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THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN 460-1212 RECORDED WKY SPORTSLINE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1986 Loss Has Tubbs, Sooners Itching for Action guard, is hitting at an 18-point pace. In OU'i game at K-State, Coleman scored 22 point: after the Sooners limited him to six in th( first half or he limited himself to six. "The good players shut themselves dowi more than the other team does," Tubbs said. In the first game between the two teams Wright got 26. OU had a "comfortable" 80-72 lead with 1:45 to play but it turned out wasn't comfortable enough.

K-State hac closed to 82-80 when Linwood Davis' fret throw short-circuited the Cats' comeback sfo seconds from the buzzer. David Johnson scored 21 points in tha game while Tim McCalister had 19, Darry Kennedy 16 and Anthony Bowie 14. The loss at Iowa State dropped OU to 6-2 ir the Big Eight. Kansas is 7-1. K-State is 3-5.

only their second in 23 games. "Not this year," Tubbs said. "And I don't want any more experience like that. I'd rather bounce back after a good win. But we knew before the season started it's how you play after a big win or after a loss that's real important." Tubbs added, "I think we'll be ready to play.

I think it (the loss) has our attention." For the record, after the Sooners lost at Kansas, 92-98; they won at Kansas State, 83-80, and then at home against Nebraska, 87-60; Missouri, 88-84, and Oklahoma State, 106-84. Unaccustomed as they are to losing, the Sooners are more equipped to handle it than every other day the rest of the way. I wish we could have played Sunday, or Monday. We're ready to play." Kansas State is operating under lame-duck coach Jack Hartman, who announced his retirement in late January. Right after that, the Wildcats lost in Manhattan to Kansas but since have clouted Nebraska on the road, 64-54, and Colorado at home, 79-53.

Tubbs said he doesn't know if that indicates the Cats are playing loose since Hartman's resignation. "I thought they played awfully well when we played them up there," he said. "They have two great players and if those guys are going they're tough." Norris Coleman, 6-8 forward, is averaging 20.9 points per game and Joe Wright, 6-4 OU vs. Kansas State and gun on offense and scratch and steal on defense. And Tubbs said another factor is involved: "If you're a competitor, when you lose you're ready to get right back in there and play.

You want to play quick. I'm delighted that we have three games this week (after tonight's game here, the Sooners are at Missouri Thursday and back home with Colorado Saturday afternoon). "You know the old saying, 'The winners tell jokes and the losers say, 'Deal the damn I love the three games." And, Tubbs declared, "And I'd rather play By Volney Meece NORMAN After Kansas dribbled into a 74-77 ambush at Iowa State, the Jayhawks took it out on Kansas State, 64-50; Colorado, 100-64, and Oklahoma State, 85-69. Billy Tubbs, whose Oklahoma outfit fell into a 70-73 trap at I-State Saturday, was asked if he expects his Sooners to rebound just as impressively starting at 7:35 tonight when they play host to Kansas State. "Why would you ask me a question like that?" Tubbs demanded.

"You know we expect to bounce back. Sometimes we play our best games after a loss." It was pointed out to Tubbs the Sooners haven't had much experience bouncing back from losses of late, the setback in Ames being most teams because ot their style or piay: run Prayer Shot Lifts OCC Over OCU QB Gundy Reverses His Decision By Volney Meece Collis Clark's do-or-die, 30-foot shot settled intc the cords as the buzzer sounded to vault Oklahoma Christian College past Oklahoma City University 82-81, in the losers' gym Monday night. The victorj vaulted OCC into first place in the Sooner Con ference. Clark, who'd missed the Eagles' last two games because of an ankle injury, got his chance to be tht hero when Chief Chip Zumer missed the bonus sho on a one-and-one free throwing situation with sever seconds left to play. Zumer had given OCU an 81-8( lead by hitting the first free toss after a piece OCC strategy appeared to have backfired.

After Tommie Bolden's two free throws tied ai 80-80 knot with 53 seconds to go, the Eagles decid ed to go for a late shot. With eight seconds showing on the clock, lefty Doug Bradley, who already hac 25 points, pulled the trigger on a 10-footer from tht side. It went in but popped out and disaster seemed tc have struck the Eagles when Bradley went aftei the rebound and was called for fouling Zumer. Tha turned out to be a break instead of a disaster however, as Zumer missed his second free shot anc Clark goaled from outside, firing from near the lef sideline. OCC, which earlier had shaded the Chiefs, 65-64 in the OCC gym, improved to 6-1 in the conference to OCU's 6-2.

OCC coach Dan Hays, asked if this put OCC in the driver's seat with three games to go, said, "Not at all. If we can win the rest of 'em, yeah, but OCU': still in it. But this lets us control our own destinj and not have to worry about somebody else knock ing OCU off." However, when OCU head man Abe Lemons wai asked what the Eagles' victory did to the con ference race, he said, "It makes them the winner. There's no way we can beat 'em. And I don't se how anybody can beat 'em if they play the way thej did tonight." Lemons pointed out Bradley fouled the righ Chief since Zumer was a 58.3 percent free throv shooter.

Hays said, "I'm just glad we were able to hav the score close and have a chance to control oui own destiny late in the game. I felt like when went for the one shot Bradley got a real good one. I looked like it was in and out. I said, 'Hey, the kid; did what they were supposed to do. Maybe it's jus not in the Hays added with a smile, "I'm not so sure Brad ley's 'dumb' foul wasn't a smart foul, simply be cause we would get a chance to put the ball back ii our own hands again.

Zumer, percentage-wise, not a real good free throw shooter. But I don't thin! Bradley was thinking that." The 2,500 spectators saw OCC lead by eigh See Buzzer, Page 30 By Bob Hersom Midwest City quarterback Mike Gundy, The Ok-lahoman State Back of the Year, changed his mind Monday night and said he would sign a national letter of intent Wednesday with Oklahoma State rather than Oklahoma. "It was the hardest decision of my life," Gundy told The Oklahoman. "It was especially hard telling the OU coaches that I wasn't going to play for them. "But I'm a two-sport athlete (football, and shortstop in baseball), and although OU has a better football program, OSU has a greater baseball program.

Plus, OSU throws the ball more in football and I'll be able to play quicker there." Before making his official visit to OSU last weekend, Gundy told The Oklahoman he was "75 percent" sure of sticking with his commitment to OU. He also has told Sooner coaches that he would sign with them. "I guess I'm just an 18-year-old kid who's a little immature," Gundy said Monday night. "I guess I just got caught up in everything. "I was surprised that I changed my mind, but when I got home from Stillwater I just sat down and looked at all the facts and decided OSU would be best for me.

"I told the OU coaches tonight and they were real good about it. They wished me the best of luck. I got real close to the coaches there, and my decision certainly wasn't based on something they did or didn't do." The 6-foot, 175-pound Gundy, while leading Midwest City to its first state football championship in 25 years, led all Class 5A passers with 2,392 yards. OSU also received commitments from two other recruits Monday, raising the Cowboys' total to 29, though three of those scholarships, given to junior college transfers, will count on last year's allotment of 30. The Cowboys' latest commitments came from linebackers: Marvin Oglesby (6-3, 215) of Decatur, Sim Drain (6-2, 205) of Stillwater.

Drain, Class 5A's leading tackier (133) last season, and Gundy both were named to the The Oklahoman State Blue Chip List. OU, though losing Gundy, added three more commitments, bringing the Sooners' total to 16. OU plans to sign between 18 and 22 recruits. The newest OU commitments came from State Blue Chip lineman Scott Evans (64, 227) of Ed-mond, Parade All-America quarterback Bernard Hall (6-3, 210) of Detroit Henry Ford, and lineman James Goode (6-6, 230) of Houston Yates. Evans was named Big All-City Lineman of the Year by The Oklahoman.

Hall, who has a 4.5 speed and bench presses 375 pounds, was unbeaten in 27 starts in high school. Goode is rated as the best defensive end prospect in Texas by the Austin American Statesman. Controlling the boards, DuJuan Walker (45, at left) goes above the crowd to pull down a rebound for Oklahoma Christian while teammate Rodney Fergason (44, at right) tips a rebound. Bubka to Jump at Millrose Games Olson, Dial Prepare for Shot at Unbeaten Russian there," said Olson. "It's a lot better for me than trying to wait for the TAC (national championship) meet.

I'm getting tired. I've been jumping a lot this season." Olson said he has faced Bubka about five times indoors and outdoors and never has beaten him. "I don't think anybody has," he noted. Their most recent meeting was at London last July 19 Olson's 27th birthday. "He thrashed me pretty good," recalled Olson, who began his record-breaking skein with a jump of 19-24 Dec.

28 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. "But this is the first time I feel capable of beating him honestly," he said. The closest Olson came to beating Bubka was two years ago at Los Angeles, where the Soviet vaulter set a world in- ford, N.J. Bubka, owner of the outdoor record at 19-8, had been scheduled to appear in the Millrose Games. But on Jan.

29, the Light Athletic Federation of the Soviet Union said that the star vaulter would be unable to attend. The Federation said Bubka was withdrawing because he was to be a participant in the "Sports Festival dedicated to the opening of the 27th Communist Party Congress," scheduled Feb. 25, and would come to the U.S. for only the USA-Mobil Championships Feb. the Garden.

However, Schmertz said he was called Monday by an official of The Athletics Congress, the national governing body for track and field, and told that Bukba now was coming for the Millrose Games. "I'm excited that he's going to be NEW YORK (AP) Sergey Bubka of the Soviet Union, world outdoor record holder in the pole vault, will enter Friday night's Wanamaker Millrose Games against Billy Olson and Joe Dial, the two men with whom he has taken turns breaking the indoor mark this winter. An elated meet director Howard Schmertz made the announcement Monday, adding, "I think the addition of Bubka puts the meet over the top. I think the Millrose magic will be there again." Much of the magic in the meet at Madison Square Garden is expected from the three pole vaulters, who together have set world indoor bests seven times this season. Olson has been the leader, breaking the mark four times, raising it to 19 feet, 5 inches Saturday night at the Olympic Invitational at East Ruther See Bubka, Page 30 Elliott Grabs Pole For Daytona 500 'Twos Simply Tway's Day Second-Year Pro Joins Exclusive Club through 54 holes the tournament was reduced to a three-round format after Saturday's play was rained out in 204, 12-under par and tied with Langer.

The first playoff hole was halved in routine pars. Both hit the green on the next, a par-three. Langer ran his first putt, from about 30 feet, some six-to-eight feet beyond the cup. Tway missed from 20 feet. Then Langer, putting through the distracting shadow of a television tower, missed the comeback putt and tight-lipped tapped in for bogey.

Tway made his little one for par and was a winner. "An undescribable feeling," Tway, a 6-4 resident of Ed-mond. "You play golf all your life hopins this will happen and it finally comes." playoff. "It puts me in the Tournament of Champions, the Masters. It opens up so many more tournaments, so many more possibilities.

"The first win is the biggest. Maybe it will make it easier for the others to come," Tway said. And this one definitely was not easy. Tway, in the last group on the course, dropped back into a tie for the lead when he drove into trouble, missed the green and bogeyed the 17th hole. He needed a birdie on the par-five 18th to win the tournament outright but soon found himself facing a six-to-eight foot second putt to save par and force a playoff.

T.3.le it. finishing off a closing-round 69. That put him SAN DIEGO (AP) Bern-hard Langer shrugged off the cross-handed putt that misfired and paved the way for Bob Tway to become a first-time winner in the Shearson Lehman Brothers Andy Williams Open. "I was trying as hard as I could to win. We're professionals.

That's what we do. But Bob played very well," Langer said, then observed: "It will probably do more for him than it would for me, so maybe it's best that it happened this way." And Tway, 26, now in his second year on the PGA Tour, was quick to agree. "It opens a lot of doors," he said after he defeated Langer triih a VK-th-pii tS? second hole of a sudden-death ified Monday at over 200 mph breaking the single session mark 16 and the race record of 18, both se in time trials last May for th Winston 500. But the speeds were not as high had been forecast before the firs round of qualifying was postponed rain Saturday. "It was a combination of said Elliott, who still was sufferim from the flu.

"The wind was prett; bad out there. It seemed like it reall; upset the car in (turns) three an four. And the track is another yeai older and it seems like it's slickei than it ever has been. "You're gonna have to be handlin; just perfect to do well in the race." added. "Earnhardt proved that (Sun day)." Elliott was referring to Dal Earnhardt, who held off the pole-win r.f-2 Ford to crab a S75.C0O victor? See Elliott, Page 31 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Bill Elliott picked up Monday where he left off last year, running off to the pole position for the Daytona 500 with a fast lap of 205.039 mph. His Ford Thunderbird will share the front row with the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS of Geoff Bodine, who was just behind at 204.545, a separation on the clock of just .11 of a second. Elliott, who won both the pole and the race a year ago in kicking off an incredible season in which he dominated the superspeedways with 11 poles and 11 victories, just missed his own track qualifying record of 205.114. "I'm very surprised to be back on the pole," said the red-haired driver from Dawsonville. Ga.

"All the testing That everybody did over the winter. I A stock car record 25 drivers qual.