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Friday, February 25.1977
University Daily Kansas
'Hawks' track team hopes change in scenery brings needed luck
By ROB RAINS Sports Writer
Track coach Bob Timmons hopes that a change in scenery for the Big Eight Indoor Championships this weekend will have a positive effect on his team.
After what happened at last year's meet, it can't hurt.
Suffering from a series of false starts, key injuries and dropped batons, the favored Jayhawks finished second last year—two points behind Kansas State.
Timmons is hopeful that all of those mistakes have been buried in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium. He is looking for a fresh start when this year's meet—the 49th annual—convenes in a new location, the Nebraska Sports Center in Lincoln.
"WE CAN'T REALY meet that meet," Timmons said about last year. "We had the best team, but made numerous mistakes. It was a hard job." "We'll be out to redo edgers ourselves this year."
This year's meet gets under way at 7:30 tonight with the preliminaries and finals in the long jump. Other preliminaries will be held on Friday at 8 a.m., followed with the high jump finals at 1:45 p.m.
On paper at least, it looks like the Jahyhawks will be the favorites to win their eighth straight. They would light up in nine of the 16 scheduled events, and are second in five others.
TIMMONS EXPECTS THE 'Hawks' bigger, better season than normal, who've beaten twice this season.
"We feel that they're the team we have to beat." Timmons said. "They have quality, depth and versatility. They don't have a single even they can't score in.
"Past Oklahoma, I'd have to say Nebraska has been the big surprise. Although we beat them in a dual meet earlier this year, you can't count on the same point spread in a championship meeting, which when they'll be running at home."
UNLESS THERE is a repeat of last year's collapse, which Timmons and the team won't even think about, KU should capture more than two individual titles.
The 300 is the only new event in this year's Meet. With Wiley and Dave Blatchet, who is tied for fourth best with a 30.8 clocking, it should be a good event for KU.
Leading the pack should be junior sprinter Cliff Wiley. Wiley holds the conference's best time in the 300-yard dash, 29.8 seconds, and is tied with OU's John Hammond. The 400-yard dash is 6.0. Garrison is the defending champ in both the 60 and the 60-ward low hurdles.
ANTHONY COLEMAN, with a school record of 7.07 in the 69-year high hurdles, is leading that event but should receive a strong challenge from Dan Lavitt of Missouri and Jeff Lee of Nebraska, both of whom have run 7.1.
Jay Wagner runs a runlea- leading 48.1 in the 440, but Nale Udof of MU follows at 48.2. Wagner is second in the 600, having run 1:10.4.
First in the 600 and the 800 is a surprising freshman, Scott Poolehning of Nebraska. Bob Prince of K-State, the defending champ in both events, is third in the 600 and tied for fifth in the 800. KU's Tommy McCall is third in the 800, with a time of 1:52.3.
RICK ENSEZ i is the other KU runner with a league-leading time, a 2:10.0 in the 1,000 The "Hawks Glenn Harter is tied for third at 2:10.7.
KU's unit of Blutcher, Kevin Newell,
has been selected to be headscarf for the best time in the rule relay. He is
In the field events, KU's Jim Podrebareli is leading the shot put with a toss of 57-11; Mike Wilk is first in the triple jump, 49-2% and is second in the long jump, and Tad Scales is the leading pole vaulter, having cleared 17-1%.
Other events where KU should score points are the high jump, where Steve Anderson is third and fourth; a 1 jump rank second and third; the two-mile run, where John Rosece is second with an 8:45.65, and the 60-yard low hurdles, where Coleman is third and James Aldridge
REARDON ALSO is in third place in the long umma and fourth in the triple umma.
Tinnisons said although the Jayhawks would lose fan support with the move from Kansas City to Lincoln, the new 225-yard line will allow the Tampa Bay 12-pack track in Municipal Auditorium.
"The facilities are a big improvement," Timmons said. "We saw that in our dual up there when we got four NCAA qualifying teams you can look for those kind of times again."
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