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University Daily Kansan
Injuries hamper gymnasts
By DAN BOWERMAN
Sports Writer
If KU's women's gymnastics team won the opening tonight, it won't be Ken Sunsa's face.
The five are Angle Wagle, Karen Mundy,
Murphy Murphy Sus Spangler and Kelly
Gluee.
Earlier this year, Wagle dislocated her
elbow and spend three weeks in a cast. She is out of the cast now, but Snow said he didn't know when she would be able to compete again.
SNOW SAID he hoped Wagle would be able to compete on the floor exercise and balance beam by mid-January. Wagle was an all-around performer for the Jayhawks.
Two other all-arounders have lesser injuries, but they still won't have their full capabilities for tonight's meet. Mundy suffered a twisted ankle and Murphy has a strained elbow. Snow hopes that Mundy will be able to work the uneven parallel bars,
beam and floor and that Mundy can perform on the beam and floor.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Debbie Theno pauses on uneven parallel bars
Swimmers set for relays
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By KENDAVIS
Sports Writer
Spangler, a specialist on the beam, sprained ligaments in her knee and is having therapy treatments, Snow doesn't know when she'll be back in the lineup.
Kansas coach Dick Reamon still has a lot of unanswered questions about his students' swim team and hopes that this weekend's Columbia, Alabama, game will give him some answers. Mo., will give him some answers.
Spirits and relays are the areas that have given the Jayhawks the most trouble this season. In the team's only meet so far this year, a 60-33 loss to Colorado, KU lost both relays and was out-pointed 30-2 in the four sprint events.
REAMON SAYS the sprints will be his major concern again this week, but he believes that conditioning should remain the prime objective during practices. KU's practice schedule won't concentrate on the sprints until last in the season.
"I feel we must keep a firm foundation and keep our conditioning in order."
"The meet comes at a good time for us," Reasonam said yesterday. "It will allow us to see where we stack up in the Big Eight race. But the meet really isn't suited for us. This is a spinters' meet and that reason I'm going to expect too much from our swimmers."
THE FFTH injury for KU went to Kelly Gibson, a floor specialist, who aggravated a foot injury. She will undergo surgery on her foot during the Christmas break.
Reamon said, "I think practices have improved greatly this week. The practice this week have made me happier than I've been in a long time.
"We've been very consistent this week.
That's very important because consistency
is vital."
LAST YEAR KU placed third at the invitational relays, behind Oklahoma and Colorado. The Jayhawks were the only team to fail to win at least one event.
"The first is to load up your best swimmers in four or five of the relays and maximize your point total in that way," Reasonam said. "The second way is to spread your swimmasters out and cover all 12 relays so they don't matter is the way I've always looked at it."
There are 12 relay events in the invitation relays. In deciding which swimmers will swim which event, Reamon said, he uses two methods.
Snow will try to put a team together using the four gymnasts he has left -Debbie Theno, Rene Neville, Sue Thompson and Laurie Propost.
ALL OF THE conference teams will participate in the relays, which will begin with preliminaries at 7:30 tonight. There will be one guest squad also competing, the University of Missouri at Rolla. Finals begin at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Theo and Neville will work the all-around tonight when the Jayhawks meet the Cowboys and Hawkeyes at 6 in the south eyn of Robinson Gymnastium.
All-airborne work the four Olympic events-balance beam, vaulting, uneven jumps.
PROPST WILL perform on three events—beam cutting and floor—and Thompson will maintain the equipment.
Snow said that since four scores on each event would be counted this year to make the team score, the Jayhawks would be short on at least two events and maybe all four. He said KU would have only three performers on vaulting and uneen bars.
SNAID SAW that he didn't know much about Oklahoma State or Iowa, but said that both would have full teams, and that Iowa should have a good team.
The other vaulters would be either surgery or an appointment to list them as desirably for付款 tonight.
"If we can hit our routines and have another vaulter, we could in the meet," Snow said. "Without that, we probably can't compete with them."
"We have some good individuals," he said. "We potentially have a national calibre team. We just can put it on the floor right now."
Kansas will face a CMSU squad that lost its top three scorers from their year-14 10 team. The Mules, however, will have four returning lettermen in their starting lineup against the 'Hawks, including 6-7 center Ted Smith.
"TED SMITH could play for us," coach Ted Owens said last night. "Coach (Duncan) Reid saw him in Kansas City against the Ravens, that he was a good, aggressive player."
"They've got good guards—several fine outside shooters," Owens said. "They're a motion type of offense, and we feel that they're a very capable team."
Two unbeaten basketball teams meet tomorrow night, when Central Missouri State and the University of Kansas collide in a 7:35 tippin in Allen Field House.
By ERIC MARTINCICH
Smith isn't Owens' only concern.
The Mules are coached by Tom Smith, a former assistant coach at Iowa State.
"We have a lot of respect for Smith." Owens said. "He is a very sound coach."
KU is coming off an 81-66 win over Murray State Wednesday night. The Jayhawks opened the season last Saturday by downing Montana State. 104-47.
Both teams enter the contest with 20 records. CMSU won its opener over Midland Lutheran by a 92-75 score and then defeated Lufthurst, 60-35, Tuesday night in Kansas City.
'Hawks' next action tomorrow
SMITH, IN just his second year as head coach at Central Missouri State, has several new faces on this year's squad. They in-icipated with Mr. Wheeler who transferred to CMSU from Iowa State.
"When he was at Iowa State, it seemed that we always brought out the best in him," Owens said. "He and Herde (lyv) formed a band of young guitar combination that year (1974-75)."
As a Cyclone, Branstetter scored 31 points in two games against the 'Hawks at the Big
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THE JAYHAWKS will face the Mules with the same lineup they have used in the previous two games, with one major exception. Owens said that Donnie Van Moore probably would start at the pivot in place of Paul Mokeski.
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