monday, march 9, 1981
daily nebraskan
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Hopes for professional career
Golfer's consistency improves with practice
By Bill Dunbar
Knox Jones is the only All-American
the UNL golf team has ever produced. He
is perhaps the most talented player Nebras
ka has had since Tom Sieckmann came out
of Omaha. Sieckmann is now playing in the
Asian Tour.
Jones came out of Lincoln Southeast
with impressive credentials, having won
every tournament he played in at least
once. But only one major college, Nebras
ka, offered him a scholarship.
The rap against Jones, if there is such a
thing with a player of his caliber, was that
he was inconsistent at times.
As a 17-year-old, he found himself tied
for the 36-hole lead in the State Medal Play
Tournament with rounds of 77 and 64.
"1 didn't have much experience then
and kind of got lost in it all," Jones said.
"About the only thing I remember that
third day was coming up the last fairway
and hoping not to three-putt in front of all
the people."
Jones shot himself out of the title-chase
that day with an 80.
Nebraska Coach Larry Romjue said he
recruited Jones because of the tremendous
potential Jones had to shoot low scores.
The 64 shot at Lincoln's Hillcrest Country
Club still is the competitive state record.
"Maturity has a way of taking care of
erratic scores," Romjue said. "I believed
that as Knox got older his scores would
level out and the consistency would
come."
Jones opened his freshman season
impressively as he finished third in the Big
Eight Tournament. His team went to the
nationals that year for the first time.
"It was quite an experience to play with
a guy like Bob Tway," Jones said. "You
hear about how good these guys are and it
really makes you feel good when you shoot
better than them."
"For Knox to improve," Romjue said,
"he has to play with better players. You
can learn so much from just watching how
the good players go about doing things.
You don't have great players in Nebraska
and better competition really helps a play
er like Knox."
Jones seems to have watched well. In his
junior year, he once again made the All-Big
Eight team and qualified individually for
nationals.
"The really good players just don't
make mistakes," Jones said. "And they
have so much confidence because they've
Sun Devils win in overtime
by five over UNL women
By Ward W. Triplett III
Kym Hampton and Cassandra Lander
combined for 60 points Friday night to
give Arizona State a 88-83 overture victory
against the Nebraska women in the
Maskers' final regular-season basketball
game.
The Huskcrs rallied from eight points
behind at the half. Nebraska went ahead
72-70 with Chris Leigh's shot at a minute
to play in regulation. Arizona's Hampton, a
6-1 freshman, then hit both ends of a one-and-one
with 24 seconds left to send the
game into overtime.
Hampton scored eight of her 32 points
in overtime to push the lead back up to
eight and put the game out of reach.
Nebraska Coach Colleen Matsuhara.
whose team finished the regular season 17
1 1 . said the lluskers had too much trouble
trying to stop Hampton inside.
"I just hope this type of game will get
us eager to play Missouri." Matsuhara said.
Missouri, whom the lluskers tied with for
first place in their division, will meet the
lluskers in first-round regional action in
Minnesota on Thursday.
Matsuhara also said Husker Kathy
Hagerstrom played good defense.
"I was very pleased with the way she
played tonight, and I hope she starts be
lieving she can play defense as well as
offense."
Hagerstrom, who lost her starting
position to Susie Wickham three games ago
for defensive reasons, scored 26 points to
lead Nebraska. lluskers Ami Bciringer and
Janet Smith added 18 and 14 points
respectively. Lander had sunk 28 points for
the Sun Devils, helping to push their record
to 18-10.
"I think Nebraska came out real
strong," Arizona State Coach Juliene
Simpson said. "We ended up turning the
ball over 16 times in the first half, and
we've only averaged 10 a game for the
year.
"We were not really ready, and Nebra
ska was," Simpson said. "It was just a pray
er and a luck that we were able to tie the
game.
"The first few minutes of the overtime
was the first time in the game we played
like we can and usually do," she said.
Second team title awarded
Nebraska successfully defended its Big
l ight swimming and diving title Saturday
at Norman, Okla. The lluskers finished the
meet with 5 I1) points, far ahead of runner
up Missouri with 432. Kansas uas third
with 4 IS. followed by Iowa State at 304
and Oklahoma at l3.
Nebraska, which already had a large lead
going into Saturday's diving competition.
stretched the lead with a one-two-three
performance in the three-meter diving
event.
Dave Keane won the event with 538.5,
followed by Scott llinrichs with 530.0 and
David Goodwin with 520.1 5.
Nebraska set one conference record en
route to its second straight team title.
The record came in the 400-yard freestyle
relav with a time oi 3:02.44.
Teams selected, pairings for
NCAA finals unfair
Analysis By Jeff Goodwin
The NCAA released its pairings for the
national basketball championship Sunday
and, as usual, there are some unhappy
teams.
Actually, I don't see anything wrong
with 48 teams. It's just that the NCAA
always manages to pick some school
where basketball is little more than an in
tramural sport. For example, take James
Madison. Please. They are the champions
of the FCAC Southern division. What is
taht you say? Mainly a collection of
schools which can't get into any other
conference and want the chance to send
a team to the NCAA championship.
But wait. There is also the FCAC
North and the FCAC Metro. Northeastern
and Long Island University won bids as
winners of those divisions. So the FCAC
sends three teams, just like the Big Ten.
And while James Madison marches
off to the tournament, teams like Mar
quette and Tulsa and any Big Ten team
except Northwestern must sit and watch.
Northwestern gets an automatic bye to
the quarterfinals of the Illinois high school
tournament.
Tulsa defeated three teams, Wichita
State. Creighton and Louisville, which re
ceived bids and won 20 games, but didn't
receive a bid. Perhaps the Golden Hurri
canes should apply for admission to the
FCAC.
In addition to the teams selected, the
pairings sometimes leave something to be
desired. Last year. DcPaul was shunted off
to the Western regional in Arizona. This
year. CCLA goes cast while North Carol
ina takes the long trip west. Perhaps they
can wave to each other over Topcka.
all been here before. Guys like Hal Sutton
and Jay Blake all know each other and play
together in the summer. They're playing
places like Pinehurst and I'm playing some
where in Nebraska."
One of the chief drawbacks of playing
in Nebraska is that it has no championship
courses. The Lincoln Country Club, Jones'
home course, is 6,100 yards. A course like
Pinehurst is 7,100 yards.
"Long courses won't bother Knox be
cause he is long off the tee," Romjue said.
"Great courses demand all types of shots
and the courses in Nebraska are not that
demanding."
Although Jones has not won at the
college level as he had hoped, his success at
the state level has improved. He bagged the
State Match Play Tournament several years
ago, defeating Mike Ley 5-3 during 36
holes. Last summer, he won the Lincoln
City Title with consistent rounds of 72-72-66-72.
"When I played in nationals, I felt I
had to do my best on every shot," Jones
said. "But now at the state level, I don't
have to do my best to finish well."
Jones makes it no secret that he would
like to play professional golf.
"I'll never be satisfied unless I give it a
try," Jones said. "I may fail miserably but
I've got to know one way or another."
Romjue said Knox has all the tools to
play professionally.
"He's long off the tee and is a great
putter. He's getting good experience in
college but improvement is a slow process
in golf. He just needs to play and play."
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