Thursday, April 24, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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Dave BentzDaily Nebraskan
Nebraska's Jeff Taylor slides under the tag of Creighton's Scott Servais Wednesday at Buck Beltzer Field. The Cornhuskers play Creighton again today at 2 p.m.
Mims lifts Huskers over Creighton
By Jeff Ape!
Senior Reporter
Nebraska's Larry Mims became an unlikely
hero in the Huskers' 5-4 victory over Creighton
Wednesday at Buck Beltzer field.
With one out in the bottom of the ninth, Mims
belted an 0-1 pitch from Bluejay pitcher Dave
Hartnett over the left field fence to hand
Nebraska its first victory over Creighton this
season. Mims, the Husker's lead-off hitter, had
only hit one homerun all season.
"I wasn't even swinging for the homerun,"
Mims said. "I just wanted to hit it hard and it was
a pitch up. So it went out
Who do you hate?
"I didn't even realize what had happened
until I got around thrid base," Mims said. "Then,
it hit me because coach (Nebraska coach John
Sanders) started to shake my hand."
The win improved Nebraska's overall record to
27-15, while Creighton fell to 27-20-1.
Sanders said he didn't expect Mims to hit a
homerun.
Mims had been somewhat of a homerun threat
during his two-year career at Indian Hills Junior
College. But at Nebraska he had only five
homeruns entering Wednesday's game in one
and one half years.
"We tried to figure out ways to win," Sanders
said. "And that wasn't one of them."
Mims homerun allowed Nebraska to complete
a comeback in the contest, rallying from a 4-2
deficit.
Creighton jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the
fourth inning, scoring off Nebraska starting
pitcher Phil Harrison.
Phil Meier walked, stole second and advanced
ito third when Harrison was called for a balk. Meier
scored when Tim Osgood grounded out to
shortstop Bruce Wobken.
Nebraska retaliated with two runs in the
bottom of the inning when Mark Kister and Jeff
Taylor drew walks off Creighton pitcher Paul
Schmitz and scored on Richard King's double.
The Bluejays tallied two runs in the top of the
sixth inning and a single run in the seventh, but
Nebraska rallied in the bottom of the seventh
inning to tie the score at 4-4.
Creighton coach Jim Hendry said he was
surprised by Mims homerun, but not surprised
about the game's outcome. Several of Creighton
players were suffering from a campus-wide
illness.
Three were left in Omaha and three more were
playing sick, Hendry said. He said it might be
food poisoning.
"Our guys did a good job of hanging in there,"
Hendry said. "They gave a real good effort."
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "April
s the cruelest month." T.S. Eliot in
"The Wasteland."
Obviously, Eliot wasn't thinking about
baseball when he wrote that line. For
baseball fans, April is the month when
the hopes and dreams of the winter
come alive once more. For most of
them, those dreams will be melted like
so much ice cream by the hot summer
sun. But now, at this moment in time,
none of that matters. Baseball is back.
Goodwin's
Bad Ones
T.S. Eliot could be the official team
Poet for the Los Angeles Dodgers this
season or at least this month. The
Dodgers are currently in last place.
They probably won't stay there long but
while they do it's Christmas in April.
Someone asked me a couple of days
ago why I hated the Dodgers. I really
couldn't come up with a good reason. I
guess it's just the fact that there are
certain evil forces in the universe and
one of them is the Dodgers.
But to give the Buffoons in Blue their
due, the Dodgers or at least Pedro
Guerrero had possibly the funniest
quote of the '80s a couple of years ago.
Steve Sax was having his usual prob
lems at second and someone asked
Pedro, who was playing third at the
time, what he thought about when he
was playing in the field.
"The first thing I'm thinking is, 'I
hope they don't hit the ball to me.' The
second thing is, 'I hope they don't hit it
to Sax.' " Good stuff, Pedro. Demand a
trade when you get off the disabled list.
While the Dodgers are doing their
best to look like the original Mets, the
Windy City teams aren't far behind.
Between them, the White Sox and
the Cubs have won a total of four world
championships, the last being in 1917.
To say they're overdue is like saying
Michael Jordan is an average basket
ball player.
Based on their early season play,
both clubs seem determined to maintain
their tradition of mediocrity. The Cubs'
main problem at the moment is a
lack of hitting. But you have the feeling
that once the hits come, the pitching
will go.
The problem with the White Sox is
that they just aren't very good. They're
the Hiroshima Carp of the American
League West.
After these three, the competition
falls off (or improves depending on
your point of view). The teams that
would usually go here like the
Rangers or the Indians really haven't
had a chance to sink to their true level
yet. And, what's even more alarming,
they actually have some good, young
talent so they might be on their way out
of the swamp. But, for you Indian fans
out there, don't expect them to chal
lenge for the pennant just because they
have Phil Niekro. He's a good pitcher
but he's no Bob Feller.
Lastly, there is the Kansas City Roy
als. They're the worst good team in
baseball. What that means is they'll
win their division by a comfortable
margin, but if they had to compete in
the AL East "The Beasts from the
East" they'd have serious problems.
Essentially, it's the starting pitcher
and George Brett against the other
guys. That's fine for most of the year
but it won't cut it in October.
And finally we'd like to have a little
contest this year. Everyone has their
most hated team or player. The ques
tion is why? To solve this mystery send
me a note, in care of the Daily Neb
raskan, 34 Nebraska Union. Tell me
who your most hated player is and why
But don't write a tome. I'll print the
4best ones, if in fact there are any
responses. Come on folks, just pop it in
campus mail. It won't cost you a thing.
Nee signs two recruits
Nebraska's basketball coach Danny
Nee signed two Hutchinson (Kan.)
Community College athletes to national
letters-of-intent to attend the univer
sity next year.
He announced that Derrick Vick, a
6-6V2 forward from Chicago, 111., and
Henry Buchanan, a 6-1 point guard from
Muncie, Ind., will follow their coach
Gary Bargen to Nebraska. Nee named
Bargen as his third assistant.
Vick was the third-leading scorer
(1 1.9 points per game) and the leading
rebounder (7.5 per game) for a team
that posted a 31-7 record last season
and finished third in the National Jun
ior College Athletic Association Tour
nament. Buchanan was an honorable-mention
all-conference player at Hutchinson
last season and received the Outstand
ing Small Player Award at the NJCAA
Tournament. He averaged 9.1 points
and 4 rebounds per game. He set school
records in assists and steals.
Vick and Buchanan give Nee four
recruits. Jeff Rekeweg of College of
Southern Idaho and Beau Reid of Lan
caster, Ohio, High School, both 6-7 for
wards, signed earlier this month.