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monday, march 6, 1978 daily nebraskan page If Kansas captures Big Eight swimming championship "- r-V j . . - -r,., . ... - - -- Photo by Bob Pearson UNL swimmer Pat Murphy swims through a 1600-meter freestyle event in last Satur day's Big Eight Swimming Meet. , By Mike Schmoldt Three-event winner'Steve Graves helped Kansas University win the Big Eight Con ference swimming and diving champion ships Saturday at" the UNL Sports Com plex. Graves won the 200-and 400-yard individual medley events and set a Big riight record in the 200-yard breaststroke with a 2:07.48 time. Another triple winner, University of Missouri's Kevin peForrest, was named the meet's outstanding swimmer. De For rest won the title with victories in the 50-and 100-yard freestyle events and the 100 -yard butterfly. Missouri placed second. Iowa State University last year's Big Fight champs, placed second in the 400 yard relay, behind Missouri, but still had enough good times to qualify for the NCAA championships. ISU finished third, coming to the meet with the best dual meet record of 9-1 . With his team trailing KU 255-203 after Friday's competition, ISU coach Richard Quick said he doubted ISU could catch up, but that Kansas' lead did not surprise him. "I thought all along they were the team to beat." Quick said. "They have versatility. They've got more boys scoring in three events than any other team-very well-coached and well-prepared team." Two of Oklahoma State University's swimmers set Big Eight records and had NCAA qualifying times. They were Paul Nash with a 15:35.12 time in the 1,650 yard freestyle and John Marshall with a 4:30.82 time in the 500-yard freestyle. Kansas divers Kurt Anselmi and Mark Hill took the one-and three-meter diving mi77U CfOSSlVO Edited by EUGENE T. 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Both had NCAA qualifying point totals also. UNL's swim team coached by John Reta, finished seventh in the meet. Kansas State University has no men's swimming team. Despite UNL's low 72-point total, Reta said he saw encouraging signs in the first two days of competition. "We broke a slug of varsity records," Reta said. In the 800-yard freestyle relay, the UNL team of Bob Mizelle, Kris Rut ford, Goran Westerlund and Jeff Keller shaved 1.65 seconds off the old UNL record of 7:17.85. The team of Bob Hart ford, Mark Shapland, Mark Crowier and Dick Conradt broke the varsity record in the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:33.50. Both Hartford and senior Richard Maack broke the varsity record in the 100 yard backstroke with their respective times of 54.59 and 54.93 seconds. The highest finish by any UNL team member was junior Mark Crowder's sixth place finish in the 50-yard freestyle. 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