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By Kirk Zebols&y
Jim Scherr knows what hell be going up against
May 18th at the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials in
Iowa City, la.
The All-American has wrestled former world
champion Chris Campbell and former Oklahoma
Sooner Mark Schultz during his career at UNL. He
said he will have to defeat both to make the
Olympic team.
Scherr lost to Campbell 3-2 last year in the
finals of the freestyle national championships. He
said Campbell probably would have won the 1980
Olympics, the year the United States boycotted the
games. Scherr fost several close matches to
Schultz in 1983; Schultz won the last match on a
referee's decision after Scherr wrestled him to a 1
1 tie.
Scherr said he thinks he can beat Campbell and
Schultz.
"I think I've improved considerably since those
matches in technique and in mental outlook,"
Scherr said.
Scherr said he must concentrate on working
hard before the trials, because he has slipped
mentally and physically since he won the 177
pound NCAA championship in March. He said he
weighs 200 pounds. His weight class at the trials
will be 180.
Scherr said defeating Campbell and Schultz will
be as difficult as winning an Olympic medal
"I want to beat those guys and I'm going to have
to work hard to develop myself to beat those
guys," he said. If he makes the team he will be in a
position to win a medal, he said.
Scherr is familiar with Olympic quality competi
tion. He wrestled for three summers in Europe. He
lost 3-1 last year to the current world champion
from Russia, but said he could beat the Russian in
a rematch.
Scherr said he wrestled more freestyle matches
in his career than collegiate-style matches. He said
this should help him against other collegians at
the trials. The trials and the Olympics will be
competed in freestyle.
Scherr said he plans to wrestle until the 1988
Olympics, but still wants to give Los Angeles his
best shot.
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"I'm going to be competing until f988 at least,"
Scherr said. "But I don't want to have any kind of
letdown."
After the Olympics, Scherr said he wants to be a
graduate assistant wrestling coach. When his
competitive wrestling career ends, he said he
would like to get into the job market. Scherr is a
finance major with a 3.54 grade point average,
which earned him Big Eight All-Academic status
three times.
Scherr credits his national championship and
100-win career to hard work and dedication. He
said his mother instilled hard work in him when
she told him he could be whatever he wanted to
be.
"When you get told that as a kid, I guess you
start to believe it," Scherr said.
Scherr said he competed with identical twin
brother Bill in everything while growing up. Scherr
said he never accepted losing. That brotherly
competitiveness carried over into high school and
college at UNL where both became national
champions.
Scherr said he wants to work on reaching his
potential, to be the best he can be.
"If I fall short of that, I feel I've cheated myself,"
he said.
Scherr said his development as a person and his
love of wrestling have made it worth all the hard
work. He said the qualities he has developed
discipline, the ability to handle setbacks, and the
ability to use his inner resources will help him
excel at whatever he does.
Scherr said he likes the individuality of wres
tling and the fact that it's demanding. He also
enjoys the challenge.
"The things that draw me are the things that are
hardest to do," Scherr said. "I think wrestling was
one of the hardest sports for me."
Scherr said football competed with wrestling for
his attention at Mobridge High School in Mobridge,
' S.D. He made all-state in football as welfas wrestling.
He said he would have liked to try out for the Neb
raska football team, "especially with all the atten
tion football gets down here." .
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UNL freshman pitcher Phil Harrison.
By Stu Pospisil
Opposing baserunners may reach
first base against Phil Harrison, but
if they stray too far...they are in
danger of a tongue-lashing from
their coach after being picked off by
the Husker pitcher.
Harrison, a freshman from Glen
dora, Calif., has dealt that fate to 25
runners in his freshman season.
With a 9-1 record, the left-hander
needs one victory to win the most
games by a Husker in one season.
As evidence when he picked off
three consecutive runners in one
inning last week, Harrison's "modus
operandi" keeps teams guessing.
Harrison said he uses a series of
moves with his head and shoulder
to make the runner believe that the
pitch is being delivered to home
plate. On a pickoff throw, he will
make eye contact with first base
man Mike Duncan.
"As I lift my right leg, I make sure
my foot always points to first base,"
Harrison said. "Even if I find myself
leaning to home plate, the umpire
can't call a balk if the foot; points
over there."
Instead of pitching from the
stretch with a runner on first, Har
rison said he favors making his move
while facing the batter.
Not only does Harrison have con
fidence in his pitching, but he said it
rubs off on his teammates.
"They know when I pitch, I'm
often going to pick the guy off," he
said.
Entering the season, Harrison was
the Huskers' left-handed reliever.
His chance to start came on the
team's March trip to Hawaii and
Harrison responded with a complete-game
victory against Liberty
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By Ward W. Tripiett III
Ah injury to the No. 2 player might effect the
Nebraska women's tennis teams chances at the Big
Eight tournament, which opened today in Kansas
City, Kan.
Liz Mooney, a sophomore from Denver, Colo., was
discovered to have contacted tendonitis in her left
wrist during the teams' 1 win - 2 loss trip to Kansas
last weekend.
Mooney joined the team in Kansas City last night,
but coach Kathy Hawkins said she is still questiona
ble for today's action.
. "We're hoping it's going to be OK and she can .
play," Hawkins said. "(Monday) morning she was -pretty
sore." .....
. The Huskers, after beating Kansas State 9-0 and :
losing to Kansas 5-4, finished in a tie with Kansas for
third place going into the tournament. Both teams
trail the overwhelming favorites, Oklahoma State
and Oklahoma, though Hawkins said the Sooners
are within striking distance.
"We're expecting to get on the winning side of the
bracket after today," Hawkins said. "We should be
seeded second at No. 1, No. 2, No. 5 and in No. 2
doubles. I thinkveVe pretty much won a good seed
for ourselves."
If Mooney, who is also part of the No. 1 doubles
team, cannot-play, sophomore Jenny Mortell will
take her place. Mortell has seen action in only three
meets this spring. .
Hawkins said she was disappointed by the loss to
Kansas and non-conference Wichita State, but it
might have been good for the team.
"I felt we were a little flat," she said. "That was
surprising considering the importance of the meets.
But it did show our players they're very beatable,
and maybe that's the push we needed."
The same four players who earned points in the
Oklahoma meet last Saturday won points in the
Kansas match, Hawkins said.
' . Although Oklahoma State is almost guaranteed
to run away with the conference title, Hawkins said
Nebraska might get its first NCAA qualifer if Jarab
Pisarcik has a good meet. Pisarcik, the No. 1 singes
player, is currently ranked fourth in the region, but
has beaten Allison Ingram of Oklahoma and Sandy
Sadler of Wichita State this spring. Ingram and
Sadler were ranked first and third respectively.
"The NCAA will only take four from our region,"
Hawkins said. "If Jamie can do well this week, with
those victories behind her she should be one of the
four."