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Daily Nebraskan
Friday, March 14, 1986
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Nebraska will send nine women and
five men to compete in the NCAA
Indoor Track and Field Championships
in Oklahoma City this weekend.
The women will try to win their
fourth national title in the last six
years. Last year's team finishd fourth
after capturing the title three consecu
tive years. They won two NCAA cham
pionships, and in 1982 they won the
AIAW championships, an equivalent.
The men placed 14th in last year's
national meet. Their best finish ever
was a tie for third in 19(10. They fin
ished tenth in 19S1 and 1977.
All-American senior Angela Thacker
will pace the Nebraska women. She
will compete in the 55-meter dash and
run a leg in the 4 x 400-meter relay. She
is the U.S. record holder in the 300-yard
dash, an event not run at the indoor
championships.
Joining Thacker in the relay will be
sophomore Michelle Milling, freshman
Linetta Wilson and sophomore Vicky
Johnson. Wilson also will compete in
Husker baseball team
crushes Wayne State
By Todd Aron
Staff Reporter
Nebraska overcame early errors and
cruised to a 19-4 win Thursday over
Wayne State at Buck Beltzer field.
The win upped Nebraska's record to
5-0 while the Wildcats dropped to 1-12.
Wayne State jumped to an early 2-0
lead in the first inning, benefitting
from three Nebraska errors.
Right fielder Todd Bunge dropped
lead-off hitter John Strains' fly to right.
Paul Calvert then hit a chopper back to
the pitcher, John Lepley, who turned
and fired the ball over the head of the
second baseman Larry Mims. The third
batter, Kurt Brosamle, singled to left to
load the bases.
Nebraska looked as though it might
escape the inning without any damage
as Mike Hoffart hit into a double play,
but another Nebraska error allowed
Strain and Calvert to score.
Nebraska rebounded in the bottom
of the inning with four runs. Mims
reached first on an error. Bunge
sent a Kevin Hoffart fastball over the
right field fence to tie the score at two
apiece.
Paul Meyers then reached first on a
bunt down the third-base line and later
stole second. Clean-up hitter Rich King
singled to left advancing Meyers to
third. King scored on Mark Kister's
single.
After a scoreless top half of the
second inning the Comhuskers picked
up where they left off. Mims singled
and stole second and scored onBunge's
second homer of the game.
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track chamnpionshiip
the 500-meter run.
Nebraska also qualified the 4 x 800
meter relay team. Milling will run a leg
on the team including freshman Heidi
Christiansen, junior Jill Noel and senior
Nicole Ali. Freshman Sammie Resh is
the alternate.
The only other woman qualifier is
Tammy Thurman in the high jump.
Thurman qualified in the Comhuskers'
last meet, the Big Eight Indoor cham
pionships two weeks ago. Her jump of
(i-O1 broke the school record.
Four of the six qualified men will
compete in field events. The Huskers
will send two shotputters, a longjumper
and a triple jumper.
Nebraska seniors Mike Schnebel and
and Mark Colligan have thrown the
shotput more than 60 feet this year.
Colligan also qualified in the Big Eight
Indoor championships. Neither shot
putter had ever thrown more than 60
feet before this year.
Junior Von Sheppard will represent
the Huskers in the long jump and
In the top of the third inning Neb
raska's pitching quieted the Wildcats.
Phil Leiberher relieved starting pitcher
John Lepley and retired all six batters
he faced.
Nebraska coach John Sanders said
he had decided before the game to
allow each pitcher only two innings of
work so each would be ready for the
upcoming west coast road trip. He said
he plans to do the same for tomorrow's
game.
Offensively, the Huskers picked up
three more runs in the third to take a
9-2 lead.
Pitcher Phil Harrison came on in the
fifth to replace Leiberher and also
retired six straight batters.
In the sixth the Huskers added to
their lead with King's first homerun of
the year, a solo shot deep over the
fence.
In the seventh Nebraska capitalized
on three walks and four hits to score
five more runs upping its lead, 15-2
Wayne State added two runs in the
top of the eighth after pitcher Mike
Dobbs, who relieved Harrison in the
seventh, walked two and gave up one
hit.
Nebraska added four more runs in
the bottom of the inning to close out its
scoring.
Pitcher Stevins Spurgeon came on in
the ninth to close out the victory.
Lepley was credited with the win,
opening his record at 1-0.
The Huskers play Wayne State again
tomorrow at 2 p.m. , at. Buck Beltzer
field
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Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan
Eight indoor competition.
freshman Edrick Floreal in the triple
jump.
Sophomore Regis Humphrey will run
in the 1,000-meter run and junior Jean
Verster in the mile run. Verster is the
only participating ail-American. He
earned his status for his performance
in last year's distance medley relay,
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likes NU football
By Dob Asmussen
Sports Editor
Billy Gordon is a big Nebraska fan.
That wouldn't be so unusual except
that Gordon starts at guard for Western
Kentucky, the Comhuskers' opponent
tonight in their first game of the NCAA
tournament in Charolotte, N.C.
But Gordon is not a Nebraska bas-
ketball fan. His allegiance is to the
Nebraska football team, which he has
followed since high school.
"Personally, I've always liked the
Nebraska football team," said Gordon,
who is from Jackson, Miss. "I'm a big
football fan. Over the years, they've had
a real good offensive team. I love the
style of offense they run. They just dom
inate people."
Gordon, whose brother Lancaster
plays for the Los Angeles Clippers, said
he hasn't had much exposure to Ne
braska's basketball team.
"I saw them on some highlights and
I only remember No. 30 (Bernard Day),"
Gordon said. "Our coaches were telling
us that if they can lose their big man
and still come back, they have to be a
good team."
Gordon said Nebraska basketball
also earns credibility because it plays
in the Big Eight. The Big Eight sent five
teams to this year's NCAA tournament,
"The Big Eight is one of the top
college basketball conferences in the
country," he said,
Gordon leads Western Kentucky in
scoring, averaging 14.2 points per game.
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"I try to be a leader," Gordon said.
"Coach (Clem Haskins) is looking for
scoring."
Western Kentucky rebounded from a
14-14 record In 1084-85 to go 22-7 this
year, The Hilltoppers rose to 19th in the
national rankings before losing lour ol
their last eight regular-season games.
still, Gordon said he is pleased with
the general turnaround.
"I think the turning point for us this
year was when we won our first confer
ence road game," he said. "We had to
prove to ourselves that we could play."
After last season, Gordon said, rum
ors flew that Haskins' job was jeopard
ized. That helped the team this season.
"Down here, they're basketball
crazy," Gordon said. "People were used
to winning and winning big. I guess we
disappointed them last season, and
that got some of the talk started."
"Coach Haskins teaches us a lot,"
Gordon said. "We were trying to win not
only for him, but for ourselves, too."
If Western Kentucky beats Nebraska,
it likely will play cross-state rival Ken
tucky on Sunday. The two teams have
met only once, in the 1971 NCAA tour
nament. The Hilltoppers won that game,
107-83.
"We're not going to worry about Ken
tucky," Gordon said. "We have to play
Nebraska in our first game, not Ken
tucky." Still, Gordon's thoughts couldn't help
but linger: "It would be great to play
Kentucky. It's been a long time."
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