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UNL, Mavericks have standoff,
split double-header in Lincoln
By Ucna Z. Eoppelr
d Jeff Browne
Like Sisyphus and the proverbial
stone, the University of Nebraska
Omaha Mavericks seemed destined to
be bowled over by the lOth-ranked
UNL baseball team.
The Mavs lost the first game of Mon
day's double-header 8-0 and in the
process picked up just two hits.
After going down in order in the bot
tom of the first inning of the second
game, UNL shortstop Jeff Carter led
off with a center-field triple. Carter
then scored on a sacrifice fly by third
baseman Scott Hooper.
UNO pitcher Fred Peterson gave up
14 walks in the second game alone.
UNO batters faced six Husker pit
chers in the seveninning second game.
But the Mas shouldered the stone
and held on to claim a 3-2 final inning
comeback win against UNL at Buck
Beltzer Field.
There's no rhyme, no reason for
that kind of situation," Nebraska coach
John Sanders said. They outplayed us.
They outhit us.
When we don't execute in those
situations, we get beat."
Nebraska led 2-1 entering the sev
enth inning of the second game. Husker
coach John Sanders called on his sixth
pitcher of the game, reliever BiiLMc
Guire, to close out the apparent victory.
McGuire gave up a one-out walk to
UNO centerfielderJoe Mancuso. UNO's
spirits began to brighten, and the small
but very vocal crowd of Maverick fans
took heart
Jim Polanski hit a lazy fly ball into
shit riht field. UNL second baseman
Kurt Eubanks and right fielder Rich
King converged on the balL
King made the call, but not the
catch, apparently losing it in the late
afternoon sun. The ball bounced off
King's chest as he slid on the turf.
Eubanks fetched the ball, but by that
time Mancuso was on third and Po
lanski on second.
UNO's next batter, Pat Gibbons, sliced
a line drive down the left-field line that
landed just inside the chalk. Mancuso
and Polanski scored and UNO had a
3-2 lead." McGuire set down the rest of
the side.
UNO pitcher Peterson surrendered
two walks with two out in the bottom
of the inning. Maverick coach Bob
Gates finally releived Peterson and
brought in Mark Grandgenett.
"I wanted Mark to pitch to Carter,"
Gates said. "I hadn't given up on Fred
at all."
Carter hit a Grandgenett fastball on
the ground to third baseman Ed Dineen,
who made a low throw to first base
man Mark King. King caught the ball
on a short hop, stepped on the bag and
the Huskers absorbed their 1 5th loss of
the season.
The Mavericks and UNL will play
another double-header this afternoon
at College World Series Park in Omaha.
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It's the first day of May. That means the baseball
season is finished with roughly the first month of
play (How 'bout them Tigers?) It also means that the
Kentucky Derby is this Saturday (How bout Devil's
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season s libelee.
Yep. That's right. Eight teams. E-I-G-H-T teams.
Lor.play .
. The pros began play last October and probably
won't finish things up until early to mid-June.
Methinks that ain't exactly what the good Dr. Nais-.
mith had in mind when he nailed peach baskets up
on the wall of the YMCA in. Springfield, Mass., 03
"years ago. He envisioned basketba.ll as something to
do between football and baseball seasons. That's
BETWEEN, not DURING.
. The NBA playoffs have really gotten out of hand.
Sixteen teams of the 23 that began play last fall
' qualified for the playoffs when the 82-game regular
season ended April 15. Compare that with the NFL,
where 10 of 23 make the playoffs, or major-league
baseball, where four of 26 advance. It takes the NFL
five weeks, from the end of the regular-season to
wrap it all up. It takes major-league baseball two or
three weeks to decide the champ. It will take the
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Kopsteky
Bag?) It also means that we're less than a month
away from the Indianapolis 500 (How T)out them
200-mph cars?) It also means that the NFL draft is
today (How Txut all them Huskers?)
Incredibly, it also means that eight teams are still
playing professional (yawn) basketball. .As of last'
Friday, 16 teams were still in the chase.
Let me get this straight,-you say. That's eight
teams still left? . .
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noj rougniy cwo months.
Yawn, yawn, yawn.
Four teams made the NBA playoffs with sub-X0O
records. One of them, Washington, finished 35-47
(.427) and actually came within 27 games of division
leader Boston. Any team that wins darn near 43
percent of its games belongs in the playoffs, don't
they? And I thought the NIT field was getting weak!
TfcyC2 esses?'
v. H?t 1 pose a Question to the .NBA powc-rs-thct-be?
Tiy on earth bother playing 82 regular-season
games? Is it so you can quickly identify the seven
really pathetic teams and powerhouses like the
afore-mentioned Bullets, Hawks (40-42), Denver
and Kansas City (38-44), and Phoenix (41-41) can
. get set to hunt for the league crown' '
to ml mU3t b3 it!Why' thzt seems Perfectly logical
Cor.ttssed ca Pes 11'