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By Scott Jones
Bob Martin did something Wednesday in
Nebraska's first major football scrimmage of
spring practice that UNL coaches like to see.
What he did, in football lingo, was "stick his
nose in there." Unfortunately Martin had on a
borrowed helmethis was damaged without a
protective nosepiece and he was rewarded for his
aggressiveness with a cut on the bridge of his
nose.
Martin, a senior defensive end, was one of
several Huskers with bruises after what coach
Tom Osborne called a good-hitting session.
"Overall it was a good scrimmage from the
standpoint of effort and hitting,"Osborne said.
"There was real good hitting up on those first
two units."
Strained knee
Trainer Paul Schneider said linebacker Jim
Belka's strained right knee was the only major
injury although "it isn't strained enough to be
torn," he said.
There were four 60-yard scoring drives in the
two-and -one-half hour session. Each series of
downs began at the offense's 40-yard line.
Fullback Tony Davis scored from the 14-yard
line for the first offense against the second
defense.
After the second offense, with Vince
Ferragamo and Ed Burns alternating at
quarterback, failed to score on the first defense,
sophomore I-back Curtis Craig scored from three
yards out for the third-string offense.
40-yard pass
A 40-yard pass completion from Randy
Garcia to Rocky Loken was the big play in that
drive against the third defense.
The first offense, with Terry Luck at
quarterback, then ground out a score against the
first defense. Dodie Donnell, substituting for
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Davis at fullback, scored from the two.
Burns then found Bobby Thomas wide open
in the end zone on an 1 8-yard toss for the second
offense against the second defense to complete
the scoring.
Moments before that score, Ferragamo
directed the second unit to the five-yard line
where he fumbled after colliding with linebacker
Jim Wightman. Both players, especially
Wightman, rose slowly.
"I think Vince is pretty tough," Osborne said.
"I don't think any of our five quarterbacks will
back away from contact."
In addition to Luck, Ferragamo, Burns, Garcia
and sophomore Tom Sorley directed the fourth
unit.
Osborne said he was pleased with his first
units.
"I think the first offensive line did pretty
well. They were fairly consistent," he said.
Need time together
"They need time together because an
offensive line is like a basketball team. They have
to play together.
"I think the first defense will be pretty good
as soon as we get set on our linebackers," he said.
Linebackers Percy Eichelberger, Cletus Pillen,
Belka, Larry Young, Randy Lessman and
Wightman all played with the top two units at
times.
Osborne said some changes probably would be
made after the scrimmage films are reviewed.
"I'm sure there will -be some changes made
because now wc have a lot of film to work with."
Earl Everett, Mike Fultz, Dave Gillespie, Dave
Shamblin, Darrell Walton and Gary Higgs missed
Wednesday's scrimmage with various ailments.
Schneider said Fultz and Gillespie should be
ready for the second full-scale scrimmage
Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
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Husker defensive end Bob Martin got a cut nose ss a reward
for his efforts in Wednesday's scrimmage. The football team
will scrimmage again Saturday at 2 p.m.
sporls shorts
Ray Koziol, a sophomore at
UNL, placed sixth in the finals
of the 1975 Association of
College Unions-International
( A C U I ) Bowling
Championships Sunday in
Dayton, Ohio. Koziol rolled
530 in singles competition and
640 in the doubles for a
ten-game combined total of
1,873.
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Ray Koziol
UNL's women's track team
defeated Doane and Concordia
in a triangular meet Wednesday
at Ed Weir Track.
Mary Lou Jasnock of Doane
highlighted the meet sprinting
to an :1 1 .0 time in the
100-yard dash.
The Huskers scored 69
points by winning eight of the
15 events. Doane scored 40
points for second followed by
Concordia with 24.
Traveling to Kansas for
duals with Kansas University
and Kansas State Wednesday
and Thursday, UNL's tennis
team tried to raise its season
mark above .500 after losing to
Oklahoma (5-0) Friday and
Missouri (9-0) last Saturday.
The team's next meet will be
Tuesday against Washburn
University in Topeka, Kan.
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. Out to improve a third place
finish in the event last year, the
UNL golf team is competing in
the Great Plains Invitational in
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Wichita, Kan. today.
The track team travels to El
Paso, Texas for a dual with the
University of Texas at El Paso,
Saturday.
The UNL Rodeo
Association will conduct its
charity rodeo today and
Saturday at the State Fair
Grounds.
Men will compete in
bareback riding, saddle bronc,
bull riding, calf and team
roping and buildogging.
Women compete at barrel
racing, goat-tying and
breakaway roping.
UNL's soccer team plays
Creighton University Saturday
at 10 a.m. at Memorial
Stadium. Sunday, they travel
to Manhattan, Kan. for a
match with Kansas State at
1 :30 p.m.
Notre Dame will invade
Capitol Eeadi fur a Saturday
afternoon meet with the UNL
Varisty Crew, starting at 1 p jn.
Weather slows softball play;
teams to begin swinging soon
The Bongs, Wild Cherry and Chicago Coltrane
are groups at UNL with something in common:
(Hint: they're all swingers who play very well
together.)
Rock music? Wrong.
Softball? Right. As any team that has played
one of the three teams the last two or three years
could attest, members of these teams are
swingers who do play well together.
The Bongs have won the men's intramural
fast-pitch Softball championship the last three
years. Chicago Coltrane has won the men's
slow-pitch title each of the two years the game
has been played at UNL. The same is true for
Wild Cherry, the two-time defending Co-Rec
champions.
In climate weather
Because of wet, windy weather, the teams
have not been able to defend their titles this
year. Tournaments in the four divisions: men's
fast and slow-pitch, Co-Rec slow-pitch and
women's slow-pitch, were to start last Tuesday
but no games have been played.
Ken Navratil, pitcher and manager of the
Bongs, said his team's chances of retaining the
title are "real good. "We're the team to beat."
Pitch important
He said that good pitching is tremendously
important in fast-pitch softball. "Two years ago
when we won it nobody even scored on us," he
said. "With a good pitcher you can really walk
away with it."
Pitching isn't nearly as important in
slow-pitch, according to Keith Dietze, manager
and pitcher of Chicago Coltrane.
Chicago Coltrane has yet to be beaten since
slow-pitch was introduced to UNL two years ago,
Dietze said. Like the Bongs, members of Chicago
Coltrane play in the same slow-pitch league in
the summer. Most of the members are from
Waverly.
Dietze said the team's chances of repeating as
champions are good. "I think they're pretty good
because a lot of it is experience and from last
year we only lost three players," he said.
Five members of Chicago Coltrane also play
on Wild Cherry, champion of the Co-Rec, or
mixed men's and women's league;
Fields wet
Gale Wiedow, intramural coordinator, said 34
men's fast-pitch teams have registered, 56 men's
slow-pitch, 8 women's slow-pitch and 47 Co-Rec
teams.
He said games will begin as soon as fields dry.
Games rained out will be moved back a day. If
postponements continue, he said, games also may
be played on weekends instead of just on
Monday through Thursday as originally planned.
The four tournaments are arranged so every
team plays at least two games, Wiedow said. If a
team wins its first game then loses, it is out of
the tournament. If a team loses its first game, it
enters the losers bracket where it must continue
to win to remain in the competition.
Team wonts to heat weather, too
uskers host Tigers in doublehe
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By Larry Stunkel
When Missouri's baseball team comes
to Lincoln today for a doubleheader with
the UNL baseball team, the Huskcis will
be trying to continue one streak and
trying to break another.
After sweeping a three game series
from Oklahoma State last weekend, the
Huskers want to keep their unbeaten Big
8 record intact against Missouri, who is
1-2 in conference play.
But the team will also try to break a
three-day cancellation spell caused by this
week's weather. As a result of rain, a
doubleheader against Buena Vista College
was cancelled after first being postponed
three times.
Husker coach Tony Sharpe said he
hopes his team continues the power
hitting displayed against OSU, but would
like less of the dramatics. The team won
two of the games with runs in the bottom
of the ninth inning.
Finishing third in the conference last
year with a 28-14 record, Missouri has the
most conference championships (13) to
its credit.
But the Tigers are off to a slow start.
They lost two of their first three
conference games and are behind the
third place Huskers in team hitting,
seventh in team fielding and last in team
pitching with a 9.87 ERA.
However, the Tigers feature two of the
conference's leading hitters. Outfielder
Jim Werner leads the Big 8 in the batting"
with a .571 average; first baseman Mike
Lally is sixth with a .444 mark.
For the Huskers, pitchers Jerry
Yingling and Boyd Batenhorst are among
individual pitching leaders with a 0.00
ERA. Center fielder Paul Hass, designated
hitter Steve McManaman and left fielder
Ron Miltenberger are tied for the Husker
t:am hitting lead with a .400 average.
As a team, the Huskers are third in the
conference in hitting, fielding and
pitching with percentages of .308, .964
and 3.00, respectively.
Today's doubleheader will start at
1 :30 p.m. at the diamond behind Ed Weir
Track. Saturday the Huskers and Tigers
will play a single game starting at 1 p.m.
friday, april 11, 1975
daily nebraskan
