Friday, April 19, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
Pago 9
Sport
10th Sigma Chi Fight Night
helps charity, provides action
By Brian Keenan
Staff Reporter
Thomas Hearr.s and Marvelous
Marvin Hagler won't be there, but
Sigma Chi Fight Night promises just
as much action tonight at 7:30 p.m. at
the State Fairgrounds Ag Hall.
Proceeds will go to the Wallace Vil
lage for disabled children.
"There should be lots of good
fights and lots of action," said Mike
Wallesen, coordinator of the fight
night.
Wallesen said the 10th anniversary
of fight night should be exciting with
13 matches and a possible exhibition
between a past Sigma Chi Fight Night
fighter and a Golden Gloves fighter.
Two returning fighters are also on the
Women 's tennis team to
By Ward W. Triplett III
Sports Editor
The Nebraska women's tennis team
will carry the key to its own future
when it opens its final regular season
series this morning at the Varsity
Courts.
The Huskers were beaten 9-0 by
Oklahoma State in Stillwater last week
end, but lost to Oklahoma 5-4. Since
the Big Eight adds season series to
determine rankings for the tournament,
each win is crucial. Today's meet against
Struggling OU baseball team
frustrates coach after hot start
By Jeff Apel
Staff Reporter
Oklahoma Coach Enos Semore
thinks his Sooners, who got off to a
22-1 start, and play Nebraska this
weekend at Buck Beltzer field, are
the best team in the Midwest.
"Earlier this season, we were one
of the best, if not the best, team in
the Midwest," Semore said. "We
were getting excellent pitching along
with some phenomenal swinging of
the bats and sound defense in that
23 game stretch."
In the course of Oklahoma's next
19 games, however, the Sooners
cooled off and managed only a 13-6
record, including a 5-3 record in Big
Eight conference play.
"Lately we just haven't been doing
the things that we were doing ear
lier in the year," Semore said. "We've
really been struggling in all the
aspects of our game, which has been
really frustrating to us."
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"It's hard to tell who will win,"
Wallesen said, "because there are so
many inexperienced fighters."
The fighters are solicited from all
the fraternities on campus. Wallesen
said. The fraternities are notified
early in the semester and volunteers
are asked to compete. There is also a
later notice to double-check all the
entries. After all the entries have
been checked the fighters are paired
according to height, weight and
experience.
"Experience is a key factor," Wal
lesen said. "We don't want any bad
mismatches."
To protect the boxers from injuries,
headgear is required. The matches
last three rounds of two minutes
last-place Kansas State and Saturday's
meet against Kansas will finalize
Nebraska's season position.
Husker Coach Kathy Hawkins said
all three doubles teams and singles
players Liz Mooney and Cari Groce
could reach the No. 2 seeding with
victories this weekend.
The No. 2 seed is important, Haw
kins said, because it would place that
Nebraska player in the opposite bracket
from the Oklahoma State entry. With
out an Oklahoma State player to con
tend with, any Nebraska player could
The Sooner-Husker doubleheaders
begin at 12:30 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday.
The series, which is expected to
draw one of the largest crowds for
Nebraska baseball this year, is cru
cial to both Oklahoma and Nebraska
Nebraska leads the conference with
a 9-1 record while the Sooners have
lost three of their last four confer
ence games.
"Nebraska might be in the driv
ers seat, but the race for the Big
Eight championship is far from over,"
Semore said. "If we get back to our
old form and get that clutch hitting
and good pitching back, we could
be right back in it."
Sooner pitchers Bobby Witt and
Steve Peters lead the Oklahoma
pitching staff. Witt, a pre-season All
American who competed for the
United States Olympic team, is 5-1
with a 2.94 E.R.A., while striking out
70 in just 55 innings.
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each. The fights are state sanctioned.
State referees and judges are used to
ensure maximum fighter protection.
"The referees and judges are expe
rienced and they will stop the fight
before anyone is seriously injured."
The fighters are all covered by insu
rance, and the worst injury happened
two years ago when a boxer broke his
hand.
Sigma Chi expects more than 1,200
people, Wallesen said. Last year,
between 1,100 and 1,200 people saw
fight night.
"I remember what a ref said to me
once," Wallesen said. "You hate to
see anyone lose at these matches
because anyone who has enough guts
to get up and fight in front of all of
these people isn't a loser."
end season
have a good chance to reach the tour
nament finals, Hawkins said.
'"We have to go in and get every
single point," Hawkins said. "I believe
we'll be up for this weekend since it is
our last home meet."
Hawkins said she was not disap
pointed with the weekend's losses in
Oklahoma. Her squad is still "a little
intimidated" by the Cowgirls, whom
Hawkins admitted have the league's
strongest players at each of the nine
collegiate competition divisions.
But in Norman, Hawkins said, some
Nebraska players dominated their
opponents, and losing 4-5 in confer
ence play doesn't effect the final seed
ings as much as a 7-2 or 8-1 loss would.
"With hindsight, you always look
back and see where you could have
won," she said. "But we felt good about
the way we played in Oklahoma."
Kansas defeated Nebraska 5-4 last
season while Nebraska waltzed past
Kansas- State 9-0. Hawkins said the
Huskers are stronger per position than
Kansas State, but the Kansas unit is
stronger than they were last season.
"It's important to win (today's) match
to build momentum for the match Sat
urday and on into Tuesday."
The Big Eight tournament will begin
in Kansas City Tuesday morning.
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Softball coach hopes
team continues streak
By Rich Cooper
Staff Reporter
When you're hot, you're hot. At
least that's what Nebraska women's
softball Coach Wayne Daigle says
about his team. The Huskers have
won their last 10 of 11 games.
The Cornhuskers, 7-1 in Big Eight
play and 24-8 overall are ranked
ninth in the country. They are cur
rently in first place in the Big Eight
by two games. They lead Iowa State,
5-3 and Kansas 5-3. Daigle said his
team is starting to feel the pressure
of being in first place.
"It's us against the rest of the Big
Eight," Daigle said.
The Huskers will travel to Ames,
Iowa, this weekend to face Iowa
State and Oklahoma. Daigle said
the key to his team's success this
year is that Nebraska is "murder
ing" the ball. Nebraska has a league
high team batting average of .260.
According to Daigle, Denise Eck
ert is having a banner year. The
senior from South Williamsport, Pa.,
is batting over .400. Against Creighton
Wednesday, she had a triple and hit
her seventh home run of the season.
According to Daigle, Eckert isn't
the only one hitting the ball well.
Ginger Cannon and Stacy Sunny are
batting over .300. Against Creighton,
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run and scored three times.
Daigle said the games this week
end will be tough because Iowa
State is one of the hottest teams in
the Big Eight. Last weekend, the
Cyclones swept Kansas State and
split two games with Kansas.
Daigle said his team wants to
beat Oklahoma particularly bad be
cause the Sooners were one of three
teams to beat the Huskers last fall.
"Iowa State is playing really good
ball right now, and we are going to
have to play awfully well to beat
them," Daigle said. "And Oklahoma
always plays us tough."
Daigle said opposing teams are
having a hard time scoring runs on
the Huskers. The Husker pitching
staff has allowed 20 earned runs
this season and 36 total. The three
person staff has a combined earned
run average of .063. Freshman Lori
Sipple has 133 strikeouts this spring.
Her fall and spring combined mark
of 216 is close to Jeanne Wagner's
single-season record of 231. The
Huskers are outscoring their oppo
nents at a 3-1 rate.
"We are really playing good soft
ball right now," Daigle said. "If
anybody wants to beat us, they are
going to have to be playing really
well."
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