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Coach wrestling with problems
By Larry Stunkel
A number of problems face UNL
wrestling coach Orval Borgialli this
season. One is that the team averages
just over one year of total experience;
the other is a serious lack of depth in the
upper weights.
Then there is the match with Colorado
Mines at Golden, Friday, and another
meet with the University of Colorado
Saturday at Boulder.
Borgialli admits he isn't sure what to
expect because he knows very little
about either school, and because his
te3m had a disappointing showing at the
Bison Open in Fargo, N.D., last
weekend.
Colorado enthusiastic
"Colorado has a new coach, so they
should be pretty enthusiastic," Borgialli
said. "And I think we can beat Colorado
Mines."
Borgialli, entering his eleventh sea
son at Nebraska, called his team's
performance at Fargo "very poor."
One area Borgialli said his team
should do well in is balance, since there
are capable performers at each weight.
Inexperience and injuries could still
plague the Huskers all season, since,
there are four freshmen and two
sophomores in his starting lineup.
"After we get by our first men in the
upper weights; we have no depth at
all," Borgialli said. "There is a big
difference between our first and second
men. We can't afford injuries."
Personnel returning
Top personnel returning this fall are:
Bruce Conger at heavyweight; Bill
Hoffman at 177 lbs. and Bob Johnson at
190, both of whom placed third in the
Big 8 last year; Tony Jennings at 142
lbs; Denny Zuk at 126 lbs; and
promising newcomers, Tim Rimpley and
Tom Knoblich, at 118 and 158 lbs.,
respectively.
Rimpley, a three-time state champion
from Gordon, drew praise from Borgialli
for his performance Saturday. Knoblich
was a junior college all-American last
year.
Borgialli said Conger placed the best
at the meet in Fargo, taking a third
place.
Besides Rimpley, two other freshmen
in the Husker line-up are: Doug Hassig,
a 150 pounder from Overland, Kan.,
where he was a two-time state champ;
Richard Hill a 167 lb. Lincoln native;
and Doug Jones, a 134 lb. state
runnerup from Chadron.
Correction...
There are 32 female and 38 male
members in the University of Nebraska
Rodeo Assoc. instead of one female and
six male members as was reported in
the Daily Nebraskan last Thursday.
Spikers try for title
By Pete Wegman
Teams from seven states will participate in the
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
(AIAW) Region Six volleyball tournament, accord
ing to tournament director Jan Callahan.
The tournament runs today through Saturday at
the Women's Physical Education Bldg. Some
games originally were scheduled for the Coliseum
but Callahan said problems with the building's
lighting caused a change in plans. .
Each of the seven states (Minnesota, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas
and Missouri) will send their two top teams. The
14 teams will be split into two seven-team pools.
Each pool will be involved in round-robin play
Thursday and Friday. The top four from each pool
will advance to the single elimination round
Saturday. The finals will be Saturday night at 8:30
in Women's Physical Education 313.
State champion Kearney State and the
runner-up University of Nebraska team will
represent Nebraska in the tournament. UNL faces
the University of Kansas, last year's AIAW
Region Six champions, Thursday at 2:15 p.m. in
Rm. 123.
According to Callahan, no single team stands
heads and shoulders over the others, but,
"Southwestern Missouri State and the University
of Kansas are probably the strongest. "
According to Callahan, UNL's team has a shot at
the Region Six title. "If we play well, top-notch, I
think we're capable of winning the whole thing,"
she said.
The tournament's top two teams will advance to
the nationals at Portland State in Oregon. There
twenty teams will compete for the AIAW national
title.
Basketball team could be big winner with effort
With the start of the basketball season just
over a week away, Husker coach Joe Cipriano
is fretting. Following Tuesday's Red-White
intrasquad game, he expressed concern that
his team is not exerting the effort that might
be expected with the first game so close at
hand.
"The effort is the thing that's going to
concern us," he said. "If we have 'one
weakness right now, we felt they haven't
pushed themselves in practice. They have to
have a little pride."
In Tuesday's game, the piayers did show
more pressure on defense after a haiftime
tongue-lashing. The familiar sound of
assistant coach Moe Iba yelling encourage
ment and sometimes admonishments from
the bench kept them hustling.
Two of tha players Cipriano cited for
having particularly slow starts are Rickey
Harris and Steve Erwin. They are battling
Bob Siegel for the starting forward spots.
Eight-man team
Those three along with guards Jerry Fort,
Steve Willis and Kent Reckewey and centers
Larry Cox and Ron Taylor form the nucleus of
what again appears to be an eight-man team.
About mid-season last year, Cipriano chose
eight men as his top players, and they olaved
virtually the entire time the rest of the
campaign.
The fact that there are close struggles for
starting berths is pleasing to Cipriano.
"That's a healthy situation as far as we're
concerned," he said.
dennis onnen
press box review
One of the closest struggles is at the center
position, where Taylor vaulted himself into
starting consideration with a 34-point per
formance in the Red-White game. He also
showed more aggressiveness on the boards
in grabbing 15 rebounds.
However, he showed defensive lapses at
timea, an unforgivable offense on the
defense-oriented Husker squad. In that
respect, Cox has the upper hand. .
"He's stronger fundamentally on defense
than me," Taylor said. "In our pressure-type
defense, you can't let your man catch the ball
in certain areas."
If Taylor can learn to keep his man from
getting the ball, he could be a formidable
threat.
Fort shows improvement
As usual, Fort had a typically fine game,
totaling 23 points. He has led the Huskers in
scoring the past two years, but his shooting
percentage has left something to be desired.
However, Cipriano said he has been taking
better percentage shots this year, which was
reflected in a 52 per cent shooting mark in the
Red-White game.
"Fort has shown in practice that he's
certainly improved over last year," he said.
Besides better shot selection, Fort said his
new pair of contact lenses should help his
percentage. He got them about a month ago
and is still adjusting.
Another added dimension to Fort's game is
his frequent drive up the middle of the lane.
Sometimes he will twist all the way to the
basket himself, but if covered, he has shown
the ability to drop the ball off to the open man
for an easy lay-up.
With a quicker team and an improved
fast-break offense, all it should take is a little
effort tn make the Huskers a big winner,
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thursday, ncvembar 21 , 1974