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. .. .....^ ,-hV..,■ K.czexz.^S:ASSST..ZSZ5&. a5^S??3SS^.. ?..^. Mf..: ^ JUNIOR INFIELOER JAMIE Fuente attempts to tag out aa Iowa state runner Tuesday night at the Husker Softball Complex. The Nuskers shut out the Cyclones 6-0, moving their record for the season to 34-18. Huskers blank Clones; stay in Big 12 title chase By Sean Callahan Staff writer The upward climb continues for the Nebraska softball team. After a successful weekend in Oklahoma the Comhuskers came out and flat out dominated Big 12 oppo nent Iowa State 6-0 at the NU Softball complex. With the win over the Cyclones (15-21, 3-10) Nebraska (34-18, 9-2) improved its home record to 12-0. Most importantly, the win keeps NU only one loss behind conference leader Oklahoma. “I was really pleased with how the team adjusted to the pitchers,” Revelle said. “It was nice execution on our part.” On the mound for the Huskers sophomore Leigh Ann Walker con tinued to put down opposing hitters. Going the distance, Walker (14 5) finished the game with 11 strike outs. This season Walker has a team high 170 strikeouts in 127 innings of appearance. She currently leads the conference with an average of 9.28 strikeouts per game. “I felt like I was in my zone,” Walker said. “Every pitcher tries to find their zone at some point, and you always hope you find it from the get go.” Revelle said she feels when a pitcher is in a zone like Walker was you just let her be. “When you get a pitcher that kind of gets in this rhythm the last thing you want to do is say ‘are you in a zone?’” Revelle said. “When you’re in that frame of mind you just let them go.” Offensively, NU used a strong performance from the bat of junior Jamie Fuente, who had three hits and three RBI. One of those three hits was a tow ering three-run home run in the fifth inning off ISU pitcher Kristin Ferguson. Fuente had problems in Oklahoma hitting the ball, but blames that on mental concentration. “It was basically all in my head,” Fuente said. “I just came out today and went with instincts instead of thinking” Tonight Nebraska will look at getting revenge against in-state rival ■ •• I just came out today and went with instincts instead of thinking.” Jamie Fuente NU batter Creighton. The game will be the two teams’ fourth overall meeting this season. When they last met April 6, the Bluejays blanked the Huskers 2-0 and held them to only one hit offen sively. Also, that loss ended the Huskers season-high 14-game winning streak. “We pretty much beat ourselves the last time,” Walker said. “Us and Creighton will always be a big rival ry.” “I’m glad we get another chance at them.” Hopper homers twice in easy Nebraska win HOPPER from page 20 were impressive in their own right No. 19 NU (27 11 overall) pounded out 20 hits in the lopsided vic tory, while four Husker pitchers allowed the Leathernecks (13-21) only five hits in front of 608 fans. After NU starter Brian Rodaway gave up a home run on die first pitch of the game, and a sin gle on his second pitch, he retired every other bat ter he faced in his three innings Meanwhile, spurred by Hopper’s two long balls, NU scored eight runs in die second. The team tacked on four runs in the seventh after Western Illinois had cut die lead to 9-3. Jamie Rodrigue, the Husker’s second pitcher, got the win for NU. Second baseman Will Bolt pounded out four hits. Reserves Aaron Gozart and Jeff Leise took advantage of these starts, as Leise had a double and two singles, and Gozart reached base safely in four out of five trips to the plate. But they were all overshadowed by Hopper, who now has 11 home runs, tying him for the team lead with first baseman Dan Johnson. “They were throwing a left-hander, and he just kept going the opposite way with it,” Van Horn said. “He just keeps getting better am? better.” Justice department takes over UM case MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - To avoid a conflict of interest, the U.S. attorney’s office has handed the Justice Department its inves tigation into academic cheating in the University of Minnesota men’s basketball program. The potential conflict is that Anthony Brown, an assistant U.S. attorney in the criminal division in Minneapolis, is the husband of Tonya Moten Brown, vice president for administration at the university. It’s unclear how long the fed eral investigation has been going on, but U.S. Attorney Todd Jones said his office has been out of the case for several months. Former Men’s Basketball Coach Clem Haskins accepted a $1.5 million contract buyout in July after a university investiga tion revealed widespread aca demic cheating in the basketball program. A university report issued in November concluded Haskins knew of die fraud, lied to investigators and told his play ers to lie after the wrongdoing was exposed Jack Friedenthal, head of the NCAA’s infractions committee for Division I schools, said Monday it was too early to say whether the federal investigation would delay the hearing into academic cheating. He said it would largely depend on whether the NCAA enforcement division believes it has enough evidence to go for ward with the hearing. “I knew they were getting close to the end of the investiga tion, and I know there were one or two persons they want to have a dialogue with,” Friedenthal said. “Sometimes people won’t talk to us.” The infractions committee meets in June, August and September, and the university misconduct hearing could be scheduled for one of those meet ings. Following the hearing, the committee determines addition al penalties, if any. The university already has imposed several sanctions on itself. Tonight is College Night! 75$ Domestic Draws 25$ Tacos & $150 Pints Wings, 5:30-10 $10 Bucket of Bottled Beer Buy one pitcher get the 2nd for 25$ Entertainment provided by a live DJ! foiight N.O.W. Benefit featiriig (4 live Buis! Upcoming Bands Include: Velvet Elvis, April 20 &21 Hauhday, April 22 Sun Magk Slim, April 23 V Comer of 11 th & K. 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