Monday, March 3, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
Sports
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By Doug Carroll
and Chuck Green
Staff Reporters
AMES, Iowa Despite finishing a
distant fourth in the five team Big
Eight tournament last weekend, Ne
braska qualified nine wrestlers for the
NCAA championship March 13-15 in
Iowa City.
Nebraska coach Tim Neumann said
the team had set a goal of qualifying all
team members for the national tour
nament, but came up short when 177
pounder Cody Olsen failed to place.
"I honestly thought we could qualify
all ten," Neumann said, adding that
Olsen was selected by the Big Eight
coaches as an alternate for the NCAA
tournament.
Nebraska was led by Terry Cook, Gil
Sanchez, and Gary Albright who all had
runner-up finishes. Neumann said he
felt the team wrestled with intensity
Logan dominates game
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Kansas State's Joe Wright goes up for a shot with Nebraska's
Chris Logan, right, defending at Ahearn Fieldhouse in Man
hattan, Kan., Saturday. Anthony Bailous is at left.
Huskers end season, 11-16
By Kent Endacott
Senior Reporter
MANHATTAN, Kan. After the
Nebraska women's basketball team's
101-63 loss to Kansas State Saturday,
Nebraska coach Kelly Hill stood outside
of the visitor's locker room, straining to
think of something to tell her players.
Then, she glanced upward and walked
briskly into the locker room with assis
tant coaches Mavis Washington and
Sue Hansen following closely behind.
"Wre're pretty devastated right now,"
Hill said. "Kansas State just played
real well, and we weren't well enough
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and with a desire to qualify for the
national tournament. He said he
thought the team wrestled better on
Saturday than on Sunday, possibly
because they had already qualified for
nationals.
In a close race between Oklahoma
and Iowa State, the Sooners repeated
as team champions this year, edging
the Cyclones 854 and 84'4. Oklahoma
had to rely on 190-pounder Dan Chaid's
7-4 victory over Iowa State's Eric
Voelker to clinch the team title.'Chaid
is the defending national champion in
his weight class.
Oklahoma State finished a distant
third with 67s points, while Nebraska
scored 48 points to finish fourth. Mis
souri finished fifth with 8'2 points.
The meet's pin trophy, awarded to
the athlete with the most number of
pins in the least amount of time, went
to Joe Melchiore of Oklahoma. Melchi
ore, a 1 18-pounder, had the meet's fas
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prepared. I'll take responsibility for
that."
"They've always had the talent They
were a completely different team."
"We tried to pressure and they
burned us pretty bad. And then when
they put on the circus act, the clock
didn't go down fast enough," she said.
The 38-point loss was Nebraska's
worst since the 1981-82 season, when
the Huskers lost to Long Beach State
110-71.
The Lady Wildcats started quickly,
and took an 18-6 lead on a Sue Lieding
jump shot with 13:50 remaining in the
first half. Kansas State then outscored
Nebraska 3 1-20 to lead 49-26 at halftime.
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test pin, a 1:27 fall against Wallace
Dawkins of Nebraska.
The meet's outstanding wrestler
award went to 142-pounder Luke Skove
of Oklahoma State. After defeating Joe
Reynolds of Oklahoma, Skove upset
top-seeded Joe Gibbons of Iowa State
5-2. Gibbons was the defending Big
Eight champion.
Despite sending six wrestlers into
the consolation finals, Nebraska came
up with only one third-place finisher,
Jeff Coltvet at 158 pounds.
Coltvet lost 9-5 to eventual runner
up Johnny Johnson of Oklahoma in his
first match, and then came back to
defeat Pat Jansen of Missouri, 6-1, and
Angelo Cuzalina of Oklahoma State 6-0.
The Cornhuskers didn't fair any bet
ter in the championship matches.
In the 126-pound weight class, Cook
defeated Keith Walton of Oklahoma 10
0 to advance to the championship
- round. Iowa State's Bill Kelly defeated
By Jim Ballard
Staff Reporter
MANHATTAN, Kan. - It was "Jack
Hartman Day" across the state of Kan
sas on Saturday, but the Nebraska bas
ketball team spoiled most of the festiv
ities. They beat Kansas State 64-60.
Hartman, who was appearing in his
last game at Ahearn Fieldhouse, said
that he wasn't disappointed in the
outcome.
"I don't know if there is any particu
lar way it was supposed to end, but I
would have liked to have won the last
one for the seniors," he said. "They
played hard and gave a good effort.
When they do that there won't be any
problems with me."
The victory revenged a 64-54 loss to
Kansas State earlier in the season, the
first game Nebraska played without
Dave Hoppen.
On Saturday, Kansas State played
without the help of its top player, the
Big Eight's leading scorer Norris Cole
man. Coleman was ruled ineligible this
past week by the NCAA.
"Kansas State played a good ball
game under a bad situation without
Norris Coleman," Nebraska coach Moe
Iba said. "They played better in here
than they did in Lincoln."
Nebraska had four players score in
double figures, but Chris Logan, who
scored all seven of his points in the
second half, stole the show.
The 6-5 senior grabbed 17 rebounds,
the most for a player in the Big Eight
this year. It is also the most for a
Nebraska player since Andre Smith
had 17 against Nevada-Las Vegas in the
1978-79 season. He also led the Huskers
with eight assists and possibly made
the biggest play of the game with 3:21
left in the contest.
With Nebraska up by two, Wildcat
Ben Mitchell blocked three Nebraska
shots in a row before Logan made the
Kansas State shot 65 percent from the.
field in the first half compared to 36
percent for Nebraska
The Lady Wildcats continued their
hot-shooting, outscoring Nebraska 52
37 in the second half.
Kansas State coach Matilda Moss
mann credited the win to rebounding
and balanced scoring. Six Kansas State
players scored in double figures, led by
5-9 junior forward Carlisa Thomas, who
scored 17 points. Amanda Holley, Cindy
Durham and Theza Fitzpatrick added
16 points each. The Lady Cats also
outrebounded the Huskers 48-29.
"Everything we were doing offensively
was right," Mossmann said. "We were
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Cook 12-3 in the championship match.
Sanchez, Nebraska's 134-Dound entry,
lost a 5-2 decision to Oklahoma's Nick
Neville in the final round. Nebraska
heavyweight Albright lost to Tom Erick
son of Oklahoma State 4-0 after pinning
Iowa State's John Heropoulos to ad
vance to the championship round.
Albright said he thought he wrestled
"really bad" and let Erickson take too
much control of the match.
"That last period, I was dying,"
Albright said. "I don't know if its from
being sick or what."
The Huskers nine national qualifiers
include: Dawkins, 118-pounds; Cook,
126-pounds; Sanchez, 134 pounds; Chris
Marisette, 142-pounds; Keenan Turner
150 pounds; Coltvet, 158 pounds, John
Meyers, 167 pounds; Fritz Stratten, 1 90
pounds; and Albright, heavyweight.
Nebraska closed out its season rated
No. 12 in the nation with a 16-5 dual
record.
basket and was fouled. He completed
the 'hree-point play, and Kansas State
came no closer than the final score.
Overall, Nebraska outrebounded the
Wildcats 37-23, something the Huskers
haven't done lately.
"The series of three straight blocks
was a great play, and fortunately we
came away with the basket," Iba said.
"We hit the boards down the stretch
and that made the difference."
The rebounding edge offset Kansas
State's 60 percent shooting in the
second half, and 51 percent for the
game. Mitchell and guard Joe Wright
combined to score 46 of the Wildcats 60
points.
"We knew we were going to have to
rely on Ben and Joe. Those things aren't
going to change. We've been relying on
two scorers all season," Hartman said.
Harvey Marshall led the 18-9 Corn
huskers with 16 points, followed by
Bernard Day with 13. Brian Carr and
John Matzke both added 12.
The victory also raised Nebraska's
record to 8-6 in the conference.
However, if Kansas State forfeits all
the games Coleman played in, the
Huskers would move to 9-5, giving them
a share of second place in the Big
Eight.
The chances of that are good unless
Kansas State appeals the forfeits, and
six of the conference's eight faculty
representatives uphold the appeal.
With the forfeit, and an Oklahoma
State win over Oklahoma tonight, Neb
raska could end up with the number
three seed for the Big Eight tourney. A
forfeit win and an Oklahoma victory
would cause a coin toss between the
Huskers and the Sooners to determine
the third seed.
Without the forfeit win, Missouri
would probably be Nebraska's oppo
nent in the first round of the tourna
ment, which starts Friday.
well prepared. We played so poorly in
Lincoln that we had to come out and
play.well."
Earlier this season, Nebraska defeated
Kansas State, 73-70, in Lincoln.
With the loss to Kansas State, Neb
raska finished its season at 1 1-16 overall
and 4-10 in the Big Eight for seventh
place. Kansas State finished its season
with a 15-12 record and a sixth-place
finish in the Big Eight with a 6-8 record.
Nebraska will play Colorado in
Boulder Tuesday night in the first
round of the Big Eight tournament.
"It's upset time for us," Hill said, "if
we want to go anywhere this year."
Thacker
leads
Nebraska
victory
By Jeff Korbelik
Night News Editor
Habits are hard to break.
The Nebraska women's track team
demonstrated Saturday at the Big
Eight Track championships at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center that
they do not intend to break their
habit of winning conference titles.
For the seventh consecutive year
the Nebraska women won the indoor
title scoring 13814 points. Their
nearest competitorwas Kansas State
with 89 points. Kansas was third
scoring 56 points.
For the second consecutive year
Nebraska sprinter Angela Thacker
won the most valuable performer
award. She led the Huskers with
wins in the 60-yard dash, 300-yard
dash and ran a leg in the winning
mile relay.
Thacker's performance was con
sistent, said Nebraska coach Gary
Pepin.
"She sets the tone a little bit for
the whole team," Pepin said. "She's
a good leader. She possesses those
qualities that make a good leader
that everybody on the team looks up
to."
Going into the meet, Pepin said
he thought the team races would be
a lot closer. Thacker said she wasn't
surprised by Nebraska's performance,
and called Pepin a bit of a pessimist.
"I think he comes into these
meets and he is not really sure what
we can do," Thacker said. "So he
comes in a little worried, but we
weren't as worried as he was."
The conference meet was Thacker's
last indoor meet at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center in a Nebraska uni
form. "It (last meet) didn't really have
any bearing on my times because
there were some things I wanted to
do anyway, but it kind of had that
extra. . . that extra feeling," she
said. "There was something there."
Nebraska scored in every event
and had six first place finishes.
They were tied for first after Friday's
competition and had the most qua
lifiers after Friday's preliminaries.
In Friday's competition, Nebraska
sophomore Karen Kruger won the
long jump. Kruger decided to com
pete Wednesday night after the doc
tors gave her the go ahead. She
injured her ankle earlier in the sea
son and reinjured it last week in
practice. She also finished fourth in
the 60-yard hurdles.
Nebraska's Tammy Thurman
finally reached the 6-foot mark in
the high jump with a winning jump
of 6-0'2. Her jump qualifies her for
the national meet later this month.
It also breaks the sports center
record and ties the Big Eight record.
Nebraska's Sha-ri Pendleton won
her second consecutive indoor tri
ple jump title. Pendleton, a senior,
started triple jumping only a year
and a half ago. She began when the
coaches asked her to triple jump in
the Big Eight outdoor meet two
years ago to get some points.
"I tried it and I wound up taking
second," she said. "I jumped almost
38-9. They thought I was doing so
well they wanted me to compete.
That's the same thing that hap
pened to me in the long jump
yesterday."
Pendleton finished fifth in her
first long jump competition.
The mile relay foursome of
Michelle Milling, Vicky Johnson,
Thacker and Linetta Wilson won the
final event of the day, breaking the
Big Eight conference record.
