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Huskers split " It was anything but Southern hospitality for Nebraska basketball coach Joe Cipriano ami his Cornhuskers over the weekend. The Buskers split a pair with Texas teams dumping Texas Christian 69-64 Friday and bowing to Southern Methodist 80-75 Saturday night Saturday's loss dashed hopes of the best Nebraska start since " 1919 when tLe Big Red rattled off six straight wins. Nebraska now stands 4-1 on the year. The Huskers would have been trying for win No. six tonight NU gymnastic team places fifth of fourteen The Nebraska gymnastics team placed fifth in a field of 14 teams at the Iowa Open gym nastics meet in Iowa City Saturday. Husker coach Francis Allen's squad scored 138 points and trailed winner Iowa St. 165, Iowa 156, Oklahoma 151, and Kansas 150. . Hoppy Batten, the only Nebraska performer to gain the .finals, placed fifth on the horizontal bars. He also placed 13th in floor exercise. Other Husker finishers were Jeff Johnson, 14th, and John Kocourek, 15th, (vaulting); Johnson, 14th, (floor exercise); Larry Lococo, 10th (rings); and Rick Yates, 11th, (side horse.) The NU gymnastics squad will not be in action again until Jan. 15 when they travel to Norman, Okla., for a meet with Oklahoma University and Memphis. I assess sf ms msm&&is .FMfe, 1 We never close almost never Our $pecial Christmas hours ore: Men. thru Fit 9:30-9:00 Saturday 9:30-6:00 pjn. Sunday 1:00-5:00 pjn. rjj j3j sitchht and when Nevada invades the Col iseum if it hadn't been for what Cipriano called "the longest five seconds I've ever been associated with in basketball." Those five seconds were tlx finale of the Souther a Methodist game when the Mustangs were awarded six shots from the free throw line making three. Nebraska, which had led 26 12 early in the game, trailed 77 75 with five seconds remaining when Tony Riehl's corner shot fell short Chuck Jura snagged the rebound but the ball was knocked out of bounds and awarded to SMU. v.A free-foi-all fight, which emptied both benches and in cluded abont 200 members of the SMU cheering section and the cheerleaders, ensued on the in-bounds pass by the Mustangs. After about a five minute delay, Riehl was charged with an intentional foul giving SMU's Larrj Delzell two shots. He missed the first, but con verged the second for a 78-75 lead. Still with five seconds left, Nebraska was given the ball out of bounds. But Cipriano was then charged with a double technical foul. Cip's complaint? "I ques tioned SMU s right to call a time oat after we had posessloo of the ball," be said. "Al Nlssen had thrown the ball half-court, we caught it and then SMU was issued a time out. They can't do that when we have the bail In play." According to the official, SMU had called the time out before Nebraska had the ball in play. The two-shot technical sent Gene Phillips to the line who connected on one shot. Then Nebraska's Randy Watts was OQ two on charred with a two-shot personal foul on the next in bounds plaj and SMU scored its 80th and linal point. Although Cipriano admitted the game could have been won in the final five seconds, he was quick to add that "all these things had no bearing on the final outcome. We played great the first 12 minutes and had our chances to win the game, but we just got troi." Nebraska did have a good first half. "It was perhaps the AM I . -. - --'.-J., Borg's Bunnies don't quit ... It was a long weekend for Nebraska wrestlers losing 21-15 to South Dakota State and dropping a 25-8 decision to national champion Iowa State but wrestling coach Orval Borgiaiii's Borg's Bunnies stuck it out and will continue to back the NU grapplers daring the season. Levy, two-mile relay post wins in Omaha USTFF meet The indoor track season got off to a blistering start Satur day during Omaha's United States Track & Field Federa tion (USTFF) meet as Col orado's Marcus Walker tied the world record in the 50-yard high hurdles Walker , a Colorado University senior, was second in last year's NCAA outdoor high hurdles and won the 1970 U.S.-Russian dual. His time of 5.8 topped runner up Jim Beijing of Oklahoma State by three-tenths of a second. One of two Nebraska vic tories came in the 50-yard dash where Horace Levy sped 5.2 to edge Kansas State's Dean Williams. His time tied the meet record set by Missouri's Mel Gray. Youth was the keynote in the other Nebraska win. The two mile relay composed of freshmen Jeff Wisemiller, Dan Speck, Larry Clmato and sophomore Jim Hawkins led from the gun to claim a 7:48.9 victory. NU's Hopeton Gordon finish ed a close second to Kansas' defending Big Eight champion Phil Reaves m the long jump. Thirds for coach Frank Sevigne's squad were picked up by Bob Pierce in the 600, Larry Cherny in the shot put, and Howard Burns with a 6'8" high jump. In a special Masters Mile, 30 years old and up, Oscar Moore fait his predicted time of 4:25 in winning to show that he's re tained much of the conditioning that won hLn a place on the 1960 U.S. Olympic Team. THE NEBRASKAN Texas - . ... test half oi basketball we've played this year," said Clp. "And we played well against Texas Christian, too. We showed confidence in our shooting and proved that we can get a great team effort." Tonight the Huskers host an experienced outfit from Nevada. Wolf Pack coach Jack Spencer has seven returning lettermen and two junior col lege transfers from which to build his squad. Nevada pays a free-lance i Fk I in v '-M $ - s Sophomore Jim Hawkins anchored Nebraska's two-mile relay to a 7:43.1 victory io the Omaha Federation meet. Haw kins is the oldtimer it the foursome . . . teammates Jeff Wisemiller, Dan Speck and Larry Clmato are all freshmen. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1970 tour 00 1 t t offense which is usually tough to defend. And the Huskers will have an additional problem. They're coming off a very disappointing loss and could be tired from having to play three games in "We'll be tired, admitted Gp, "but tht kids know they're a good ball club and I think they want to prove it in front of the home folns." Game time at the Coliseum is 7:35 p.m. u 9 f j M 2 -.-. X i - I" .- - I PAGE 6