University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 20, 1987 11 *Monday Sports Extra* Field events reign supreme at this year's Kansas Relays By DIANE FILIPOWSKI Staff writer Joe Dial's U.S. record Saturday in the pole vault was the final field event at this year's Kansas Relays and marked the end of what was one of the most competitive meets for delites across the country this season. . . . . . One U.S. record was broken, another was attempted, NCAA qualifying marks were bettered 13 times, the third one was broken during two days of competition. Hollis Conway, who competed unattached for Southwest Louisiana, set a Relys record and won the high jump with a leap of 7-7. He made three attempts at the U.S. record of 7-9. "I just tried not to pay attention to it," Hollis said yesterday. "If I thought that it was an American record when I was jumping, I probably would have hit my head on the bar." Conway, 20, led a competitive field of high jumpers that had six other participants clear 7-2. Kansas 'Sharar' finished eight with a jump of 7.9 Conway, who is from Shreveport, La., and is redshirting this season, told reporters why he decided to attend such a small school. "It was close to home," the 6½- Conway said. "You can be good anywhere you go. It's just a matter of what you do." Pinkie Suggs of Kansas State was the highlight of Saturday morning's field events. Her throw of 55-414 was good enough to qualify for the NCAA outdoor championships, to break her own Relays record and to defeat defending four-time outdoor national champion Regina Cavanaugh of Rice. Cavanaugh finished second with a throw of 54-11, and Kansas' Denise Buchanan finished third at 51-11%, all in front of the NCAA qualifying mark of 53-11%. Suggs sat Saturday after she had won that she had been thinking about her competition all week because she had thrown 55 feet in practice. "It was just a matter of doing it in a meet." Suggs said. Suggs tossed her winning throw in the preliminary, which put Cavaverine down. I was tense during the finals. Suggs said "because I knew she was going to win." Cavanaugh, who was the Texas Relay's champion, said she had not been throwing her best because she was in the forearm of her throw arm. "This gave me a chance to work on the aspect of the event." Gaymouth sale. Suggs said now that she had thrown her thought she could throw 57 or 88 feet. "It's a challenge," she said. "I just have to keep concentrating and not let up now like I did in the final." Suggs said. - * * * * * While Suggs was the center of attention at the shot put ring, Kansas State's Kenny Harrison was the main attraction at the iumping pit. Harrison broke meet records in the long jump with a leap of 26-8-1/2 and in the triple jump with a mark of 57-2. Both rank him in the top three college long jumpers in the country. Harrison said he was pleased with his performances because he said he had a crack in his hip bone and had sat out a week of practices. Kansas' David Bond finished fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 51-7. Nebraska captured wins in the women's triple jump and long jump, but divided the wins between two both of whom qualified for nationals. All-American Karen Kruger won the long jump with a leap of 21·0¹/₂; and Renaita Robinson, also an All-America winner, has a leap of 43·0. also a meet record. K-State's All-American Felicia Carpenter also qualified for nationals with a second-place, 42-9 leap in the triple jump. Kansas' Yawson Taylor was third in the triple jump with 40-6 and was fifth in the long jump with 20-0. Olympic gold medalist wins 400 400 hurdles. Staff writer By ROB KNAPP Nawal El Moutawakel, competing unattached, pulled away from the field and easily won the women's 400-meter dash in a time of 52.97 Saturday at the Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium. Though she crossed over and won the 400 meters, Moutawak said she would narrow her training for the 1988 Olympics to her best event, the Moutawakel won the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles while representing Morocco, and she set the Relays record in the event in 1984, when she competed as a member of the Iowa State team. "There are those who can do everything," Moutawakel said. "I'm only human, one-hundred percent natural human." Moutawakel's two coaches died several months ago in an airplane crash, and she said she had only recently gotten over the tragedy. "After that, all my life was com- pletely destroyed." Moutaukawel said. Harry Reynolds of Ohio State beat Relays record-holder Daven Morris of Wayland Baptist in winning the men's invitational 400-meter dash. Reynolds also finished better than his brother, Jeff. "Running against him is the best competition," Reynolds said. "When I'm running against him, it's more than competition. It's blood." Harry overtook Morris in the final 100 meters and finished in 45.57. Morris took second and Jeff Reynolds, running for Kansas State, finished third, less than a second behind his brother. Harry, who attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado before transferring, also ran as a coach. State team that won the mile relay. Kregg Einspahr, the 1987 Relays steeplechase champion, came to Lawrence to boost his confidence. Life in the fast lane High school runners compete in the 110-meter hurdles. The event took place in Memorial Stadium during the third day of the 62nd annual Kansas Relays, which ended Saturday. "I came up because I wanted to win," Einspahr said. "I took a break last year and I'm just getting back on track again." "It's good for my confidence," Einspahr said. "Sometimes you can run fast, but if you get beat it doesn't give you any confidence." Einspahr, who ran unattached, is back in training with hopes of competing in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. 8:59.52, more than 5 minutes ahead of second-place finisher Terry Drake. Einspahr finished in a time of 'Hawks win Big 8 matches By ROB KNAPP Staff writer The Kansas women's tennis team lost only one match during the weekend as both the men's and women's teams cruised to two Big Eight Conference victories. The women beat Iowa State 8-1 on Friday in Ames and swept Nebraska 9-0 on Saturday in Lincoln. The men beat Kansas 5-4 on Saturday, Friday and Nebraska on Saturday. "That's the team I thought I had all year," men's and women's tennis coach Scott Perelman said yesterday the women's performance on Saturday. The victories should give the Jayhawks momentum going into the Big Eight Championships, which run Wednesday and Thursday in Oklahoma City. A team receives one point for each singles and doubles match it wins in conference play, so the women's squad picked up 1 points toward the conference title. The points earned in the regular season will be added to points earned in the tournament to determine the Big Eight champion. The Jayhawks have won nine straight doubles matches since switching to a new lineup before the Missouri match April 14. On the men's side, Perelman bemoaned the loss of six points that could become very important in the tight Big Eight race. "We just weren't ready to play." Perelman said of the match with Iowa State. "It's been a very mystifying thing to me about this team." Kansas began the Iowa State match with losses at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, but came back by taking five of six singles matches. The next day, the Jayhawks only managed three singles victories. The losses included junior Larry Pascal's first Big Eight loss of the season. Alan Hagman/KANSAN The men's squad will probably head into the Big Eight Championships Friday and Saturday in Oklahoma City trailing Oklahoma State by several points. Oklahoma must beat Iowa, but Washington Tuesday if Kansas and Oklahoma State are to enter the conference championships in a tie. Mike Ott has his hands full Saturday as he and his son Alex, 2, give water to runners competing in the 18th annual Kansas Relays Marathon. Helping hands KU crew dominates weekend meet By a Kansan reporter The Kansas Crew again rowed away from its competition Saturday at the Sunflower State Championships at Lake Shawnee in Topeka. Kansas' 120 members competed in a six-field team of Kansas schools. The Jayhawks won five events and beaten in six of the regatta's eight events. The Kansas women's vice eightman boat, women's open four-man and eight-man boats and men's novice eight-man boat won Saturday, and remained undefeated this season. Coach Cliff Elliott said he thought these boats would have the best chance to compete Midwestern for championships on Friday and Saturday in Madison, Wis. Kansas was unable to defeat Kansas State's open eight-man boat. Kansas' novice boat placed second. Elliott said the team hoped to compete well in Madison so it could send as many members as possible to the Dad Vail Regatta on May 8-9 in Philadelphia. "At the half-way point, they were only four seats behind, as compared to a length and a half in open water. Then they fell like wet, we made some improvement." Relays Continued from p. 10 John Creer, coach of Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, Texas, said Saturday that he was glad his team competed in the Relays because the competition was important to his team's success. Wayland Baptist's men's team won this year's NAIA Indoor Championships and the women's team was second. "Our problem is that we face NAIA schools when we compete." Creer said. 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