thursday, december 6, 1979
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daily nebraskan
Creighton and rivals play emotional
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By Ron Pow&l
It's not often when a major college basketball team
plays its cross-town and cross-state rivals in a span of four
days, but that's what Creighton will do this week.
Tuesday night, Creighton, 2-0 won Omaha bragging
rights by beating UNO 92-72. Saturday. Crieghton will trv
to extend those bragging rights a little further when they
travel to Lincoln to play UNO's relative, UNL.
Creighton Head Coach Tom Apke said Saturday's game
will be a "big emotional game" like the UNO game.
I "I think a few years ago it (the Nebraska game)
wouldn't have meant as much as it does now, because we
have a lot of Nebraska kids on the team,"Apke said. 'The
fact that we have some Nebraska kids will make it easier
for us to get prepared for them and adds flavor to the
game."
Creighton has five Nebraskans on their squad. Two of
them, 6-9 junior center Jim Honz (Omaha Ryan graduate)
and 64 sophomore guard Daryl Stovall (Bellevue West
graduate), are starters.
"We just played for the city championship,"Honz said
after the UNO games. "Saturday, we'll play for the state
championship,"
He said he was recruited by the Huskers, but that he
had already decided on attending Creighton.
"IN THAT ASPECT, it's a big game," Honz said. "But
it's only our third game and we still have the entire con
ference (Missouri Valley Conference) schedule still ahead.
"We try to think every game is a big one and'take it
one game at a time. This one (Nebraska) might mean more
than our other non-conference games."
Apke said his team-has concentrated on three things:
defense, rebounding and balanced scoring. So far, the
Bluejays have done all three well,
.The Bluejays kept UNO to just 13 points in the open
ing 12 minutes, forced 22 turnovers in the game and held
UNO's Jim Gregorf to six points, 14 less than his season's
average.
"Since last year, we've been putting more emphasis on
defense with the idea that we're going to play people who
play good defense," Apke said after the UNO game. "I
thought it paid off tonight. I think we'll be a good defen
sive ball club this year ."
CREIGHTON HAS dominated their first two op
ponents in rebounding, holding a 100-65 edge. Against
UNO, the Bluejays had 22 offensive rebounds to only four
for the Mavericks.
"Rebounding was a key in the game and against the
diversity that UNO had on the boards, I thought we did a
very good job," Apke said.
"We have a picture in our brochure that is supposed to
show our rebounding strength by having our front-line
players standing in front of a backboard," Apke added.
"We didnt crate that backboard over to the studio just to
create an image that we are a good rebounding team. But
after that first game (an 84-66 win over Rockhurst) that's
what it looked like. We didn't rebound well in that game.
"We worked hard on it before the game tonight and it
looks like it was time well spent."
Leading the rebounding for the Jays are Honz and 6-7
junior-college transfer forward George Morrow. Morrow, a
junior, is averaging 8.5 rebounds a game while Honz has
eight a contest.
FOUR PLAYERS are averaging double figures for the
Bluejasy. Morrow leads the scoring as well as the rebound
ing, averaging 14.5 points a game. Honz is averaging 13
while teammates Stovall and 6-7 junior forward Kevin
McKenna are averaging 12 and 105 points a game res
pectively. Against UJJO, reserve forward 6-7 Dennis
Rasmussen came off the bench to score 12 points.
"We're the type of team that will have a different hero
every night " Apke said. "We want balance in the scoring
and to take advantage of an opportunity when there's an
open shot."
Apke saw the Huskers play Portland State Saturday
night and said he was impressed with what he saw.
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Nebraska's Jack Moore (14) goes for a lay-up against
Creighton in last year's battle in Omaha. Also
watching from left to right are Curt Hedberg (50),
Jai Mahone (22), Paul Trieschman (34) and Dave
Wesley (43). Creighton won 78-61 to take a 4-3
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Football is not the only game for L C. and the Boys
By Ed McClymont
' If anyone believes that all football players do for 12
months of the year is think and play football-they're
wrong.
At least that isn't the case for some 15 to 20 players
who compete under the leadership of Lawrence Cole in
the UNL intramural program.
L. C. and the Boys, as the club is named, is in its fifth
year of competing in the intramural sports program. What
started out as a basketball team has blossomed into a
group of individuals competing in wrestling, track and
softball, as well as basketball.
"After the season (football) was over, the players
didn't have anything to do," Cole said. "Everybody was
getting bored so we started a basketball team."
"Besides, the frats were always winning the champion
ships so we decided to give them some competition."
In their five years of existence they have won champ
ionships in basketball as well as claiming individual wrest
ling champions. '
the football coaches, according to Cole. Instead they saw
it as a good way to keep in shape.
'They (the coaches) kind of like it," Cole said. "It
helps keep us in shape, and the guys who have weight
problems can keep from gaining pounds."
The only stipulation for joining the squad is to be an
all-around athlete. Cole said. That hasn't been much ,
trouble for most of the athletes. Players like Russell Gary
(who had a basketball scholarship offer from Indiana),
Kenny Brown and Junior Miller (both with many offers ,,
including Kentucky), plus Frank Lockett and Odious Lee
(past wrestling champions) have all competed for L. C.
and the Boys. Numerous other players who starred in
sports other than football also have participated.
Last year Cole increased his club to include a women's
team, who competed in track. He began the team by
simply going around campus and recruiting, telling them it
was "nice exercise and a good way to stay in shape." He
succeeded in getting 15 women to participate. The women
in turn told him of other possible prospects.
with around 20 team members.
"WHEN IT COMES to track everyone wants to run "
Cole said. "Guys like Isaiah (Hipp), Rodney (Lewis),
Russell (Gary), and Jarvis (Redwine) are real good sprint-
- t . t . . .
THE FORMATION of the club met no resistance from Track seems to be the most popular sport for the men,
ers.
However, the team had a conflict last year when they
were unable to compete because of a football scrimmage
on the dav of the track ch amnion shim
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This is Cole's last season at Nebraska. He's uncertain
whether L. C. and the Boys will continue in intramurals.
Lewis and Jeff Quinn have been helping out by assuming
some of the leadership for Cole.
1 don't know what's going to happen (after gradua
tion)," Cole said. "It would be a good deal if someone
would keep it active."
Cole's plans for the future include coaching and he said
this has been a good experience for him.
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"The intramural program has helped me, out a lot,
especially with my future in coaching,"Cole said. 'That's
one thing I've been shocked at. I've never had any prob
lems with someone else trying to coach."
Needed: Intramural basketball officials
for the coming second semester. For in
formation call Mark Ebel, intramural coor
dinator, at 472-3467 or come to the Rec
reation Department, 1740 Vine St.
-Hie University of Nebraska Men and
Women's Swimming and Diving are spon
soring a free clinic for all swimmers Satur
day from 9-11 ajn. at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center pool.
Demonstrations will be given on lifting
weights and stretching, fundamentals of
free style and fundamentals of diving,
followed by a question and answer period.
Swimmer works on building a tradition
By Paul Huscher
Building a tradition rather than carrying
on a tradition is Husker swimmer Will;
Douglas' reason for coming to Nebraskav
from sunny California.
Douglas is in his second year at
Nebraska after being named a Junior
College All -American as a freshman at
Santa Monica Junior College in California.'
The tall, blond junior from Pacific
Palisades, Calif, explained that most
California schools had enough swimmers
when he was looking for a major college.
'1 didn't want to go to a school like
USC because it already had a strong tradi
tion and I would just be trying to carry on
that tradition; he said.
"Here at Nebraska we can build the
tradition and I like that idea," he said.
Douglas, who is on a two-thirds scholar
ship at Nebraska, said his performance at
the California Junior College state meet
attracted Husker head swimming coach Cal
Bentz's attention.
"I swam pretty well in that meet," he
said. "Cal (Bentz) was at the meet because
a former Westside graduate (where Bentz
coached) told him about me."
4CAL BECAME INTERESTED in me
and I got interested in the school (Nebras
ka)." Douglas said. "Nebraska had the best
offer after my freshman year and this is
justthe type of program I was looking
for.
Douglas said his father is a Nebraska
alumnus and he has several relatives in the
area.
He said his parents were responsible for
the beginning of his swimming career at age
seven.
"It was like a hobbv at first, but after a
couple of years I kept Improving so I start
ed to work at it," he said.
Douglas explained that he started swim
ming for the YMCA and the AAU before
swimming all three years in high school.
At Palisades High School he was the
captain of his team. Douglas set several
high school and conference records and
won the Los Anglees city swimming
championship in the 100-yard backstroke.
He also was an outstanding water polo
player making first team All-City (Los
Angeles) in his senior year.
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