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T WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1,196" PAGE 10 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN -i v2 i 4 l k ti. ;? v V a tS ik ft .t - i I A'. i 'J Hustle Streak Puts Huskers By Terry Grasmick Sports Assistant Riding a three-game hus tle streak and owning a share of the Big Eight lead, the University of Nebraska cagers will soon enter a conference show-down in Kansas. The Cornhuskers are tied for the loop lead at 4-1 with Kansas State, who downed Oklahoma at Norman Mon day to gain the tie. But the Wildcats and the Huskers are only a victory ahead of Colorado and nationally-ranked Kansas. The showdown comes when NU plays Kansas State at Manhatten Satur day and then on to Law rence and the Kansas Jay- Nebraska Slate Heavy Saturday IVlowing Wednesday's 2:00 p.m. wrestling match between Colorado Univer sity and Nebraska in the Coliseum, the Husker ath letic schedule takes a short rest until this Saturday. Saturday the varsity and freshman cagers invade Kansas State. The Wildcats also help the Huskers open the in door track season with a duel here. Nebraska swimmers host Iowa State at 3:00 p.m. in the Coliseum pool. NU's gymnasts and their freshman understudies will be at Iowa State for a meet with the Cyclones and Den ver University. Scantlebury Not many, Nebraska freshman basketball teams have grabbed as much at tention as this year's unde feated yearlings. There are probably two reasons for this: the young Huskers are off with a roar ing average just under 100 points per game, and Tom Scantlebury. Scantlebury, a 6-2 leaper from Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif., has scored 117 points in four games for a 29.3 average. This is even better than his senior year in high school, when he s c o r e d at a 25 points-per-game clip while earning all-city and all- Into Lead hawks Tuesday. Nebraska boosted itself to first place during the se mester break with home victories over Oklahoma and Missouri. Oklahoma fell 97-78, des pite a 31-point display by conference scoring leader Don Sidle. A tenacious press led by Stuart Lantz broke open a close game just after t h e half. Tom B a a c k put in 23 against the Sooners; Nate Branch hit for 22. Nebraska also spurted to a 99-82 trouncing of Mis souri last Saturday. The Ti gers were never really iii the game as the perform ance of Branch and the Lantz led the team to a gap ing 26-point lead before the reserves took over. Branch fired in 25 points and Lantz poured in 24. with Willie Campbell adding 13 more. The Huskers will try to keep alive the title hopes at Manhatten, where NU faces a 12-4. balanced Wildcat team that stomped Nebras ka in the Big Eight Tourney in Kansas City. Earl Seyfert and Dennis Berkholtz are the team leaders while the 7-1 height of Nick Pino is usually only a bench threat. Kansas, 12-3, is led by Roger Bohnenstiehl and playmaker Jo Jo Whit e. Last year it was forward Ron Franz who gave the Huskers fits. Franz is back and he and the other Jay hawks are setting their sights on a second straight Big Eight title and a ticket to the NCAA regionals. Big Gun for Northern California hon ors. Scantlebury was coached by Paul Harlass at Skyline The coach's methods have developed six college all Americans, among them Bill Russell and Paul Silas. "The fast break style of basketball and the methods favored by Coach Joe Cipri ano were the main things that pulled me to the Uni versity of Nebraska," Scan tlebury said. He had also considered the university of Southern Cal ifornia, Brigham Young University and a pre-Christ-mas opponent of the Husk ers, the University of Pacific. While you are at the Crib, come downstairs. Visit our complete student service center. AW books and supplies for your study needs. More com plete selections than ever before. f5! lie: m3 m r MSP ' o P OKLAHOMA FELL ... to a hard-driving Nebraska attack led by Tom Baack and Nate Branch. (Left) Branch (44) gets the upper hand on Baack and Oklahoma's Don Sidle, tipping in two of his 22 points. (Right) Baack drives past Sooner Willie Rogers. Baack finished with 23 points. Says NU Coach . . . Husker Gymnasts Iowa State, Nebraska's next gymnastics foe, is only No. 2 but not by much. The Cyclones, who will Freshman Having a storehouse of various shots has made the former Oakland flash dif icult to defense. Tom hits consistently with long range jumpers and mixes in twisting lay-ups. "Defense is probably the weakest part of my game, and I plan to work on it this summer," said Scantle bury. "With the great ball players in the Oakland area, pick-up games are not hard to iind." Majoring in business Scantlebury hopes to re ceive a sound education at Nebraska. He is also a Beta Theta Pi pledge. Loroesft dUsed! SAVE STEPS . S AV host the Huskers and Den ver University at Ames Sat urday, lost 190.25-188.50 to Southern Illinois the best squad in the nation in the opinion of NU gymnastics coach Jake Geier. The Southern Illinois gymnasts have stumped Iowa State three times in as many years to spoil an oth erwise unblemished record for the Cyclones. This season Iowa State has swamped Kansas, Kan sas State, Minnesota and the Air Force Academy. The Cornhuskers have dumped Oklahoma, Wichi ta, Fort Hays State and Cen tral Missouri State. Minnesota handed the Huskers their onlv loss be fore finals, 169.9-168.2. The Iowa Staters, with 19G5 and 1966 Big Eight gymnastics titles to t h e i r credit, are expected by Geier to be tough. The Cyclones' standouts Sik P Union E-ovjop Foe Only in the all-around event, sen ior Jerry Fontana and sophomore Mike Jacki, will compete against a youthful Husker duo about which Geier is very happy. Steve May of Hastings and Mick Johnsen of Lincoln, both sophomores, are the all around performers, who participate in six gymnas tic events. All-arounders participate in floor exercise, side horse, horizontal bar, long horse, parallel bars and the rings. Other top starters against the Cyclones will include Pat McGill, a Lincoln jun ior, in floor exercise; Burt Christopherson, a sopho more from Omaha, in side horse; Mike Ready, Lincoln Senior, in trampoline; and Johnsen in horizontal bar. Leading man in long horse is Omaha senior Rich ard Beran, while in parallel bars Johnsen is the leader. May gets the nod in the rings, with Lincoln senior SAVE iVf Lovols No. 2 Allen Armstrong and John sen close behind. Geier's most productive gymnasts appear to be May and Johnsen. "You can't believe how much they're progressing," the mentor says of t h e m. "If they keep it up they're going to both be someone to really contend with." The Huskers will meet all of the Big Eight schools be fore the conference cham pionships slated for March 17 and 18 at the Nebraska Coliseum. Greene Rambles Nebraskan Charlie Greene edged Canada's Harry Jerome with a :06.1 60-yard run in the Port land, Ore., Indoor Track Meet over the weekend. Kansan Jim Ryun won the 1.000-yard run in 2:09.9 in the Portland meet. Greene pulled a ham string muscle in the 60. ONEY end! CISf Tankers' Neiv Coach Makes NU Adjustment By Ron Pavelka Sports Writer Swimming coach John Reta had to join the fresh man class in making ad justments to college life at Nebraska this year. Reta, in his first year of coaching the Huskers, was the swimming coach at Lin coln Southeast High School, where he led his teams to eight consecutive state championships. "The coaching In college is essentially the same as it was in high school. The main difference is in the amount of freedom that the boys have," Coach Reta commented. "Here, where there is less parental control, the boy is more on his own," he continued. "The boys must make choices. If they want to excel, they must learn to budget their time that they can make their grades and still com pete." Coach Reta also felt "that there is more pres sure on the boys in college. They have to get good grades to stay in school and avoid the draft. Because of this, I have to be more aware of a boy's prob lems." "Since the college courses are more difficult and time-consuming than in high school, I must pay more attention to a boy's physical condition before and during a workout," Reta said. This year Reta is coach ing four of his high school swimmers on the Nebraska team. Dale Parker, Lee Ligget, and B i 1 1 K e n a g y are swimming on the var sity squad and Steve Nootz is competing for the fresh man team. The varsity swim team will meet Iowa State this Saturday afternoon in the Coliseum Pool. Concerning h i s team, Reta said, "This year we are mainly going through a process of rebuilding. We were hurt when three Ail American swimmers add a number of other good boys graduated. It will take some time to replace these individuals so we don't have the depth and bal ance that we should." He added, "The boys are swimming faster than they SHOD5 were at this time last year and we are making proc ress. However we have u tough schedule and all of the other teams have im proved too." Cowboys Nov. 11 Opponent Oklahoma State's ruggM Cowboys will s u p p 1 y the Homecoming opposition for the 1967 football season. Nebraska Athletic Direc tor Tippy Dye has an nounced that the Cornhusk er football team will host the Cowboys in the Home coming feature on Novem ber 11. Dye also announced thrt Band Day will be held in conjunction with the low i State game on November Husker ticket director Jim Pittenger said sin;:;? game orders and orders ' r new season tickets are be ing accepted. However, - pointed out that filling nc season orders must aw;: t the conclusion of the re order season this spring. "We won't be able to toll how many new season ai ders we can fill until v,e know for sure just lu v many fans re-order ther season tickets," Pittenwr said. "We are taking ord' now and will fill them if ;;t all possible after we kn.j about the renewals." Track Finals Ducats on Sale Mail order tickets for t'.a 39th annual Big Eight in door track championshi; s, March 3 and 4 in Kans 5 City, go on sale Wednesday. Tickets for this year meet are priced at $2, i and $4 for the finals Satur day night. Mail order requests will be processed as the y arrive. Track Highlight , Intramural Wre!;' Intramural sports will be highlighted this week by t!,' finals of indoor track at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Also on the agenda are the handball finals and paci dleball with the basketball tournament starting Thursday. ? -
