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A year ago, J ay Dirksen began On the men's side, Dirksen said
his first season as coach of the four runners could challenge for
men's and women's cross country the team's top position. Kurt Rus-
teams with a women's team made sell Tom Hoffman. Gerald O'Cal-
up of promising freshmen and a laghan and Kraig Vanderbeek had
men's team with one bona fids good seasons last vear. Brvan
star.
This season, those freshmen
are seasoned sophomores, and
the men's team has four runners
who could score big points.
Clark and Glen Cunningham are
expected to be close behind the
top four, Dirksen said.
The Air Force, Midlands Col
lege, Tarkb College, Southwest Mis-
Dirksen will get his first chance souri and South Dakota State will
to see how his teams stack up provide the competition for the
against real competition when invitational. The Husker squads
the Husker Invitational runs Sat
urday at Pioneer Park. It not only
will begin the Nebraska season,
but it also will serve as Lincoln's
only chance to see the Husker
harriers this season.
"Duals with other schools do us
very little good," Dirksen said
about the lack of home meets.
The invitationals we are in have
been set for years."
Jill Noel and Karlene Erickson
both won last season.
Dirksen said the Pioneers Park
course was good for cross coun
try running, but it 13 not an easy
race.
"It's a good place to have a
meet because it simulates cross
country a little more (than other
Lincoln sites)," Dirksen said. "It's
also a good spectator course."
Last season, WallyDuny, a tran
sfer from Illinois, used the in vita-
lead the Husker women, with Noel, tional as a springboard to an All-
a sophomore from Lincoln, look- Amercian ranking. Dirksen said
ing to defend the title she won this year's team will be looking to
last year in the Invitational peak later in the eyar.
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Rich Runnels, quarterback of the LovePound 2 CcKec football team, attempts to get a pass
elf before beteg tackled. The pass was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by a member
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to United States softball
By Julie Bauer
D&ily Ne&iaskaa Sesior Exporter
One of the recruits on the women's
softball team this year has never played
softball in the United States. That is
because pitcher Lori Sippei is from Can
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ippel is a freshman from Statford,
Ontario, where she lived with her family
on a farm. She is one of five children. As a
youngster, she developed an interest in
softball because of an older brother.
"My brother played softball, so when we
were little I also started playing," she said.
"After my parents saw I had some poten
tial in the sport they signed me up to play
in a league. I was about 9 years old then."
Sippei played softball in summer leagues
through high school, while also partici
pating in volleyball, basketball and track.
But the 6-1 athlete excelled the most in
softball. She led the Canadian national
team to the gold medal at the Pan Ameri
can games, defeating the United States
team for the championship.
She also was named the most valuable
player in the Canadian Nationals as she
led her team to the national champion
ship. She pitched five shutouts during the
tournament.
After high school, Sippei was recruited
by the best in college softball, including
Texas A&M, UCLA, Cai State FuHerton,
Kansas, Creighton and Indiana. Nebraska
was the last school she visited, but it
became her first choice.
"I liked Nebraska because of the people.
Midwesterners are a lot like the people I
grew up with, friendly and always wiling
to help," she said. "I'm impressed with
coach (Wayne) Daigle, as welL He knows
his softball and he knows how to express
his ideas and get them across to the girls."
Daigle, likewise, said he was quite im
pressed with Sippei, not just ss a pitcher
but as a person.
"She has character. She's Very intelli
gent, mature and down-to-earth. She
doesn't play any ego games and she
knows her limits," Daigle said.
Of course, her performance on the
mound is important as well, and what her
high school record didn't say, Daigle did.
"She has it all. She can pitch any ball: a
drop, a rise, a change-up, or a cwve," he
said.
Sippei said she thinks her change-up is
most effectiv&Right now that's probably
my best pitch, but my other pitches have
to be on before I can use it."
As Sippei began practice wit h the team,
she said she noticed only slight differen
ces beetween the softball she played in
high school and playing at Nebraska.
"It's a lot more competitive in college,
especially since the leagues I was playing
in were recreational in Canada," she said.
She has now been in Nebraska a few
weeks and said she is learning a lot from
the team. "There are a lot of good players
out here," Sippei said.
As a pitcher Sippei said she's hoping
she can carry her share of the load. "I
think one of my best qualities as a pitcher
is I keep my composure," Sippei said. "I
feel it's my duty to the team to keep as
composed as possible at all times and
pitch the best game I can. The team
depends on that."
Rec
Scoreboard
i Men's Softball
Monday scores
Abel Six A 16, Cather Six A 5
Cather Three A 7, Cather Two A 3
Abel Five All, Cather Eight A 4
Burr II West C 13, Schramm Two C 2
Burr I West B 1 1, Cather Five B 4
Harper Five 515, Cather Eleven B 5
Base Invaders 6, Holysmokers 0
Schramm Four B 1 2, Abel Eleven B, 1 1
Burr One East B 20, Abel Eight B-l, 2
Mutleys Crew 9, Voykouf 8
Abel Ten B 16, Harper Four B 9
Harper Eight B 5, Schramm Two B 4
Mudvil Sluggers 13, Master Batters 3
Hosers C 1 1, Uhing's Team 6
Co-Rec Flag Football
Pigskins 26 (4.2). Cather TenPound
Six 19 (4.5) s
Abel Seven 12 (4.0), Heppner Two
Three 6 (4.2)
Abel EightSandoz Eight 34 (4.2), Abel
FiveSandoz Five 12 (4.0)
Scores in parenthesis are sportsman
ship ratings.
MANAGER'S MEETING: Manager's
meeting for club sports will be held
today at 5 p.m. at the Campus Recrea
tion office, 1740 Vine St.
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Meeting oftlw Minds?
Nebraska's Woincn's Athletie Director June Davis discusses a point with
Nebraska Athletic Director Bob Devaney at a Huskervolleyball match earlier
tMs season.
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