Monday, February 24, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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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.
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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.
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Nebraska's Bill Ferrie and BYU's John Evans wrestle Saturday at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
