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Sorley battles six for quarterback
Photo by Ted Kirk
Tim Hager, junior quarterback who led the passing
department in last Saturday's scrimmage, is one of
six candidates battling senior quarterback Tom
Sorley for his job.
Women's outdoor track team
places 3rd at Arkansas meet
By Rob Barney
At this time last year, Tom Sorley was an untested
junior quarterback battling Randy Garcia and four other
hopefuls for UNL's starting quarterback berth.
Sorley and Garcia split playing time during the Huskers
9-3 campaign last season.
This spring is different for the senior from Big Springs,
Texas. He is listed number one on the depth charts but
he has learned a valuable lesson in his attempt to stay
there.
"Brad Humphrey, Jeff Quinn, Tim Hager, Scott
Michelson, Mark Mauer and Bruce Matthison are all battl
ing for the quarterback spot and if they have a good
spring and a good fall, they'll be seeing a lot of action
next season," Sorley said.
"You know it wasn't just Randy and I last season. You
would beat somebody out last year and somebody else
would be there to knock you on the head. So I have to
keep working."
Sorley does think he has some advantages over the
other quarterbacks, though.
"I have the experience," he said. "I've played in the big
games before.
"I also have the general knowledge of the offense and I
can recognize the defense a little quicker," he said.
"I'm not overly blessed with speed. I'm not a very fast
runner at all. But Nebraska has never had a very fast
quarterback," he said.
However, UNL quarterbacks have had strong throwing
arms since the Dave Humm and Vince Ferragamo days.
Last season, Sorley had trouble throwing long and was
criticized by some fans for his poor throwing statistics.
Sorley, who underwent surgery on his shoulder after
returning from the Liberty Bowl last season, hopes that
his problem is gone.
"I think my arm is stronger than it has been in a year
or two," he said.
Despite the stronger arm, Sorley might use it less if the
Huskers continue to experiment with the split back
formation. The formation would include Richard Berns
and I.M. Hipp in the same backfield.
"It's toudi for me to sav if it's a eood thing or not I
might say it is, but Coach Osborne would come out the
next day and throw it out," Sorley said.
"It looks like to 'me we'll add it to our arsenal on
offense. As far as it taking over, I doubt it," he said.
"We've been brought up on the T (formation) and the
coaches have used it for I don't know how long.
"The I-formation gave us the Big Eight total offense
crown last season, so I guess you don't kick a gift horse in
the mouth," he said.
UNL has hopes to fill in the offensive line, at fullback
and in the defensive secondary this season. Sorley is
optimistic though.
"With a program like Nebraska's, players come here be
cause it's a great team. And you don't develop a great
team with just one set of people, you have to have
depth," Sorley said.
"The people who graduated will be hard to replace, but
we have people who will step in and do a real good job.
They won't let anybody down."
Sorley said he would like to finish his Husker career
with a Big Eight Conference championship.
"Our goals have always been high and we're pushing
ourselves hard this year. We've got all the confidence in
the world," he said.
Huskers upset Hawaiians
in Tuesday doubleheader
The UNL baseball team scored three runs in the
top half of the seventh inning to upset 16th ranked
University of Hawaii in the second game of a
doubleheader in Honolulu Tuesday.
The 5-3 decision gave the Huskers a double
header sweep of the Rainbows in the first two
games of a six-game series. UNL took the first game
Tuesday, 2-1.
Pitcher Jeff Costello, 3-1 on the season, defeated
Richard Olson, who is also 3-1 , in the opener. In the
second game, Tim Pettit outdueled the Rainbow's
Derrick Tatsumo to gain his second victory against
four defeats this season.
By Rick Huls
The UNL women's outdoor track squad
finished third in last weekend's Arkansas
Relays, and will host the first Husker In
vitational Saturday at the Ed Weir track.
Head Coach Carol Frost said the women
had some good performances last weekend
but also some bad breaks.
Cindy Tatum, who broke school records
in the preliminary 100-meter and 200
meter dashes, was unable to compete in
last week's finals because of illness. Tatum
qualified for the national meet with an
11.8 clocking in the 100-meters and 24.5
second time in the 200-meter run.
UNL lost possible points in the long
jump when Janet Bates bruised her foot
bone. Bates is the only member still ques
tionable for Saturday.
Two other women qualified for the
national meet last weekend. Julie Seaton
qualified in the 400-meter run with a time
of 55.1 seconds, 4.4 seconds faster than
the UNL record.
Lincolnite Pam Koontz qualified for the
nationals in the javelin and discus. Koontz
set school records by tossing the discus
146 feet and the javelin 129 feet, 1!
inches.
Senior Cindy Dixon, who failed to qual
ify for nationals, set two school records at
Arkansas. Dixon ran the 1500 meters in
4:40.5 minutes, taking 15 seconds off her
own record. Dixon, the first woman to run
the 3000-meter run at UNL, bettered hei
time in that event with a 10:29.8 clocking
Frost said UNL will need many more
record-breaking performances Saturday to
win.
"We can't let Kansas outscore us by too
much in any one event," she said. "Well
win our share of events and I think we have
more depth than they do. But they do have
some top-notch individuals."
KU's Sheila Calmese, Big Eight cham
pion in the 300-meter and 60-meter dashes
at this spring's indoor championships,
won the 100-meter and 200-meter races
at the Arkansas Relays. The Jayhawks cap
tured the team championship last week
end. Charmen Kuhlman, who won the 400
meter run and finished second in the long
jump is another top KU performer. Kuhl
man 's time in the 400 was 54.2 seconds,
almost a full second faster than Seaton 's
second-place finish for UNL.
"Missouri will probably be next strong
est to us and Kansas," Frost predicts.
'They have some fine distance runners."
Other schools in the invitational include
University of Nebraska-Omaha, Wyoming
University, Fort Hays State, Mankato State
and Nebraska Wesleyan. Preliminaries begin
Saturday morning. Finals will be in the
afternoon.
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UNL track members Donna Fox and Kelly Hiatt take a breather after Wednesday
afternoon workouts in preparation for the Husker Invitational, Saturday, at Ed
Weir Stadium.
UNL Rugby Club ranks fifth in Big 8
By Mike Schmoldt
When practices began this semester for
UNL's Rugby Club, 40 members reported
to the UNL Fieldhouse. Two months later
that number has dropped to 20.
Tom Goldsmith, captain of UNL's back
field, said the squad practiced for two
weeks on the Astroturf in the fieldhouse
before the women's Softball team began
practices there.
With the snow still outside, it left us in
the dark and that discouraged a lot of play
ers," Goldsmith said. "Since then, we've
been kind of going downhill."
With its depleted squad, UNL opened
the spring season last weekend placing fifth
at the Big Eight Conference Rugby Tourna
ment in Norman, Okla. UNL played three
games, finishing with a 1-2 record.
ers have any experience while the remain.
ing players got their first taste of rugby
competition last weekend.
UNL, which posted a 9-5 record last
year, wiD play the Lincoln Rugby Club
April 22. Goldsmith said the Lincoln team
beat UNL for the first time last fall.
"It's a pretty big rivalry," he said. "Last
semester was the first time they beat us
since the two clubs have been competing
against each other." He said the Lincoln
club has members who are UNL students
and others who are not. The UNL club is
limited to UNL students.
Goldsmith said he started playing rugby
last spring.
"I've played two seasons (spring and
fall), but I'm stfll learning the game," he
said. "Every game I play I improve."
Goldsmith said only about seven play- Goldsmith said coach Dave Crunchen
has been showing films and having organ
ized practices to help the team improve.
Chinchen, from Australia, and assistant
Adrian George, an associate professor of
chemistry from England know about rugby
and have been able to help the team be
cause tley grew up with the sport, Gold
smith said.
A rugby player has to be in better physi
cal condition than a football player. Gold
smith said, and the hardest part about rug
by is playing two 40-minute halves contin
uously, without stopping for a "huddle"
once.
"I played football in high school and it
just doesn't compare. It's 4 lot rougher
than football, too, because you don't have
any pads, yet you tackle," said Goldsmith.
He added that although some players have
suffered broken bones and other injuries,
there were no more injuries than in foot
ball, "and probably less."