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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1984)
Monday, November 26, 1934 Pago 8 Daily Ncbraskan n f Clemson eager s win invite; Ivy makes all-tournament Ey Ward W. Triplctt HI Diily NeirVn Senior Editor The Nebraska women's basketball team had it going pretty good for a while. After clobbering Arizona 103-68 in the first game of the Coke-Converse Husker Invitational Friday, Stacy Imming, Deb Powell and Maurtice Ivy had scored two baskets each to help the Huskers jump cut to a 16-6 lead over Clemson with seven minutes gone in the first half. It looked like another blowout in the making, but then the Lady Tigers began playing like . . .well, Tigers. Three straight baskets from 15 feet or more and three baskets off rebounds gave the Lady Tigers a 18-16 lead. They trailed once more at 20-18, and would lead by as many as 15 before it ended. The Lady Timers won 09 84 in front of 770 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Clemson, 22-10 a year ago, did it with superior height inside in 6-4 Peggy Cable (18 points, 10 rebounds), 6-2 Sandy Bishop (17 points, six rebounds) and 6-3 Julie Larson (22 points, six rebounds), and outside with Janet Knight ( 10 for 1 5, 23 points), and Melinda Hall-Ashworth (five for eight, 10 points). Nebraska re sponded with double-figure scoring. But, the Huskers were out-rebounded 40-28, outshoi 65 percent to 44 percent and Cable rejected five shots. Nebraska Coach Kelly Hill said there was no need to make alibis or excuses or get depressed about this team this early in the season. There was a definitive rea son for the loss, she said, and that was a lack of pressure on the Clemson guards. Hill said Clemson's guard combinations of Knight, the Lady Tiger's leading scorer, Hall-Ashworth, Susan Fehling and Renne Williams were better ball-handlers and more of a threat than Arizona's. Also, she said she couldn't expect a full 40-minute performance from Imming and Cathy Owen, the Nebraska guards. Nebraska's backcourt presses and quick transitions earned them the early lead, but they were playing into Clemson's hands. "They pressured the whole game last night and they had to be a little tired," Clemson Coach Annie Tribble said. "We thought we could use our height against them, so we were content just to stay close until they wore down a bit." Nebraska only trailed by 43-40 at half time, and Husker center Angle Miller closed that lead to one at 47-46 with a follow-up off the glass. But Clemson outscored Nebraska 13-4 over the next 4V& minutes, mostly on Jumpers from Larson and Ashworth. When Nebraska did score on six strasgr.t free throws, Clemson started going under neath for Caple and Ashworth. While Clemson was scoring in every way possi ble, the Huskers couldnt buy a basket for a four minute stretch. With Powell and Ivy both in foul trouble, the Huskers could pull to within eight before Clemson meth odically pulled further ahead. Knight, who scored 27 in a 83-54 defeat of Wisconsin the previous night, was named the tournament's most valuable player. Ivy, who lost her first game in two years after leading Omaha Central to two state championships, Powell, Arizona guard Kirsten Smith and Wisconsin's Faith Johnson were named to the all-tournament team with Knight. Besides Ivy, Hill's other freshman show ed well against Arizona. 6-1 Lisa LaGuar dia was three of six from the field, while Stephanie Bolli was three of three. Pam Fiene scored seven points and had three rebounds in 13 minutes against Arizona. The 5-6 guard from Elmhurst, 111., came on in the second half of the Clemson game to relieve Owen but had only one foul and two turnovers to show for it. Clemson, which finished third in the National Women's Invitiational Tourna ment last year, will face traditional rival South Carolina Dec. 5. Nebraska will face equally tough opponents Friday and Sat urday at the Dial Classic in Minneapolis. Either, Tennessee, with Olympic coach Pat, Summit and Northeast Louisiana, with Ail-American Lisa Ingram and Olympian Eun Jung Lee (Korea) and High School Player of the Year Ghana Perry, will be the Huskers' opponent after a first-round game with host Minnesota. The last time the Huskers and Gophers played, then sophomore Laura Coenan scored 31 points for Minnesota. In short, things dont get easier. In the consolation game, Arizona held off a late charge by Wisconsin to win 67 64. Arizona led by J 5 ponts at the start of the second half, but Wisconsin's Johnson led a one:woman comeback attack that cut that lead to four with 13 minutes left. Arizona,'0-2 going into the game, turned on the flames again and were up by 14 with nine minutes left. But, Wisconsin, which used nine players interchangeably, whittled that away until a hook by former Missouri center Brenda Smith gave Ariz ona a six point lead with 33 seconds left. Smith finished with 17 points behind Kirsten Smith's 19. Johnson led the Badgers with 17. J) i V ;t -j 0 t V x J" f 7 V. 7 ''- V 4 Dxvid CresmerOsSly Nebrssktn Maurice Ivy and Aisgi Miller battle Clemson's Sandy Bishop for a first half rebound. Splicers mmii nation al tourn ament assignment By Ward W. Triplett III Daily Ncbraskaa Senior Editor Nebraska's women's volleyball team won its regular season finale Saturday and will await an NCAA announcement today concerning where they will be next Saturday when the national tournament begins. . "Of course, we hope we don't have to travel," Nebraska Coach Terry Pettit said after Nebraska beat Ohio State 1 5-1 3, 1 5-1 0, 1 5-7 at the Coliseum. It was the Hus kers' 27th victory in 30 starts this season and it gave the Huskers one more chance to warm up for the NCAAs. "At this point, the most impor tant thing is to keep the team as rested as possible," Pettit said. 'The tendency is to drive them harder and try to get more out of them. But at this point in the sea son, a good team that's well-rested will beat a great team that's not." Nebraska's NCAA opponent should come from either the Big Ten, Big East, Atlantic Coast or Mid-American conferences. Ne braska, at No. 7, is the highest ranked team among all of those conferences. But last year, des pite a higher ranking, Nebraska was sent to Kalamazoo, Mich., for the first round, where they lost in four sets to Western Michigan. Saturday's game was charac terized by sudden scoring bursts from the Nebraska front line that Ohio State couldn't match. Nebra ska trailed in the first and last sets, but managed to reel off point streaks of seven and six respec tively to take the lead and com mand of the games. Pettit wasn't impressed by the play, saying it looked like a "bunch of people who met in a shopping mall and just decided to play." "We won because we were more talented" Pettit said. "Everything looked forced. We were disorgan ized, out of position and hesitant. We never established a rhythm." But the Huskers did serve well. Well enough, Pettit said, that Ohio State, the third place finisher in the Big Ten, couldn't establish a rhythm either. "We weren't ready to play today and it might have been a letdown from the (Big Eight) tournament," Pettit said. "But watching it, all I can say is we must have enjoyed our Thanksgiving." Julie Hermann led Nebraska with 12 kills while Enid Schone wise added seven and Cathy Noth five. n v V ' i t ' i , ' EnM gchcEswis, left, oid Ksrea D-rea block ea Ohio Cist