4 w
. ' ' r h V
1
J doily
LicOB f S I 111 1 13 C K
if-iirir Lris
Manhattan, Kan. UN L played the spoiler role
Saturday in Manhattan, Kan., by edging nationally
ranked Big 8 leader Kansas State University, 53-54.
The Wildcats were held to their lowest point total of
the season.
Despite shrill pleas of 11,700 partisans in Ahearn
Fisldhouse, the Wildcat offense never could get
untracked.
The first half was a tight struggle. The biggest lead
either team could manage was four points. Lon
Kruger's basket with 45 seconds left gave the Wildcats
a 30-23 lead at intermission.
In the second half the Cornhuskers shot almost
50 while holding the KSU offense to only 24
points.
Though UNL consistently led by five to nine
points, there was a general feeling the Wildcats would
find some way to escape what would be a very
untimely loss. They almost did.
After narrowing the margin to two, KSU forced a
jump ball at midcourt with 1 1 seconds to go.
UNL sent Rickey Harris in for the jump, but the
' Wildcats won the tip and the ball was passed
promptly to their bread and butter man, Lon Kruger.
The swift guard raced toward the basket and his
driving layup attempt looked for a second as if it
would go in. But It trickled off and Ricky Marsh won
the battle for the rebound, then drew an intentional
foul with two seconds left.
Marsh sank both free throws and when the buzzer
sounded, the Huskers erupted in a jubilant victory
celebration.
After the game, KSU Coach Jack Hartman told a
group of Kansas sportswriters that the Wildcats had
not played badly.
"It was a heck of a ball game," he said. "Nebraska
(UNL) just did everything you have to do to win.
steve foLjlor
They played fine defense and they made most of
their outside shots."
Besides his dramatic free throws, Marsh sank all
four of his field goal attempts. He was the picture of
poise in the face of a screaming crowd.
Marsh ended the game with 10 points. Jerry Fort
led all Husker scorers with 20. Kruger had 20 for the
losers.
The Husker win snapped the Wildcats 21 -game
home conference winning streak. KSU's four seniors
ended their home careers on a sad note. The UNL
game was the first conference contest they had lost in
Aheam Fieidhouse.
The UNL team bus made an unexpected stop on
the ride home from Manhattan Saturday night.
Husker Coach Joe Cipriano spotted two elderly ladies
stranded by their overheated car. After assistant
Coach Moe Iba warned the players about salty
language, the two women boarded the bus and were
taken directly to their doorstep in Beatrice.
If last weekend is any indication, KSU students
and fans have a genuine dislike for Nebraskans.
Sporting a Nebraska T-shirt I encountered a feeling of
vague hostility as I strolled around the KSU campus.
Though it's cozy looking on the inside, the KSU
basketball building is even more of an eyesore on the
outside than UNL's Coliseum.
The KSU basketball program is in good shape.
Besides a lot of returning talent, it has tremendous
fen support. Nearly every restaurant and motel in
Manhattan offers some sort of inspiration on their
marquees for the team. They support their basketball
team the way Nebraskans back their football team.
Of course, look at KSU's football team.
3rd try
no charm
for Husker
track team
UNL's track team lost its bid Saturday for a third
consecutive Big 8 indoor championship, but the Huskers
did manage to come up with the meet's outstanding
performer.
Roger Chadwick gained that honor by winning both the
GOO- and 830-yard runs, only the second time that double
has been accomplished in the meet's history. His times were
1:12.6 and 1:53.7, respectively, for the two events. He
repeated as 830 champion.
Picking up 12 points for his two victories, Chadwick
accounted for more than half of the Huskers' 22 team
points. That total put them in fourth place behind Kansas
State University (55), the University of Missouri (48) and
Hl2-UnrversftY'fjfpc;fado 4S).
Bob Unger was the other Husker winner as he took the
2-mile run, defeating Colorado standouts Ted Castaneda
and Mike Peterson. His time of 8:53.2 was more than seven
seconds faster than Castaneda's, who finished second.
UNL took fifth in the mile relay with a time of 3:21.1,
two seconds behind winner KSU. Freshman Keith Whitaker
picked up a point for his fifth-place finish in the 1,000-yard
run.
The Huskers' only points in the field events came when
freshman Steve Millard placed fourth in the shot put. ,
u
UNL finished sixth in the
Big 8 wrestling championships .
Saturday, but two Huskers
qualified for the NCAA
championships in Ames, Iowa,
March 14 through 16.
Freshman Bill Hoffman and
sophomore Bob Johnson
advanced to the nationals by
virtue of their third place
finishes in the 177-pound and
1 90-pound classes,
respectively. The top four in
each weight class qualified.
The Huskers were hurt
when seven of eight wrestlers
were beaten in the Friday
quarterfinals.
The UNL women's
gymnastics team finished third
with 47.3 points in a triangular
met In Des Moines Saturday.
Grand View College won the
meet with 97.2 points,
followed by Drake University
with 67.6.
There will be an
organizational meeting for the
women's intercollegiate tennis
team at 4:30 p.m. today in
Women's Physical Education
Bldg. 313. Anyone interested
but who cannot attend should
contact Gail Whitaker,
472-2551.
' ' ' V i
V
I
' ; f
J
f
Brendy Lee, here putting up a hyup against Oklahoma
Stats University in a previous home contest, and Tom
Novak, closa out their home careers for the Huskers in
Tuesday's game with the University of Colorado at 7:35
p.m.
Women
swimmers
cue? V1UIUIO
The UNL women's swimming team
dethroned defending champion Kearney
State College Saturday in the state college
championships, 133 927, capturing the
crown for the first time. Both teams
easily outdistanced Concordia College
Physical Education Bldg. pool. Those two
teams finished with 4 and Th points,
respectively.
The UNL Wonder Women, as they call
themselves, were led by Ruth Spencer,
who captured three individual
championships and swam on both
winning relays. She won the 50-yard
breastroke in 35.9, beating her nearest
opponent by more than three seconds
and qualifying for the national
championships March 14 through 16.
Her o trier victories came in the
100-yard individual medley and the
100-yard breastroke, In which she
defeated her closest rival by almost 10
seconds.
Double winners for UNL were Ginny
Kincade in the 1-and 3-meter diving, and
Debbie Petersen, in the 50- end 100 yard
DacKsiroKes. Kincaae quaiilied for the
national championships in both diving
events.
Liz Gross picked up valuable points
for UNL, winning the 50-yard butterfly
Phyllis Thagard was the other UfJL
winner, capturing the 400-yard freestyle.
She also dded a second place in the
200 yard freestyle.
Anne Brinkman and Kathy Anderson
each finished second twice for additional
UNL points.
it
11
e-
li
1
if
it
11
i.
M
1 1 n
-vn
li
to
113
'f
iff n mp -r-
tf
- - .-O-W.l fr ).
T U
"siaarariaiaac
m
Hp
ia
HL4
if
1
J
V
, r ; , " "
hi
(hum t' Vtrmtm Wurthf
-
C ! j i
! from ssl selection only
I Only 1 coupon per customer
Cm4 enfy thru KUnb 1 S, 1 174
-u.joo r:i cj o 3 a o a S3 o li i at ra m o a a a o o o a o fr
li
II
0
n
is
-'
paggS
daily nebrasksn
monday, march 4, 1 974
A