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monday, december 5 1977
daily nebraskan
By Rob Barney
It wasn't artistic or easy, but no one
said number 200 was supposed to be.
Coach Joe Cipriano notched his 200th
win as a UNL coach Friday night at the
Sports Complex as UNL downed Missouri
Southern State 61-54, in the season
opener.
"Thank God for the defense ." Cipriano
said. "When you play your first game of
the year, you're not going to tear them
up."
UNL shot only 37 percent from the
field for the game.
"We had the shots. They were there,"
junior guard Brian Banks said. "They just
weren't dropping."
Banks hit only four of 15 from the field
but hit all eight of his freethrows to lead
UNL in scoring with 1 6 points.
"Considering it was our first game we
didn't play real bad," Banks said. "We
played aggressive and mixed-up our de
fenses." .
Missouri Southern mixed-up their de
fenses, playing different zone defenses
to hamper the UNL offense.
"We couldn't break the zone," UNL
center Carl McPipe, said. "They started
off in a man-to-man, then they went to a
zone. We weren't ready for it."
However, McPipe, a 6-foot-8 junior
from Hammond, Ind. warned, "Well be
ready next week. Creighton will probably
zone, but we'll be ready. It's a rival game."
The Creighton Bluejays come to Lin
coln Friday night for UNL's next game.
McPipe followed Banks in scoring with
1 1 points. He pulled down seven rebounds
to lead the Huskers.
"It was tough underneath," McPipe said.
"They were as tough as any team in the
Big 8."
One of the reasons the visitors were
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Husker guard Brian Banks (white) in a scrabble for the ball with a Missouri Southern player. Banks led UNL scorers with 16
in their 61-54 victory over Missouri Southern Friday at the Sports Complex.
tough was the play of 6-foot -6 senior
center-forward Maurice Dixon.
Dixon connected on 10 of 14 shots
from the field and finished with 24 points
and 15 rebounds.
"Dixon is definitely a Big 8 caliber
player," Cipriano said. "He played a good
game."
Cipriano said he was pleased with the
play of freshmen Mike Naderer, Gerard
Myrthil and Andre Smith.
"I was real pleased with our freshmen,"
he said. "Mike Naderer did an excellent
job for us handling the ball and shooting
in the clutch."
Naderer, a freshman from Scottsdale,
Ariz., started in place of Bob Moore, who
was suspended for one game because of
disciplinary reasons. He scored 10 points
against Missouri Southern.
"I found out at the pre-game meal that
I was going to start," Naderer said. "It
(the meal) didn't go down easy.
"I couldn't ask for any more. They had
the confidence to start me. I have a lot of
work to do, especially on my defense,"
Naderer added.
"For a freshman, he did a good job,"
Banks said of Naderer. "He's going to be a
good player. And you have to remember
Bob's (Moore) a good outside shooter so
when he comes back we should be in good
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Gymnastics coach disputes high school philosophy
By Mary Ryan
A disagreement with high school officials over gymnas
tic philosophy has been a concern for Jim Gottschalk,
an instructor for the Nebraska School of Gymnastics.
Gottschalk had been a coach with the School of Gym
nastics from 1973 to 1975 while he was head coach at
Lincoln East High School. He left Nebraska and went
to Watertown, S.D. for two years after a disagreement
with Lincoln East officials on how to expand the gymnas
tics program there.
"It was bad. I wanted to develop a program through
Lincoln East and the public schools to make the program
the best," Gottschalk said. "I wanted a summer program
and more emphasis in the elementary schools to get the
kids started before they came to junior high and high
school.
"I was stymied by an administration that wouldn't
work with me and took over the running of the program,"
Gottschalk said. "They had unqualified people teaching
it. They thought if a person was a physical education
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Swimming and Diving Invitational Friday and Saturday at the Sports Center! pool. UNL finished second
in the quadrangular.
The Huskers scored 697 points while Kansas University won the meet with 829 and Oklahoma Univer
sity was third with 529. The Jay h auk i are the defending Big 8 champions.
Top performer for the Huskers was freshman JoDea Eckstrom who won the 200 and 400 meter indivi
dual medleys, placed second In the 100 butterfly and third in the 200 and 100 backstrokes.
In the 1 00 backstroke, Eckstrom set a school record of 1:02.41. She also was a member of the 400
freestyle relay team which set another school record of 2:13.93 while placing third behind KU and OU.
Wat bud, a sophomore, placed second in the 1 ,650, 200 and 500 yard freestyle!.
teacher, that was enough."
"It was an all-around disagreement in philosophy. I
wanted to work the program to the fullest potential, they
wouldn't let me, so I left."
Very frustrated
Gottschalk said it was "very frustrating" so he went to
South Dakota to regroup. He started a gymnastics club
there and had clinics with South Dakota State University,
where he competed as an all-around gymnast when he was
in college.
He said he qualified for the' national meet in the para
llel bars his senior year (1972), but didn't compete
because he was the only member of his team to qualify
so they didn't send him to the meet.
"I wanted to get back into gymnastics 100 percent.
South Dakota doesnot have the interest now, they are
behind the times," he said. "We had 40 kids in the club,
and there was some potential. But it was too slow, so I
came back here."
But there are problems in Nebraska, Gottschalk said.
The Nebraska High School Athletic Association says that
no one who competes for a high school can compete for
any outside club. Sometimes the School of Gymnastics
loses people it has coached to the high schools, he said.
Good prospect
An example is Kim Grabowski, who decided to
compete for Lincoln Northeast. Gottschalk said she was a
good prospect and he didn't know if "it was to her de
triment or not" that she left the School of Gymnastics.
Husker men's gymnastic coach, Francis Allen, founder
of the Nebraska School of Gymnastics, said he would like
gymnasts to be able to compete for his school and high
schools.
Gottschalk said a similar rule barring outside competi
tion was defeated in the courts in Minnesota and he thinks
it would also lose in Nebraska if it were to be challenged.
The School of Gymnastics has a women's team that
competes in open tournaments and mutationals. This
year, they have ten meets on their schedule. They won
the Tri-State Invitational last month in Grand Island.
Interest risen
Gottschalk said because of the publicity given to,
Russian gymnast Olga Korbut in the 1972 Olympics and
to Nadia Comanaci in 1976, the interest in women's gym
nastics has risen. There also is more interest in the men's
competition, he added.
"The n,cn in the United States are coming to a point
where they can do well internationally," he said.
-Omahans Jim Hartung and ITiil Cahoy have already
competed internationally It used to be a rare case where a
high school gymnast had competed internationally."
The mens division of the schools of gymnastics is
mlf18 wom; Gottschalk said, but it is a good
program. There are 500 girls in the school and 60 boys.