tuesday, december4, 1979
paga 14
daily nebraskan
Center breaks records
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Smith splurge sparks UNL
By Paul Huscher
Andre Smith said acting Nebraska
basketball coach Moe Iba had a talk with
him Sunday about "just going through the
motions." -
Smith said the talk referred to his play
Saturday night in the Huskers' 74-52 win
over Portland State.
"Coach Iba told me it looked like I was
walking around out there,' Smith said.
Iba told the 6-7 Husker center the coach
wasn't getting the full 40 minutes out of
him, Smith said.
Iba still didn't get 40 minutes out of
Smith in the Huskers 82-68 win Monday
night over Eastern Washington. Smith play
ed for only 30 minutes but it was long
enough to score 34 points and break the
Bob Devaney Sports Center scoring record.
Smith's effort erased the 33-point
standard set by Minnesota's Mychal
Thompson in 1976 against the Huskers.
Teamwise, Smith topped Carl McPipe's 28
point binges set against California-Davis
and Kansas in 1977.
Smith was red-hot from the field,
hitting 14 of 17 shots for 82 percent. He
also grabbed 1 1 rebounds to lead unbeaten
Nebraska to its third consecutive win.
utes in the first half not because the center
was tired but because he had two fouls.
After Smith left the game, the Husker's
25-6 lead with just over 10 minutes left in
the first half melted to an eleven point
halftime lead.
"Our substitution didn't work out like
it did in the first two games," Iba said.
"It's hard mentally to keep sharp. That's
where you lose things, not physically but
mentally."
"We definitely need it (rest). We need
practice time. We need to get our team
back together," he said.
Iba said the Huskers started the game
very well, but play got very ragged. This
was evident as the Huskers committed 23
turnovers.
Junior college transfer Tim West added
16 points and pulled down seven rebounds.
West scored eight of the Huskers' first
14 points. He hit a bucket with 12:06 left
in the second half to break a streak of
seven unanswered Eagle points, narrowing
the Huskers' lead to six points. The 4842
lead was the smallest since the beginning of
the game when Nebraska jumped ahead 6
0... .
Sophomore guard Jack Moore dished
off seven Husker assists while adding 13
points for the Huskers.
Photo by Maggie Golon
Nebraska's Andre Smith lays in two of his 34 points Monday night in the Huskers
82-68 triumph over. Eastern Washington. Smith's performance broke the Bob
Devaney Sports Center scoring record.
Smith said he wasn't tired, although it Nebraska's next game will be against
was the Husker's third game," Smith said. ' Creighton this Saturday at the Bob
Iba said he took Smith out for 10 min. Devaney Sports Center.
AIA W tourney starts this week, but Huskers stay home
By Ron Powell
Despite a 41-8-3 record against some of
the top competition in the country, the
Nebraska women's volleyball team will be
staying home when the Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
(AIAW) National tournament begins Wed-,
nesday in Carbondale ,111.
The Huskers lost in the finals of the
Region VI championship Nov. 17 to
Southwest Missouri State for an automatic
berth. Last week,1 Husker coach Terry
Pettit found out his team was denied one
of the three at-largc bids for the national
meet.
One of the three teams that received an
at-large bid was Lamar, a team that the
Huskers beat twice at the Mean Green Invi
tational in Denton, Texas this year. Pettit
said he was discouraged with the decision
when he first learned of it, but added that
he hasn't thought much about it since
then.
"It's like a judgment call at a game,"
Pettit said. "We don't have any grounds to
argue it on. There's not much we can do
about it. We feel we belong there."
Pettit said the Southwest Missouri State
coach Linda Dollar told him that she
would talk to the tournament directors to
find out why the Huskers did not receive
an at-large berth. v v .
Although this year's team was unable to
improve on last year's 17th place finish in
the national meet, Pettit said that "without
a question" this was his best team since
coming to UNL in 1977.
The Huskers won their fourth consecu
tive Big Eight crown this year as) well as
winning the Mean Green, Husker and
Windy City invitationals, in compiling the
best record ever in the school's volleyball
history.
With only three seniors graduating
Nancy Grant, Ann Haberman and Lucy
Axberg-Pettit said next year looks even
brighter.
"It was a good season, but I think we
can be better next year," Pettit said.
"We're still building because we have so
much room to improve. It is a team that
has not reached its potential yet."
He said the team will miss Grant,
Haberman and Axberg next , year, but
added that All-Big Eight performers Terri
Kanouse, Lori Melcher and Reba Govier re
turn as well as regulars Maria Uchty ,
Mindy Martens and Lori Zimmerman.
"Five years from now, people won't
look back and say this was the best volley
ball team ever here," Pettit said. "I think
we're developing a program that is going to
produce good teams every year."
Although the 1979 season finished just
three weeks ago, Pettit said preparation for
the 1980 season has already started with
off-season practices to prepare the team for
some open tournaments the team will start
playing in January.
"We use the off-season to , work on
weaknesses and try some new things,"
Pettit said. "It also gives us a chance to
play our younger players."
Dreams of national tourney loom in wrestlers mind
By Shelley Smith
Husker wrestler John Shearer knew he
improved last year, but didn't know how
much until he went home over Thanks
giving. "We had a couple of days off so I went
up to UNO and wrestled some of the guys
that used to beat me in high school," the
Omaha Northwest High School graduate
said.
"This time," he said, "I beat them."
Shearer, 1 9, won both of his 1 1 8-pound
matches in Nebraska's dual meets against
Central Missouri and St. Cloud State Fri
day. St. Cloud's 118-pounder, last year,
was an All-American.
"He was a lot bigger, but my take
downs really helped me. I haven't lost any
of those this year," he said.
Is beating an Ail-American any indica
tion of what's to come from Shearer this
season?
"I hope so," he said.
Coach (Bob) Fehrs has been reallv
great in helping me. He's more organized,
he knows what he's talking about, and he
makes it so you want to win for him,' he
said.
Shearer is a sophomore academically,
but still considered a freshman in eligibility
because he redshirted last year. He wrestled
at 10S pounds in high school and said he
expected to redshirt his college freshman
year because 118 pounds is the lowest
college weight.
"Last year the season just dragged on
because I only wrestled three, or four open
meets," he said.
"But, I grew a couple of inches and
gained some weight. And I never stopped
learning. I could, as a freshman, concen
trate on learning how the team worked and
I didn't have to fear having to go right out
and wrestle," he said.
"It was a year of maturity."
Shearer said he hopes that year of
maturity pays off this season. He said the
thoughts of the national tournament loom
in his mind, but right now he's concentrat
ing on one match at a time.
Saturday, the Huskers travel to Ames to
face defending Big Eight Champions and
second place NCAA finishers-Iowa State.
Shearer said it will be a tough meet for
Nebraska, but said if the Huskers can win
the close matches, they should be able to
beat the Cyclones.
- , Last year Iowa State beat Nebraska 30
6. Shearer said the Huskers didn't wrestle
bad, but Iowa State won the close deci
. "We're really preparing mentally for this
one," he said.
"I got a little tired during my matches
last weekend so I've been running a lot and
drilling extra hard in practice this week,"
he said.
"We won those two last weekend and
we've got some confidence and momen
tum. I think we can beat them," he said.
The Huskers' team attitude has im
proved immensely this fall, Shearer said.
The wrestlers are thinking positive, they
want to win, he said.
"A lot of the attitude change has been
because of Coach Fehrs. He's mixed up
practice so it's not boring, he's really
shown us a lot of techniques, and he's
made us want to win," he said. ,
irrtramurals
Phi Delta Theta fraternity defeated
Harper 6, 43-27, to capture the All
University innertube basketball champion
ship. Greg Olson and Jeff Rafferty led the
Phi Delts with 18 and 16 pointJfcespective
ly. John West of Harper 6 took the game
scoring honors with 19 points.
winners: (1 14) Chad Couillard, Beta Sigma
Psi; (132) Dave Patterson, Tau Kappa
Epsilon; (148) Dan Evans, Tau Kappa
Epsilon; (165) Terry Porter, STUD; (181)
CJ. Johnson, Sigma Phi Epsilon; (198)
Dick Seckman, Kappa Sigma; (220) Dave
Shepland, STUD; (Super Heavyweight)
Brad Schacht, Theta Xi.
The team of Sigma Tau Upsilon Delta
(STUD) won the championship of the
intramural Olympic weightlifting competi
tion. The following were individual
Needed: Men's intramural ' basketball
officials to being working second semester.
Apply now at the Recreation Office or call
Stan Campbell, intramural coordinator,
472-3467.
