6 Tuesday, March 6. 1979 University Daily Kansan Protected pitcher Staff photo by CHRIS TODD KU'S Terry Sutliffe throws batting in Memorial Stadium from behind a protected screen to shield pitchers from line drive. Sutliffe is one of two pitchers who have been key contributors in the first two games. Smith cage Coach of the Year WICHTA (UPI)-North Carolina head basketball coach Dean Smith, who also coached the victorious 1976 U.S. Olympic basketball team, was named 1979-20 Coach of the Year yesterday by the U.S. Basketball Writers' Association. Smith was a member of the KU national championship team of 1952, which finished 28-3. The Emperor native coached the Tar Heel offense in their first season at the Atlantic Coast Conference Post-Season Tournament and a spot in the NCAA tournament, which is to begin this week. The success, came despite pre-season predictions that his North Carolina team was playing theACC. The ACC. The writers attended at the time that the loss of All-America guard Phil Ford IT WAS THE first time the collegiate basketball writers had given the honor to Smith, who in 18 years at North Carolina has compiled a 386-126 win-loss record. Weather delays baseball opener By TONY FITTS KU's baseball team is scheduled to open its 1979 season at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon with a doubleheader against William Jewell College of Liberty, Mo., on KU's Quigley sports writer The games have been postponed from today because of the condition of the field. Quigley, just south of Allen Field House, is too wet to play on. "I'd push it back to Thursday," coach Paid Temple said yesterday, "but I can't William Jewell has another game scheduled on Thursday. Even with the postponement, Temple said, there is only about a 28 percent chance that a new temple will be built. But Temple is pleased with one aspect of the season that far improves the team's practice and the overall mood of the time and has had a few days of the practice on the artificial turf of Memorial "And being able to go to the football field and get in some fly balls, and some long jumps." "ALL OF OUR PITCHERS have gone seven innings in practice. Temple said, 'They're really good.'" The 'Hawks' lineup is pretty well set. Dell Graham will start as catcher, replacing graduated Andy Glimcore. Brian Gray and Jason Kidd alternate at first base and designated hitter. Steve Jelts returns at second, and Roger Riley will take over at third from Lee Ice, who graduated last year. Monty Marlin will cover shortstop. Outfielders will be Vie Harris in left, Bob Balaskik in center and Job Sportswood in right. Harris led the team in batting last year with a .344 average. Spottswood was second KANSAN Sports at 340, and set a team record with 17 stolen bases. Jelt hit 381 and stole 12 bases. LEON VICKERS would be playing center, but he broke a finger in his throwing hand and will be out of the lineup until the end of March. The loss of Vickers, who had a .283 average last year, should not hurt the team. It would be better to play with them. Pitching should be a strong point for the Jayhawks this year. Returning starters Terry Sutcliffe and Dan St. Clair accounted for 17 of the team's 34 victories last year. "We have a lot of depth in the outfield," he said. Sutcliffe led the staff with a 10-4 record and a l.72 ERA last season. SK, Claired the team in strikeouts, with 73, and compiled a 55-50 record for all games. They will start KU's first two games. OTHER RETURNERS include Galen "Catfish" Worley, who led last year's relievers with five saves and was second only to Sutcliffe with a 1.98 ERA; Kevin Cobb, who led on the squid; and Clay Christiansen, a 6-4, Ternola said, had had an excellent spring. The pitchers have been throwing from a portable mound during practice. When they begin throwing games, their pitching may change by the change to a real mound, Temple said. Junior college transfer Clayton Fleeman and freshman Mike Watt will also be on the pitching staff. Another transfer, Dave Lombard, will be for the season because of monogamous relationships. "I LAST YEAR we were surprised at how our pitches did with only one day on the field." Because of the weather, the first game Kansas played last year was with Dallas University in Dallas, at the beginning of its spring trip. The team returned from the week-long roadtrip with a 7-4-1 record, its best ever in the annual trip. Because of the weather, Kansas may open against Dallas, the first game of the spring trip, again this year. The Jayhawks then won in Tulsa, Texas, to compete in the Citrus Tournament. "Most of the teams in the tournament will also be from up north," Temple said. "I won't be so much of a disadvantage for us in not being able to get out." "We're going to stop off in Norman and work out at Oklahoma's field on the way down." KU IS ONE of seven teams in this year's Citrus Tournament. On March 12, KU will have two games, against Northern Illinois and Central Michigan universities. Men tankers defend Big 8 championship By MIKE EARLE Sports Writer The Jayhawks amassed 405 points and runner-up Iowa State tailed 343. Steve Graves broke three records in leading Kansas to its second straight Big Eight Conference swimming and diving championship title during weekend competition at the Bob Daveney Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb. Graves, unanimously selected by the seven league coaches as the meet's most valuable swimmer, qualified for the NCAA meet in Cleveland March 22-24. He also in the in the 200-yard breaststroke, the 200-yard medley and the 400-yard individual medley. "He had a great meet," said KU coach Bill Spahn. "He swear great last year, but he didn't win the MVP, so he wanted to prove he deserved it this year." Spahn said Graves had yet to realize his potential. "When he goes to the NCAA, he improves his times there," Spahn said. "He has not." completely ready for this meet, not all the way paused. GRAVES SAID his goal at nationals would be to finish in the top 12 in six events. Although Graves had a standout performance, depth won the title for the Jets. The 40-yard medley relay team of Rick Jenkins, Jim Sauer, Brent Barnes and Graves knocked almost two seconds off the old record set by Missouri in the 1978. The time of 3:25.55 was good enough to qualify for the Olympics as U.S' first victory in the event in twelve years. this big kit in his rationals would be to finish in the top 10 in his three events. He broke his record last record this season Saturday in winning the 200-yard breaststroke in a time of 2:05.04. KU got a first-place finish from Sauer in the 108-inch butterfly Teammate Bill Crawford. Missouri came on strong Saturday to finish third with 314 points, leaving Nebraska in fourth. Oklahoma, Colorado, and Oklahoma State rounded out the league. Women third in track nationals Kansas Placings 40 mctery联动 - Kaiwa (Rick Jenkins, Jim Sauer Steve Graves, Brent Barnes) 3 25.5 BVUAKLOS MURGUIA 2.2.5.35 Gravimetric analysis — I-1 200 individual media — I-1 152.384 (meet record) : 6 Mark Cole : 16.50 300 Individual metery 1 — Gravies 1: 52.88 (metre record) 6 Mark Cole 1: 56.99 7 Mark Dudley 1: 47.99 Sports Writer Kansas redeemed itself from a six-place conference finish two weeks ago by placing third in this weekend's Association of International Women for women National meeting at Columbia, Mo. Big Eight champion Iowa State added another title by capturing first with 57 points. The University of Texas at El Paso bound with 47 and Kansas was made with 44. 500 freestyle - 6: Dave Killen 4:37.67 500 freestyle - 5: Burnes 21:32, 6: Jay Kuratis 21:25 KU track coach Teri Anderson said the third-place finish was the result of a team effort and some outstanding individual performances. LAST YEAR at this meet, Calmese set an American record in the 300-meter dash with a time of 2:59.7. He was the first to win. Calmshe was KU's only national winner. She won the 60-yard dash with a time of 6.9. Teammate Lori Green also contributed finishing a strong second with a time of 7.04. record, but so did two individuals with faster times than Calmese's. The new American record holder in the 300 is Elizabeth Young from the District of Columbia with a time of 34.5 Calmness and Green fushed a time of 38.7 and Green fushed a time of 38.7. Throughout the indoor season, Corwin has been struggling in the high jump. But this weekend she exploded for her best jump and that was good enough for third and a KU record. Brantley 20, Armstrong 14, Alba 12, Kelby 12, Kelby 12, One-meter dive - 2. Kit Anneliese 12.4, Tom Anagnon 839.47. Corwin and the second-place winner both cleared 5-10 but Corwin had to settle for third because of more missed attempts at that height. Nebraska's Sharon Burrill set a meet record in the high jump by clearing 6-1. "I knew we could do this well," Anderson said. "We knew we were better than what they did." We know we believe our efforts at this meet proved it. Individually, Sheila Calmese and Shawn Fischer delivered. TWO OTHER contributors to the team's point total were Dib Hertzog in the 1,000 and 2,500 yards, Ben Doyle in the Hertzog finished sixth in the 800-yard run. This year he placed sixth in the 1,000 with a score of 69.7. Brown repeated her placement of last year by again finishing sixth in the mile run with a time of 2:53. Kansas did have one unfortunate accident, in the preliminaries of the 600. Vickie Simpson got tangled in a qualifying heat with three other runners, and all four fell. Simpson was the only one to get up and run, but that time wasn't good enough to make the finals. 10w 1st=1 GrassV4.0 4.01|4mfeeFeadj | 2. Cole4: 07 20freefly =Brian Collins 1.2.7 | 21freefly =Brian Collins 1.2.7 | Other Jayhawk finishers and their times were: Lori Lowry, seventh in the 60-yard hurdles, 8.19; and Maureen Finholm, ninth in the mile run, 5.03. 100 butterfly-1, Sauer 50.4, B. Bill Crampton 50.9. 100 backstroke-1, Jenkins 33.7. The only other KU record was set in the pentathlon event by Bev Fuller. Fuller 100 breaststroke--4 Jed Blackkship 39.1; 6 Kris Flaska 39.2 1. 650 freenyle - 5. Killen 18:06:46 Blankenship2: 10.67; G. Plaska2: 12.27. Meet Records. 200 backstroke- 2 Jenkins 1:56:0. 4 Peter Baker-Ahrera- 15:17. 1 000 breastcase-1, Graves 2.056 (meet record); S Blinkhorn8 2.076; S Blinkhorn10 2.232; S 400 freestyle relay - 3. Collins, Gray, Jenkins, and Barnes 3.5 Three-meter diving—2. Anagnos; 3. Anselmi. KU gymnasts capture state title Kathy Ross and Jackie DiPinto led the KU women's gymnastics队 past Wichita State for the second week in a row as KU won the Championship meet Saturday in Topeka. KU won with 128.5 points and WSU finished second with 125.5, followed by Fort Hays State University with 102.75 and Emporia State University with 94.05. Ross won the all-around competition with 92.85 points and Dipinto finished second with 92.61. "Jackie probably won the meet for us," Kren snow, woman in gymnastics coach, said. "I don't think I had to." exercise, but we were behind WSU going into the last event and we needed outscore Dipinto didn't practice until Friday because of a thigh injury. Snow said, "I didn't expect to win," Snow said. "We were really hurting going into the meet." Ross and DiPinto tied for first place in the floor exercise with scores of 8.5 and Kim Danlue won the uneven parallel bars with a score of 8.1. Results for KU were: Balance beam, 2- Rams, 8- Bats, 3- DPitcher, 5- Bases. Balance beam, 2- Rams, 8- Bats, 3- DPitcher, 5- Bases. Balance beam, 1- Dawson, 2- Bats, 2- DPitcher, 2- Bases. Balance beam, 1- Dawson, 2- Bats, 2- DPitcher, 2- Bases. Rise to new heights of comfort, primacy and comfort at the TOWERS. Lift yourself to the prominent. "Hawk's view" *view of campuses that only the upper few can reach* (Hawks). Rise in the park and thick skin with a丰富的新 perspective. - All Utilities Paid * * Located on Campus and Bus Route * * Furnished or Unfurnished Bedroom Apartments * * Work for 10% of Your Salary * * Show Appliances Nice * jayhawker towers apartments 1003 w. fifteenth