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daily nebraskan
friday, february 20, 1981
Iba: UNL must control
game to beat Missouri
By Bob Asmussen
Nebraska will put its Big Fight lead on
the line Saturday when the Huskcrs travel
to Columbia, Mo., to attempt to end a
seven-year losing streak against the Tigers.
"To beat Missouri we have to control
the tempo of the game," Coach Moe Iba
said. "We don't want to get in a running
game with Missouri; we want to come
down the floor and take good shots."
Iba said the Dr. Jckyll-Mr. Hyde theory
tits Missouri.
"They play a different type of game at
home," Iba said. "At home they run all
the time, hut on the road they seem
reluctant to push the ball up the floor."
One surprise for the lluskers, he said,
has been the play of hric Williams. The
6-0 sophomore from South Bend. Intl..
scored 13 points against Iowa State Wed
nesday night. It was the most extensive
action Williams has seen this year.
"With Ray Collins out, Hric is going to
see more playing time," Iba said. "He
knows he's going to play more and he
has really come through."
Iba said he realizes the Huskcrs have to
stop all five Missouri players.
"At every position they have an offens
ive threat," he said. "Jon Sundvold
is playing well. Rick Frazier is playing
good on both ends of the court. Curtis
Berry has really come back after his early
season slump."
Iba said he doesn't know what to ex
pect from Tiger center Steve Stipanovich.
"He plays different from game to
game," he said. "One game he's hot and
the next game he can't hit a thing. He's
very difficult to figure out."
Iba said he knows how important
the game is but he added that it's only one
of three games the lluskers have left to
play. Still, a victory would give the lluskers
a boost in their quest for a Big Fight title.
"If we can come out of Missouri with
a victory, we'll be in good shape as far as
the league race is concerned," he said.
The game will be regionally televised
by NBC. Tip-off lias been moved from
S:()5 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.
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Conference Basketball Standings
Nebraska 8-3
Kansas 74
Kansas State 74
Missouri 74
Oklahoma State 6-5
Colorado 4-7
Oklahoma 4-7
Iowa State 1-10
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Photo by Mitch Hrdlicka
Nebraska's Jerry Shoecraft (13) and Greg Downing (22) overshadow Missouri's
Jon Sundvold (20) in the 66-53 Husker victory Jan. 24 in Lincoln. Nebraska and
Missouri meet at Missouri Saturday.
NU, Sooner rivalry continues without Conner
By Kim Hachiya
Gymnastics fans hoping to see a display by Oklahoma's
big guns at Sunday's 4 p.m. dual between the lluskers
and the Sooners will be disappointed.
OU's Bart Conner will not be competing, according
to Sooner Coach Paul Ziert, who said Conner is healthy,
but Ziert wants to check the progress of 1 1 other ath
letes on his team.
Husker Coach Francis Allen said it was to Conner's
advantage to not compete against Jim Hartung, although
Hartung will not be competing all-around this meet
because of a month-old ankle injury.
"They're afraid he (Hartung) will beat Bart," Allen
said. "If Jim ever outscores Bart in a meet, he'll beat
him every time."
Allen said Conner's not competing may be good
strategy for Ziert.
"If he comes here and loses with Bart competing
he won't look too good," Allen said.
He added that he thought it was too bad Hartung
and Conner couldn't compete head-to-head because it
would disappoint fans who come specifically to see the
two perform.
I guess it isn't Ziert's job to please Nebraska fans,
but if it were me and I had a senior gymnast who hadn't
competed in a meet this year, I'd use him," Allen said.
"Bart is not as durable an athlete as Hartung, however,
but I can't see hiding him for the big meets only."
Whenever Oklahoma and Nebraska face off, rumors
of a "feud" between Allen and Ziert surface.
"Anytime you have two teams as strong as ours are,
there's bound to be some competitiveness," Ziert said.
"There's not as much hostility between us as was made
out to be.
"Actually the 'war' between us did gymnastics a lot
of good. It brought fans in from out of the woods who ex
pected to see a knock down, drag-out between us right
there on the floor. Gymnastics isn't that kind of com
petitiveness though."
Allen partially agreed with Ziert.
"His personality and mine just don't match up,"
Allen said. "He argues as a daily challenge. He was a
debater in college and he likes to argue. I don't. My style
is just different than his."
Allen said the meet would be a good one, with the
lluskers scoring around 280.
"Hartung won't be going full tilt, and we're only ent
ering Scott Johnson in the parallel bars, because of the
cast on his ankle. We figure he can score a nine-plus even
with a cast."
Allen said Phil Cahoy will be the number one all
arounder despite a sore shoulder.
"We know the formula," Allen said. "Now all we have
to do is get it all together."
Utah State defeat could clench season long goal
By Charles Vaughn
The Nebraska wrestling team will be attempting to
fulfill a season-long goal when it hosts Utah State at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center tonight at 8:30 pjn.
The goal was to finish the season with a record of 184,
but because South Dakota State cancelled a dual in Janu
ary, the lluskers' goal now is to finish 174.
"We thought that (184) would be the best record and
16-6 would be the worst we could be," Coach Bob Fehrs
said. "Assuming we can win on Friday we will end up
174. I'm sure we would have had a victory over South
Dakota State. So, assuming we win, we will have reached
what we thought was a realistic, but pretty hard goal to
meet," he added.
Utah State has a record of 11-5, but three of their
losses were at the hands of top 10 rated teams.
"They are very good at 118- and 167-pounds. Those
are two of their better kids," Fehrs said. "I don't think
it's going to be super easy. We don't want to be over con
fident, but we feel it should be a victory as long as we
don't foul ourselves up."
Early season injuries that riddled the team makes
reaching their goal all that more impressive.
"I think I really am surprised at the season because of
the injuries," Fehrs stated. "We had four knee surgeries
before the first meet was ever wrestled. When you start
taking four possible starters out of your line-up that leaves
quite a sizable hole. On top of that, our heavyweight
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tuaryi Meyer) was ineligible the tirst semester.
A week after the Utah State dual, the Big Fight tourna
ment begins featuring four teams rated in the tup 10.
"Our goal in the Big Eight tournament will be to move
up. There are five teams in the conference meet, because
three schools don't have wrestling teams. Those five teams
(including UNL) were rated in the previous rating at first,
third, fifth, ninth and ourselves, 20th in the nation. So,
obviously it's a rather tough league," Fehrs said.
"We're kind of hoping, if we're healthy and doing the
job we should be doing, that we can shorten the gap be
tween ourselves and the leaders. That will mean we will
have more qualifiers in the national tournament. The
ultimate goal, of course, is to be a national champion " he
added.
Baseball team opens season with wins
By Jeff Goodwin and Tom Prentiss
The Husker baseball team opened the season Thursday
by sweeping a doublcheader over Missouri Western 5-3
and 10-3.
The Husker power attack was paced by right fielder
Steve Stanicek who homered in each game. Stanicek's
homer in the third inning of game one broke a 2-2 tie.
Missouri Western's Isaac Brown doubled in the top
of the sixth inning and was driven in on a single by Mike
Musser to knot the score at 3-3.
Nebraska went ahead in the sixth when Stanicek
hit a liner to left fielder Clay Peacock that the umpire
ruled a trap, and Stanicek beat the throw to second.
First baseman Tim Smovich then hit a liner to center
that Chuck Silver hobbled as Stanicek scored what was
the eventual winning run.
Sophomore Steve Gehrkc went the full seven innings
for Nebraska.
In game two. Husker Chris Chavez led off with a
double which was followed by a walk to Mark Prior
After Roger Hill I ouled out. ( have and Pryor executed
a double steal.
Missouri Western Hurler Jim Kucmarski then tossed
a wild pitch scoring Chavez from third. Stanicek was
struck out and Si.mvich reached on an error by the
second baseman with Pryor scoring
The lluskers scored a run a piece in the third, fourth
and fifth innings to take a 50 lead
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