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Cornhusker batters beat KSU Wildcats four times
Monday, April 12, 1982
By Bob Asmussen
Buck BeltzSr Field Sunday was not
the place for baseball fans who enjoy well
pitched, low-scoring games. The Nebras
ka baseball team pounded Kansas State
pitching for 27 hits as they swept the Wild
cats by scores of 9-3 and 12-6. The Wild
cats had entered the weekend series last in
the Big Eight in pitching.
Leading the charge for Nebraska at the
plate was the hot-hitting Steve Stanicek.
Stanicek was six for six in the two games.
He hit one home run, one triple and two
doubles. lie drove in four runs and also
walked three times. Stanicek has now hit
safely in 15 consecutive games.
"I'm just seeing the ball real good now,"
Stanicek said. "I'm hitting it hard where
people aren't. I'm just having a good year
right now. I just hope I don't wake up."
On Saturday, Nebraska defeated KSU
by scores of 12-3 and 3-2. The 3-2 win was
Nebraska Coach John Sanders' 200th at
Nebraska.
"The two hundredth win is nice," San
ders said. "Good players help to get coa
ches those wins."
In the first game Sunday Nebraska took
a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning
on a single by Harold Bright. The Huskers
added another run in the third when Mark
Mauer tripled in Stanicek.
The Huskers added two runs in the
fourth to make it 4-0. In the fifth inning
the Huskers got back-to-back home runs
from Ben Amaya and Dan Tomich to make
the score 7-1.
Todd Oakes was the winner in the first
game, raising his record to 6-2. Oakes
struck out seven of the first nine Wildcats
he faced, including striking out the side in
the third inning.
After Kansas State's first at bat in the
second game, things looked grim for Ne
braska. The Wildcats got four runs in that
inning when catcher Don Grause hit a
grand slam home run.
The Huskers came right back in the bot
tom of the first. Nebraska scored three
runs on three singles and an error. With
two men on in the first and the score 4-3
Kansas State, Husker shortstop Dan Boe
ver hit a massive homer that cleared the
scoreboard and bounded onto Avery Avenue.
The Huskers scored five runs in the se
cond to put the game away. The big blow
in the inning was a three-run triple by
Tomich. Jeff Anderson came on in the
fourth in relief of Bob Sebra to pick up
the win. The four-game sweep of KSU
ties the Huskers for the Big Eight lead at
8-4. They are 26-8 overall.
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Scores, injuries highlight scrimmage
By Pat Higgins
Quarterbacks are becoming an endangered species for
the Husker football team. Bruce Mathison joins Turner
Gill on the injured list as Mathison suffered a broken bone
in his left hand at Saturday's scrimmage.
The cast on his hand will likely keep Mathison out of
the remainder of spring practice. Mathison directed the
first string offense to a 65-yard touchdown drive against
the second team defense before he was injured Saturday.
In that drive, Mathison completed three passes in three
attempts for 44 yards.
Mathison took over for the first string early in the
scrimmage when Nate Mason took a blow to the ribs.
Mason returned to the scrimmage after Mathison was hurt.
Senior cornerback Allen Lyday intercepted Mason and re
turned the ball for a 46-yard touchdown.
"Nate was intercepted but he did do some good things
out there. He got banged up pretty good, too," Husker
Coach Tom Osborne said.
Roger Craig was the leading rusher with nine carries for
65 yards, including a 3.8-yard gain. Craig played fullback
at times which set up a backfield of Craig and Mike
Rozier. Rozier gained 56 yards on 1 1 attempts, including
a 2 -yard touchdown run.
Seven touchdowns were scored Saturday. In addition
to Lyday 's score for the defense and Rozier's score, I
backs Tim Brungardt and Mark Schellen each had 1 -yard
runs for touchdowns. Mason added a touchdown on a 3
yard keeper play. Despite the number of touchdowns
scored, defensive coordinator Charlie McBride was pleased
with the defense.
"I am a lot more pleased with the intensity on defense
by all the units. This is a testing to me. On Monday we
will start to separate personnel and get our two best teams
out there," McBride said.
Middle guard Jeff Merrell pulled a hamstring and had
to leave the scrimmage early. McBride was content with
the efforts by the middle guards and most of the rest of
the defense.
"All our middle guards played well. The secondary is
starting to play more as a unit and from what I saw, Tony
Felici and Bill Weber looked good at defensive ends,"
McBride said.
NBA playoffs are best games in town
Photo by Dave Bentz
Husker softball pitcher Jeanne Wagner zips a fast
ball across the plate to strike out a Mankato State
player Saturday at Ballard Field. The Huskers swept
the double-header, winning 4-0 and 7-0. Nebraska
will be in the Missouri Invitational at Columbia,
Mo., Friday and Saturday.
It's April, time to drag out the bats and cleats, and get
out in the sun to "Play Ball," right? Not quite right. Some
of America's sports fans will closet themselves inside for
another couple of months while the NBA playoffs warm
to a big finish. Warm is just the word for the NBA play
offs, because by the time they finish in early June, it's
going to be 80 degrees in the shade outside.
Sports Shorts
Pat Clark
Nebraska's Jack Moore was named Saturday as the
winner of the Frances Pomeroy-Naismith Award. The
award is given annually by the Basketball Hall of Fame to
the nation's outstanding college player less than six feet
tall.
Moore finished his career as the Huskers' seventh all
time leading scorer with 1,204 points. He also ranks
second on the NCAA all-time free throw shooting charts.
The 5-9 Moore will be given the award at a luncheon
May 3 at the Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
The 1982 Nebraska-Oklahoma football game has been
moved to Nov. 26, the day after Thanksgiving, to accom
modate nationwide television coverage by CBS. The game
was scheduled for Nov. 20.
Why do people do it? Why would anybody want to sit
indoors in summer watching basketball, either in the
arenas or on television, when for a few dollars you can get
a baseball game and a suntan at the same time? They do
it because at long last, after a season that started in Octo
ber, after the high school and college extravaganzas, the
pros finally get serious about the game.
You may hate the racehorse brand of basketball the
pros play. That's fine; there's plenty of room out in the
sun for you. You may think the season is too long. You're
right. But the games that have to go are those dogmeat
affairs in October and November. Start the season in mid
November and start the playoffs the first week of April.
Not only do the fans not really get interested until mid
November, but cutting those games could eliminate 10 to
20 games in which some combination of the San Diego
Clippers, Utah Jazz, Indiana Pacers and Chicago Bulls play
each other. That kind of public service would not be lost
on hard-core NBA fans either.
At any rate, the problem with the NBA is with the
regular season, not the playoffs. Sure, some teams can
play .500 ball all year and get in the playoffs, but the fact
remains that a .500 ball club in the NBA is still one of the
15 or so best teams in the world, and plays an entertain
ing and interesting game when the championship is on the
line. Besides, anybody who noticed the less-than-glittering
records of some of those NIT teams knows that the NC
AA is about one more expansion away from throwing
.500 college clubs into the tournament. What's more,
the NBA clubs get their records without loading up in De
cember against Anybody State and University of Wis-consin-Nowhere.
Unlike the college basketball playoffs, the NBA play
offs succeed not because they are the only game in town,
but because they are the best game in town. That does not
mean the college tournament would not succeed if it came
along later in the year, but it does say that the NBA play
offs have proven themselves against greater competition.
So, it you can stand the thought of staying indoors a
few hours longer, watch the NBA playoffs. The sight of
Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Moses Malone, Magic Johnson
and Gus Williams playing like they mean it, playing for
more than the money, is worth it. There will be plenty
of baseball left when the NBA playoffs are over. You can
watch baseball into October if you want to. Of course, the
NBA season starts about then all over again.
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Be a Marshall for
Cornstock Orientation Meetings
April 13 - 20 7:00 p.m.
Nebraska East Union
Attendance Required
FREE T-Shirt and Party after Cornstock!
GLOBAL ISSUES 82
Colonization & Development:
Its Impact On Native Societies
FILM: LAST OF THE CUIVA
from the series
"Disappearing World"
Brian Moser; Grnada
Int'l Productions
SPEAKER: Dr. Raymond Hames
Dept. of Anthropology, UNL
APRIL 13, 1982
7:30 P.M.
NEBRASKA UNION ROSTRUM
14th & R, UNL
(Free and open to the public.)
sponsored by:
International Educational Services
