Wednesday, April 23, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
. : Sports
By Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter
The stability of the Nebraska football program
and the success of the Big Eight Conference's
men's basketball teams this season were enough
to lure Angela Meek to the women's basketball
coaching job at Nebraska.
Heck, a former coach at Bradley, succeeds
former Cornhusker coach Kelly Hill. Hill resigned
at I he end of Nebraska's 1 117 season this year.
Alt hough she left a Brave program that was on
the upswing. Beck said her choice to become the
second Cornhusker women's coach In four years
wasn't difficult.
"I feel like I just won the lottery," she said at a
news conference in the South Stadium lounge. "I
feel very happy because the Husker program Is
going nowhere but up."
Beck said that she will try t o use the tradition
the Nebraska football program has established
and the new found success of the Big Eight Con
ference men's basketball teams as selling points
for her program.
The Nebraska women's basketball program
has always lacked stability, but Beck said she
hopes to firmly establish It through the help of
the men's athletic program at Nebraska.
"I've stolen off everybody I could get mv hands
on," Beck said. "Nebraska football will help me
because of the tradition. They're No. 1 I
understand that."
Beck said I hat she chose I o leave her coaching
position at Bradley largely because of the pom
seed that the winner of the Gateway Conference
was given in the NCAA tournament.
The Braves started four sophomores on a team
that compiled a 1(1-12 record last season, and
Beck said she knew that things were beginning
to look even brighter at Bradley when she signed
four highly touted recruits on the NCAA's early
signing date last November.
But when the opportunity to coach in the Big
Might conference arose, Beck said, she knew she
couldn't pass It up because of t he vast difference
between the two conferences. Comparably, the
Gateway Conference Is fairly weak, she said.
Beck said she Is confident she can turn the
troubled women's basketball program at Nebraska
around enough that the Cornhuskers will find
themselves one day competing In the NCAA
tournament.
During her first coaching tenure, at Southeast
Missouri State, Beck guided an Indian team,
which was 9-15 during her first year as coach in
1980 81, to a pair of 2()-win seasons the following
two years.
At Bradley, she guided a Brave program which
was I)-18 in 108:1-84 to Hi l l and KM 2 records.
Beck's career coaching record is !)2-78.
"I don't want to talk about concrete wins and
losses," Beck said. "But I think you are going to
see good things happen to the program."
Beck said that once basketball practice beg
ins this October, she will continue to use her
strict disciplinarian coaching style in hopes of
establishing a fust break offense.
Under her leadership, Beck said the Iluskers
will use sound fundamentals to overcome their
opponents.
Beck said that she credits much of her coach
ing success to John Wooden, the former UCLA
basketball coach who captured seven consecu
tive national championships from 1967 to 1973.
It's from people like Wooden, North Carolina
State coach Jim Valvano and Indiana coach
Bobby Knight that Beck said she hopes to borrow
coaching philosophies In establishing herself at
Nebraska.
"I didn't want to feel as If my job was on the
line every year," she said. "I'm a confident Indi
vidual I'm not really scared about this,"
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Nebraska snaps losing streak;
takes two from Northern Colorado
Nebraska's baseball team swept a
doubleheader from Northern Colorado,
10-9 and 1 1-2, Tuesday at Buck Beltzer
Field, ending a four-game losing streak,
In the first game, the Cornhuskers
led 7-3 after four Innings, helped greatly
by a five-run third inning. But Northern
Colorado came back, scoring five runs
in the top of the fifth, including a grand
slam home run by catcher Tori Toma
sino. Northern Colorado took the lead,
8-7.
in the bottom of the sixth inning,
Nebraska regained the lead, 9-8, on two
runs, and held on from there for the
win. Both teams traded runs in the
eighth inning for the final score.
Husker right-hander Phil Goguen
was credited with the win, raising his
season record to 2-0. Rocky Johnson
recorded the save.
Nebraska dominated the second
game, taking a 7-1 lead after two
innings. Leading 2-1 after the first
inning, Nebraska led off the Inning with
a homerun by Rich King, his eighth of
the season. Nebraska baserunners stole
five bases in the inning advancing to
scoring positions. Nebraska left only
one runner on base in the inning.
Mark Klster added to Nebraska's final
score, knocking a three-run homer over
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the eighth Inning.
John Lepley was credited with the
win for the Huskers, raising his record
to 2-1.
Coach John Sanders said he was
pleased with the performance of his
Nebraska team.
"This was an Important win for us at
this point in the season," Sanders said.
"We got to play a Division I team in the
middle of the week, and we don't usu
ally get to do that. They gave It their
best shot and we turned it around."
Sanders said that this is the time of
the season when the team should re
evaluate what needs to be done for the
remainder of the season, both on a
team and an individual basis.
Nebraska will host Creighton Wed
nesday and Thursday.
Softball team shuts out
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defensive struggle. Nebraska didn't
score until the third inning, using
three hits to garner three runs.
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scored five runs to put the game
away. Deardorff recorded 10 strike
outs in the win.
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