monaay, march 3, 1980
page 14
. daily nebraskan
UNL feack team takes second! in Big Eight meet
By Shelley Smith
Sports Editor
Husker pole vaulter Randy Raymond
said he knew breaking 17 feet was just a
matter of time, but admitted it probably
could have happened sooner if he had lis
tened to his coach.
Raymond had been attempting the
height ever since he began vaulting indoors,
but could get only as close as 16-8,
Saturday, however, Raymond took a
little coaching to heart and cleared 17 feet
on his second attempt. He placed second in
the event and helped Nebraska capture
second place in the Big Eight Indoor Track
Championships at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center behind consistent track power
Kansas.
Raymond's second place finish, and the
fourth and ' sixth place finishes by
teammates Mark Newton and Kyle Ander
son respectively, gave Nebraska 13 points
in the pole vault-the most points scored
by the Huskers Satuday in one event.
As predicted by Big Eight coaches, Kan
sas, fielding a team without two of its top
sprinters, won its 14th title in 22 years,
Deon Hogan, who runs the 60-yard
dash, the 300-yard dash and a leg on the
mile relay team, pulled a hamstring in Fri
day night's 60-yard preliminaries. Stan
Whitaker also pulled a hamstring in the
440-yard trials Friday night and was un
able to compete in the relay Saturday.
Mickens stars
However, Lester Mickens, who was
named the outstanding performer by the
Lincoln Journal and Star last year, paced
the Jayhawks by breaking his own Big
Eighf Indoor record in the 440-yard dash,
and running the anchor lap for Kansas'
winning mile relay team.
Mickens, ; who had back-to-back Big
Eight Indoor championships in the 600
yard dash, broke the Big Eight record in
the 440 during the preliminaries Friday
night. Saturday, he bettered the time by
almost .6 seconds to 47.49,
Teammate Mike Ricks won the 600
yard dash, breaking Mickens. record of
1:09.14 and posting a 1:08.9.
Nebraska finished second without
points from any Husker first places. De
fending 880-yard run champion Scott
Poehling, who was the Huskers best hope
for a gold medal, finished second in the
event and second in the mile. He also ran
a leg on the Huskers mile relay team which
finished third.
Poehlingfhad not run the 880 yet this
Women's track team downs
Western Illinois, Arkansas
season, and had competed in the mile in
only one meet. He had been training in the
1,000-yard run, and had posted the Big
Eight's fastest time in the event this year.
Many expected Poehling to run events
other than the 1,000 but couldnt be sure
until Friday morning when Husker Coach
Frank Sevigne announced Poehling's en
tries. Mile entourage
Poehling led the mile entourage until
the final lap when Iowa State's Bob
Verbeeck out-sprinted Poehling, beating
him to the tape by about three feet. In the
880, Poehling ran second to Oklahoma's
John Rhode, but kicked too late to catch
Rhode, who finished in 1:52.51. Poehling
finished in l:52.66-faster than last year's
time, but more than four seconds off of his
best 880 time.
Nebraska's Randy Brooks placed second
in the 60-yard dash, behind James Butler'
from Oklahoma State, and second in the
60-yard high hurdles behind Dan Lavitt
from Missouri. Husker Ricky Simmons
finished fourth in the 60-yard dash.
Butler also won the 300-yard dash, and
anchored Oklahoma State's fourth place
finishing relay team to win the Lincoln
Journal-Star's award for the meet's out
standing performer.
Oklahoma State finished a surprising
fourth in the meet, bringing it out of the
cellar position for the first time in five
years.
ISU wild man
Only three of six returning Big Eight
individual event winners were able to re
gain their titles. John Scheetz, the wild man
from Iowa State, threw a personal best in
the shot put of 62-J4, Jeff Buckingham
from Kansas broke his record in the pole
vault set last year by two inches to 17-2,
and Nat Page from Missouri won the high
jump, in 1-Va by fewer misses over Joel
Light from Kansas.
In one of the more exciting field event
performances Saturday, Kansas State's
Vince Parrette triple jumped 55-10H-only
Yi inches off of the best American dis
tance. "I knew it was going to be good before I
hit the pit. I could have gone farther, but I
started celebrating in the air," Parrette
said.
The Huskers meet Kansas State this
weekend, but athletes who already have
qualified for the NCAA Indoor Champion
ships March 14-15 in Detroit, Mich., might
choose not to compete, Raymond said.
"Most of us want to sit back and relax
after this one," he said.
By Joni Kramer
The Nebraska women's track team
continued its chain of victories Saturday
night outscoring Western Illinois and
Arkansas in a triangular meet in the Bob
Devaney Sports Center to remain
undefeated.
Two records were broken as Nebraska
won the meet with 88 points, followed by
Western Illinois with 72 and Arkansas with
13,
-Sharon Burrill, after setting a new AAU
championship high jump record (6-3) with
another competitor at the national AAU
meet in New York Friday, set a Sports
Center record of 6-2 Saturday, She also
won the long jump with a jump of 18-4V4.
Jennie Gorham, Julie Seaton and
Merlene Ottey also competed in the
national AAU championships Friday.
Ottey set a world's best time and captured
a meet record in the 220-yard dash,
Husker Coach Carol Frost said she limit
ed the four girls to one or two events
Saturday because of their meet Friday
night,
"I didn't want them to tire, and I
wanted to look at them, as well as some
others in different events," she said, "This
meet was basically a warmup for
nationals,"
A second Sports Center record fell when
Nebraska's distance medley relay team
finished first with a time of 12:11.20,
Western Illinois beat the Huskers last
year and are a good team, according to
Frost,
Western Illinois captured four of the
meet events; the 60-yard hurdles, the one
mile run, the threenile run, and the shot
put. Nebraska won every other event.
The race that sparked the biggest crowd
response was the mile relay. The lead
changed three times, from Arkansas to
UNL, to Western Illinois, with Nebraska
finally coming out on top. The team of
Janet Bates, Cheryl Zajic, Normalee
Murray and Seaton won with a time of
3:53.88.
The remaining individual Nebraska
winners were Ottey in the 60-yard dash
with a time of 6.73, Gorham in the 600
yard run with a time of 1:26.10, Murray in
the 300-yard dash with a time of 35.80,
. Lisa Kramer in the 1 ,000 yard run with a
time of 2:35.08, Karen Frazee in the
pentathlon with 3552 points, and the
4x220-yard relay team with a time of
1:403,
"I O- I
Photo hv Mitch Hrdlicka
Oklahoma State's James Butler breaks the tape first in the 60-yard dash, but was
followed closely by Nebraska's Randy Brooks and Ricky Simmons, who finished
second and fourth in Saturday's Big Eight Indoor Track Championships at die Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Female cagers take runner-up spot in playoffs
By Paul Martin
The UNL women's basketball team kept its season
alive, by finishing runnerup in the AIAW Region VI North
sub-regional playoffs at the Bob Devaney Sports Center
during the weekend. ,
After trouncing Creighton 8 1 47 in the opening round
and topping second-seeded Minnesota 72-59 Friday night,
the Huskers dropped a 71-65 decision to Drake's Bulldogs
in the championship game Saturday night.
However, the top three teams trom each sub-regional
advance, so the Huskers, Drake and third place Minnesota
will join the top three from the South sub-regional as well
as two at large teams in the Region VI Championships
scheduled March 6-8 at Drake University,
In the South sub-regional at Pittsburgh, Kan,. State
College, Central Missouri State's Jennies were a surprise
winner, finishing ahead of nationally ranked Kansas and
Kansas State. Kansas State lost to the Jennies in the
championship game while Kansas finished fourth behind
Missouri, who defeated them, 77-73, for third place.
Large berths
Kansas and Northwest Missouri State received at-large
berths, thus filling the eight team field for the Region VI
Championship,
Kathy Hagerstrom led the Huskers in the three-day
elimination tournament, averaging more than 18 points per
game. In the championship game with Drake, the 6-0
freshman forward shared team high scoring honors with
Diane Del Vigna, hitting 17, while Carol Carey added 11,
The attention given to all-time leading scorer DelVigna
in recent games has opened some doors for Hagerstrom,
according to Coach Lorrie Gallagher.
With teams double- and triple-teaming Diane, it has
left Kathy open for more shots," Gallagher said. "She's
always been a good offensive player but she's a positive
asset on defense as well as offense right now," she said.
"She's patented to be a college Ail-American, and we
think she will be her junior and senior year," she added.
Hagerstrom said her recent good shooting has helped
her confidence and agreed that DelVigna attracting so
much attention is one of the primary reasons she's now
getting more open shots.
Confidence gained
1 feel , like I'm really coming into my own,"
Hagerstrom laid. "With teams concentrating on Diane,
like Creighton who ran a box-and-one, it leaves me open
more and has helped me gain confidence."
Gallagher also praised senior Laura Tietjen.
She's been injured a lot but she has really been a team
leader," she said. "She has encouraged these young kids
all year. .
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"And you can't say enough about Carla Saveri,"
Gallagher said. "She played an excellent tournament,
especially against Drake. She held number 20 (Connie
Newlin) to four points and she had been a consistently
high scorer for them," she said,
The runner-up finish had some ironically beneficial
effects, Gallagher said.
"We figured Kansas State would win in the south and
that Kansas would finish maybe second or third,"
Gallagher said. 'Then we thought maybe Missouri and
Central Missouri State would get at large berths. Then if
we won our sub-regional, we'd get a chance to play
Missouri."
Since Nebraska finished runner-up they drew the third
place finisher in the south, who turned out to be Missouri;
,Te wanted to play Missouri all along," Gallagher said.
We re exactly where we wanted to be in terms, of the
seedings."
Hagerstrom said it makes no difference who the team
plays because three good games are a necessity. She also
said the team is finally playing up to its potential.
This is the team we really are," Hagerstrom said, "the
team we should have been all season."
The 1980 AIAW Region VI Basketball Championships
are scheduled to begin March 6 at the Drake Fieldhouse in
Des Moines, Iowa.