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Colorado serves Nebraska
ninth tennis loss of season
By Scott Ahlstrand
Friday was not the best of days for
the UNL men's tennis team. Playing
without their top player, Craig John
son, the Huskcrs fell to Colorado, 8-1,
at home.
The loss evened Nebraska's record
to 9-9 and left them in a precarious
spot for the upcoming Big Eight tourna
ment. "It really hurt us a lot," third-year
Coach Kerry McDermott said of the
loss. "We figured that even if we lost,
we'd still win four matches."
The Huskcrs were blanked 6-0 in
singles action: John Rhodes subbing
for Johnson in the No. J. spot lost 6-0,
6-2; No. 2 Ridge Smidt dropped a 7-6,
6-2 decision; No. 3 Ashwin Vasan lost
6-3, 6-3; No. 4 Brian Edwards lost 7-5,
6-4; No. 5 Jim Carson was defeated 6-4,
6-2; and No. 6 Jim Burton lost 6-4, 6-3.
Smidt and Vasan lost 6-4, 6-3 in No. 1
doubles, while the No. 2 team of
Edwards and Tony Sloboth fell 6-4, 7-5.
The lone victory for the Huskers came
when Carson and Burton won 6-3, 6-3
in the No. 3 doubles matches.
Overall, McDermott said the loss
was just a case of being outplayed.
"Colorado played about as well as
they've played all year and we played
as bad as we have so far this season,"
McDermott said.
McDermott was optimistic about the
Huskers' chances before the match.
Nebraska was coming off a 3-5 West
Coast trip that McDermott said allow
ed the Huskers to gain valuable expe
rience against top competition.
; "The schedule was really tough and
it made our guys have to play well day
in and day out. Not one of the teams we
played was weak," McDermott said.
Chalking up the 8-1 loss to CU as
"just one of those days when you don't
get any breaks," McDermott said the
Huskere will have to play much better
to upset Oklahoma this Friday at Nor
man. "We're going to have to pull up our
team morale or it could be hard to pull
out any wins," McDermott said.
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UNL No. 2 single player Cid3 Smidt tries the backhand in Friday's match
t Colorado. Smidt lest to EufTalo Bob Daterr.an, 7-6, 6-2.
Nebraska takes two
in track invitational
Nebraska won two events this weekend at the
invitation-only Sun Angel Classic at Tempe, Ariz. "
Angela Thacker set a school record in the long
jump with a leap of 21-9Vi The Huskers women's
400-meter relay team of Rhonda Blanford, Debra
Powell, Jennie Badami and Thacker won that event
with a stadium record time, :44.23. j
Jill Noel finished fifth in the 3,000, but set a school
record with a time of 9:46.63. Karlene Ericksen set a
school record int he 5,000 despite finishing sixth.
Ericksen's time was 17:00.76.
Glen Loontjer turned in the highest men's finish in
Tempe, as he placed fifth in the pole vault with a
leap of 17-0.
Gerard O'Callaghan finished tenth in the 5,000.
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