Friday, April G, 1C34
Pago 12
Daily Nebrcskan
Huskers SDlit double-header
By Stu Pcspisll
OMAHA Nebraska made the most
of one run against Creighton Thursday
as the two nationally ranked softbali
teams split a double-header before 200
spectators at the Biuejays field.
Although outhit 4-3 in the first game,
.1 3th ranked Nebraska used two fourth
inning singles to score the game's only
run in a 1-0 victory.
In the nightcap, 1 7th ranked Creigh
ton shutout the Huskers 4-0 despite
hitting just two singles.
The girls are trying," Nebraska Coach
Wayne Daigle said, "but we're not quite
there yet and you can underline
quite.4
Denise Eckert's single scored Stacy
Sunny with Nebraska's decisive run in
the first game. Sunny, a freshman, led
off the fourth with a single and advanc
ed to second on Denice Feldhaus' sac
rifice. Daigle said he was astonished that
the Biuejays elected to pitch to Eckert
with first base open.
"Why. didn't they walk her?" Daigle
asked. 'That's exactly how we beat
Creighton last fall at Iowa State; they
pitching to Denise."
A base-running mistake cost Nebras
ka a first-inning run in the second
game. -
With Sunny at third and one out,
Eckert lofted a fly ball to left field,
USFlL EMS
so.
The United States Football league is
now in its second season and I'll tell
you why it's going to take a long time
before it's accepted by the majority of
sports fans.
First of all, the USFL is obviously
competing with the National Football
League. Top stars such as Herschel
Walker, Mike Rozier and Brian Sipe
have been lured into the new league's
training camps and there's no reason
to believe that more top stars won't
follow, especially with high salaries
being dealt out right and left.
Underclassmen are taken in the
USFL Walker first, and now the
world's best known college dropout
millionaire, Marcus Dupree. The NFL
won't take underclassmen, and thus
are at a major recruiting and signing
disadvantage.
The USFL is out of season.
I think if the USFL season were held
in the fall and winter, right along side
the NFL's, the league would have a bet-
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L Bill Allen
apparcntly scoring Sunny on a sacri
fice. Sunny, however, was declared out
for leaving the base before the ball was
caught.
Bobbi Carmichael's single scored
Florence Mannix in the second inning
with the only run Creighton would
need.
The Biuejays, 14-9, added a fourth
inning run off losing pitcher Sandy
Wolterman, 4-3. They scored twice in
the sixth aided by two Nebraska errors
and two walks by Mori Emmons.
"We're not hitting very well as a
team," Daigle said. "The hits just
weren't falling and then we get a cou
ple errors in the sixth inning."
Daigle said Nebraska's pitching corps
has been reduced to one healthy player,
Emmons. Sophomore Shelby Mertins
was left in Lincoln because of illness
and Wolterman's effectiveness was lim
ited because of an injury.
The Huskers, now 15-9, travel to
Oklahoma this weekend for games with
Iowa State and Oklahoma.
Daigle said he scheduled Creighton
deliberately as a warm-up for the wee
kend games.
"We wanted to play some tough
competition before we went down
there," he said, "and beating Creighton
is as important to us as winning in the
Big Eight. Well be disappointed if we
don't win three of the four games."
ter chance.
As it is, the USFL competes with
basebalL.in the summer.
Summer is lazy. Good times are
stretched out and let dry in the sun.
They last. They don't come in a rush,
but slowly build up to be remembered
not in brief quick episodes, but as a
whole drawn-out feeling.
Like baseball. Baseball has no time.
Baseball is coming home late at night
from a drive by the lake, where the hot
wind blew through your car windows
and dried the sweat on your brow,
turning on the TV to find a re-broadcast
of a game played earlier that day.
Baseball is sitting in front of the TV
watching that game, opening a beer
that you never finish and falling asleep,
knowing you don't have to work the
next day.
Baseball is sitting in the bleachers
with no shirt on, watching your little
brother coming up to bat and then tak
ing him out for a malt afterward to
celebrate his victory -or console his
loss.
Baseball is looking through the
paper every day to follow. your team.
It's there every day along with the sun, ,
or the warm rain, or work. It follows
you around every hour like the sun-
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UNL's women's scftball team will
begin its E:g Erht season this week
end. The Hus!;ers travel to Norm an,
Olda. for two garr.es each with Okla
homa'and Iowa State.
Nebraska comes off a 10-day road
trip which included a third place
.finish in the Baylor Invitational.
Coach Wayne Daig'.e said the trip
was successful for his ball club.
"We played very good and we had
the chance to play in good weather.
We played a let of games and that
gave me a chance to determine my
starting lineup, which I had teen
doubtful about up until now" Daigle
said.
"The only disappointing part of
the trip was losing to last year
national champions, Texas A & 11,
3-2 after being up 2-0 in the seventh
inning, and losing to Baylor 3-2 in
our final game of the tournament,"
he said.
The Huskers led Baylor 2-0 in the
sixth inning and pitcher Mori
Emmons was working on a no-hitter.
Baylor then pounded two singles
and a home run to go up 3-2 and
eventually win. -
"It was just one of those freak
'DcisehcJL.
shine on John Denver's shoulder.
. Baseball is summer.
Autumn means things are colder.
You have to move faster. You re
member events. Homecoming. The first
day of schooL Thanksgiving. And the
big football game against whoever.
Football is sitting in the "bleachers
wrapped cuddling inside a blanket,
sipping schnapps and tensing at every
snap of the ball. Football is the excite
ment of the long run, the tenseness of
the field goal attempt - enjoying every
second for as long as you can because
you know tomorrow will be another
cold day.
Football is cold and cruel, like the
harshness of its season.
Where baseball and summer are lazy,
football and autumn are active.
The USFL is invading our summer.
The long days of summer aren't meant
for the short excitement of football
The USFL, because of money, is com
peting with the NFL for players. But to
make money they have to compete
with the NFL for fans. To get fans, they
have to fight tradition, and they have
to fight the summer. -
I think it's going to be hard for most
of us to incorporate summer football
into our lifestyles.
'VH o-Ti o
By Cta Pospisil
Nebraska's baseball team, 25-9 and
unbeaten in the Big Eight travels to
Ames, Iowa for two weekend double
headers against Iowa State.
Last season, the Cyclones surprised
Nebraska sweeping a doubleheader in
Lincoln. The two losses snapped Neb
raska's 26-game winning streak and
the Huskers then struggled to a 8-10
Big Eight record.
"We've got to get good pitching, but
we can beat Nebraska," said Iowa State
graduate assistant Coach John Schaly.
"We feel we can play with them."
Iowa State is 3-5 in the conference
after winning three of four games at
Kansas. Schaly said the games were
typlifled by solid pitching and defense.
The Cyclones have yet to find the
batting eye, hitting .252 as a team.
Freshman first baseman Walt Delp
leads with a .375 average.
Freshman JeftEreeling, from Omaha
i if - f 1 m L I I : ' U U L i- ,: 1 iJ ' I
things" Da: '.3 said. "There weren't
so many fielding errors a3 there was
just a let cf mental "rabtalxs."
This weekend's starting lineup will
include some chancer,. Senior catcher
Deniee Feldhaus will move to fret
base while freshman Stacy Sunny
will tal:e over behind the plate. -
I've been unsure about flrrtj,.e:e
all season and though we're putting
in a freshman catcher, both Feld
haus and Sunny are working-out
well at their new positions," Daigle
said. ,
Daigle said hell need top perfor
mances from 1 ,i3 key players in order
to be successful this season. Players
like senior pitcher Sandy Wolter
man and Mori Emmons will be
important factors in this year's team.
"Wolterman is one of our best
pitchers and Emmons is 9-2 right
now. If she keeps it up, our pitching
will be a major strength." -
Daigle also needs good play from
Wendy Turner and Denise Eckert,
especially at the plate, he said. :
"I think we're ready to play and
just hope the team can become
competitive for the Big Eight sea
son," Daigle said. :
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Scoreboard
Bowling
East Union, Ctrdes and Spares.
High men's game and series
Jim Barton, Pinheads 194, 424
High women's game
Kathy Harbaugh, Pinheads 155
High women's series
Becky Bock, Dieguttaperchers 439
East Union, Night Owls
High men's game
Jay Marshall, Strike Force 210
High men's series
Steve Johnson, Strike Force 503
High women's game
Chris Campbell, Strike Force 163
High women's series
Peggy McGinty, Space Tracers 434
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The Office of Campus Recreation
announced Thursday that the
deadline for the outdoor photo
graphy contest has been extend-f
ed to April 27. Anyone wishing
more information on how to
enter the contest should call the
office at 472-3467 or stop by 1704
Vine Street.
Winning entries will be display
ed in the Nebraska Union April
30 through May 4.
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Northwest High School, has replaced
Jim Walewander as Iowa State's sec
, ond baseman.-Walewander, all All-Big
Eight selection, was drafted by the
Detroit Tigers.
Schaly said pitchers Steve Lampkin
and Troy Evers will probably start in
Saturday's double-header, with fresh
men Gary Day and Jerry Meyers slated
for Sunday.
Nebraska Coach John Sanders said
Wednesday he was unsure of his pitch
ing rotation, except that Jeff Ander
son would start Saturday's first game
and freshman Phil Harrison in Sun
day's opener.
"We had some breakdowns and some
other things happen to us against
Creighton," Sanders said, "If we learn
from those, the series with Iowa State
should be good games for us."
Saturday's second game vvi'l be broad
cast by Lincoln radio station KECK
(1530), beginning at approximately
2:30 p.m.
