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After four straight losses the Nebraska
: baseball team won its first Big Eight Conference
' game, but it took almost 24 hours from start to
finish to register that first win.
In the second game of Saturday's
double-header against Kansas, Nebraska's hopes
for its first Big Eight victory were looking
bright. The score was tied 2-2 in the bottom of
the fifth inning with Nebraska's Gene Stohs on
second base, no outs and the Huskers' number
2-3-4 hitters waiting to bat.
But Nebraska's hopes were suddenly
dampened by rain, causing postponement of
the game until Sunday.
The rain and the overnight delay apparently
worked in the Husker's favor as the game
resumed on Sunday. Stohs, still waiting
patiently on second base to come home, saw
the next two batters turn into outs.
But the third batter, Maury Oamkroger, and
Jayhawker pitcher. Bob Wolf, came to Stohs'
rescue. Damkroger's infield single, which was
followed by a fielding error by Wolf on the
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next play, provided Nebraska with the winning
run and their first Big Eight victory.
"We were pleased to win our first conference
game, "Husker Baseball Coach Tony Sharpe
said. "With the help of Kansas' pitcher, we were
able to score that winning run."
Saturday's first game against the Jayhawks
saw Husker freshman Dennis O'Doherty pitch a
four-hitter in his first collegiate start.
O'Doherty, however, was victim of his own
seventh-inning errors which gave Kansas a 3-2
victory.
"We couldn't have gotten a much better
pitched game than we got from O'Doherty in
the first game," Sharpe said. "He looked like a
veteran the way he pitched. It's a shame the
way he lost it"
Nebraska's second loss in the three game
series came in Sunday's second game.
Frustrated by the pitching of Kansas' Wolf, the
Huskers could only manage four hits on their
way to a 3-1 defeat.
'The second game today was a fine collegiate
ball game," Sharpe said. "Both teams had good
pitching and defenses. But we couldn't get
enough hits. Ws get tight sometimes up at the
plate which really hurts us. The team has to
become more relaxed in their hitting."
The Huskers, 1-5 in Big Eight play, travel to
Missouri this weekend to face the Tigers in
another three-game series.
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WESTERED DAYS
sponsored by Eosf Union
April 11-16, 1972
Tues, April 1 1
3:00 Games & Fun at U.N. Tractor Testing Track
3:00 Men's Bale Stacking & Women's Pyramid Building Contest
3:15 Men's & Women's Bike Races
3:45 Men's & Women's VW Rsces
4:00 Coed Piggy Back Relay
4: 1 5 Coed 1 1 legged race
4:30 Men's & Women's Tug O' War
5:00 - 6:30 BAR-B-Q WENTERTAINMENT $1.10
8:00 -1 2:00 Dance by the Squires
Wed., April 12
3:30 Hyde Park-Chief Growling Bear, City Union
7:30 Style Show Burr Basement, Free prizes
Thurs, & Fri.
Quarter Horse Show Coliseum State Fair Grounds
Friday
Rodeo 7:30-Fair Grounds
Saturday
Rodeo 1:30 & 8:00 State Fair Grounds
Sunday
Appaloosa Show Coliseum State Fair Grounds
East Union will present Chief Growling Bear
Displays will be in the East Union all week.
Western films will be shown in the Union lounge all week too.
STARS INCLUDE: ROY ROGERS, JOHN WAYNE, HOP-A LONG
CASSIDY, WILE-E COYOTE, ROAD RUNNER
SHOWN CONTINUOUSLY FROM 10-3 WED., THURS., FRI. IN EAST
UNION LOUNGE
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Nebraska's Dan Speck takes the baton from Jeff
Wisemiller on the second leg of the Huskers' winning
two-mile relay effort at the Texas Relays in Austin
Saturday. The Nebraska quartet, which also included
Roger Chadwick and Jim Hawkins, never trailed while
posting a time of 7:25.2.
The Huskers' mile relay team of Leighton Priestley,
Wes Leonard, Larry Climato and Garth Case finished
'hird behind Oklahoma State in a time of 3:09.2.
Big Red offense dominates
initial spring scrimmage
Defense is usually the name of the game during Nebraska
spring football drills, but Saturday at Memorial Stadium the
offense dominated play in the Huskers' initial spring
scrimmage.
Fourteen touchdowns were scored by four Nebraska
offensive teams in the three-hour scrimmage, which concluded
the Huskers' first week of spring practice.
"Overall, it wasn't a bad first scrimmage," noted Tom
Osborne, assistant head coach. "There were some good things
on both sides."
The top two offensive units were able to puncture the
famed Black Shirts for three touchdowns. The No. 1 defense
gave up two touchdown passes to quarterback David Humm's
No. 1 offensive team and one touchdown to the No. 2 unit,
led by Steve Runty.
However, Humm's touchdown passes of 38 and 41 yards to
Frosty Anderson came against a mixed defensive unit which
had the No. 1 line and reserve cornerbacks.
Overall, Humm completed nine passes in 17 attempts for
three touchdowns while directing the No. 1 offense. Runty
threw two touchdown passes, ran for another and made good
use of the option play while quarter backing the No. 2 offense.
It was announced that quarterback Terry Luck, who guided
Nebraska's freshman team to an undefeated season last year,
will be sidelined indefinitely after sustaining a muscle pull
above his knee last Monday.
Two Nebraska gymnasts,
Hoppy Batten and Larry
Ever ma nn, finished in the top
ten Saturday in events at the
NCAA Gymnastics
Championships at Iowa State.
Batten finished seventh in
vaulting while Evermann took
10th in the side horse.
Kansas State won the first
annual Cornhusker Invitational
Golf Tournament at Holmes
Park Friday.
Nebraska's first team
finished second, five strokes
behind Kansas State, in the
two-day meet. The Huskers'
Rick Schultz won medalist
honors with back to-back 74's.
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1972
The Nebraska tennis team
split two matches at home over
the weekend to bring their
season record to 5-3. The
Huskers blanked Nebraska
Wesleyan 9-0 on Friday, but
fell to Northwest Missouri,
8-1, on Saturday.
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