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thursday, december 11, 1975 page 10 daily nebraskan Hi 4 nebroskon Bpmh Cagers sidestep Gael zone Behind the shooting of center Larry Cox and guard Jerry Fort's eight assists, UNL's Cornhuskers beat the St. Mary's Gaels from Moraga, Ca., 68-57. The win kep the Huskers from having their worst start since 1962-63, head coach Joe Cipriano's first year at UNL, when the Cornhuskers lost four of their first five games. The 1975 UNL team is now 2-3, while the Gaels dropped to 04. Cox was the game's leading scorer with 19 points, including 7 of 8 from the charity line. Cox picked up the scoring slack of guard Jerry Fort, Nebraska's all time leading scorer who managed only eight points against St. Mary's defense. Nebraska forced eight turnovers in the early going, but could build only a 16-12 lead until the Huskers scored 12 straight points late in the first half to open a 30-14 lead. ' St. Mary's down, 34-23 at the half, opened the second half with a 22-1 full court zone press. Nebraska stumbled early against the press as St. Mary's pulled within four points, 44-40 with 10:08 left in the second half. The Huskers were in the middle of a seven minute scoreless period, but man aged to hold St. Mary's without a point for four minutes. Nebraska broke the game open with two quick baskets by Holder and a bucket by Cox. Cipriano said he thought the Cornhusk ers had improved since their 75-63 loss to Washington Saturday. "I thought we improved from the stand point of hustle and desire," he said, ."we looked a little ragged at times in the second half, but I don't think we made a lot of careless errors." Nebraska had 13 turnovers in the game, while St. Mary's lost the ball 25 times. Cipriano said freshman guard Brian Banks was a key factor in Nebraska's abil ity to move against St. Mary's zone. 'The press makes you move a lot fast er," Banks said. "We had a lot of speed in there against it. St. Mary's leading scorer, forward Ralph The Rocket" Walker, held to no field goals in the first half, finished as the Gael's leading scorer wiuYl 7 points. Junior college transfer Alan Holder scored 10 points 'for Nebraska, playing what Cipriano called "an outstanding floor game." l&Y its? V ,J'V Photo by Kevin H(g!y Allen Holder (44) puts in two first-half points Thursday night as Nebraska stumbled by St. Mary's College, 68-57. Senior Larry Cox led the Husker's scoring attack with 19 points. Women's athletics to request state appropriation By Susie Reitz The future of UNL women's athletics depends on the Legislature, said Women's Athletic Director Aleen Swofford. "We're going to need about $280,000 next year just to maintain a minimal pro gram in all nine sports," she said. "That's still with part-time coaches and partial scholarships." She said they plan to ask the legislature for about $120,000. If women's athletics don't receive the necessary funds from the Legislature, some sports might be dropped, she added. The women's athletic program was given $132,000 of Athletic Dept. funds this year, she said, but the department cannot afford to provide much more funding. "We gave each team the same amount $1,500,? Swofford said. "We're watching to see what each does With that money what sacrifices they are willing to make to get better competition. UNL's Athletic Dept. receives no state funds or student fees, she said. It is one of few athletic departments in the nation which operates on self-generated funds. But UNL's women's program is not self sufficient, Swofford said, and depends on the money from men's sports. Boost Her Club Some money has been generated through the Boost Her Club, which is di rected by Sandy Howitter. Boost Her sells yearly memberships which include passes to all home women's athletic events. "Through Boost Her we've raised about . $8,000. That's in the bank and we have maybe $1 ,500 still out in the community," she said. About $6,000 to send the volleyball team to nationals was contributed by local bankers and businessmen, Swofford said, and if the field hockey team would have won regionals, the business community had promised funds for a trip to nationals. "We only have $4,000 in the entire bud get for trips to nationals," she said. "That's enough to send individuals from track and field, gymnastics and swimming and diving, but a full team costs $5,000 to $6,000." More travel Next year's budget will allow for more travel, she said. "I don't want to have to cut any sports, Swofford said, "but if I do, it will have to be on an objective basis." Criteria which will be used to evaluate programs include: -The extent women are being informed about the sport in the state. . -What each team has done with funds this year-its successes in competition and tournaments. -What the team has done to promote itself and involve more people. -The win-loss record. -Amount of revenue produced. "We don't expect any sports to be in the black, but there wfll be comparison of which sports come closest to paying for them selves," she said. -Student interest and public support. Swofford said a survey may be conduct ed to see which sports draw the most interest-for spectators and for participants. Rocky Mountain Open Gymnasts to defend title pit slop You can pay me now, or . . . By Jim Williams "Penny wise and pound foolish," a nice old English adage, applies to my former roommate, the Bearded Kid. When he was shopping for cars last summer, he skipped over any imported " exoticae that might have gotten him thrown out of NUPIRG (Nebraska Univer sity Public Interest Research Group), and bought something "practical:" a tired, washing machine-white CMC van. He fitted it out in proper Woodstock ' nation style, with carpet, curtains, a bean bag chair and, because the radiator leaked, . a four-gallon water jug. The jug "saved" the Bearded Kid the expense of having it repaired. When he wanted to drive, he'd just whip open the cover between the front seats and top up the header tank from the jug. When cold weather came, he "saved" again. Why bother with anti-freeze if It was going to leak out? Most of the water would drain out of the engine overnight anyway, right? ;, . Wrong. Some water stayed, froze, expanded, cracked a passage and now the Bearded Kid is shopping for an engine block-about $250 plus labor. You can witness this false economy many places in the auto business. A prime example is the smog-control field. Smog .regulations are highly arguable, since they are based not on scientific -research, but on Sen. Muskie's choice of poIi!c?J!y-cccptable round numbers. Eat whit politician will publicly denounce "clean sir? The laws are here to stay and manufacturers should have realized meeting those regulations would require new ideas. But they didn't; they tried to cope by make-do and add-ons. Now we have evaporation controls and air pumps and exhaust recirculation and heated intakes and vacuum cutouts and all the other bozo gadgets, making your engine compartment look like the after math of tomato orgy. New ideas are surfacing and they work well-tuibochargers, electronic fuel injection, the Honda stratified -charge engine, Cosworth Vega Pulse Air but it will be a long time until everyone gets the message. Here's some stocking stuffers for people in the mo tor head lunatic fringe: For the EPA mileage test lab: A gross of Mickey Mouse balloons. For the TNO contestants: A set of fo ; lights and a Bear Bryant T-shirt. For the Nebraska State Patrol: A re cording of C. W. McCall's new hit single, Convoy, and a camouflage net. -For sSalmoist John SpeMell: A set of square sheets (I may have to run in his . class next season). ror Gov. Exoa: A speedometer calibrat ed above 55 m.pJh. in dollars. For Ralph Nate: A lump of low sulfur coal. For my owa stsckiaf : 1 hsve enlarged ; my chimney to accommodate a Lotus Esprit. . , v . '., , By Scott Jones UNL's gymnastics team enters the Rocky Mountain Open at Denver this weekend in a unique position. "We've always gone as darkhorses so itll be different to go as defending champion," said Husker Coach Francis Allen. Nebraska won the team title last year, beating Iowa State, Arizona State, Southern Illinois-all in the top eight nationally last year-and nine other teams. Those same teams will be at Denver University this year, Allen said, and Nebraska has a good chance to repeat. 'There's more of a positive approach to winning this year," he said. "Last year we thought we could win, but we were on the outskirts. "We definitely have an inside edge to winnning, but Iowa State already has beaten us this year and that takes away some of that edge." The Cyclones beat Nebraska 214-207.6 in an October dual and 413.95-409 JO in the Kansas Invitational Oct. 31. Allen said his squad is in good condition' for the meet, after winning the Ball State all-around meet last Friday. "Gene Mackie is starting to turn on now and Larry Gerard had a bad meet last week so I'm sure hell be ready to go. So we'll have a good meet," Allen said. Mackie finished second and Gerard third at Ball State and placed third and fourth respectively in the Rocky Mountain Open all-around last year. Nebraska's chances also are enhanced by improvement of all-arounders Duane West and Gary Jeurink, Allen said, one of which will join Mackie and Gerard in the all around. Jeurink is almost fully recovered from a broken right arm, Allen said, and may compete in the all-around, allowing West to specialize in the floor exercixe and high hoy aywnf K V.'O" t Bz!l StStS Other Husker's competing will be Gary Duff and Ric Heineman on the parallel bars, Steve Dickey and Mike Cosgrove on the pommel horse, Terry Neustrom and Heineman in floor exercise, Kirk Friedrich in high bar and Kurt Mackie and Donn Schmohr in still rings. Former Husker gymnasts Pete Studenski and Jim Ungcr also will compete. Studenski won the still rings competition last year. Intramural rankings sho w Betas, A TOs tied for first First semester all-university intramural rankings indicate a tie between Beta Theta II and Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), accord ing to results determined by Intramurals Coordinator Gale Wiedow. The ATOs moved into the tie with a total of 442 points. The Betas have led the fraternity teams in points all season. Points are awarded to teams based on participation and for team records in 16 intramural sports already completed. . In the residence hsil division, Abel 5 leads with 301 points, Abel 10 is second with 26 end Abei 4 is third with 214 points. Schramm 4 and Abel 6 round out the top five residence hall teams with 186 and 168 points respectively. The Dental School continues to lead independent teams with 321.S points, while Phi Delta Phi is second with 186.5 points. Other top independent teams and their point totals are Space Kadets, 12S; 1641, 1 13 and Thunderchickens, 72. Other fraternity tesms in the top five cir point totals include PM Delta Theta 256.5; Sigma Nu, 249.5 tnd Theta XI, 249.
