Golfers improve with weather;
weekend invitational important
Women's softball
UNL hits Midland
Coming off a pair of weekend losses, the UNL women's softball
team defeated Midland College of Fremont 2-1 at home Tuesday
night.
Freshman Jan Bat tels was the winning pitcher. Marsha Mohl and
Jane Huge shared batting honors, each producing an extra-base hit.
Mohl tripled and Moge rapped a double.
"We've worked on hitting in practice all week," said coach
Terry Bauiiibach. "Against Wayne State Saturday wc just were not
hitting."
Frrors also plagued the team in Saturday's doubleheadcr loss to
Wayne. According to Baumbach, not being able to practice outside
because of bad weather caused the fielding problems.
"Basically I feel that our fielding can match any team's that wc
play," she said.
Baumbach said the team's depth is lacking.
The team relies mainly on two pitchers, she added.
' "Jan Bartels is our No. 1 pitcher, sophomore Sandy Stewart is
her backup. Stewart is really starting to come along."
UNL has strength in the batting department, according to
Baumbach.
Top hitters include Mohl, Ifoge and the only freshmen to crack
the starting line-up, Bartels and Sue lleiser, Baumbach said.
Friday, the women host Concordia in a doubleheadcr and
Saturday they travel to Omaha for two games against Creighton.
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By Pete Wegman
As Nebraska weather continues to improve, so
does the play of the UNL's golf team, according
to Head Coach Larry Romjue.
"We're coming along since we've been able tu
play regularly," he said. "We still have a lack of
practice but we're overcoming that with each
tournament we play in."
The team has participated in four
tournaments this year and will play in the Kansas
Relays Invitational in Lawrence on Thursday and
Friday. The golfers were in Kansas Wednesday
and played nine holes on the tournanie-it course
in the afternoon.
"The course h extremely difficult. It's long
and in some sections very tight," Romjue said.
"The scores will be high: anyone shooting under
80 there will be doing well."
The tournament is important for the lluskers
since five Big 8 schools will be in the six-team
field. Besides the lluskers. Missouri, Kansas.
Kansas State and Iowa State will be in
attendance. Wichita State will be the only
non-Big 8 school playing.
Romjue said Missouri, the only Big 8 school in
the tournament the lluskers haven't played yet
this year, and Kansas are the tournament
favorites.
Last week in the Great Plains Invitational at
Wichita, the lluskers finished fourth, ahead of
Kansas. Kansas State. Iowa State and host
Wichita State. The tournament was won by
Oklahoma State, followed by Tulsa and Oral
Roberts. Nebraska was only four strokes out of
second.
"We played really poor the first day, but real
well the second." Romjue said. Nebraska was
seventh after the opening round.
Seniors Steve King, who will be the first
four-year golf lettcrman in UNL history, and Bob
Meyer tied for low individuals for Nebraska in
the tournament.
However, freshman Doug Smith still has the
team's best average with a 70. Meyer, sophomore
Craig Moyer. and King have 77, 78 and 79
averages, respectively.
"These averages are a little high," Romjue
said, adding that the team has played some tough
courses under difficult weather conditions.
Smith. Moyer. King, sophomore Gary
Stienekc and junior Dave Pauley will be playing
at Lawrence. Meyer decided to remain at UNL
for classes. Romjue said.
Following the Kansas tournament, ihe
lluskers have one invitational and a triangular
meet remaining before the Big 8 tournament May
16 through 17 at Norman, Okla.
tentative starting line-up for this weekend is:
lb-Jan Hoge
2b-Kathy Matejka
3b Julie DeWing
ts Jan ZinkSue Hansen
rf-Marsha Mohl
cf-Betsy Anderson
If Sue Heiser
c-Jean Vrbka
p-Jan BartelsSandy Stewart
sports sh
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UNL Athletic Director Bob Devaney safd Wednesday tfic
National Football League exhibition game between the Baltimore
Colts and the Atlanta Falcons may be played in Memorial Stadium
next August.
Devaney confirmed there have been contract negotiations
regarding a game on August 16 and the moving of the annual
Nebraska Shrine Bowl football game to August 9. But he stressed
that absolutely nothing is definite, and the approval and the
scheduling of a pro game at Memorial Stadium is a matter for the
Board of Regents, NU administration and the NFL to decide.
"Wc have had contract discussions, but nothing at all has been
finalied," Devaney said. "This is something for the regents and the
administration to look at and the approval or disapproval is up to
them."
Huskers competing in weekend Kansas Relays
By Scott Jones
Nebraska's track team will enter 12 men in eight
events Friday and Saturday at the Kansas Relays.
Chuck Malito. last year's Big 8 440 champion, will
compete in the 440 intermediate hurdles for the
id tir'
clocking in a double dual with Arizona and host
Texas at LI Paso (UTLP) last Saturday was good for
second place.
Malito said he hopes the switch of events can carry
him higher than last year's Big 8 victory.
"I just think I have a better chance of going to the
Olympics or being the national champion," he said.
"I've always thought my 440 time was good but not
exceptional," on a national level, "but with work I
think this can be a super event for me."
Malito said he's been planning the move for more
than a year. "Last year I talked about doing it but he
(track c,oach Frank Sevigne) said it was too late that
we needed the entire year to work on it."
First chance
Malito's first chance to extensively practice the
event came last week as the Huskers spent the week
after the Texas Relays awaiting the double dual.
But because it was cold and windy for that meet '
and his form is still weak, Malito said he hopes to
improve quickly.
"I was very pleased with my time of :54," he said.
"My technique was terrible going over the hurdles
and it should get belter as I go along."
Malito also will run on the Husker's mile relay
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team at Kansas along with freshmen Mike Thompson
and Tom Dovcl and sophomore Chris Gricb.
Nebraska will also enter a two-mile relay
composed of Don Grow, Paul McClain, Harold Stcl.cr
and Gale Wheeler, all freshmen. Steler, who ran
4:14.9 ai UTLPaiso wiii run the mile.
In the field events. Nebraska will enter Steve
Jepsen in the discus, Scott Sorchik in the javelin,
Dean Hcr.og in the high jump and Kan Zaloudck in
the long jump.
Second in discus
Jepsen, a Papillion native and the team's only
senior, placed second in discus at UTL:P with a 180 ft.
2 in. toss. Although his competitive best is 185 ft. 10
in. he said he has thrown 200 ft. in practice.
Given more practice time, he said he hopes to
reach that level in meets and possibly break the Big 8
record of 192 ft. 8 in.
Jepsen, who was second in the Big 8 meet last
year, also is close to the school record. Jerry llannan
set the varsity mark last year with a 189 ft. 2 in.
heave.
A late bloomer, Jepsen said he weighed only i 73
pounds as a high school senior when he was third in
the state meet. After transferring to Nebraska from
UNO, he made the team as a walk-on and now is
"quite a bit stronger," at 6 ft. 3 in. and 242 pounds.
In t lie double dual at UTLP. Nebraska defeated
Arizona, 68-53, but were beaten by UTLP. 99-37.
Sevigne praised Thompson, third in the 1 00 and 200,
Grow, third in the 880, Jepsen, Malito and Stclzcr.
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Chuck Malito, a junior from Lake wood. Colo., is
looking for national recognition in the 440-yard
intermediate hurdles. Malito and the rest of the
Husker track team will compete in the Kansas
Relays this weekend.
thursday, april 17, 1975