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Monday, February 24, 1986 Daily Nebraskan Page 9 first-half fouls,, coui-works' NU By Jeff Korbelik Night News Editor AMES, Iowa The crowd waited for a Chris Logan-Jeff Grayer rematch dur ing the Nebraska-Iowa State basket ball game Saturday at Hilton Coliseum. What it got was an 81-73 Iowa State victory. The crowd members weren't even sure they were going to get that for the first 30 minutes of the game. Iowa State's coach Johnny Orr said he told the Cyclones at halftime that they had to out-work the Huskers. "If you get lazy, you'll get beat," he said. "Moe (Iba has) done a heck of a job." The fans' response was due to the Huskers' 75-58 victory over the Cyclones in Lincoln. The game was marred by a bench-clearing brawl in which Nebras ka's Logan and Grayer, Iowa State's leading scorer, were ejected from the game. The officials made sure things didn't get out of hand Saturday by whistling 47 fouls. Three players fouled out Nebraska's Logan with 1:01 left in the game, Iowa State's center Sam Hill with 8:50 left and forward Ron Virgil with 1:21 left. Iowa State's foul situation helped the Huskers' 38-35 first-half lead. The Cyclones committed 14 first-half fouls and the Huskers converted 1 2 of 1 8 free throws. Iowa State didn't shoot its first free throw until less than three min utes left in the first half. The Huskers committed only eight first-half fouls and Iowa State hit one of four free throws. "For a while, everything was going wrong for us," Orr said. "Nothing would go right. It seemed like for a long Jime we didn't do anything. In the second half we ran our offense better. We got a few better shots and fortunately we made them." Led by the play of freshman reserve Elmer Robinson, the Cyclones turned the game around in the second half. Robinson, a 6-5 forward, came off the bench to score 16 second-half points, including hitting all eight of his free throws. Robinson's five-foot bank shot gave the Cyclones their first lead of the game, 56-54, with 9:51 left in the game. Nebraska coach Moe Iba said his team's lack of rebounding made the difference in the game. The Cyclones outrebounded the Huskers 36-24. "At halftime we knew what was hurt ing us and they went ahead and hurt us the second half and their guards killed us on our defensive boards," Iba said. Iowa State guards grabbed nine of the team's rebounds. "You gotta work your tail off and get them off the boards and all five of us have to be going after the ball," Iba said. "Our guards and even some of our bigger people. . .one guy would be going after it and they would think he was going to get it. We didn't have all five going after the ball." Nebraska guard Brian Carr, who led all scorers with a career high 22 points, said the Huskers faced a different Iowa State team than the one they defeated a month ago. "They have a lot of depth and they're a pretty good team," Carr said. "They must have been really flat when they came to Lincoln." Nebraska's Bernard Day scored 17 points and grabbed six rebounds. Har vey Marshall was the only other Husker . in double figures with 15 points. The Cyclones had three of their star ters in double figures. Grayer, the Big Eight's fourth leading scorer, led the team with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Jeff Hornacek scored 1 1 and Ron Virgil fx. 7i aft ;' At I" 'V Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan Nebraska's Chris Logan brings down a rebound Saturday against Iowa State at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. Iowa State's David Moss defends on the play. scored 10. Center David Moss came off The victory was Iowa State's 16th over top 10-rated Kansas and Okla the bench to score 1 2 points. consecutive at home and included wins homa this season. Wrestling team ends regular season with wins By Doug Carroll Staff Reporter It took come-from-behind wins to do it, but the Nebraska wrestling team has won its last three duals of the season to finish with a 16-5 record. Wednesday the Cornhuskers traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, to wrestle against Drake and found themselves down 13-0 after three matches. Nebraska then took the lead 14-13 when Gil Sanchez, Keenan Turner and Jeff Coltvet won, but Drake won the next two matches to take a five-point lead, 19-14. That put Nebraska in a precarious position. A loss in either of the next two matches would mean defeat for the team. Nebraska's Fritz Strat ton, a 190-pounder, kept his team's hopes alive with a 5-5 tie against Drake's Barry Preslaski. The tie gave each team two points. Nebraska could still win if it could get a pin from its heavyweight, Gary Albright. . Albright, a senior from Billings, Mont., didn't let the suspense build for long. He pinned Drake's Pat Meyer in 1:50 for the team win and his 34th victory this year. After the Drake dual, Nebraska returned to Lincoln to battle Notre Dame and Brigham Young in two more duals Saturday. The first dual of the afternoon pitted Nebraska against Notre Dame, a team loaded with fresh men. The tight dual kept the fans' heads swivel ing as two mats were used to speed up the duals. While the first five lower-weight classes wrestled on one mat, the top five weight classes wrestled on another. In the first dual, Nebraska took an early 7-0 lead with wins by Wallace Dawkins at 118 pounds, and Coltvet at 158 pounds. Nebraska then watched its lead disappear as Notre Dame won the next four matches to go up 16-7. Chris Marisette, Nebraska's 142-pounder, then got his team back on the winning track with a 12-5 victory over Notre Dame's Pat Boyd. Nebraska then used a 4-1 decision by 190-pounder Stratton and a forfeit to Albright to take a 19-16 lead. Bill Ferrie, a 150-pounder, then pinned Notre Dame's Ron Wisniewski to finish out the scoring, 25-16. Nebraska's last dual of the day, and the sea son, was even closer. Nebraska won the last four matches to defeat BYU 23-19. After a decision by Coltvet at 158 pounds to start the dual off, Nebraska lost the next four matches to go down 17-5 against the Cougars. After Cody Olson drew with BYU's Mark Willis at 177 pounds, senior Marisette won a 4-3 decision over Morgan Woodhouse of BYU, despite wres tling with an injured shoulder. The reason Marisette wrestled was "because we needed it" he said. It was also Marisette's last home meet of his career. "I wrestled because I thought I could beat him even with my bad shoulder," Marisette said. "I didn't think he was that tough, until I wrestled him." After Marisette's victory, Stratton also won in another class match over BYU's Ron Hansen, 6-5. This brought the team score to 19-13 in favor of BYU. Nebraska needed at least six points in the last two matches of the day to earn a tie. Nebraska got those six points in just over two and a half minutes as Albright recorded his 36th win of the year by pinning BYU's heavyweight in 2:31. This was also Albright's last home appear ance. Albright's pin tied the team score at 19-19, setting the stage for Bill Ferrie to win the dual for Nebraska. Ferrie, a reserve who was wrestling in the place of Keenan Turner, was already ahead by points when Albright won. He went on to win easily, 15-6. Nebraska coach Tim Neumann said he was happy with the two wins Saturday, which he said gave the team its goal of 16 dual victories for the season. "I expected to lose them both," he said. "We were happy to get out of here with our lives." Neumann also said his wrestlers showed fight for the first time in two weeks. The team has been battling illnesses, and Neumann said his team wrestled "better than I had hoped for." Nebraska's next wrestling meet will be the Big Eight championships next weekend in Ames, Iowa. The conference is the qualifying meet for the NCAA tournament, and Neumann said the team is working hard to qualify as many people as it can for the national tournament. ' ' I ' ''"ft i ; t j S t f ,w S -., ' " . vV-r-J " ... , ,.'"": - n ' - Paul VonderlageDaily Nebraskan Nebraska's Bill Ferrie and BYU's John Evans wrestle Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.