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By'JimKsy .
Air2s, Iowa-A UNL gymnastics team .
trip ended in a fall to Iowa State Univer
sity (ISU) hers Saturday.
Whst was expected to be one of the
closest meets for UNL this year turned
into an ISU gymnastics showcase.
ISU outscorcd the Huaken in every
event to give them a 217.5-210 victory. So
dominant were the ISU gymnasts that
Husker ace Larry Gerard finished fifth in
the all-around competition.
ISU freshman Stacy Maloney won the
high bar and parallel bar events as well as
the all-around title with 53.30 points.
Maloney was followed by three of his
tmmates in the scoring for the all
around. "Stacy was probably one of the top two
recruits in the nation along with Bart
Connor from Oklahoma ," ISU head coach
Ed Gagnier said. "He was kind of a late
bloomer, but we're awfully glad we got
him."
- Team effort
Gagnier credited the ISU win to a total
team effort.
"Even our first men in each event were
important to us in this meet," Gagnier
said, (In gymnastics, the weaker compe
titors usually go first.) "We were counting
on everyone Tutting today. We built on
each man's score as the meet progressed
bcrrjse you cant depend on any two or
three guys."
That lack of consistency was one of
UNL's main problems Saturday, Allen said.
"I might as well haw sent only four
guys in each event" (instead of the usual
six competitors), Allen said. "When one
guy is off, it screws everyone up. They
were coming back to the bench and
looking at Gerard. He cant do it all him
self." Allen said it is tough to win when the
opposing team is scoring eights and nines
with their weakest competitor as ISU did.
Pommel horse
Gagnier said the key event in the meet
was the pommel horse event.
"That was probably the key when we
scored eights in the horse," G&gnier said.
"Nebraska kind of went flat after that.
I can't remember when we won every event
in total points against Nebraska. And to
shut them out in the all-around is quite
remarkable because Larry Gerard is an
international competitor."
Gagnier said he felt optimistic about
ISU's chances for a Big 8 Conference
championship.
"I'm as optimistic now as I was at the
first of the year," Gagnier said. "It's parti
cularly pleasing because of the success of
our training program." v ,
; Gagnier said his gymnasts practice under
meet conditions everyday.
"It's like scrimmaging everyday,"
Gagnier said. "They aren't judged on their
routines, but they are expected to perform
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By Rob Esnssy
St. Louis sportscsster-Jay Randolph v
said his occupation "is like stealing, really,
because it is so much fun."
. Randolph, who epeke to a UNL broad
casting class Friday, said, "Basketball is
my greatest love."
"I like the college freshness," he said.
"Right now, it's a hot item.
"You have regional telecasts every Sat
urday and a national game on Sunday,"
Randolph said. "And those games do well
against the NBA game qnlCES."
- Randolph was in Lincoln to do the play-by-flay
of e UNL-OJdshoma State Big
8 Conference Game of the Week for NEC.
Randolph, 42, his been doing the Big 8
game for several seasons, teaming up with
former Iowa State University basketball
player, Gary Thompson. .
Many ccSrgs basketball observers look
tt the tig 8 Conference 83 a weak, one,
Randolph said, but he disagreed.
"Missouri v.is only two points away
frnm the final four last Year, and Kansas
State was orJy a game away a couple of
years r;o,w he said. "You dent haw a
Wit Gumtcrlaia or a Willie Smith or a
Sec tt Weirraa tut there is more balance
in th; le"ta t!.i$ season.
lts the best crop of freshman I've
ever seen in the conference," he said.
"With the new talent and new buildings
the Big 8 should do well in the future."
Oklahoma has the best young talent in
the conference, Randolph said. He added
that Oklahoma will be the .team to beat in
the next few years.
"That guy out at Colorado (coach Bill
Blair) is going to do a job out there,"
Randolph said. "He's not going to let any
talent from Denver get away anymore.
And, with the breaking ground for their
fieldhouse, Colorado's going to improve."
Besides his basketball duties, Randolph
does a full schedule of NFL games, covers
golf tournaments and does TV play-by-play
for about 30 games during the summer for
the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball team.
Great pc:fanners
In his 18 years in the business, Ran
dolph said he has seen many great perfor
mers in all sports. His list of greatest sports
performers includes Jimmy Brown, former
running back of the Cleveland Browns, as
the best football player.
"OJ. might be on the highest rung of
the second tevzl, bit nobody is ccir.psrable
to Jimmy Brown," Randolph said.
"Arnold Pslmer did the most for the
game, but Jack Nicklaus is the greatest
in practice as if they were being judged.
It's a demanding program but it becomes
routine. We're showing good mid-season
form and our training techniques are show
ing up. Of course you have to have the ath
letes who are willing to work under those
conditions."
Gagnier added, that every time ISU won
the national championship the team used
this training technique.
Wont gJve in
Allen said UNL was not ready to con
cede anything to ISU.
"The potential is there tn our team. It's
just a matter of hitting each event," Allen
said. "A year ago at the Big 8 meet we
were good on compulsaries and they could
never catch us. I hated losing this bad
because we expected it to be so tight.
But well be back."
Mike Cosgrove proved to be the only
individual winner of the day for UNL when
he won the pommel horse event with a
9.30 score.
The gymnasts next meet will be a tri
angular against the University of Iowa and
the University of Minnesota Saturday in
Iowa City.
KU outruns UNL trackmen
By Kevin Schhepf ; . ' ' ' f
( The University of Kansas ran past the
Huskers Saturday in the Huskers' first in
door track meet of the year. ....
Nearly 3,000 spectators witnessed
perennial track power KU defeat UNL 81
and one-half to 53 and one-half in the first
meet on the UNL Sports Complex indoor
track.
Although the Huskers dropped their
first meet of the year, they took seven first
place finishes.
In the mile run, the Huskers' Keith
Whi taker and Matt Reckmeyer placed first
and second respectively,
Whitaker ran the second best indoor ,
mile in UNL history with a time of 4:08.4,
and Reckmeyer, who had a time of 4:09.2,
was assigned to run in the mile by head
coach Frank Sevigne at the last minute.
"I really didnt know what to expect,"
Reckmeyer said. "I was supposed to run
iust in the 1 ,000-yard run. So I figured if I
had to run the mile, I was going to run the
race hard."
Reckmeyer said he was pleased with the
way the Huskers ran against KU.
Had a shot
"We thought we had a shot at them
(KU)," he said. "The mile relay could 've
gone either way and the two mile run and
1 ,000-yard run didnt turn out as well as
we expected. But I was really happy the
way we ran today." '
The mile relay, which was the final
event, was won by KU by 1.5 seconds.
UNL's mile relay team of Ron Hoagland,
Pat McKenzie, Ray Mahoney and Scott
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golfer," he said. "I never saw (Bobby)
Jones play," he said.
"I saw (Ted) Williams play, (Joe)
DiMaggio, (Stan) Musial, but the greatest
baseball player I've seen is Bob Gibson
(former pitcher from Omaha for the St.
Louis Cardinals)," he said.
"He was the greatest competitor
around. He had a great body and was a
great team player," he said.
Randolph said his greatest thrill
' Poehlirighad ttime of 3:I53,".'-: f
Earlier in the meet,' Poehling, a fresh
man running in his first UNL meet, won
the 600-yard run in 1:10.0, which is the
second fastest time by a Husker athlete.
Also in his first UNL track meet was
Husker football player Jeff Lee, who tried
a school record in the 60-yard low hurdles
with a time of 6 J seconds.
Lee edged KU's Anthony Coleman, who
earlier outraced Lee in the 60-yard high
hurdles. Both Lee and Coleman had times
of 7.1 seconds, but Coleman was declared
the winner.
Wlsnfeg jumps -.
Other first place finishers for the
Huskers were high jumper Dean Herzog
with a jump of 6 ft. 10 in. and triple
jumper Neville Murray with a leap of 47
ft. 2 and three-quarter in.
Husker sprinter Ron Hoagland won the
300-yard dash with a time of 31.2 seconds
and UNL grabbed the first three places in
the 880-yard run. "
Jeff Thurman placed first with a time of
1:33.2, followed by Huskers Ron Fisher
and Paul McClain. . . -
The Big 8 indoor Track Championships
will be at the Sports Complex Feb. 25 and
26, marking the first time the meet will be
outside Kansas City.
Reckmeyer said the new track is one of
the best in the country, adding that it is
very fast. , .
'There may not ht as many fans here as
in Kansas City," he said, "but there will
probably be a lot of records broken in the
Big 8 meet because the track is eo fast."
,st
probably was the ski jumping in the 1972
Olympics in Japan.
NBC is involved in negotiation rights
with ABC and independent SATRA for
broadcast rights for the 1980 Olympic
Games in Moscow, Randolph said.
"The Russians are trying to offer us a
propaganda package," he said. "They want
to show Russia the way they see it. That
would be a mistake if anybody accepted
their terms. If we (NBC) do the games
well show Russia the way we see it"
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