Nebraska ending season at top of conference
Analysis by Fete Wegman
Nebraska's win over Oklahoma Wednesday night
puts the Huskers exactly where they would like to be
at the end of the season-on top of the conference.
After one week of conference play, the Husker's
2-0 mark is equaled only by Oklahoma State.
Preseason Big 8 favorites Kansas and Oklahoma each
have lost once. Kansas was defeated by Iowa State
Wednesday.
The Huskers 68-61 victory over Oklahoma was the
result of a defense that forced 28 Scooner turnovers,
and of the shooting of guard Jerry Fort and center
Larry Cox, who scored 24 and 20 points respectively.
All-Conference and Ali-American prospect Alvan
Adams, a junior, paced Oklahoma with 28 points.
Coaches featured
The league-leading Cornhuskers host the Colorado
Buffalos Saturday at 7:35 p.m. in the Coliseum. The
game will feature the two- deans of the Big 8
basketball coaches. Colorado mentor Sox Walseth is
in his 19th year at CU and Nebraska coach Cipriano is
in his twelfth season.
One of the Buffs' biggest problems this season has
not been who is playing, but rather, who isn't
playing. Junior Dave i-ogan, a two-year starter for
Colorado, was expected to be the nucleus of the team
until he injured a knee in one of the last football
snorts
games of the season. Logan, who finished in the top
10 in conference scoring last year, is out for the
season.
Young team
With the loss of Logan, Walseth was forced to
form a team with no returning starters. Walseth
admits the team is his youngest in some time, but
adds, "I feel relatively sure that we're going to be
pretty tough before it's all over."
The leading performers for CU thus far have been
6 ft. 4 in. senior guard Tony Lawrence and 6 ft. 7 in.
sophomore center Greg Mueller. Both score about 14
points a game.
Fred McDonald, the Buffs' tallest player is 6 ft. 1 1
in. and one of those expected to lead the team, has
played little because of an ankle injury.
Freshman center Larry Vaculik, who alternates
with McDonald, will be experiencing a homecoming
of sorts Saturday. Vaculik was a Prep All-American at
Omaha Ryan last season. He is the first freshman
since Logan to start for Walseth and is averaging
about nine points a game.
Fans attending Saturday's game will bn, treated to
the Big 8's best and worst defensive teams. The
Huskers have given up an average of just less than 70
poings a game while the Buffs' opponents have
averaged nearly 90 points each contest.
Gymnasts to face Colorado Charter member sees
new sport succeed
Thirteen Nebraskans will visit Colorado on
Saturday. But they say they don't expect to
relax like tourists or find the natives very
hospitable.
The thirteen are coach Francis Allen and his
12-man gymnastics team. The Huskers will
compete in a dual meet against Big 8 foe
Colorado, which Allen says is a tough
assignment.
"Colorado is probably the best-up-and-coming
young team in the nation," Allen said.
After finishing in the Big 8 cellar for three
consecutive years, Colorado was beaten only by
champion Iowa Siaie, Oklahoma and ihe
third-place Huskers last year.
Allen said the credit for Colorado's
improvement belongs to third-year Buffalo coach
Dave Wardell. He said Colorado is one of the top
four states in the nation in high school
gymnastics, but that before Wardell became
coach, most Colorado prep stars went to other
schools.
"You look at any major gymnastics team in
the nation and they'll have some Colorado
gymnasts," Allen said. "He (Wardell) is really
cooking there.
"They have good individuals in every event.
They could win every event, that's how good
they are. But we just have more depth than they
do," he said.
Are the Huskers looking past Colorado to
their dual meet wiili defending national
champion Iowa State next Saturday?
The team is "not that naive," Allen said.
"They know CU is good."
Women's basketball team faces
undefeated Wayne State tonight
After 112-25 win over Nebraska Wesleyan
University Wednesday night, the UNL women's
basketball team will face undefeated Wayne State
College tonight in the auditorium of the
Women's Physical Education Bldg.
Hoping to put the first blemish on Wayne
State's record, coach Jan Callahan said the team
has not appeared to be demoralized after defeats
at the hands of the University of
Nebraska-Omaha (UNO) last Thursday, and
Kansas and Kansas State Universities in the
Wildkitten Classic last Friday and Saturday.
The UNL team lost to UNO, 48-47; to Kansas
State 82-31 ; and to Kansas, 57-45.
"If anything, the team is more ready,"
Callahan said. "They learned a lot from their
road trip, as the competition we faced taught us
a great deal."
Five in double figures
Five Huskers scored in double figures in the
win at Wesleyan. Rhonda Rhodes led Nebraska's
scoring with 20 points.
The win evened the women's record at four
wins and four losses after the three-game road
skid.
"Against UNO we hit a poor percentage of
our shots, but our defense was good," Callahan
said. "We were ahead at the half, but they came
back in the second half and beat us."
Callahan said the game against Kansas State
was not as bad as the score indicated, because,
she said, the Wildkittens are probably the best
team in the Midwest region.
Probably to nationals
"They will undoubtedly go to the nationals,"
Callahan said. "I feel it was a good opportunity
for us to play such a good team. A team can
improve greatly by facing better competition."
The Husker's Junior Varsity also will play
tonight at 6 p.m., with the varsity match
following at 7:45.
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It's not often that a charter member and instigator -of a college
sport is around long enough to see that sport become successful.
A new athletic program usually takes more than four years
getting off the ground and by then graduation has taken care of the
first year initiates.
Not so for women's gymnastics and senior member Peg Van
Beek.
As a freshman, Van Beek, along with Marilyn Fagerstrom, an
assistant professor of physical education, decided to introduce a
competitive women's gymnastics program at UNL. That was four
years ago. Within that time the team has grown from a few
volunteer members to a sizable program with five members on
scholarship.
Van Beek is on a sixteen hour per semester scholarship. In her
four years at UNL she has consistently been the team's top
performer and scorer.
Junior high school gymnastics
Van Beek said junior high school teachers introduced her to
gymnastics.
"They got me interested in the sport," she said. "From then on
it was lots of practice. That's why it is so important to introduce
the sport at the lower grade levels. As you get older you have more
conflicting interests and it gets harder to find time to practice."
Van Beek practices about three and a half hours daily. "You
have to be dedicated," she said.
Floor exercise is Van Beek's preferred event. She is also a solid
all-around performer and is strong in vaulting also.
Promising future
There's a promising future for the women's gymnastics program
at UNL Van Beek said.
"We have a lot more people out for the sport now, more
selection," she said. "There are some promising freshmen. We also
are receiving more money from the athletic department."
The team will travel to South Dakota State Saturday. The meet
is expected to be close. UNL was defeated by one half point when
they faced South Dakota State last year.
One team disadvantage will be the loss of Sandy Czaplewski, a
freshman performing in floor exercise. Czaplewski was injured last
weekend and is not expected to compete.
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friday, January 24, 1975
