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by Dave Sittler
Conference indoor track champion Nebraska will
defend its title today in Kansas City in a contest that
will crown Big Eight champions Saturday. Coach
Frank Sevigne's thinclads enter the championships
with an undefeated season, which included a win at
the Michigan State Relays.
One Husker looking forward to the conference
meet is sprinter Karl Webb.
Webb, who transferred to Nebraska this year from
North Platte-Junior College.won the national junior
college sprint championships.
"I've been building myself up gradually for this
meet, and I'm qoinq to Kansas City to show a lot of
people what Karl Webb can do," he said.
Heavily recruited by schools such as Arizona State,
UCLA, Southern California and Texas after his
brillant junior college career, Webb says he is glad he
picked Nebraska.
"Coming to Nebraska gave me a chance to work
with Coach Sevigne, who I think is one of the best in
the business," he said. "I was fortunate enough to
have good coaching in high school and junior college
and I knew if I came to Nebraska that trend would
continue because of Sevigne," he said.
Webb said another reason he chose Nebraska was
the interest the fans have in track.
Also in the Big Eight meet will be Dean Williams of
Kansas State, a native of Omaha who competed
against Webb many times during high school.
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K-State
Coach Joe Cipriano's basketball
squad will try to prevent Kansas
State from winning the Big Eight
basketball title Saturday when it
plays the Wildcats in Manhattan.
A Kansas State win would give
Jack Hartman's club its second
straight championship. The
Wildcats have already assured
themselves of at least a tie for the
title. They have a 10-2 conference
record with just two games
remaining. Second place Missouri
and Colorado both have 7-4 league
marks.
Nebraska's record dropped to 4-7
in the conference and 9-14 overall,
when it lost Tuesday night to Iowa
State.
Cipriano's starting line-up is
getting to be a bit like musical
chairs, as he has used 1 1 players as
starters this season. Sophomore
center Don Jackson is the only
Cornhusker to start all 23 games.
Starting Saturday's regionally
televised game, will be Tony Riehl
and Ricky Marsh at guards,
forwards Steve Erwin and Jerry
Fort and Jackson.
That gives the Huskers a starting
line-up of two freshmen, two
sophomores and a senior. The
line-up is possibly the youngest in
Nebraska history.
The latest line-up changes were
caused by ' the unexpected
departure . of Nebraska's second
leading scorer, Lee Harris, who quit
the squad Sunday.
"Lee came to our team as a
walk-on, so I guess he has the right
to walk-off." Cipriano said.
Williams has been waiting for another shot at the
Husker star ever since Webb defeated him both the
100 and 220-yard dashes at the Nebraska State High
School meet.
Webb said he isn't too concerned about the
match-up with Williams or even how fast of time he
runs, he just wants to win.
Webb, who was a member of last fall's Nebraska
football team, plans to try it again next year. But he
said he thinks his future may be with the new
professional track circuit that started this year.
The Big Eight meet is foremost in Webb's mind at
the moment and he said he hopes to play a big part in
Nebraska's quest for the team championship.
Webb will have plenty of help from one of the
strongest squads that Coach Frank Sevigne, has fielded
in 18 years at Nebraska.
Jim Hawkins is the only Cornhusker who won a
championship at last years meet, when he won the
1,000-yard run in 2:12.0
The senior from Omaha" has already clocked a
2:10.5 this season.
Nebraska's Bob Unger and John Halberstadt of
Oklahoma State are expected to produce one of the
best races in the two-mile run if the Cowboy star has
recovered from the flu.
Halberstadt, the defending champion, ran an 8:45
earlier. Unger, who set a Nebraska record at 8:47.6
two weeks ago, finished second to Halberstadt a year
ago.
Sevigne figures that besides Nebraska, Kansas,
Colorado and Kansas State have a chance to win.
But Sevigne also concedes that his pre-meet
analysis which downgrades his own unbeaten squad is
based more on what has happened in the past than
what may happen Friday and Saturday.
Preliminaries begin tonight, with the finals
Saturday night at Kansas City Municipal Auditorium.
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Nebraska tennis coach Jim
Porter currently is working
with an 11 -man squad. But he
still won't turn down a
tournament-caliber player if
there are students who would
like to try out.
"We started with 34 men
last fall, and we've cut down to
11," Porter said. "However, we
don't want to shut the door on
someone, if he has had some
tournament experience."
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friday, march 2, 1973