Tuesday, October 15, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
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asketbaE teams shoot
Coach Hill hopes height helps
By Jeff Korbelik
Staff Reporter
Height, consistency and shooting.
Those three characteristics were
missing from last year's Nebraska
women's basketball team. Coach Kelly
Hill said. With the addition of this
year's recruiting class and the exper
ience of last year's returning members
Hill said she believes her team will
improve on last year's 10-18 record.
"We don't have the explosive power
player as in the past, but we have the
height, togetherness and some shoot
ers," Hill said.
Returning starters Angie Miller, Stacy
Imming, and Maurtice Ivy will again
fuel the Husker's high scoring and fast
breaking offense. The Huskers aver
aged over 80 points a game last season.
Ivy, a 5-9 sophomore guard, led the
Huskers in scoring last season with
15.5 points a game. Hill said Ivy will not
be feeling the pressure of last season
where people expected her to come in
and turn the program around.
"She had a good season last year and
should have a better season this year,"
Hill said. "She knows what's expected
of her."
Miller, a 6-1 junior, will again return
at the center position she has started
for two years. Miller averaged 13 points
and five rebounds a game. Imming, a
5-8 junior, is also a two-year starter and
was the team's second leading scorer
with 15.2 points a game.
Hill said Imming and Miller have
assumed the roles of leaders on the
team on and off the court. With the
absence of a senior class, she said the
team doesn't have "an automatic
appointed leader."
"The recruiting class that would
have been seniors came in under Col
leen (Matsuhara, former Nebraska
coach) and they didn't stay with the
program," Hill said.
To relieve Nebraska's height prob
lem, the Huskers went to Pennsylvania
and recruited freshman Wendy Krei
bel. At 6-3, Kreibel's defensive skills
will help the Huskers, Hill said.
"She'll be able to block some shots
and she is really agile and not slow for
her height," Hill said. "She can get us
going down the floor. We just got to get
her stronger."
Helping out on the front line will be
three players six foot or over: 6-1
sophomore Lisa LaGuardia, 6-0 sopho
more Tiffany Hll, and 6-1 freshman Lisa
Improve record to
Huskers sweep Iowa State;
Wildcats scratching on door
By Jim Ballard
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska volleyball team raised
it's season record to 4-0 in theBigEight
Conference and to 18-2 overall this
weekend with a win over Iowa State.
The Huskers won their ninth match
in a row. and 37th rnnsecutive Bitf
Eight victory, as they beat the Cyclones
inmree sets, 15-7, 15-5, 15-7.
Sophomore Kathi DeBoer led Ne
braska. DeBoer had 14 kills and only
one error. Annie Adamczak also had 15
Kills while Sharon Kramer had four
blocks.
Coach Terry Pettit said he was
Pleased with his team's win against
what he called "a pretty good Iowa
State team."
"We just physically overpowered them
at the net," Pettit said.
The loss dropped Iowa State to 10-6
and 0-2 in the conference. Iowa State
hasn't beaten Nebraska in 22 tries.
Tonight, Nebraska hosts Kansas State.
I ne Wildcats are 8-5 on the year and are
Soulliere. Hill is a transfer from Colo
rado. Returning letterman Shelly Block
and Stephanie Bolli will add expe
rience to the forward position.
Hill is faced with replacing point
guard Cathy Owen and forwards Debrah
Powell and Terri Parriott. At point
guard the Huskers have three players
capable of moving into Owen's spot.
Sophomore Kit Stevens comes off a
redshirt transfer year, sophomore Pam
Finney saw some action last year, and
Nebraska signed freshman Amy Ste
phens from Alliance, Neb. Stephens
averaged nearly 30 points a game in
high school play.
Replacing Powell's quickness and
Parriott's scoring was difficult, but Hill
said junior college transfer Robbie
Garcia will fill that position. She will
play the swing guard position opposite
of Ivy. Junior Ann Costello also has
experience at that position, Hill said.
In order for this team to be success
ful Hill said it needs to be consistent, a
quality lacking from last year's squad.
She said that the attitude is better this
year. She said the team was not emo
tionally together as a group last year.
"A big key for me as a coach is that
this team wants to play together," Hill
said. "The confidence is higher and the
team's much more together."
This year's non-conference schedule
features different kinds of teams than
last year, Hill said. She said last season
the Huskers played five of their first 10
games against top 25 teams in the
country.
"We played excellent games, but we
weren't able to win," she said.
After non-conference play last year
Hill said the team didn't enter Big
Eight play with confidence and she
said a confident team this year can be
competitive for the top four spots. The
Huskers will open the season against
Washburn University Nov. 23 in Lincoln.
Last season Nebraska played in
doubleheaders with the men's teams.
Hill said the women are trying to
depart from doubleheaders this year
and play home games at 7:30 p.m. on
Tuesday nights. She said she hopes the
fans will find the 7:30 time slot more
convenient than the 5:15 p.m. time.
The women will play seven of their
12 games on Tuesday and are offering
season tickets for $10 students and $20
non-students for the seven games.
Tickets can be obtained through the
basketball ticket office.
1 6-2
1-2 in conference play.
Kansas State will be led by senior
captain Renee. Whitney. She ranks
fourth in the conference in hitting per
centage, a category in which Nebraska
players hold the top three spots.
Husker assistant coach Jay Potter
said that Nebraska has a stronger
team.
"We're a much stronger team, and
it's unlikely that they could beat us
three games. Maybe one, but not three,"
he said.
"They have an experienced team
and a team that will stay with us, play
hard and continue to work no matter
what the score," Potter said.
The game will begin at 7:30 in the
Coliseum.
Women's Sports Information Direc
tor Terry Beek is hoping for a good
crowd for tonight's match.
"We're looking for a good crowd
tonight, because we're pushing to host
a first round playoff and maybe even a
regional playoff," he said. "The best
way to do that, is to show the NCAA
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people we can get good attendances at
our matches."
Try outs tonight
for women 's
basketball team
Nebraska women's basketball coach
Kelly Hill said tryouts for the team
will be tonight at 7 p.m. at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center. Hill said
anyone interested should come to
the tryouts dressed in gym clothes
and ready to play.
:
for improvement
Happen expecting pressures
By Jeff Apel
Staff Reporter
Dave Hoppen was the center of
attention at the Nebraska basketball
team's media day Monday at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Hoppen, the Cornhuskers 6-11 cen
ter, was the main topic of discussion by
Husker basketball Coach Moe Iba.
Hoppen is hoping to become Nebras
ka's all-time leading scorer this season
and is also making a run at the all-time
Big Eight career scoring record set last
year by Oklahoma's Wayman Tisdale.
A senior from Omaha, Hoppen needs
135 points to surpass Jerry Fort as the
Cornhusker's all-time leading scorer,
and 914 points to surpass Tisdale and
become the Big Eight's all-time leading
scorer.
"I feel that early on in the season,
there is going to be pressure on him
(Hoppen)," Iba said. "I think you are
going to see him press a little bit early
on just because of all the expectations
on him."
Hoppen, who has just returned from
a summer spent with the United States
national basketball team which played
against several European teams, said
he knows that the pressure will defi
nitely exist when the Cornhuskers offi
cially open their season here Nov. 23
against Wisconsin-Stout.
"It (the pressure) is going to be a
little worse than when I was a fresh
man, although I as a player never felt
the pressure," Hoppen said. "It really
hasn't hit me yet, though, that I might
break all those records this year and
might even be getting paid to do this
(basketball) in a couple of months.
There's no way that I am going to let all
of this get me big-headed, though,
because I know I have to stay on the
same level with everyone else."
Last season, Iba said, opposing teams
keyed on Hoppen to the extent that
sometimes "we almost had to pull guys
off of him."
In hopes of solving this problem, Iba
signed a pair of junior college transfers
in 6-8 Deak Vance and 6-5 Bernard day
last fall.
Although both Vance and Day are
forwards, Iba said that Vance could
also serve as a much needed back-up to
Hoppen at center.
"Deak Vance is a very good inside
player who really does a nice job," Iba
said. "Both Deak and Bernard have the
capability of stepping in right away and
hopefully taking some of that pressure
off Hoppen with their aggressive styles
Invitational garners win
for UNL doubles team
By Patrick Wyatt
Staff Reporter
Nebraska's No. 1 doubles team of
Liz Mooney and Cari Groce placed
first in the NU fall tennis invita
tional held last Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
The matches were played at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center and on
the East Campus courts.
Eight teams participated in the
tournament; Wichita State, Texas
Tech, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota,
Ohio State and Nebraska. No team
points were kept during the tour
nament. Mooney and Groce, seeded first
going into the tournament, defeated
Cathy Heckman and Cindy Water
house of Colorado 6-1, 6-3.
Mooney was also the No. 1 seed in
the singles division. She was defeated
in the first and second rounds to
place fourth. Coach Kathy Hawkins
was pleased with Mooney's perfor
mance. In the No. 2 singles division,
Pennie Wohlford of Iowa defeated
Nebraska's Jill Pisarcik 6-1, 6-3 in
of play."
Iba also welcomed four other for
ward candidates to this year's team in
returnees Bill Jackman, Chris Logan,
Mike Martz and John Matzke.
Although Jackman spent much of
last season alternating with now
graduated forward Ronnie Smith at the
big forward position, Iba insists that
the forward position is wide open espe
cially since Curtis Moore, who started
all 30 games last season for the Huskers
at small forward, has graduated.
"The question mark of this year's
team may be the forward position, both
the small forward and the big forward,"
Iba said. "The key is putting two for
wards in the line-up who can be produc
tive." Jackman, who in nine starts last
season averaged 6.3 points and three
rebounds per game, said he wouldn't
be disturbed if he found himself in a
back-up role.
"I'm in a position where I could be
the sixth or seventh man on this years
team but that is something I expect,"
Jackman, a 6-9 junior, said. "If I do end
up not starting, it may actually help me
in the sense that I think there would be
less pressure on me."
Iba said that Harvey Marshall, a 6-3
senior, could see some playing time at
small forward as Nebraska is planning
to unveil multiple line-ups this season.
"We're in a position this year where
we could have two different line-ups, a
big and a small line-up," Iba said. "This
year's team is definitely going to be
different than last year's (which fin
ished with a 1 6-1 4 mark including a 5-9
mark in the Big Eight) because of all the
experience we have."
The core of the experience, Iba said,
lies not only in Hoppen but also in the
six guards on this year's squad.
Both Marshall and Brian Carr, who
both started all 30 games for the
Huskers at guard last season, return as
does sophomore Joel Sealer.
Although senior Demetrius Bucha
nan has been declared academically
ineligible for the first semester. Iba
said he is looking for either freshman
Darren Brown or freshman Milton Shobe
to assist Sealer in backing up Marshall
and Carr at guard.
"I feel a lot more confident about
the guard situation knowing we have
six guards as compared to three last
year," Iba said. "Hopefully, with the
depth we have this year we will be able
to put a whole year together instead of
having another year like we did last
season."
the final round to place fourth.
Third seeded single Rofcin Gerstein
of Iowa ousted Cari Groce of NU in
the final round of 6-2, 6-1. Groce
placed second.
In the doubles, Julie Herbec and
Cathy Carlson of Texas Tech beat
No. 2 Nebraska team of Pisarcik and.
Vicki Martin, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for first
place. The No. 3 doubles team of
Lisa Brooks and Jenny Mortell of
Nebraska beat Gloria Orue and
Danielle Schilling of Wichita State
6-2, 6-1 to win third place.
Three of the Husker players are
suffering from back injuries. Beverly
Roberts will undergo surgery Tues
day to correct a ruptured disk she
suffered in a match at the Drake
Invitational. Martin is currently suf
fering from a strained back that
occurred during the invitational.
Brooks is possibly going to need
surgery to correct a bone spur in her
back. All are expected to be OK,
according to Hawkins.
The invitational was the last meet
until the Intercollegiate Tennis
Coaches Association tournament in
Provo, Utah November 24