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Staff photo by John Zoz
Trent Scarlett drives for the basket during Satur
day's Nebraska-Southwest Missouri State basket
ball game. Nebraska trounced the Bears 98-46.
By Kevin VVarnekc and Bob Asmusscn
Southwest Missouri State had its moment. Fifty
seven seconds to be exact.
That was the amount of time that elapsed after South
west Missouri State center Ricky Joiwson scored the
first bucket of the game until Nebraska assumed com
mand and went on 10 devastate the Bears 98-46 in men's
basketball action Saturday night at the Bob Devancy
Sports Center.
Southwest Missouri State, boasting a four-game win
ning streak entering the game, went more than nine min
utes before its second basket of the game was scored by
Antlioncy Boggs.
Meanwhile, Nebraska poured in 25 consecutive points,
including six each by Stan Cloudy and Gieg Downing.
Nebraska then went on another scoiing binge rack
ing up 10 more points until Basil Robinson g3ve the
Bears their tilth point ot the game with less than seven
minutes left in the first half.
Nebraska's defense slackened in the final minutes of
the half, allowing the Bears to tally seven more points,
while Nebraska scored 10.
In holding Southwest Missouri-State to 13 first-half
points, the Cornhuskers tied a sports center record for
allowing the fewest points in a half. The Huskers also
held South Dakota State to 13 last season.
The second half saw the Huskers continuing their
play of tenacious defense and explosive offense. Kenny
Walton's jumper from the right side with just little more
than 5 minutes left in the game gave the Huskers a 50
point margin.
With the outcome of the game easily'Sctermined, the
crowd of 9,287 came to life as the Huskers neared the
century mark. But Nebraska only came as close as 98
points. With 21 seconds remaining, Terry Smith gave the
Huskers their final basket when Jus shot was counted as
good because of goaltcnding by Southwest Missouri
State.
"We wanted to hit 300, but it just didn't come tliis
game," Icnard Johnson said.
"If he had hit his free throws. . Downing said
said jokingly from across the locker room.
Free throw shooting may have been Nebraska's only
weakness as they shot 10-20 from the charity line dur
ing the game.
But tins was far overshadowed by the 62.8 shooting
percentage from the floor and Southwest Missouri State's
3J .2 percent in the same category.
"The thing that I was happy with was the intensity
they went out and played with," Nebraska Coach Moe
Iba said. "We look them completely out of the game
the first 10 minutes and it was over."
That intensity was showcased with a defensive play
by Terry Smith with 9:48 left in the game which drew
a standing ovation from the crowd. Smith dived to the
floor, knocking the ball away from Southwest Missouri
State s Chris Scott who was free on an apparent break
away layup.
Smith also led a balanced Nebraska scoring attack,
which saw all 12 available Huskers scoring, with 15
points. Cloudy and Downing followed with 12 and
Dave Hoppen with 10. Smith also spaikled in the re
bounding department pulling down nine Bear misses.
Nebraska outrebounded its counterpart 56-29.
Hie victory over Southwest Missouri State climaxed
the non-conference season for the Hunkers. Nebraska
will take a 9-3 record to Iowa State on Tuesday.
"It's going to be a dogfight," Iba said, referring to
the Big Light Conference race.
"We've just got to work hard in
and play one game at a time," he said.
the Big Eight.
WresSieirs J
By Randy Wymore
In 1942, Thornton Wilder wrote the
Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Skin
Of Our Teeth." Forty-one years later,
it may have appeared to the spectators at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center Saturday
that Nebraska wrestling coach Bob Fehrs
and his team were trying to write the
sequel.
The Cornhuskers whipped Central State
Oklahoma, 31-18, but not before finding
themselves struggling with the returning
National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics wrestling champions, who mana
ged to build a 16-point lead mid-way
through the dual.
In the first five matches, Nebraska
gave up one forfeit, a draw, two deci
sions and a major decision to put the
Bronchos, up 18-2.
"I was pretty shocked, really, up
through 50, (150 pounds)," Central State
Coach David James said. "We had an 18-2
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lead. I was surprised. Nebraska's got a
heck of a wrestling program."
James went on to say that the early
lead was not enough to make him run to
the parking lot and start the bus for home.
"I knew we had the Scherrs (Nebraska
wrestlers Bill and Jim) and Oliver (Nebra
ska wrestler Ray) and them type of guys
waiting for us," lie said. "I just knew we
had to build up any type of lead if we
were going to have a chance."
Nebraska used some of the younger
people on the team Saturday in order to
give regulars Matt Campbell and Al Free
man a day off. Fehrs explained that he
knew the Cornhuskers would start off in
a hole, but he wasn't sure just how deep
that hole was going to get.
"I knew we'd get behind," Fehrs
said. "But I was hoping it wouldn't be as
far as that."
Fehrs said that the early deficit put
Nebraska in a position of having to wrestle
error-free through the last half of the dual.
Nebraska did just that.
In the first match of the afternoon, 118
pounds, Nebraska had to forfeit, giving up
six team points, because no one could
make the weight limit. Fehrs said that he
takes the blame for that because he
thought he had arranged for someone to
fill in so that Campbell could take the day
off. Unfortunately, a communication prob
lem resulted in no one at 118 pounds and
therefore a forfeit.
In the next match, 126-pounder John
Shearer could only muster an early take
down for two points, while his opponent
picked up two one-point escapes. The
match ended in a draw, with each team
getting two points.
Nebraska was down 8-2 and went on
to lose the next three matches, one of
which was to a returning NAIA cham
pion. For the remaining five matches, Fehrs
did some lineup juggling that shows evi
dence of Nebraska's great flexibility.
Freshman Dave Goldman picked up the
first Cornhusker win of the day with a
13-1 superior decision at 158. Rory Cahoj,
who usually wrestles at 158, moved up)
to 167, and consequently, everyone else
also moved up a weight class. Calioj went
on to score a 4:26 pin.
Ray Oliver, usually a 167-pounder,
picked up a pin over last year's 177-pound
NAIA champion. Oliver's fall also gave
Nebraska its first lead of the day. Jim and
Bill Scherr followed Cahoj and Oliver's
example with pins of their own. Bill
Scherr, who usually wrestles in the 190
pound slot, got his against a 330-pound
opponent in only 2:40.
With the win Saturday, and a 38-5
win over Missouri last Thursday where
Fehrs picked up his 100th career win,
the Cornhuskers now stand at 9-3 in
dual competition and hold 8 fifth place
national ranking.
Nebraska goes on the road for a dual
Friday against the University of Wyoming
and Saturday for duals with Colorado State
and Colorado School of Mines.
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Arkansas dominates swim invitational;
Huskers battle 'quality competition'
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Staff photo by Dave Bantz
Nebraska's Jim Korff gets ready to go in the 50-meter freestyle during Friday's
Mid-Winter Invitational at the Bob Devaney Sports Center pool. Nebraska finished
third behind Arkansas and Southern Illinois.
By Mark Quandahl
Nebraska sophomore, Aaron Drake,
found it easy to summarize Friday and
Saturday's Mid-Winter Invitational at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
"Arkansas ran away with it," Drake
said.
The Arkansas swim team scored a
whopping 509 points to capture the
fifth annual Mid-Winter Invite. Southern
Illinois was second with 339 points and
the Cornhuskers garnered third place
honors with 299. Rounding out the
field were Southern Cal in fourth place,
Iowa in fifth, Iowa State in sixth and
Minnesota seventh.
"It was really quality competition,"
Drake said.
Auderz Guillhammer of Southern
Illinois started the invite by winning the
500-meter freestyle in a meet record time
of 4:31.37.
Chris Cavanaugh of Southern Cal won
the 200-meter individual medley in
1:54:01. Husker Rick Gilbertson was
fourth with 1:55.56.
Neil Brooks of Arkansas was victorious
in the 50-meter freestyle in a meet record
time of :20.62. UNL's Cliff Looschen
was third with : 20.84.
Arkansas also captured the 400-meter
medley relay and the Razorback's Danny
Balint won the 400-meter individual med
ley. Nebraska had its first champion when
Kevin Weires won the 200-meter freestyle
in 1:41:29. After Minnesota's Bob Barrett
won the 100-meter butterfly, a Husker
again graced the limelight as Looschen
took the 100-meter backstroke in :51 .39.
Arkansas' John Ulibari grabbed the
100-meter breaststroke, USC won the
800-meter freestyle relay and Guillhammer
of SIU smashed the old meet record in
the 1,650-meter freestyle which he won
in 15:46:13.
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