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By Jim Kay
The diagnoses are in on Husker receiving
coaches Jerry Moore and Gene Huey.
Moore.who coaches split ends for UNL,
' may have come down with an acute csiie of
bad timing. Huey, who is in his first year
of coaching tiht ends and wingbacks, may
be developing heartburn from an overabun
dance of a good thing.
Moore is faced with the tail; of replac
ing his top three split ends of a year ago.
Chuck Malito, Dave Sharoblin and Bobby
Thomas all graduated from the 1976 team
and Moors s:.:i his current group of ends
are all starting from scratch.
UNL will battle Mavericks
on driest diamond avaiiaoie
Dy Kevia Schiaejsf :
Weather permitting, the Husker baseball
team today will try to get back on the win
ning track when it plays the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
The double header is scheduled to start
at 1:30 pan. in either Lincoln or Omaha.
The site will be determined this morning,
according to the UNL Sports Information
Office. The game will be played on which
ever field is driest.
The Huskers ended their 12-game win
ning streak last weekend when they lost
four games to the University of Missouri.
The Tigers, last year's Big 8 Conference
champions, defeated UNL last Friday, 5-0
and 3-2, and 144 and 10-8 Saturday.
Head coach Tony Sharpe said he is
hoping the Huskers will bounce back.
"I'm sure the players are disappointed," -Sharpe
said, "but good athletes always
come back. The coaches weren't pleased
but were not down on the players."
Sharpe said the Huskers played below
par at Columbia, Mo.
"I don't know if the players were
intimidated ' by the ! defending Big 8
champs, but we just didn't play well, he
said. ,
"Since the Baylor (University) game on
our Texas trip, Missouri was the first Divi
sion I team we played," he said, "we had
three of the four games go down to the
wire but we couldn't pel thess cut"
The Huskers are 18-8 for the year and
UNO has a 16-5 record. UNL defeated the
tir.xrlcks tsrUcr this month in Lincoln,
5-0 and 7-0.
Senior pitcher Kirk Eymann, 2-2,
and sophomore Jeff Costello, 3-2, are sche
duled to pitch in today's games. Eymann
posts a 2.31 earned run average with 33
strike outs. Costello has 31 strike outs this
year with a 3.47 ERA.
This weekend, the Huskers resume their
Big 8 Conference competition when they
travel to Lawrence, Kan. to play, the Uni
versity of Kansas in a four-game series.
Sharpe said the Huskers must win three
of the four games against KU to stay in the
race for the Big 8 playoffs.
The top two teams of the two divisions
will compete in the playoffs in Oklahoma
City May 20 through 24. , . ;
The Jayhawks are in second place in
the Eastern division with a 3-1 record.
Kansas won three of four against Iowa
Sttte University last weekend, which puts
the Cyclones, in third place ahead of the
Huskers. Missouri leads the division with a
4-0 mark.
"This weekend is a big weekend for us,"
Sharpe said. "Kansas is the team we have
to overtake."
Sharpe said KU and MU have the home
advantage with eight of the 12 division
games at home. The Huskers and Iowa
State University have four home games.
The Huskers play ISU in Lincoln April
29 and 30.
"Kthsas has to play Missouri at home,
but the way the schedule is set up, those.
: two teams have somewhat of an advant
cgs," Sharpe said. ,
After 26 'games, the Huskers' have a
.264 Um bitting rerage. Senior out
fklisr Pad Haas has a 373 averts follow
ed by freshman catcher Tcea Eeescn's
345 aims.
Freeman outfielder Joe Schemer is bat
ting 352 with six home runs and 27 runs
batted k to lead the ieasa in those depsst
. ments. .
. Designated hitter and pitcher Steve
McManaman his a 4-0 record wiih 23
strike outs and a 2.23 ERA.
"We're working more on fundamen
tals," Moore said, "and starting with the
basics. None of them have playing exper
ience yet, but they have improved a lot in
the first three weeks. It's a learning period
for them."
lis tz:i thrre are seven sl:t ends prac
ticing for UNL this spring and each one is
being given an cqul chance.
'They have all made some progress,"
s Moore said, "It depends where you start
from. Frank Lockctt is a junior college
transfer from California and knew nothing
of our program when he got here. But he's
'" made great progress."
"Jeff Lee and Tim Smith tic two red
shirts who worked in kind of an undiscip
' lined program last year running with the
scout teams. They're two kids who might
have to get rid of some habits this year."
Scout teams traditionally are made up
of reebhirt players who run opposing
teams' plays against Husker starting line
ups in fall practice.
Moore added that senior Rocke Loken
Was the most consistent split end so far
this spring, "but he should be since it's
his fifth year."
Consistency in his receivers was the first
thing Moore said he looked for.
"I mean consistency in every aspect of
the game," he said. "Blocking, running and
catching. .1 don't think you can win the
Big 8 with up-and-down type players. Then
we look for someone who is a deep threat
and then look for people who can catch
some difficult passes."
Huey will have five returning lettermen
in the two positions he coaches. And he
added he has some impressive youth on the '
team as well.
"We have real quality depth at tight
end," Huey said. "It might be one of the
best positions on the team as far as quality
depth goes. There is not a let of difference
between Ken Spaeth and Mark Dufresne." '
Spaeth and Dufresne, both seniors, were
the top two tight ends on last year's team.
Huey added that sophomore Junior Miller
was sttad3y progressing and that junior
John Seiko and sophomore John Fischer
also were coming along.
The depth and experience situation at
wingback are similar to tight end, Huey
' said.
"Curtis Craig is the best .blocking wide
receiver IVe ever seen," Huey said. "A
lot of today's offenses are run with no
downfield blocking. The wide receiver
" will either ghost block or just play the
decoy. But Curtis caught my eye on his
blocking right away. He may block so well
because he was a running back in high
school "and was used to blocking there."
"Earl Everett has done some good
things for us," he said, "and Ken Brown
has a few things to learn but he's working
hard to improve. And there are a lot cf posi
tive things about Tim McCrady. He could
be pressuring those players on the top two
units soon."
With all the depth on hand, Huey said his
job has been made a little harder on trying
to decide who will see action with the
Huskers when the time comes.
"It's harder when there is so much
talent and they all want to play," he said.
"It's hard to crack a starting line-up and
it could be tough for the younger players.
Nothing beats experience. But I don't
care if the player is first string or third
string," you have to coach them all the
same. If someone were injured you have to
have someone else who can go in there and
help you, not hurt you."
Huey said all of his players have im
pressed him so far this spring.
sports, shorts
Sigma Chi fraternity is sponsoring an
All-Greek Fight Night boxing tournament
at 7 pja. Friday in the National Guard
Armory, 10th cad Military Ave.
All benefits from the $2 ticket
go to the Wallace V2age home for
minimally retarded children in Colorado,'
according to lH Kottcs, Fight ' Night
chairman.- -
, There will be 13 bouts, he stid, each
with 3 two-minute rounds.
Nineteen fraternities hive representa
tives palpating in the boxing, Kottis
added.
: Tickets may ' be' purchased from any "
member of Sma Chi fraternity or at the .
door. ' '"" '
An organizational meeting for a canoe
trip on the Baffdo River is scheduled for
3:30 this -'afternoon at 'the Recreation
Office, 1740 Vine St.
The trip is scheduled for May 16
through 22 and the Recreation Dept. has
room or 10 people on the trip. Preference
wi3 be given to students with canoeing
experience.
Porter accepts Regis College head coaching position
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Lonnie Porter, an assistant basketball coach at UNL for
the past five years, was named the new head basketball
coach at Regis College in Denver last weekend.
Porter replaces S'm Karebetsos, who resigned. '
"I found out about the opening three weeks ago at the
national tournament," Porter said. "I never had intentions,
of being a career assistant. Everybody wants to run their
cwn show.
T decided that when I came to Nebraska that I would
use it as a stepping stone to a head coaching job," he said.
Porter came to UNL from Denver's Manual High
School. He guided Manual to a 21-2 record and the
Colorado State AAA Championship in 1972. They also
ranked number one Li the Southwest United States.
That year, Porter was named Denver Public League
Coach of the Year and Colorado High School Athletic
Association Easketball Coach of the Year.
Porter also spent his college playing days in Colorado
at Adams State College in Alamosa.
He earned All Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
honors four tlT.es, the only basketball player to do so in
the Conference's history. Porter also earned AD-American
honors in 1965.
Regis is a member cf the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference. . r
Tm rare playing in the same conference helped me "
Porter said about landing the job. "People probably re
member me from my playing days."
Porter did express some sadness in leavii Nebraska.
"I'm happy about having for a new position but ui
about having frknds in Lincoln and the state cf Nebraska
"fm very pleased with the quality experience I
received working with Coach Cipriano and Moe Iba. And
it s been a great opportunity to be around a man like Dob
Devaney.
Porter who will leave for Denver next week is the
sscond Husker assistant basketball coach to ga;n a h-d
coaching job this month. Earlier Husker graduate tzifont
Jt--.b lusun accepted tne head icb at Sart--
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