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monday, epril 4, 1977
Pitchers, chilly winds blow Beavers off diamond
By Rob Barney
Part of the reason might have been the 40-degree
weather with gusting winds. But the main reason Buena
Vista College of Storm Lake, Iowa, lost a double header
to UNL Saturday at the Ilusker Diamond was pitching.
Husker senior Steve McManaman scattered five hits
and struck out 11 enroute to a 5-2 victory over the
Beavers in the first game. .In the second contest, freshman
Qiff Faust allowed just two infield singles and struck out
1 0 as the Huskers won 6-0.
UNL jumped to a 1-0 lead after the first inning of the
opening game. Senior centerficlder Paul Haas led off the
game with a single, advanced to second on a passed ball
and came around to score on a single by left fielder Joe
Scherger.
The Huskers added another run in the third to lead 20.
Scherger smashed a line single to center to knock in short
stop John Dingled-ne, who led off the inning with a walk
and advanced to third on two infield outs.
Buena Vista, 5-5 on the season, did not stop, however.
They scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings to
tie the game.
The Huskers came back, scoring the deciding run in
the bottom half of the fifth. With one down, Haas reached
on error by Beaver third baseman Sonny Reasland and
came around to score on a single by first baseman Larry
Winum.
UNL closed out the scoring in the sixth when sopho
more transfer Tim Carroll led off the inning with a triple
and scored on an error by Reasland.
Faust got all the help he needed in the second game ir
the first inning.
The Huskers scored five of their six runs on three hits
in the inning.
The two Husker pitchers allowed two walks (both by
McManaman) for the entire doubleheader, and two Buena
Vista pitchers surrendered five walks to UNL in the first
inning.
Big hits for the Huskers in the first frame were a run
scoring triple by Scherger and a two-run single by third
baseman Doug Miller.
Catcher Tom Beeson, the Big 8 Conference's leading
hitter with a .400 average going into the game, and Haas
forced in runs, walking with the bases loaded.
Scherger singled in the sixth and came around to
score for the Husker 's final score.
Women tracksters
defend relays title
By Jim Kay
The UNL women's track team swept to victory Friday
in half of the 15 events while defending its championship
in an 11 -team field at the ninth annual Red Grovert re
lays at Southeast Fairbury Community College. -
The Huskers, coached by Carol Frost, outscored
runners-up Doane Collegcof Crete and the University of
Nebraska at Omaha 104-35.
"We really didn't have a good day to run because it
was cold and the wind was blowing about 40 miles an
hour," Frost said. "Only the short dashes on a straight
track were easy to judge. We had a couple of good perfor
mances." Frost had two of her sprinters qualify for the national
meet, although she said it was still quite early in the
season to be reaching qualifying times.
"Our sprint and hurdle times were the best," Frost
said. Toni Midder ran 10.9 seconds in the 100-yard dash
(a new meet record) and qualified for nationals. Pam
Baker qualified in both the 100-yard dash and the
1 00-meter hurdles with 1 4.5 second s.
Baker's hurdle time also was a new meet record. Frost
also mentioned the 17 fit. 10 in. long jump effort of
freshman Karen Frazee.
This is the first year Karen has ever competed in the
long jump, Frost said. "She was a sprinter in high school.
Her jump Friday is only four inches short of the qualify
ing mark for nationals."
Other individual winners for UNL were freshman
Cindy Vickers in the 880 and sophomore Pam Koontz
in the discus. The Huskers' 880-yard medley relay and
mile relay also won Friday.
Frost said the competition level was not high in Fair
bury, but it still was a good confidence builder for her
team.
"This gave us a chance to see what we could do
without spending two or three days away from home,
she said. "They asked us if we come back next year that
we just bring freshmen and sophomores. But we were
almost a junior college team this year because we only
took one junior.
Frost added that the UNL women's track program has
grown in the part few years.
"Our program has advanced to the point where it's
probably better to compete against larger universities.
But our prcram was net at that stse until this year,
she said.
The team's next competition will be at the Oklahoma
State thivcrsty Inrltiticnd meet in Still a iter, April
15 and 16.
This meet u a question mark to is," Frost said.
There will be schools from all over Oklahoma and some
from Texas. OSU diint do well :a the Eig 8 indoor track
reason (the University of) Oklahoma didnl even show up
far the :g 8 meet.
1 don't know about the other Oklahoma schools but
I do know that the Texas teams are veil along in their
Faust, who was winless in one decision going into the
game and had a 5.68 earned run average, said he was
pleased with his performance.
UNL coach Tony Sharpe also said he was pleased with
the team's defensive performance. The Huskers committ
ed just one error in the doubleheader.
Scherger raised his batting average from .333 to .394
with a four for five day at the plate. He scored two runs
while knocking in three. He also had four stolen bases,
and walked twice, one intentionally.
"I'm real pleased with Joe's performance," Sharpe said.
"He always comes to play."
Coming to play this afternoon at the Husker Diamond
is Wayne State College for a 1:30 double header. Sharpe
said senior Kirk Eymann (M) and Jeff Costello (2-1) will
pitch for UNL, now 9-4 for the season.
A scheduled make-up double header Sunday between
Wayne State and UNL was postponed because of rain.
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Photo by Ted Kirk
Ed Neflor of Beemer had an uplifting experience Saturday when he was named 165 lb. weight class champion at
the Nebraska State Powerlifting Championships at the Coliseum. The event is the squat, and the weight on the bar
is 535 lbs.
Women 's tennis team serves losses
to three teams, betters record to 9-2
By Mike McCarthy
The Husker women's tennis team courted, then jilted,
three teams Friday and Saturday in Missouri.
The Huskers returned with wins over Northwest Mis
souri State University, 9-0, William Jewell College, 9-0,
and Stephens College, 7-2.
The three wins stretch UNL's record to 9-2 for the
season.
Garnett said beating Stephens College was the biggest
Husker win after UNL lost to Stephens, 7-2, last year.
"It was a good win for us, Garnett said. "I think
we surprised them.
Garnett said Vicki Maseman, Kathy Hawkins and Dee
PaveBca had fine performances. He added that he thinks
"The whole team played well."
"I thought Maseman played the best she's ever played
this spring," Garnett said. "Kathy Hawkins also is a strong
point at three (UNL's third-ranked player). She's got a lot
of experience playing three years at number one"
Garnett said the win over Stephens was gratifying
since Stephens finished second in the Missouri Valley
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Roberts wins
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Oral Roberts University topped UNL Saturday to win.
the Nebraska Invitational Tournament.
The Huskers, led by Phil Woog's strong performance,
finished behind Oral Roberts and Gustavus Adolphus
College.
Woog, a sophomore from Woodland ItHs, Calif, won
both of his singles matches Saturday and teamed up with
Chris Wilcox to win a doubles match over Northwest
Missouri State University.
Woog defeated George Okalidis of Oral Roberts, 7-5,
but was the only winner for the Huskers against Oral
Roberts. Woog also defeated Olayi Ogunrinde of North
west Missouri, 64. -
UNL head coach James Pcrier said Woog was one of
the outstanding performers in the meet.
"Phil played very well, probably the best of anyone,"
Conference last year. One Husker who lost her match was
McVicker, but Garnett said the cold, windy weather was
affecting her serve.
Gamett said he tells the rest of the Huskers to worry
only about their own matches and not be concerned when
another Husker loses her match.
"I tell them everybody is just as important whether
they're playing sixth or first," he said. "The girls farther
down the ladder have an equal responsibility. Worry
ing about another person's match just hurts their concen
tration." Garnett said the Husker's tennis trip to Louisiana dur
ing spring break helped give UNL more playing time and
an edge over the Missouri teams. Northwest Missouri
was the weakest team we played," he added. Garnett
also said if the weather had been clear and sunny, the
Huskers also might have aced Stephens.
Garnett said the Huskers wi3 have light workouts this
week to catch up with their school work, then liit it
hard" in preparation for the April 15 and J 6 Big 8 Tour
nament at Lincoln's Woods Park.
tennis invitational
Porter said. "We did better as a team but we still need
some improvement."
The invitational meet, which began Friday at the
Sports Center, was completed Saturday with Friday's
winners competing at UNL and the four losers competing
at the Indoor courts of Doane College in Crete.
Northwest Missouri State finished fourth while Doane
won the loser's bracket followed by Bethany College
Drake University and Wayne Stale College. '
Porter said all of the teams played well, noting Oral
Roberts's strong performance.
"I was hoping we'd do better, but Oral Roberts always
has had a good team," he said.
The Husker tennis squad will travel to Colorado next
weekend for matches against Colorsdo University and
u ujlc tdjemy uiraay ana matches a-ralnst
and Southern Colorado Sunday.
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