Thursday, March 18, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
page 9
Gymnasts to vie for second
The big question in this weekend's Big
Eight Gymnastics Championships is not
whether Nebraska will win but who will
finish second.
Iowa State Coach Ed Gagnicr is one of
Nebraska's strongest boosters.
"It's no disgrace being second to Ne
braska," Gagnier said. "There's no way I
can see Nebraska losing if they're at full
strength. They're the most impressive team
I've seen in 20 years of coaching."
Gagnier said he hopes the Cyclones, cur
rently ranked third in the country, will be
able to defeat Oklahoma for second.
"It would be important for us to do
well against Oklahoma," Gagnier said.
"They've been very close to us all year."
The Sooners defeated Iowa State at
Ames and the Cyclones returned the favor
a few weeks later by beating Oklahoma in
Norman.
Gagnicr said he is hopeful about his
team's chances in the national meet in Lin
coln next month.
"I think we have the potential to chal
lenge UCLA for second place " Gagnier
said. "But I don't think UCLA has any bet
ter chance of beating Nebraska than we
do."
Oklahoma Coach Paul Ziert also conce
ded the' conference title to the Huskers.
"Our chances are zero," Ziert said. "I
don't think thter's any question about
that. It's certain that Nebraska will win."
Ziert said the meet was important to
Oklahoma's chances of qualifying for the
nationals.
"If we score around 272 points we
would move into a position where we
could qualify for the national champion
ships," Ziert said.
Ziert agreed with Gagnier that competi
tion between Iowa State and Oklahoma
should be close.
Ziert was optimistic about the Sooners'
chances at the nationals.
"We've got a few injuries and I think the
time between the Big Eights and the na
tionals would give us time to get some guys
healthy," Ziert said.
Women swimmers, divers
fly to Florida for nationals
By Mark Quandahl
Coach Ray Huppert and his women's
swimming NCAA -qualifiers left Lincoln
early Monday to fly to the national swim
ming and diving tournament which runs
Thursday through Sunday in Gainesville,
Fla.
"We wanted to leave early so we could
get there in enough time to get accustomed
to the pool," Huppert said.
Swimming for Nebraska will be fresh
man Melody Barker, who qualified in the
500-yard freestyle and junior Sherri Hay
ward a 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke
qualifier.
Diving Coach Jeff Huber said freshmen
Wendy Lucero and Marcia Heaton returned
late Sunday from the NCAA diving prelim
inaries in Dallas, Texas.
In Dallas, Lucero qualified for the
NCAA contest by winning top honors on
the low board and second place on the
high. Heaton just missed qualification by
placing fourth on the low board. Only the
top three positions qualify.
Lucero had little time to relax, as the
Husker men's and women's diving contin
gent were to leave for Florida early Tues
day. "We'll fly down, rest up, and maybe
have a light workout Tuesday night," Hu
ber said. "Then we'll have practices all day
Wednesday and we dive on Thursday."
Huber said Megan Neyer of Florida will
be one of Lucero's toughest opponents, he
said he thinks Lucero "has a really good
chance of going all-American."
This will be the third straight NCAA
contest for two-time all-American Hay
ward. In 1980 she placed 12th in the 200
yard backstroke with a time of 2:06:08,
and in 1981 she placed 14th with a
2:05:84.
"I feel she's trying to shoot for her best
time," Huppert said. "She'd really like to
crack the top six." .
Although this will be Barker's first
NCAA, Huppert said she would be able to
hold her own against the competition.
"She is young," Huppert said, "but she
probably has more experience, next to
Sherri, than anyone on the team."
"Both are good quality athletes and
both are ranked in the top 25 in the U.S.,
so they're accustomed to this caliber of
competition," he said.
"It will be an extremely tough meet,"
Huppert said.
He said the. NCAA Tournament will
contain about 85 percent of the top teams
in the country, as opposed to the AIAW
meet, which chiefly is composed of weaker
teams.
With only three athletes practicing (Hus
ker Elisabeth Brudvik was readying herself
for her native Norwegian nationals), Hup
pert said the workouts lose their team, con
cept. He said the focus was on keeping
loose and keeping the emotion going.
"The important thing is to get in the
water and get that good feeling," he said.
"I honestly feel they know what they
have to do to score," Huppert said.
Inlramurals
Bill Goa drove in Jeff
DeBoer from third base in
the bottom of the fifth inn
ing to allow the Baseball
Furies to defeat Lambda
Chi Alpha and Gamma Phi
Beta 11-10 in the cham
pionship game of the co-recreational
intramural indoor
wiffieball league.
Lambda Chi Alpha and
Gamma Phi Beta, last year's
champion, staged a rally in
the top of the fifth inning as
they scored five runs to tie
the score. In the bottom of
the fifth, DeBoer singled,
Sara Lockwood followed
with a double sending De
Boer to third and then Goa
stroked his game winning
hit.
The Baseball Furries ad
vanced to the finals with a
11-10 win against Beta
Theta Pi and Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
Members of the winning
team are: Goa, DeBoer,
Lockwood, Lois Fiala, John
Pritchard, Debbie Due, Tur
ner Beard, Mary Pritchard
and Shawn Olsen.
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