uesday, November 5, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
Page 9
iNU runner places seventh at Bi
py Richard Cooper
Staff Report
' iTiinT A
Q)bvMDui uvui itoiua w c were up against JUS
Verster, from Sasolburg, South Africa, more depth then we did today."
i hot rare of the season as he Nebra.sk a's Rrvnn risrirumo
ran , , - j niu me uiujr
'finished seventh at the Big Eight Cross other Comhusker to finish in the top
Country championsmps oamruay. cv. ne nnisnea lotn.
j Nebraska cross country coach Jay Dirksen said Leon Havenga, a fresh-
Dirksen said Verster ran a smart race, man from-Sasolburg, South Africa who
1 which is very hard when there is so finished 22nd, had been bothered by
involved, he said. the flu and ronlrl h HV0 rtm hot tar '
The Cornhuskers finished fifth over- The Big Eight Men's cross country
all in the race. Dirksen said it was a champion was Colorado, which blew
realistic finish for his team because out the rest of the Big Eight teams by
before the meet they were picked to placing all five of their runners in the
finish in that same spot. top 20. Three finished in the top 10.
Tisdale
By the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Larry Brown's
back, Wayman Tisdale's not.
That, in brief, sums up the Big Eight
basketball situation this season.
Brown, the much-traveled University
of Kansas coach, returns for his third
Jayhawk season and finds his team the
pre season favorite among writers and
broadcasters who cover the conference.
Tisdale, theBig Eight's all-time scor-
j ing leader with 2,661 points in three
seasons at Ukianoma, aeciaea 10 pass
up his final year of eligibility to turn
professional.
The Sooners, conference champions
the past two seasons, are picked second
in the poll, but Coach Billy Tubbs has
Missouri gets
first victory
at Iowa State
By the Associated Press
AMES, Iowa Darrell Wallace
scored on a 1-yard run with 1 minute, 1 1
seconds left and Warren Seitz followed
with a two-point conversion pass to
Herbert Johnson to give Missouri its
first victory of the season, 28-27 over
Iowa State in Big Eight Conference
football Saturday.
Missouri rallied from a 24-14 halftime
deficit to break a 10-game losing streak
that dated back to last season, the
longest in school history, and give first
year Coach Woody Widenhofer a long
awaited victory.
The Tigers are 1-7 overall and 1-3 in
theBig Eight. Iowa State, losing for the
fifth time in the last six games, fell to
3-5 and 1-3.
Missouri drove 69 yards in eight
plays to get the winning points after
Rick Frank's 30-yard field goal gave
Iowa State a 27-20 lead with 2:09 left.
The big play was Seitz's 37-yard comple
tion to Johnson, which put the ball at
the Iowa State 8.
Wallace then ran for 4 yards and
Seitz for 3 before Wallace squeezed
through a hole in the right side of the
line for the touchdown.
s Iowa State dominated the first two
i quarters, but the Cyclones' offense
j stagnated in the second half and Mis-
I souri, capitalizing on two turnovers,
' kept chipping away until it pulled out
; the victory. Iowa State's last hopes
I ended when Frank was short on a 57-
j yard field goal attempt as time expired.
Missouri's Thomas Whelihan kicked
a 36-yard field goal in the third quarter
to cut the ISU lead to 24-17 and booted
a 30-yarder to make it 24-20 with 5:35
left in the game.
The first kick came six plays after a
Missouri punt hit Iowa State's Randy
Richards in the helmet and Cory Cath
cart recovered for the Tigers at the
Cyclone 35. Bo Sherrill's fumble re
covery at the Iowa State 18 set up the
second kick.
Missouri 14..0..3..1 1:28
Iowa St. 7..17..0..3:27 .
S Poprilo 2 run (Frank kick)
MU Thetford 52 pass from Seitz (Wheli
han kick)
MU Wallace 1 run (Whelihan kick)
IS FG Frank 19
ISEspinoza 37 run (Frank kick)
IS Suffren 5 pass from Espinoza (Frank
KICK)
MU FG Whelihan 36
MU FG Whelihan 30
J IS FG Frank 35
M Ml! Wallow 1 M-u e-
- . uv,c i iwi ijuiuisun pass irom
Seitz)
A 40, 015
"The team ran the best nnwihio
they could," Dirksen said. "We had
SOme inilirv nrnhoma on1 u
Mo. Nebraska s Jean teams we were ud acainst int
gEig
Oklahoma State, which finished sec
ond last year, scored 72 points to edge
Kansas State for second with 76 points.
Iowa State, the Big Eight Champions
tk. !.. ... r.-t..i...l ii i.l
his best race of the season as he Nebraska's Bryan Clark was the only 78 points. Nebraska had 99 points.
Dirksen said the times were very
slow because the course was wet and
slippery from a week of rain,
nt
Brown
The individual race was close until
the last 1,000 meters, when Iowa State's
Yobes Ondieki broke away from the
front pack.
Ondieki covered the course in 31:03.7,
almost a minute and a half off the
course record set by Colorado's Mark
Scrutton In 1982. Oklahoma State's Joe
Metcalf finished second in front of
Colorado's Dan Reese and teammate
Paul Lark in.
Verster said he started out slowly at
the beginning of the race, but once he
established contact with the front pack
he said he felt well.
He said the Big Eight meet was the
toughest race he had run all season
because of the hilly course and the
caliber of runners at the meet.
Dirksen said he agreed with Verster.
He pointed to Ondieki, who has
established himself as one of the top
runners in the nat ion.
ht meet
"Ondieki is a pretty outstanding
runner. He was virtually unstoppable in
today's race," Dirksen said. "I think he
has a good chance of winning the
national individual title at the NCAA's
since he finished third last year."
Dirksen said his team still has an
outside chance of making the NCAA
Cross Country Championships, which
will take place Nov. 25 in Milwaukee.
He said he thinks they can qualify at
least one or two people.
Verster and Clark have the best shot
of going to the NCAA's, he said, but
first they have to run well at the
District Five meet Nov. 16 at Stillwater,
Okla.
ins 'the e
his eye on a third straight title even
without Tisdale.
"Hopefully, we're at the point now
where we have great players going
through our program who have to be
replaced every year," Tubbs said Sun
day as he, Brown and the other Big
Eight coaches gathered for their annual
pre season press day. "This one just
had to be replaced a year sooner than I
would have liked."
Nobody really expected that Brown
wouldn't be back at Kansas, but much
has been made of the fact that he left
hi3 last two jobs at UCLA and with the
A's New Jersey Nets after just two
years.
"We're starting our third year here,"
Brown said. "That in itself has been
kind of a blessing. It's the first time I
can remember I've been anywhere three
years. To have the kids come back and
have a pretty good understanding of
what you're trying to accomplish really
makes things easier."
Brown said he is both flattered and
puzzled to have the Jayhawks picked
among the nation's top 10 teams in
some pre-season polls, noting that some
teams who finished ahead of them last
year "have everybody back and had
great recruiting years."
Nebraska, picked third in the pre
season poll, got into trouble last month
when the university barred Coach Moe
Iba and hs assistants from practice for
five days for practicing illegally before
Oct. 15.
"It was an unfortunate thing," said
Iba. "1 hope it's behind us and we can
go on and have a good basketball
season."
The Cornhuskers will again build
around Dave Hoppen, their 6-foot-ll
ason to begin
i if -
Tnoto courtesy Big Eight Otitic
orr
center, who averaged 23.5 points for a
16-14 team last season.
"But this year, we've got experienced
players around Hoppen, where a year
ago we didn't," Iba said.
Iowa State's Johnny Orr, whose
Cyclones breezed by Kansas in the Big
Eight tournament last season and then
lost by two points to Oklahoma in the
championship game, said he has more
depth this year than any time since
arriving in 1981 from Michigan.
"We think this is our best chance
since I've been here to make a run for
the title," said Orr, adding that fan
enthusiasm is at a high pitch after the
team made the NCAA tournament for
the first time in 41 years.
The Cyclones must fill a scoring gap
left by the graduation of Barry Stevens,
second to Tisdale in Big Eight career
scoring with 2,190 points. Orr said he
expects a more balanced attack, and
INK . '$
Tubbs
points to guard Jeff Hornacek as "one
of the greatest players I've ever
coached."
Missouri's Norm Stewart said he
could have the best group of freshmen
players since 1973 to go with a nucleus
consisting of Jeff Strong, Derrick Chie
vous and Dan Bingenheimer.
Stewart, who said he may have been
doing "a little too much coaching" the
last couple of years, has switched to
shorter practices and even occasional
days off.
"Basically, the young men know how
to play the game," he said. "You can't
get it all done in one day. You can't get
it all done in one year."
At Colorado, Coach Tom Apke said
the Buffaloes will be much more athletic
this year, helped by recruiting and a
new weight training program.
"Our biggest problem a year ago was
lack of athletic ability," he said. "When
Brown
we were playing well, we could play
with anybody in the league. When we
were just a little off, we weren't very
competitive."
Kansas State's Jack Hartman has
eight new faces among his 13 scholar
ship athletes,
"I've been pleased with our pro
gress, but we've got a great deal more
material to put in, offensively and def
ensively," said Hartman, who missed
the second half of last season after
undergoing heart surgery.
Paul Hansen of Oklahoma State is
trying to rebound from what he called
his most frustrating season.
"I thought I had a fourth-place ball
club but I didn't develop it like I
should have," said Hansen, whose Cow
boys are picked to finish last again this
year. "There was no leadership. This
year, I'm still looking for that leadership."
"IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME TO HAVE
MY CONTACT LENSES FITTED PROPERLY.
Like most people, I'm on the go alot. I tried contact lenses a
few years ago and was never really happy. Wearing contacts
helped my vision but they became a hassle because of the mild
discomfort and occasional fuzzy vision.
I asked several of my friends who wear contacts to recom
mend a specialist, and moM of them recommended Dr. Powell
at the International Contact Lens Clinic
I went to their clinic for a no charge consultation to talk about
new contact lenses. Their office offers complete contact lens services
and complete optical services including:
thorough examination, individual fitting, and close supervision
curbside parking, convenient central Lincoln location
appointments available evenings, lunch hours, and Saturdays
eight weeX trial program for
close observation of comfort and eye health
lens strength or fitting modification if indicated
no charge for damaged lenses
spare glasses, sunglasses and special solutions for sensitive eyes
a continuing care program future upgrading of contact
lenses as scientific progress is made.
I decided to have them fit my eyes and I was very comfortable with
their professional approach, their fees, and their thoroughness.
Everyone in their oftice helped me become a successful wearer. I
consider their office outstanding, and I recommend them to all my
friends. . . , .
20Month Budget Plan (no interest or carrying charge)
CSITSp
3200 St. 475
1030
I i
I
z W ., 1