomer of the Year in Metro Conference, averaging better than 13 points per game.
SO THE BIG Eight became the only major basketball conference with just one representative in post-season play. The Big Ten, Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference all sent five teams to the two tournaments. The Southwest Conference sent four. Even the lightly-regarded Sunbelt Conference sent two teams.
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Schafer, one of seven KU swimmers competing in the meet, said she thinks KU's results will be different this year.
Schaffer, six swimmers serious about AIAW
"It gets your attention when so many conferences get two and three teams in the tournament," said Kansas men's Athletic Director Bob Marcum, whose Jayhawks will visit an overall 18-11 record. "It certainly gives us something to shoot for next year."
If Lanny Schaffer has her way, Kansas will jump from an also-ran in women's swimming to one of the nation's elite after this week's Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women's National Meet in Pittsburgh.
The Big Eight, which is traditionally guard-oriented, will be loaded with big men. Big men like Al Beal of Oklahoma, Curtis Berry of Missouri, Andrew Smith of Ohio, Don Yumanu of Oklahoma State, Brian Johnson of Colorado and Dehun Unoff of Iowa State.
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And things could all change next year. Thirty-one of the 40 starters on the Big Eight teams will return, including two first team tight shots and five second teams.
BEAL PULLED down 22 rebounds against Kansas in the title game of the Big Eight post-season tournament and joined Smith and Youman as second team all-conference pick. Berry also had a 20-rebound game earlier in the year against Cyclones that ended with the Cyclones, needs just 190 more rebounds to become the conference's all-time leader.
The Big Eight still has a healthy complement of high quality guards. Guards like Darnell Valentine of Kansas, Rolando Blackman of Kansas State, Larry Drew and
"If we all swim the way we should," she
said, "I think we should score about 100 points as compared to the six we scored last week."
A performance such as that, according to
a rule, should put the squail in some fine
company.
"IF WE DID that, we would probably break into the top 10 in the country, and that would be a lot of work."
Schaffer and her teammates have been trying all season to reach the times needed
"I think we should be in the top 10."
for national qualification, and by the end of the regular season two weeks ago, had qualified four individuals for eleven events. He also won four individual events, and Janet Lindstrom has qualified for five events. Erin McMorrow and Diane Ellis have also qualified. Lynette Lange, Maureen Sheehan and long will compete in the relay events.
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Kansas coach Gary Kemph has said he expects to do well at the national, and considers it vital to the development of the swimming program.
Schaffer agrees.
"SURE IT'S GOING to be good for our recruiting if we do well. It will help to us help."
The most reassuring fact, Schaffer says, is that the majority of the team are either sophomores or freshmen. Of the four, individual qualifiers, Schaffer, McMorrow and Lindstrom are sophomores and Ellis is a freshman.
As evidenced by its record, however, the women's swimming program is doing fine.
priorship Meet in Norman, Okla., two weeks ago, and has dropped one one dual meet in
"We ought to be pretty good for a few years," Schafter said.
KU won its fifth consecutive Big Eight conference this season with a convincing victory.
To prepare for the nationals, the team has been pacing itself in workouts, trying to rest after each session.
"The girls going to the nationalists didn't get to rest at all before the big Eight," Shaffar said. "so we've been just having one day, and we've cut out our weight training."
"We just have to get mentally prepared." The meet will begin next Thursday and last for about two weeks.
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