UNL soccer players put their heads together
by Kim Ball , ,
The soccer club will be shooting for its second and
third wins of the season when it hosts Offut Air
Force Base Saturday and the Omaha Huskers Sunday
at the 17th and Vine Streets field. Both contests will
start at 1 p.m.
UNL defeated the Omaha Huskers, a junior
amatuer team, two weeks ago at Carter Lake, Iowa.
But regular season games are not important,
according to UNL soccer club president Ron Wheeler.
"These games are just like practice sessions for the
Big Eight tournament," Wheeler sa.d. The
tournament is what we're worried about. Our goal for
the season is to do well in the Big Eigh
tournament." Nebraska will host the second annual
Biq Eight Soccer Championships on April 28 and jy.
All of the Big Eight schools are entered, including
defending champion Kansas. UNL finished seventh
last year.
The UNL team has an international flavor, Wheeler
said It has players from Peru, Turkey, France and
Nigeria. The coach, Dr. Eric Davies, hails from
England.
Erwin Eberhard, a senior from Peru, has been
playing soccer for about 11 years. He and one of his
UNL teammates, Abel Alvarez, also were teammates
on their high school soccer team in Peru.
"Soccer in Peru is just like playing football here,"
Eberhard said. "Just about everyone in Peru plays or
watches soccer."
Wheeler, a freshman from Omaha and last year's
Omaha Soccer Association president, has been
playing the spot t for three years.
"Soccer is really growing on the high school level,"
Wheeler said. "Everybody in every country except
the United States plays soccer,
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When Frank Sevigne's track squad enters the Kansas Relays
this weekend, he might feel like checking a few of the oca
landmarks to make sure they are in Lawrence, Kan., and not
Munich, West Germany.
This year's meet features many of the athletes who
performed in last summer's Olympic games in Munich and one
might expect to hear national anthems being played during the
aWGoCderrdaNstS Hod Milburn and Dave Wottle head the list
of Olympic entrants competing in the 48th annual relays
Milburn a senior at Southern University in Baton Rouge
La., holds the world record of 1 3 seconds in the 1 20-yard h.gh
hurdles. ,
Eastern New Mexico University will bring several foreign
athletes to the meet which begins Friday.
Athletes from Kenya, the Fiji Islands, Australia, Santo
Domingo, Ghana, New Zealand and Trinidad dot the
Greyhound's roster, and three were Olympic performers.
Olympic shot putters George Woods and Al Feuetbach also
will be on hand to add to the shot put competition. Woods is a
two time Olympic silver medalist and Feuerbach is ranked
fifth in the world. ,
The huge meet will also include several women s events.
Once again, Munich veterans have indicated they will come to
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Pam Greene of Denver, Colo., represented the United States
at Munich in the 200 meter dash while Wendy Koen.g of Estes
Park, Colo., ran the 800 meter event in Germany.
a...l. ,h,rh vaIii attract much fan interest will be
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the pole vault. World ranked vaulters Kjell Isaksson, Dave
Roberts Jan Johnson and Steve Smith have all entered the
open pole vault event. All of the vaulters have been over
1 8 feet. , ... T,
But the top attraction of the meet has to be Wottle. I he
Bowling Green University senior will bring his gold cap and
famous finishing kick to the meet as part of Bowling Greens
four-mile relay team.
Wottle captured the fancy of thousands of Americans when
he stormed out of the pack to nip Russia's Evgeni Arzhanov
by three hundredths of a second in the Olympic 800-meter
finals. , . ,
Wottle also captured the hearts of many Americans when
he tearfully apologized on national television for not removing
his golf hat during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner
after he was awarded a gold medal.
In the Kansas Relays he will anchor the four-mile relay
team and will run in either the sprint or distance medley relay.
" Bob Timmons, Kansas track coach and relay director,
should be complemented for putting together one of the most
talent rich meets in Midwestern track history.
With the new professional track program grabbing almost
every track star around, it's even more amazing that Timmons
has so many stars.
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UNL broke open a close q.mu: by scoring eight
runs in the thud inning as the Huskers went on to
post a 1? 3 win over UNO in the second game of a
doubleheader, Tuesday afternoon at the UNL
buseball diamond.
The Huskets also took the f.rst game 9 0, behind
the two hit pitching of Dennis O'Doherly and Ryan
Kurosaki. O'Doherty gut
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Thirteen Huskers went to bat during the
eiuht-run third mniny. The big blow of the inning
was O'Dohetty's two run double.
Dave Buehrer pitched three and two thirds innings
of shut out ball in lel.ef of UNL starter Terry Rcdler,
to pick up the win. Buehrer, with three wins and no
losses, leads the team in victories.
n,r,h' fiHdrr l3ol Mun',01. had three ',m)les ..nd a
double ... fou. tups to p,( .. the UNI leUe.s ... the
v-rond '!'""' Munwn ul'.o had a M.i'ile m Hi'-' opeiim'J
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game to taise his batting aveiage to .465.
Munwn had five runs batted in in the two games.
O'Doherty and Kurosaki baffled the UNO hitters
in the first game, They combined to strike six
Mavencks out while walking just one.
Kurosaki hit his first homerun of the season in the
fourth inning. Husker Jim Smith also hit a homerun
in the fifth inning.
The Huskets collected 73 hits in the two games. In
addition to Munson's five hits, Dick Andetson had
four safeties and Smith and O'Doherty each collected
three. O'Doherty's three hits lifted h.s batting average
to -107.
Coach Tony Sharpe sa.d he was "vety pleased with
(he hitting and with the pitchmq except lot the
periot mance of one individual."
The Huskets will return to the conf'.'i enr e schedule
Ihis weekend when they travel to Moulder 1o play a
three game setie', with Colotado.
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