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Huskers overpower
MU; gain 4th place
By Dennis Onnen
UNL stormed into the first division of the Big 8 basketball
race Saturday, demolishing the University of Missouri Tigers,
75-58, before 8,100 fans in the Coliseum.
The Huskers never trailed after Larry Cox put them ahead 8-6
on a rebound basket with 15:18 remaining in the first half. .They
extended the !e3d to 14 points at halftime and pulled ahead by as
many as 19 points in the second half.
The win upped the Huskers' record to 10-9 and 3-4 in the
conference, good enough for fourth place. It also enabled UNL to
exceed last year's win total of nine.
"Our defense did the job," Husker Coach Joe Cipriano said.
"We had good enthusiasm and determination."
The Tigers' 58-point total was their lowest of the year. Their
high scoring trio of Gary Link, Al Eberhard and Steve Dangos was
held to 35 points, compared with an average of 53 points a game.
All-Big 8 performer Eberhard managed to score 23 points, but
only five came in the first half, when the outcome was in doubt.
Brendy Lee was one of the Huskers who covered Eberhard in the
man-to-man defense.
Offensive star for the Huskers was guard Jerry Fort, who set a
record in the process of scoring 28 points, his second highest
game total of the year. Fort now has 156 field goals for the year,
breaking Tom Baack's sophomore record of 147.
He said he felt freer against the Missouri man-to-man defense
as opposed to the zone defenses used by recent Husker
opponents. It allowed him more open shots, he said. '
Other Husker players who scored in double figures were Cox
with 11 points and Ricky Marsh with 10. Cox and Lee led Husker
rebounding with seven apiece.
Turnovers and cold shooting hurt the Tiger offense. It turned
over the ball 29 times and made only 37 of its shots.
The Huskers' next game is an away contest with Colorado
Tuesday night.
h Saturday's preliminary, Northeastern Nebraska Junior
College defeated Nebraska's junior varsity, 68-64.
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The
swimming
Saturday
University.
UNL women's
team was dereated
by Kansas State
Debbie Peterson,
Ruth Spencer and Ginny
Kincade were Husker winners.
Husker trackmen won two
events Saturday in the
Michigan State University
Relays. Seniors Lynn Hall,
Roger Chadwick, Jeff
Wisemiller and Dan Speck
combined to win the 2miie
relay with a time of 7:32.1.
The distance medley relay was
von by Keith Whitaker, Larry
Gnapp, Chuck Malito and Bob
Unger in a time of 9:52.1.
The UNL wrestling team
w? victorius twice this
weekend, raising its record to
7-5. The Huskers defeated
South Dakota University,
33-13, Friday and Northwest
Missouri State University
25-12, Saturday.
Jack Alexander had the lone
Husker win as Nebraska
swimmers fell Saturday to
defending Big 8 champion
Kansas University, 93 20.
Alexander won the 1,0C0yard
freestyle in a time of 10:23.47.
Anyone interested in joining
the UNL Table Tennis Club
may attend the meetings
Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. The
club meets at Auld Recreation
Center, 3140 Sumner St. For
more inforrr... .ion call the
Recreation Dept., 472-3467.
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Larry Cox (40) outbattles Missouri's Ai Eberhard for a rebound.
Recruited
freshman
settles for
anonymity
On football Saturdays last fall. Randy Garcia had one of the
best seats in Memorial Stadium. But the freshman quarterback
could be excused for not being totally happy about the
arrangement that put him outside the chain link fence.
Garcia came to UNL probably with more preis dippings than
Henry Kissinger. The Los Angeles prep star was courted by so
many colleges that he lost count of them. Yet with Dave Humm,
Steve Runty and Earl Everett handling the quarterback reins this
year, Garcia was nearly anonymous to Husker football fans.
Though he might have started playing at another school,
Garcia is not bitter about his first year in Lincoln. He believes
that playing regularly for the freshmen helped develop his skills
more than riding the varsity bench would have. '
"The freshmen who did make the varsity got to travel and all
that, but they didn't get the experience I did," he said.
Garcia visited Oregon, Stanford, Michigan and Nebraska in his
search for the right school.
Garcia doesn't say it was the fresh air or clean water that drew
him to Nebraska. He said simply that UNL was one of the few
schools offering to pay for his books.
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Because of Nebraska's weather, Garcia said he has an
occasional spell of homesickness for California.
"I kind of miss Los Angeles," ha said. "My friends write and
say it's 75 degree: outside-nice beach weather. Here you can see
the sun shining, but you can't feel it"
Garcia talks as if he barely got a chance to get acquainted with
Coach Tom Osborne last season.
"He's quiet, and that's what scares me. A lot of coaches talk
and talk and yell, and some you don't listen to. When Osborne
talks, you had better listen."
Garcia is 6 ft. 3 in. and weighs 180 lbs. He hopes to gain
weiaht before spring practice.
Garcia has an interesting career goal, if football doesn't
interfere.
"Everyone has a dream and mine is pro football," he said. "My
realistic goal is to become a bigshot on the Los Angeles police
force."
Garcia has three years of college before he must worry about
his career. Then, whether he is throwing footballs in the NFL or
cannisters cf tear gas for the police, Randy Garcia has a good
chance to make it big. j
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