.Wednesday, May 10, 1961 v
The Nebraskon
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Cowboys, Tigers Are Alone
At Top of Big 8 Standings
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By Hal Brown
Only two teams are still in
contention for the Big Eight
baseball championship with
only three teams playing .500
ball or better.
Oklahoma State is coasting
along in first place with al3
0 mark and Missouri is 'the
only team having a chance
to edge them out for the pen
nant. The Tigers are t h r e e
games back with a 10-3 rec
ord. The Cowboys can cinch at
least a tie for the league
crown by sweeping a three
game set from Iowa State
Friday and Saturday at Still
water. If both the Tigers and
Cowboys win three this week
end, the title will be decided
when the two teams meet the
last week of the season.
Any combination of 0 k 1 a-
homa State wins or Missouri
losses totaling four would
give the Cowboys sole pos
session of the title.
In other activity this week
end Oklahoma will be at Ne
braska, Kansas goes to Kan
sas State and Colorado is at
Missouri.
Colordo Third
Colorado is the only team,
In addition to the top two,
that is playing .500 ball. The
Buffs are in third place with
a 6-6 record. Oklahoma rounds
out the first division with a
6-7 mark.
Nebraska is in last place
with a 3-9 record in confer
ence play. The Huskers are
tied with Kansas in won-lost
percentage, but Nebraska is
games behind Oklahoma
State while the Jayhawks
trail by only 8. Nebraska
has a 5-12 mark overall.
The league-leading Cowboys
are led by miners Jim Wix
son and Larry Ferguson, who
have won 11 games between
them this season. The two
moundsmen each turned in
complete game performances
Saturday as the Cowboys
took 8-5 and 54 wins ever
Colorado.
Wixson allowed only six
hits in the opener of the twin'
NU Nettera to Face
Creighton Thursday
The Nebraska tennis team
meets Creighton University
Thursday in Omaha in the
first of two meetings of the
schools this year. The teams
will meet again in Lincoln
May 16.
Harris Regains Lead
Among Husker Hitters
The Nebraska baseball team returns to the home
diamond this weekend after two series away from home
the past two weeks.
Coach Tony Sharpe's Huskers win face Oklahoma
in a doubleheader Friday at 1:30 p.tn. on the Nebraska
diamond. The two teams will meet in a single 'game
at 10:30 a.m. Saturday as a part of the All-Sports Day
slate.
Senior Jerry Harris retained the batting leadership
as Steve Smith dropped to the No. 2 spot in hitting.
Harris is hitting .322 and Smith owns a .314 average.
Don Schindel is the only other Husker above .300. He
is hitting .304.
Bill Redmond leads in RBIs with nine. Rex Swett
leads in doubles with four and stolen bases with five.
Tom Ernst continues to lead the pitchers with a
2.25 ERA. He has a 1-1 record. Ernie Bonislall, who
was charged with the loss at Kansas Saturday, is the
winningest pitcher with a 2-3 record.
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bill as Walt McKenzie and
Ray Bond led the plate at
tack. McKenzie smashed a
two-run homer in the fifth in
ning and led off a three-run
seventh inning with a triple.
Bond hit a two-run homer
later in the inning.
Two Colorado errors and a
single by Jim Dobson ac
counted for the winning runs
in the 5-4 nightcap as Fergu
son allowed eight hits in gain
ing credit for the win.
Missouri came back to take
two from Iowa State Saturday
after losing the series' open
er to the Cyclones Friday.
The Tigers pounded out 12-3
and 18-1 victories Saturday
with Mike Hunter and Ed
Luffon smashing four-baggers
for the winners. Hunter drove
one out of the park with two
men on in the fifth inning of
the first game.
Missouri scored nine runs in
that inning with four of them
crossing the plate on Luffon's
grand slam homer. Hunter
also homered in the fourth in
ning of the nightcap with the
bases loaded.
Iowa State won the series'
opener Friday by a 6-5 count
in 10 innings.
Oklahoma, Nebraska's op
ponent this weekend, won
both games of a doubleheader
from Kansas State Friday,
but dropped the Saturday tilt,
1-0, in a 10-inning duel.
Extra-Inning Battles
Both games of Friday's
twinbill went into extra in
nings before the S o o n e r s
pulled out 2-1 and 5-2 deci
sions in eight innings both
times.
Kansas State's Brad Steele
and Sooner Jerry Haddock
locked horns in the scoreless
pitching duel Saturday be
fore an unearned run in the
10th inning gave the Wildcats
the win.
Star of The Week
Roots Gets Nebraskan Award
For Lengthy Javelin Throw
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By Jan Sack
Javelin specialist Al Roots earns the Daily
Nebraskan Star of the Week award for the
week of May 1-7 for his record breaking
performance against Colorado Saturday.
With his spectacular throw of 240-11 Roots
captured the number two spot among col
legian javelin throwers. Roots grabbed his
position from C. K. Yank of UCLA who had
a toss of 236-3.
At the meet Saturday Roots said, "I knew
that I had thrown hard, but it felt like it
slipped just a little off balance. It turned
out real good."
Roots said he was counting on the wind
to carry him through for a good throw, but
it was so varying that he couldn't depend
on it.
The javelin has not always been the slen
der senior's specialty. During his high school
days for Wyandotte in Kansas City, Kan.,
he ran the hurdles, the 440, the relays, and
high jumped as well as throwing the jave
lin. "I could do everything fair," he said, "but
I decided to specialize in one thing and
maybe I could do it well." As it happens
now, his mark seems to prove his point.
Before the meet in Colorado the best per
formance from Roots had been as a fresh
man when he set the Big Eight froth
record with a toss of a little over 222 feet
As a competitor in varisty action his best
effort came in the meet against Houston
earlier this year. He set the Nebraska var
sity outdoor record with a toss of 218-4.
Ike Hanscom, field events coach for the
Huskers, has helped Roots develp his ath
letic ability in the javelin. Roots saw sev
eral films of Finnish spear throwers and
then adapted their technique to his style.
The outstanding throw opened the door to
a brighter future in the track world. Hit
plans thus far include going to the Big
Eight outdoor championships, competing in
the Midwest AAU in Cozad, and possibly
going to the NCAA Championships in Phila
delphia in June.
The National AAU in New York it also
in June. In this meet the top three finishers
in each event will be eligible to participate
in the Russian-American Games in Moscow
in July. Roots said he had not made any
definite plans along that line. ,,
Nissen Nominated for Top Athlete
Nebraska bantamweight
wrestler Mike Nissen has re
ceived a nomination for the
Daily Nebraskan Outstanding
Varsity Athlete award.
Nissen is described as the
"bright spot in the Husker
wrestling season this year."
He boasts a nearly-clean rec
ord suffering his first defeat
in the Big Eight tournament
against the Big Eight cham
pion Duwane Miller of Okla
homa. The 123-pound wrestler was
pinned by Miller with t w e
seconds remaining in the
semi-final bout of the tourney.
Miller went on to dethrone
123-pound champion Masaaki
of Oklahoma State in the
next match.
Nissen owned an 8-0 record
in dual competition and a 4-0
record in tournament compe
tition going into the confer
ence tournament.
The most significant of the
little Iowan's six pins was
his Star of The Week per
formance against Don W e li
ster of Iowa State, the runner-up
in the 115-pound Big
Eight championships in 1960.
Nominations Accepted
Nominations for the Daily
Nebraskan's Outstanding
Varsity and Intramural ath
letes are being accepted by
Sports Editor Hal Brown.
Entries should be . sent to
the Daily Nebraska!) office
in the Student Union.
In the next meet Nissen
went on to decision the 115
pound Big Eight king, John
Dooley of Kansas State, for
the only Husker score of tht
meet.
Wrestling coach Mickey
Sparano once described the
nominee as a 'terror on the
mat with a lot of drive and
determination that keeps him
moving."
Nissen held a captain posi
tion on the wrestling team.
He is a sophomore and won
the Nebraska most valuable
freshman athlete award in
1959.
Nissen joins Al Roots on the
Daily Nebraskan nomination
list for Outstanding Varsity
Athlete.
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