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Baseball opener rescheduled
UNL's baseball team,
scheduled to open its home
season Tuesday, received an
April fools delay from Mother
Nature. It snowed.
The doubleheader with
Morningside College of Sioux
City, Iowa, was canceled and
the Huskers will open play at
home Friday with a twinbill
against Oklahoma State if
weather permits.
Friday's games will be
UNL's first Big 8 baseball
competition They were to
have opened Big 8 play last
weekend at Lawrence, Kan.,
but the three game series with
KU was canceled because of
wet ground.
On its southern wing last
week the Huskers beat Oral
Roberts University (ORU) 3-2
and Arkansas 5-4 but lost its
remaining games with both
Gymnasts to compete
for championship title
Nebraska's gymnastics team will be one of eight teams
competing for the NCAA title Thursday thru Saturday in Terre
Haute, Ind.
The Huskers finished second to two-time national champion
Iowa State in the Big 8 meet two weeks ago. Usually only the
winners of eight- conferences qualify for the national meet, but
Nebraska and Southern Illinois won berths in the meet when two
other conference winners failed to score 400 points.
They were selected from the highest scoring second place teams.
Nebraska scored 413.60 points in the conference meet to Iowa
State's winning total of 422.85.
Coach Francis Allen said cornpulsories will be Thursday and
optionals Friday. The top three teams will then compete Saturday
night for the national crown.
Allen said junior Steve Dickie, in the side horse; Pete Studenski,
a senior, in the still rings; and senior Jim Unger, in the vault, have
the best chances to win individual titles.
Should Nebraska win fhe championship, it would he th end of
a long maturing process for some of the Huskers. Nebraska's roster
is composed solely of Omaha and Lincoln natives, many of whom
received little training in high school.
Studenski, one of the squad's two seniors, is a prime example.
Studenski was seventh in the still rings at the state meet as a senior
at Omaha Burke Hjr1 School.
The eight teams in the meet will be Iowa State, Michigan,
Louisiana State, Arizona State, California-Berkeley, Indiana State,
Southern Illinois and Nebraska.
Allen said the best all-rounders for Southern Illinois and
California-Berkeley are injured and will not compete.
colleges-five at ORU and three
at Arkansas.
Despite the losing record,
Coach Tony Sharpe was
pleased with some aspects of
the Huskers' performance:
"As the games progressed,
we made good progress with
our hitting," he said. "In our
victory over Arkansas, we
knocked their number one
pitcher around pretty good.
"Our fielding is also coming
along, the more games we
play," he said. "During our last
two games with the
Razorbacks, we only had one
error."
Game time for Friday's
doubleheader is 1 p.m.
Weather puts UNL
golf practices behind
By Pete Wegman
Ask a golf coach about April snows and most assuredly his reply
will be quick and to the point.
"What can you say? It really puts us behind," sajd UNL golf
coach Larry Romjue Tuesday after a blanket of snow fell on the
Lincoln area.
According to Romjue, the snow, coupled with possible
continued cold weather, could force cancellation of a triangular
meet Friday afternoon with UNO and South Dakota at the Holmes
course in Lincoln.
He said that wet grounds and cold temperatures have kept the
team off the Holmes Park course this year.
Despite weather problems, Romjue remained optimistic about
his team's chances should the triangular meet be held.
"I would expect we could beat both teams. I don't think either
school has played outside yet this year," he said, adding that
Nebraska has benefitted from three trips south this season.
Last weekend, the Huskers participated with seven other schools
in the Galveston Island Invitational at Galveston, Tex. The team
placed third behind tournament favorites Texas Tech and Oral
Roberts, in what Romjue described as a "very encouraging
performance."
"The kids played real well at Galveston," he said. "We showed
some potential, I'm much more optimistic about things now than I
was earlier in the year."
Nebraska's medalist at Galveston was freshman Doug Smith
from Lincoln who placed third individually in the tournament.
Romjue said Smith, who has the team's number one position, has
improved more than any Husker golfer since the season opened last
fall.
"He's played exceptionally well, better than one can expect
from a freshman," he said.
Smith is followed by sophomore Craig Moyer, senior Bob Meyer
and senior Steve King, in the second, third and fourth positions
respectively. Sophomore Gary Stieneke and junior Dave Pauley are
battling for the team's fifth position.
The team is scheduled to compete in five tournaments during
April in preparation for the conference meet in mid-May at
Norman, Okla.
"The month of April will tell the story for us," Romjue said.
"The kids have the ability; they showed it at Galveston. It's just a
matter of practice now."
The Huskers, third in the Big 8 last season, are gradually seeing
their chances of repeating the third place finish diminish with the
continued bad weather, however, according to Romjue.
He said that while his Huskers remain indoors, conference
favorites Oklahoma State, who Romjue says may be the nation's
best team, and Oklahoma play outdoors daily, widening the
already disproportionate gap between them and the conference's
other six teams.
Outdoor season to begin this weekend
Husker track coach optimistic
the Big 8 indoor
1 with only three
outdoor season,
"We hope to be
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In addition to postponing
golf and baseball meets this
week, the weather cancelled
football practice Wednesday.
Freshman crew coach Jerry
Huber said the weather has also
hampered the rowing team's
preparation for a JV, women's
and freshmen meet in Wichita,
Kan., Saturday.
The varsity Crew left early
in the week for San Diego,
Calif., to get some extra
practice before rowing in a
12-team meet there Saturday.
Entries are due today for
Co-rec golf, archery and
women's archery. Contact the
intramural office, 472-3467.
By Scott Jones
Nebraska's track team will begin its outdoor
season at the Texas Relays Friday and Saturday.
Husker coach Frank Sevigne said he will enter
a mile and two-mile relay team in addition to
Steven Jepsen in the discus, Scott Sorchik in the
javelin and Dean Herzog in the high jump.
Sevigne was unsure Monday who would fill the
relay positions.
Nebraska finished last in
meet Feb. 28 through March
points. Referring to the
Sevigne's only conment was,
UlUCJ .
Th addHion of fh disc"1? and jawlin, pot
indoor events, should help the Huskers.
Sophomore Sorchik won the javelin in the Big 8
meet last year with a UNL record toss of 243 ft.
7 in. and was sixth in the NCAA meet. Jepsen,
the team's only senior, was second in the discus
in the conference meet with a 171 ft. 5 in. heave.
John Korky, assistant coach in charge of field
events, said Jepsen has "looked very, very good
in practice," consistently throwing in the 180
foot range. Jepsen' best 1974 effort was 185 ft.
10 in.
Korky also was optimistic about freshman
Herzog.
"lie has had some great jumps in
practice-seven feet or better-but he's been
inconsistent," he said. The Lansing Kan., native
set a new national high school high jump record
of 7 ft. 1 in. last year, but Korky said his next
best jump was 6 ft. 9 in.
Korky is optimistic because he said Herzog
cleared 6 ft. 914 in. easily in practice recently.
Two Husker field event performers who
scored in the Big 8 meet last year won't compete
outdoors. Steve Millard, fourth in the shot-put as
a freshman last year, contracted chicken pox
during the indoor season and is still weak.
Jerry Hannan quit ichool after his sophomore
year when he set a now Husker record of 189 ft.
2 in. in the discus and finished third in that event
in the conference meet.
David Green, a freshman from Jamaica, also
will be missing. He pulled a groin muscle in the
Big 8 indoor meet where he triple-jumped 49 ft.
6 in., third best in the Husker all-time charts.
"If we use him too early we could lose him
for the season," Korky said. "Hopefully he'll be
back by the Kansas Relays."
Quarter-miler Chuck Malito and sprinter Mike
Thompson will stay with the team for the
outdoor season instead of joining spring football
drills.
The Kansas Relays will follow a meet in El
Paso Tex., next Friday apainst the University of
Texas-El Paso (UTEP) and Arizona.
Korky left UTEP two years ago to come to
Nebraska. UTEP has won the last two NCAA
indoor titles.
"Naturally I'd like to be with a winning team
wherever I'm at," he said. "We've had some
tough breaks here but I do get some satisfaction
from the individual performances, Sorchik and
Jepsen for example."
At UTEP, Korky recruited and coached Hans
Hoglund and Peter Farmer both seniors this year.
Hoglund, from Sweden, has since won three
NCAA shot-put titles and Farmer, also a NCAA
titlist, is one of the best hammer-throwers in the
nation, Korky said.
Korky also coached three shot-putters who
exceeded 60 feet in 1971, only the third such
accomplishment in NCAA history.
Korky, who is originally from Bronx, N.Y.,
came to Nebraska to work on his doctorate in
zoology and become a full-time assistant coach.
UTEP doesn't offer a Pli.D in zoology and
Korky was not a full-time coach there.
He said he should complete work on his
doctorate sometime next year. He may then have
to decide between track or teaclUng zoology.
"I'd like to do both but that's all on the
horizon," he said.
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daiiy ncbraskan
thursday, april 3, 1975
