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By Geoff Goodwin
Staff Reporter
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Chris Welsch
Copy Desk Chief
"The men of Sigma Chi are
note in their second decade of
service to the cause of emotion
(iU) disturbed and learning dis
abled children, through their
support of the Wallace Village in
Colorado. "
-John Wayne, quoted in fight
program.
John Wayne would have been proud
if he could have seen the fights Friday
night, when 18 fraternity men went toe-to-toe
for charity at the 16th Annual
Sigma Chi Fight Night.
About 1,200 people attended the
fights at the Agriculture Hall on the
state fair grounds.
While fights are always violent, the
screaming and chanting of the beer
drinking crowd spurred boxers into
particularly savage fisticuffs.
Some fighters obviously hadn't
trained long, boxing with their hands
low, blocking punches with their faces.
The atmosphere, too, differed from a
typical "smoker." Rock music blared
from a big stereo system at one side of
the auditorium. The crowd stood on
chairs, screaming expletives at chal
lengers, cheering favorites.
It did have some of the atmosphere
of the Larry Holmes Michael Spinks
bout, at least in the form of ring girl
Jacki McCarty. McCarty, a model, para
ded around the ring between rounds to
the beat of a lewd chant from the male
members of the audience.
McCarty sai'd she was get ting $25 an
hour for the event. She said she found
the attention less than flattering.
The bloodiest fight of the night came
in the first bout. Nolan Dickey of Delta
Tau Delta opened a cut under the left
eye of Mike Schlemmer of Kappa Sigma.
Dickey pounded away, causing the eye
to swell almost shut. Finally, he struck
Schlemmer's eye with a crashing right
that splattered observers at ringside
with blood.
Surprisingly, Schlemmer came back
to floor Dickey, but Dickey finally won
the fight.
The audience was often split by
house loyalties. House members would
move toward the ring when their cham
pion was in the ring, chanting his name
and trying to drown out the chants of
the other house members.
The unofficial fight results:
Paul Riddle, Chi Phi, over Jeff Johnson,
Sigma Chi.
Jeff Ahl, Phi Kappa Psi overShon Blair,
Chi Phi.
Mark Munn, Beta Kappa Psi over Mike
Beecham, Chi Phi.
Jim Lovely, Alpha Tau Omega over
Shane Bradford, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Craig Dirrim, Sigma Chi over Travis
Stoller, Theta Xi.
Scott Philpot, Delta Tau Delta over
Craig Christensen, Beta Sigma Psi.
Gerald Hraban, Alpha Tau Omega over
Pat Casey, Phi Kappa Psi.
The amount raised for charity was
not calculated at press time.
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Shane Bradford, right, lands a punch to the face of Jim Lovely at Friday's Sigma Chi Greek Fight
Night at Agriculture Hall. Bradford represented Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Lovely fought for
Alpha Tau Omega. Lovely knocked out Bradford in the second round.
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second in the Big Eight tournament. Nebraska
coach Wayne Baigle said the Huskers will
probably play Kansas State in the tourna
ment as a result of the loss. Since the Big
Eight conference. only has seven Softball
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Tuesdiy against Kearney State. The game
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The Huskers then have a few days elf until
the start of the Big Eight tournament.
Nebraska drops
three in series
with Oklahoma
By Doug Ferguson
The Oklahoma Daily
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA - Nebraska's
chances of capturing its first Big Eight confer
ence baseball title since 1950 darkened Sunday
when the Oklahoma Sooners completed a three
game sweep of the Cornhuskers.
The Huskers, now 10-5 in conference play,
dropped the final two games of the three game
series at All Sports Stadium, 4-3 and 5-0.
On Friday, Nebraska dropped a 12-6 decision
to the conference-leading Sooners.
"We lost four good ballgames to two good
opponents," Nebraska baseball coach John
Sanders said of the Huskers weekend losses to
Oklahoma and Wichita State. "We have to get
back and play good baseball."
In Sunday's first game, Nebraska squandered
a 3-1 lead when the Sooners tallied three runs off
Husker relief pitcher Rocky Johnson in the bot
tom of the ninth inning.
Oklahoma, now 28-15, rallied when pinch hit
ter Mike Eckenrode walked and both Glenn Sul
livan and Baine Brooks singled to load the bases.
The Sooners scored their first run of the
inning when third baseman Jim Richardson drew
a walk off Gross, and Kevin Burdick followed
with the game-winning hit when he slashed a
two-out single to score both Sullivan and Brooks.
Although he accused his squad of just going
through the motions in Sunday's first game,
Oklahoma coach Enos Semore said he was
pleased with the Sooners come-from-behind
victory.
"A few things went wrong today," Semore
said. "And a few things went right."
In Sunday's second game, Oklahoma's Sher
man Collins tossed a four-hit shutout to com
plete the Sooners three-game sweep of the
Huskers.
Collins, a junior, got all the support he needed
in the contest when Oklahoma touched Ne
braska starting pitcher Mark Honnor for four
runs in the bottom of the third inning.
A pair of walks by Honnor and a Husker error
loaded the bases for the Sooners, and Richard
son followed with a single which scored Tony
Gwinn.
Nebraska catcher Burt Beattie was then ejected
from the contest when he protested Burdick's
being called safe at first on a fielders choice. The
call left runners at the corners for the Sooners.
John Toal then cracked a single to right fielu
which scored Brooks, and Kevin Pearson fol
lowed with a double which scored both Burdick
and Toal.
