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Wednesday, December 1, 1932 Page 12 Daily Nebr&skan Huskers have a lot to lose with trip to Hawaii By Tim Woods In listening to administrators of the Nebraska football program Monday, one could assume that the Huskers hardly are looking forward to playing Hawaii Saturday. "We probably have a lot to lose, and very little to gain (by traveling to Honolulu)," Coach Tom Osborne said. "We will certainly lose money," Athletic Department Business Manager Gary Fouraker said. "It's little more than a recruiting move," Recruiting Coordinator Steve Pederson said. "And we might lose more than we gain." Osborne said the week-long trip "could be a real pain in the neck" for the Husker coaches for several reasons. "First, it will be a difficult game to win," he said. "We'll have to play up to our potential if we're going to win. "Second, you've got a real difficult atmosphere over there in which to prepare for a game," he said. "We can't very well lock the players in their rooms, and yet it's still very much a business trip that we need to prepare hard for." Expensive trip To Fouraker, the extended stay in hotels, extra meals and trans-Pacific flight mean one unpleasant result: red ink. There are approximately 92 persons in the Huskers' official party for road games, Fouraker said. That figure includes players, coaches, medical and equipment person nel and other athletic department officials. For an average -road trip which includes just one night's stay for longer trips, such as those to Penn State and Auburn earlier this season the cost per person is approximately $350. Bur for the -Hawaii trip, the cost per person will be approximately $ 1 ,1 00. So despite a $6 or $7 surcharge on the nearly 8,000 tickets UNL sold for the Hawaii contest, which was added to help defray the Huskers' traveling costs, the athletic department "will certainly lose money" on the trip, Fouraker said. Recruiting efforts suffer Pederson, meanwhile, said the trip could hurt the Huskers' recruiting efforts for next season. Today is the first day coaches can officially visit prospective recruits in their homes, he said. But with the Husker coaches in Hawaii until early next week, Nebraska will miss most of the crucial first week of- vkitino hieh school seniors. Pederson said. Ykhnrne said that' in addition to "missing out on a lot of the first seven official recruiting days, the Huskers' timetable for the remainder of December is hindered by the Hawaii game. "As far as recruiting when we get back from Hawaii goes, we probably won't have any more than from eight to 10 days," Osborne said. ' The coaches and players will then have to reassemble in Lincoln in preparation for the Jan. 1 Orange Bowl game with Louisiana State, he said. Several of the Husker assistant coaches will head direct ly from Hawaii to their recruiting territories, he added. Osborne said that the prospect of going to Hawaii "probably didn't make up players' minds" to come to Ne braska. "If anything, it's just a little frosting on the cake," he said. "I don't know that any one player decided to come here just so he could travel to Hawaii in 1982." With that in mind, then, the Huskers "probably could have done without playing at Hawaii this year," he said. "It just puts such a premium on our time," he said. "There are certainly other, more important things we -ould be doing during this week." uskers down Delta State By Ward Triplett Nebraska's women's basketball team, anticipating being overmatched in height all season, was unable to maintain the crucial fast break and pressure defense for the entire game Tuesday night. But 30 minutes was enough to doom visiting Delta State 91-78 in the Huskers' season opener at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. "I was pleased with our pressure defense from free-throw line to free-throw line," Nebraska coach Colleen Matsuhara said. "But I've told them from day one that we arc going to have to rely on our running game and pressure in the back court. We did fine for 30 minutes of the 40, then we suddenly had no outside help on defense and stopped blocking out. I think those are areas we need to work on," she said. Delta State, which entered the game 2-1, fell behind early, calling their first time-out with the Nebraska on top 84. With the score 14-10 Nebraska, the Husker fast break began to click. Chris Leigh, Cathy Owen, and Terri Parriott scored easy inside baskets as the Huskers scored 10 straight points. The Lady Statesmen then managed four points to the Huskers' 13 as Ne braska built a 37-14 lead with 5:32 re maining in the first half. Deb Temple, a 5-10 sophomore, then scored three straight baskets to lead a Delta State comeback, but Nebraska, using all 1 1 available players, held on for a 46-32 lead at half time. Temple continued her hot shooting in the second half, but Delta State, firing from that one barrel, was unable to come any closer than 1 1 points with 1 1 minutes to play. Nebraska was getting consistent shooting from sophomore Deb Powell, senior Leigh and senior Kathy Hagerstrom and freshman Stilin Woodberry contri buted an additional scoring punch late to cap the win for Nebraska. Powell finished with 24 points and nine rebounds, while Leigh added 18 on nine of 13 shooting. Delta State coach Francis Gannon said she felt her team's inability to handle Nebraska's press early was the key factor. "They made us lose our poise early, and we had to use all our energy just to catch up," Garmon said. Gannon also felt the game didn't look much like a college women's basket ball game, with sloppy play on both sides. All together the teams committed 46 turnovers and 50 fouls; NU swimmers face challenge in women's home invitational By Jack Denker The Nebraska Women's Swimming and Diving Invitational at the Bob Devaney Sports Center this weekend should live up to its reputation as one of the most competitive meets around, according to NU Coach Ray H.ippert. "In the past it's been one of the best early-season invitationals in the nation," Huppert said. "We anticipate that it will be a fast meet for the swimmers and a good one for spectators to watch." Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, Iowa State, Colorado State and Brigham Young will compete in the meet. This is the seventh year Nebraska has had the invitational. Last year, Kansas won the team title, while the Huskers finished fourth, one-half point behind Colorado State. Huppert said Kansas is the early favorite heading into the meet and BYU and Colorado State also are teams to watch. He said that BYU probably won't bring enough individuals to the meet to challenge for .he title, so he believes his team has a chance to do well. We never go into meets with the feeling that we're beat before it even starts," Huppert said. "And if we swim exceptionally well, we can challenge Kansas for that title spot, but a lot of things have to go ou r way." The Husker swimmers currently' are 3-2 in dual meets and are coming off a first-place finish in the Wyoming relays last Saturday, which Huppert said built up a lot of team momentum. I feel very good about our team right now," he said. "And I think the swimmers feel good as well." At this point in the season, the diving and freestyle events appear to be Ne braska's strengths. Huppert complimented diving Coach Jeff Huber for upgrading the caliber of NU divers while the freestyle events, which were the team's worst last year, have become their best this year. Shauna Gilmore, Linda Sebesta, Emily Ricketts, Erica Wockenfuss and Michelle Brochncr, all freshmen, plus sophomore Jane Meyer are six athletes who have done a good job "of improving NU's standing in the freestyle events, Huppert said. Standout performances also have been turned in by three-time ail-American Sherri I lay ward in the backstroke events, he said. "We have a number of kids performing quite well," he said. And if we can get good performances in a couple other events, then I think well score well in the invitational" The Husker invitational starts Thurs day and runs through Saturday. The meet starts with preliminaries at 1 1 ajn., with the finals starting at 7 p jn. each day. 1; rsJ s Ir i - v 1 mm vV I i vim o o s- (A ' u ..:k i I "1 J f f - - " . . 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