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ByWcrdW.TriplettlH
Sports Editor
It was a tale of two shooters in Wed
nesday night's women's basketball gome
between Nebraska and Iowa State.
In one half, it was freshman Maur
tice Ivy, whose outside accuracy kept
Nebraska close to the Cyclones. In the
Tennis coach
hopes to avoid
more injuries
ByJeffApdi
Staff Reporter
Singer Olivia Newton John used
to sing a song titled, "Let's Get
Physical."
Nebraska women's tennis
coach Kathy Hawkins sang the
same song to a different beat
after her netters opened their
spring season in early February
with consecutive 5-4 victories
over Texas-Permian Basin and
New Mexico, followed by a 8-1
loss at the hands of nationally
ranked Texas Tech.
"Those three matches were
really physical," Hawkins said.
'We're generally a physical team,
but they still had an effect on
us."
Amond the effects the Huskers
felt were injuries to both the No.
1 and No. 2 singles players, and
other players came down with
the flu.
No. 1 "player Jamie Pisarcik
suffered a bone spur, which left
her on crutches.
No. 2 Liz Mooney, who com
bines with Pisarcik to form the
No. 1 doubles team, pulled a
stomach muscle and was unable
to compete against Texas
Permian Basin.
Both Pisarcik and Mooney are
listed as probable for this week
end's matches at Iowa and
Northern Illinois.
"I guess you could say that's
one of my goals right now,"
Hawkins said. "That is, to stay
injury free."
Aside from injuries, the Hus
kers also emerged from the tri
angular matchup with broken
spirits, she said.
"We're a little bit down right
now," Hawkins said. "Part of
that might be because of the
three-week layoff from the Texas
meets until the Iowa-Northern
Illinois matches."
The entire trip, however, wasn't
bad, Hawkins said.
"I thought Lisa Brooks, our
No. 6 player, played very consis
tently," she said. "Also, our
numbers two and three doubles
teams, which were new combina
tions, played extremely well."
The No. 2 doubles team con
sisted of sophomores Cari Groce
and Jean Halahan, while the No.
3 doubles team consisted of Jill
Pisarcik, and Brooks.
Because of a reporter's error, several
names were misspelled in Wednesday's
story on the Nebraska softball team.
Among those were Donna Deardcrff,
Wayne Daigle and Lori Sippel.
Since the story was completed, the
team has added home games for the
first weekend in March.
In the Sower story cn the growth of
women's athletics, the article should
have said only one woman's sport
(bcsketb&ll) has two assistant coaches.
Setting it
Straight
second, it was senior Dtbra Powell,
whosss rebounds and fancy moves to the
basket kept Nebraska ahead cf the
Cyclones. When the bock finally closed,
Nebraska had won 83-78 and kept
themselves alive in the race for an
upper division conference finish.
Ivy, who had 10 rebounds, three
blocked shots and two steals, finished
with 27 points, her high for the season.
Powell had 23 poinis, 12 rebounds,
three assists, and claimed the top rank
on Nebraska's all-time scoring, ch&rt
with a breakaway basket with 1:52 left
to play.
"I knew it was coming," said Powell,
a 5-9 forward from East St. Louis, 111. "It
means a lot to me because I came here
to get two jobs done. I'm going to get
my degree this year, and I'm already
the career scoring leader."
Powell said her only regret was not
getting the record in Missouri, where
the Huskers will meet the Tigers Sat
urday after the men's game. Her father
is planning on going to Missouri, she
said, and she would have liked to break
the record in front of him.
"He's always told me don't be such
an assist player and shoot more,"
Powell said. "I told him I was going to
do it in Missouri, but I did it tonight."
Powell led a Nebraska rally in the
last eight minutes of the game that
choked off Iowa State's attempt to win
only its second Big Eight game in two
years. The Cyclones led early, taking a
12-6 lead at 14:08 pushing that out to
seven points at 3528 with 3:15 to go.
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Center. Nebraska can tie Iowa Stete ct 5-6 in the cenferenee
with a victory.
yciones,
since the game's early moments on two
Powell free throws with just over 16
minutes to play. Then, with Powel! and
Ivy silent, Angie Miiler, Stacy Imming,
Cathy Owen and Terri Parriott scored
off breaks and passes underneath, and
Nebraska was up seven, 58-51 with 13
minutes to go.
The Cyclones fought back and caught
the Huskers five minutes later when
Jane Lobenstein, a 5-7 point guard,
drove and scored to tie the g;me at 68.
Lovenstein then came up with a rebound
and Yvonne Thompson hit tho first end
of a one and one to give Iowa State a
one-point lead with eight minutes left.
But Ivy and Powell took over the
game at that point. If one wasn't scor
ing, the other was. If one wasn't re
bounding, the other was. The Huskers
finally caught the Cyclones for good
when Ivy went to the free throw line
with 4:51 to play. She made the first,
but her second came off to Powell, who
scored over Tanya Burns for a 74-73
Nebraska lead.
Iowa State failed to mount any
threat after that, setting the stage for
Powell's record breaking basket. The
Huskers led by as much as 13 before it
ended.
Nebraska coach Kelly Hill attrib
uted the win to defense.
"We didn't start playing the kind of
defense we needed to play until the
last four minutes," Hill said. "But when
our defensive intensity is up, it makes
everything else go."
Hill said the Huskers were surprised
that Iowa State ran so well in the first
half. In the second, the defensive prcs- made the difffience.
sure slowed the Cyclones down and The Huskers are now 4-7 in the con
speeded Nebraska up. ference and 9-15 overall. Nebraska
Iowa State coach Pam Wetting said would have to win all cf its remaining
the Huskers' ability to dominant the games to have a chance at tying Okla-
boards in the f s.mes closing moments
Stacy Imming, No. 22, tries
pass in Wednesday night's
from behind.
Who is this guy and what does he
know about bands? As a member of the
Nebraska basketball Pep Band, I can
tell you that we don't have a whole
heck of a lot of control over what we
play. Last year, our director sat down
with (Nebraska basketball coach) Moe
Iba and discussed what we should do at
these games. Our beloved coach said,
''Make a lot of noise" and "I like
country music."
So, we make noise and our director
arranged some country and western
tunes.
Then we got these new pom pon
girls. These girls were Mce's idea and
they like to dance to tape recordings.
(Nothing against you girls, but we're
getting really tired of get ting a list from
your leader telling us when and what to
play and when not to play every time
out.) Oh, and sorry about "Great Balls
of Fire," but the cheerleaders tell us to
play that so they can dance.
Believe me, we have a whole folder
full of other tunes. We just don't get a
chance to play them! Maybe you should
invest in a big tape player so we can
'Bad sportsmen ' get zero
Perhaps it was the score, or the heat
inside the Men's Physical Education
Building. Whatever it was, the Koop
sters, an intramural open league
basketball team, sent of enough ill
winds Tuesday to earn the lowest
sportsmanship rating possible. The
Hoopsters were given a zero sports
manship rating on a zero to five
scale after a 47-27 loss to Return of
the Shrooms. Intramural director
Kenda Scheele said things were so
out of hand that -the intramural
representative had the gima stop-
Thcy were saying a lot of things,
noma or Kansas ror iourtn.
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to defend against an Iowa State
game as Terri Parriott locks on
just watch the game. The day that the
crowd would rather hear Twisted Sister
instead of a good fight song is the day
that we don't need a band anymore!
Oh, by the way, be thankful you're
not at Oklahoma. You would hear
"Boomer Sooner" all night long.
Scott Messier
senior
music education
Editor's Note: The byline for the
column, which was written by sports
editor Ward W. Triplett III, was acci
dentally left out of Wednesday's paper.
Also, the column was meant to be a
take-off on the negative comments
about the basketball team of late, and
no offense wss intended. Smce I can't
play a note, I can no sooner pretend to
render a serious comment on the band's
past, present or fotare performances
than one of them can come in and play
sports editor. On that point, do net
send any song suggestions to the band
office. They're much too busy with
recruiting and running five perfor
mance bands to look at any. Send them
to us instead.
and it became a bad situation,"
Scheda said.
Scheele said other teams received
zeros when the sportsmanship rat
ings began two years ago, so the
Hoopsters have seme company.
The Hoopsters' rating did not
pull their season average below the
2.5 necessary for the playoffs.
Scheele said the Hoopsters' final
average is exactly a 2.5.
In other cpsn league results,
Highland Grocery defeated the
Sandbaggers 59-33, and tha Free
bailers defected the Gsy Nisi Punks
55-49.
