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Brian Kohlscheen of Holdrege shows the agony of defeat in last year state basketball tournament. Kohlscheen missed a shot in the final seconds of the Class B finals as Aurora
beat Holdrege 53-52. .
No champion cagers return
to state basketball tournament
Sixteen games at four Lincoln loca
tions will tip off the 1977 edition of the
Nebraska State High School Boys Basket
ball Tournament today. .
However, there will be no returning
champions in the 67th annual tournament,
which runs through Saturday.
Omaha Creighton Prep, Aurora, Geneva
and Nelson, lasty year's state champions
in Class A through D, respectively, were
eliminated in district play.
First round pmes in Class A match
Hastings, 1 7-3 against Papillion , 16-4,
and Omaha North, 19-4, against Omaha
Burke, 14-8, in games in the UNL Sports
Complex this afternoon.
Class A games tonight at the UNL
Sports Complex feature Grand Island,
20-1, against Lincoln High, 11-10, and
Omaha Central, 15-6, against Omaha Ben
son, 16-5.
Class B games at Pershing Auditorium
today will pair Gretna, 15-5, and Seward,
19-2 and Ord 17-5 and Fairbury, 19-3.
The other class B games tonight at Pershing
have Omaha Ryan, 17-3, playing Kimball,
18-4, and West Point Central Catholic,
13-10, playing Lexington, 20-1.
Class C games, scheduled for Lincoln
High's Johnson Gym this afternoon, match
Tekamah -Herman, 194, against Norfolk
Catholic, 18-5, and Grant, 18-5, against
Pleasanton, 17-3.
Evening games in Class C include Utica
Centennial, 15-5 and Howells, 22-2,
and Omaha Holy Name, 194, and Fair
field Sandy Creek, 164.
First round games in Qass D today will
be played at Lincoln East High school and
pair Hildreth, 21-1, and Homer, 164,
and Adams, 24-2, with Polk, 184, in the
afternoon.
The evening games in the Qass D match
Cambridge, 19-3, and Maxwell, 20-3, and
Dalton, the only undefeated team in the
tournament at 19-0, against Clearwater,
15-6.
Games today are scheduled for 12 p.m.,
2 pjn., 7 p.m. and 9 pjn.
Infamous stadium grass
going to highest bidders
"Wanna buy some grass?"
Yes, the UNL Athletic Dept. is taking
bids-on the infamous Memorial Stadium
Astro Turf, according to Bob Devaney
UNL athletic director.
We had some people interested in buy
ing some of it (the Astro Turf) already,
Devaney said. "We would like to sell it in
large quantities.
Devaney said the Astro Turf will be re
placed by a similar and improved brand of
Astro Turf.
Ik said the new Astro Turf will be laid
in the first week of May .
Besides receiving new Astro Turf, the
stadium also may be expanded but not in
tis immediate future, Devaney said.
The NU Board of Regents approved an
Omaha architectural firm list month to
develop a plan for an 8,000-seat expansion
to Memorial Stsdiiim.
The regents approved the hiring of Hen -ningson,
Durham and Richardson, but hav;
not yet decided on how to pay for the
proposed expansion. Devaney said the
regents will discuss the proposal again
March 19.
"Even if we had the money now,"
Devaney said, "there wouldn't be an ex
pansion between now and next season.
Omaha Regent Kermit Hansen proposed
the board charge 440 for the guarantee of
being able to purchase season tickets for
the new seats for the next 10 years. The
money would be used to finance the ex
pansion and would be paid in four incre
ments from March 1977 tc March 1979.
Hasxn ssid a 90 cent to $1.10 sur
charge on every ticket holder for every
game for the next 10 to 15 years could be
an alternative plan.
Regional women gymnasts
to compete in championship
By Rob Barney
The two-day women's region 6 gymnas
tics championship gets underway at noon
today at the UNL Coliseum.
There will be three sessions today.
From noon until 2 pjn. individual all
arounders and specialists will compete.
Starting at 2:00, session two begins.
UNL is included in this four team bracket.
The other three teams in the bracket are
South Dakota State University, Minot
State College, and the University of Iowa.
Session three begins at 4:00. The top
four teams in the region according to score,
compete in this bracket. They are South
west Missouri State University (SMSU),
Grand View College, the University of
Minnesota, and Iowa State University
(ISU).
According to UNL women's gymnastics
coach Judy Schalk the brackets were
determined by the team's average score in
its top four dual mjets of the season.
SMSU compiled the highest average,
142.425. ISU had the lowest average of
the top four teams, 128.0125. UNLs
average is 127 305.
Comparable scores
"It would have been nice to get Minne
sota, Iowa State, Iowa and Nebraska in
the same rotation, Schalk said. "Our
scores are comparable. There is probably
nobody in the field that can outclass
Southwest Missouri State and Grand
View.
The top team finisher, if it scores 134
points, qualifies for the national meet
April 1 through 2 at Brown University,
Schalk said. She also said if any other
team scores 134 points or better it would
be considered for an at large berth at the
national meet.
Friday's competition starts at 7:00
pjn. Individuals phdng in the top 10
of certain events today will compete.
For an individual to qualify for the
national meet, she his to be the top aH
arour.der at the regional meet (excluding
members from the championship team),
and score 34 points, Schalk said.
Tammy DriscoU and Crissy Robert
son will be our top challengers for the
top all-around spot," Schalk said. "Our
goal is to finish fourth in the meet ahead
of Iowa State and possibly third ahead of
Minnesota.
Good chance
Despite being in the second bracket
Schalk said UNL has a good chance of
finishing ahead of those two schools.
"We may possibly have an advantage
being in the second rotation," Schalk
said. "The scores are lower as a whole in
the second rotation but the top teams in
the second bracket have a chance to
score higher than the bottom teams in
the top rotation."
UNL closed out its dual season last
Friday with a victory over South Dak
ota State.
Robertson and DriscoU finished first
and second in the all-around. The week
before, the Huskers scored over 1 30 points,
their highest score of the season, at the
state meet.
"We achieved the goal I anticipated
at the start of the season, scoring 130
points, Schalk said. "And the entire team
qualified for the USGF (United States
Gymnastics Federation) state meet March
26-27."
Qualifiers compete '
She said three of the qualifiers will
compete at the meet: DriscoU, Robertson
and Peggy Liddick. ,
The end of the season also marks the -beginning
of the recruiting season. Letters
of intent for women's sports were sent
. Monday.
Schalk said she is confident in getting
Beth Brown's signature. Brown, from
Omaha Northwest, was the all-around
champion at the state meet.
Schzlk said she is planning on going to
Milwaukee next week for the Wisconsin
state meet. She is hoping to sign Nancy
Waalkes to a letter-of-intent. Waalkes was
a teammate of Robertson's at Erockficld
High School.
"She's not conafiitted, but she wants
to come here. Her parents don't want her
to come this far for school," Schalk
said.