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Husker attempt to untrack KU fails
UNL saw its rags-to-riches dream of dethroning power
ful Kansas in the Big Light Conference Indoor Track and
Field Championships come to a grinding halt at the UNL
Sports Complex Saturday.
The Huskers, who finished eighth in the indoor meet
three years ago in Kansas City when they scored just
three points, scored 87.2 points and finished second to
Kansas's 94.6 points.
The Jayhawks have won 21 of 50 Big Eight titles, but
number 21 did not come easy.
Help from the Missouri Tigers and Oklahoma Sooners,
and a little luck helped the Jayhawks defeat the stubborn
Huskers.
The Tigers finished third with 82.6 points and seven
first-place finishers, more firsts than any other team.
Oklahoma was fourth with 77 points, followed by
Kansas State University with 64 points, Colorado with 34
points, Iowa State with 31.6 points and Oklahoma State
with 24.
Missouri's Dan Lavitt upset UNL's Jeff Lee in both
hurdle races. Lee was the NCAA Indoor champion in
the 60-yard high hurdles last year taking both hurdle
titles in last year's Big Light meet.
Lavitt rant the lows in 6.82 seconds and the highs in
7.21 seconds. Lee placed fourth in the lows with a clock
ing of 7.01 seconds and second in the highs in 7.23
seconds.
"I guess I really choked today," Lee said. "I think I
was concentrating too hard today because I wanted to per
form better than ever and I just didn't run a good race.
"It wasn't a total defeat today. Losing is just some
thing you have to live with. I know I will come back,"
he said .
Other Tigers winners were: Andrew Agbebaku; a
double winner setting a Big Eight record in the triple
jump (53 feet 2Vi inches) and the long jump (25 feet
6 inches; Steve Moore in the shot put with a conference
record of 58 feet 8 inches; Dele Udo with a new confer
ence record of 48.14 seconds in the 440-yard dash; and
Scott Clark, the only other Tiger winner in the 880
yard run.
Nevertheless the rest of the Tiger squad scored only
12 points.
The Jayhawks, bothered by injuries and illness
throughout the indoor season, placed 13 qualifiers Friday
night for Saturday's finals.
They had two more costly injuries Saturday, when
they lost world-class sprinter Clifford Wiley and Kevin
Newell.
Wiley broke his left arm lunging for the tape in the
300-yard dash and Newell pulled up lame in the same
event.
Oklahoma's William Snoddy won the event, setting a
new world-record of 29.47 seconds. Wiley had held the
previous record of 29.73 seconds.
"We really wiped out in the 300, "Kansas Coach Bob
Timmons said. "The thing I worried about was that the
kids were looking at Clifford's (Wiley) wrist going every
which way and they saw Kevin (Newell) pull up. 1 was
afraid it (the lead) might slip away from us.
"The whole team really came through when they had
to though."
'The Jayhawks scored in every event except the long
jump, triple jump and the shot put and received first
place performances from Tad Scales in the pole vault and
Lester Mickens in the 600-yard run.
"We weren't really worried about Missouri," Timmons
said. "We were worried about Nebraska, and Missouri
just snuck right in there."
Timmons had good reason to worry about UNL,
which was second with 9 qualifiers after Friday's prelimi
naries. UNL picked up 15.2 points in the high jump with
junior Doug Phelps winning the event with a leap of 6
feet 1 1 inches edging out Kevin Bryant of Oklahoma on
fewer misses. Dean Her.og and Larry Meyer also scored
for UNL in a five-way tie for third. All third-place jumpers
cleared 6 feet 9 inches.
Phelps said he had wanted to jump 7 feet 1 inch, the
national qualifying standard. He added that he and Hcr
zog wanted to place first and second, respectively.
"Dean had the best jump of the day at 6-11 but he
just didn't kick his feet over," Phelps said. He added that
he still thought they scored well.
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Story by Jim Hunt & Rob Barney
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