Kansas University sophomore basketball player Rodrick Stewart suffered a minor injury in a disturbance early Sunday morning at Abe and Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St.

KU coach Bill Self said Stewart, a 6-4 guard from Seattle, was hit by some sort of “blunt instrument” – Lawrence Police Sgt. Michael Monroe identified it as a bottle – as he was leaving the bar and was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where a doctor applied four staples to the top of his head.

“We are aware that last night at Abe and Jake’s more than one fight broke out inside,” Self said. “All reports we have received are that a fight broke out on a crowded set of stairs that Rodrick Stewart was using to exit the premises.

“Rodrick was hit over the head with some form of blunt instrument while he was exiting. All reports we have received indicate Rodrick had no involvement in the altercation other than him being hit over the head while going up the stairs.

“He received four staples to the top of his head and is feeling fine today. Rodrick’s being at Abe and Jake’s did not violate team policies,” Self added.

A spokesman of Abe and Jake’s indicated that from information he received Stewart was not involved in the fight that broke out near closing time, which is 2 a.m.

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Lawrence Police Capt. Ray Urbanek said early Sunday morning no arrests were made. The preliminary report from the officer who responded to the call said it appeared no Jayhawks participated “in any way in a fight.”

About the same time as the fights broke out, a KU student was injured in a fall from somewhere outside Abe & Jake’s near the entrance, Urbanek said. The student, identified by Urbanek as Gregory Fowlds, 19, who had a Lawrence address, was found lying near some railroad tracks and might have fallen as far as 30 feet, Urbanek said. There were no witnesses to the fall and it was unclear exactly where the fall occurred.

Fowlds was taken by Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then flown by helicopter to University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., Urbanek said. Fowlds, however, was conscious and talking, Urbanek said.

Fowlds’ condition was not available from the hospital and officials there said they couldn’t confirm or deny he was a patient.