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Team ready
By Rich Cooper
Staff Reporter
Nebraska volleyball coach Terry Pet
tit said the odds are good that the
Cornhuskers will play their first game
of the 1986 NCAA Tournament in the
Nebraska Coliseum on Dec. 5.
The No. 7-ranked Huskers won their
11th consecutive Big Eight champion
ship by defeating Oklahoma 15-:J, 15-10,
1 5(5 Sunday afternoon at Penn Valley
Community College in Kansas City.
Enid Sehonewise led Nebraska with
15 kills against the Sooners while
Karen Dahlgren and Kathi DeBoer added
14 and nine kills, respectively.
Pettit said his team played well in
both matches but at times seemed
unorganized.
"We have been dominating the Big
Eight throughout the year," Pettit said.
"We're the type of team that can play
unorganized and still pull things
together to win important matches,
like the Big Eight championship."
In Nebraska's first match of the
tournament against Iowa State, the
Huskers lost their first game 15-12.
Behind DeBoer's 21 kills and Dahlgren's
and Schonewise's efforts, through,
Nebraska rolled to a 15-10, 15-2, 15-8
victory to advance to the final where
they defeated Oklahoma.
Pettit said Nebraska should get the
first game of the NCAA Tournament at
home because they're the No. 1 team in
their region. Pettit said he doesn't
know whom Nebraska will play.
; Nebraska, 22-4, has one more match
left in their 1986 regular season, when
they host Miami of Ohio Saturday at 2
p.m. in the Nebraska Coliseum.
Pettit said Miami of Ohio is a very
good team. The Redskins have been
ranked as high as No. 6 in Nebraska's
region. Miami-Ohio finished second in
the Mid. American Conference with a
J 3-2 conference record behind Western
Michigan. Miami of Ohio is 27-7 overall
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By Jim Ballard
Senior Reporter
Nebraska men's basketball team will
head west to open its regular season.
The Cornhuskers will travel to Califor
nia, to take on the Calfornia-Irvine
Anteaters this Friday.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said he
hasn't seen the Anteat ers play, but be
knows his players are ready.
"We're looking forward to getting
started. It's been a long pre-season,"
Nee said. "We're excited about playing
someone else, because practice gets
old."
Cal-Irvine was 17-13 a year ago and
qualified for the National Invitational
Tournament. They also finished second
We're looking
forward to getting
started. It's been
a long pre-season.'
Nee
in their conference, handing Nevada
Las Vegas its only two league losses.
Last year, Nebraska suffered its first
loss of the season at the hands of the
Anteaters, as they upset the Huskers
97-80 in the Bob Devaney Sports Cen
ter. This year, they'll be on Cal-Irvine's
home court a nice place to play
according to Nee.
"We're looking forward to playing
there. I've been there and it's a nice
place, it's really sharp," Nee said.
The Anteaters have two players listed
at 6' 8": Starting center Mike Doktorc
zyk and forward Wayne Engelstad. The
other three are returning starters from
last season. They include forward Mike
Hess and guards Joe Buchanan and
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Nebraska exhibition win. Day will try to lead the Huskers past Cal-Irvine Friday night.
Scott Brooks. Brooks is the leading
scorer returning from last year, when
he averaged more than 10 points a
game.
Nee said the Huskers are reasonably
healthy entering Friday's game. Joel
Sealer and Mike Martz are getting back
into playing from after early injuries
while Richard Van Poelgeest is still out
with a broken foot.
"Our kids' attitudes have been great
and each week we've been improving,"
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Nee said. "We've got a long way to go,
but everybody's been working hard."
In exhibition action, Irvine handed
the Norwegian National team a 1 13-101
loss. The same Norwegian team beat
Oregon 91-90. The Ducks will be
Nebraska's opponent in the Huskers'
home-opener on Monday.
Oregon returns four starters from
last year's team which finished 11-17.
They are led by 6-4 junior guard Anthony
Taylor, who was an honorable mention
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By Rob White
Staff Reporter
Nebraska women's basketball team
opens its season this weekend by host
ing the Nebraska Invitat iona1. Corn
husker coach Angela Beck said that her
squad is ready.
"I think we'll win the tournament,"
she said. "1 don't mean to be boisterous
or anything like that, but winning the
tournament is our goal. Everyone has
done a really good job for us and we'll
be ready to play."
Montana State, Ball State and Tulsa
are the three teams that will travel to
Lincoln for the Firday-Saturday tour
nament and, like NT, all are adjusting
to new coaches.
"You might want to call it the 'New
Coaches' Classic,' " Beck said. "All
three of our opponents have had new
leadership in the last one or two years.
"I think we have more experience
than the other teams since we've had
two Red-White scrimmages and our
game with the Yugoslavian team, and
we had good crowds at all of them,"
Beck said. "We ve been able to scrim- Beck said. "We defined roles for eve
mage a lot with this team and that was ryone last week and they seem to be
one of our goals, because I really didn't happy with them. But Ivy is the catalyst
know what to expect from them." of our attack and she has really teen a
Montana State takes on Ball State in team player." "
Friday night's 6 p.m. opener, with the
Huskers playing Tulsa at 8 p.m. It will
be the first regular season action for all
four teams.
Beck said she expects to face Mon
tana State in the final game Saturday.
"Montana State should be the
toughest team besides us," Beck said.
"These are, really, lower level Division I
teams and they're all young teams.
Tulsa starts three freshmen and their
inexperience in both the front and
back courts should hurt them. The
probably aren't ready to play at this
level yet."
One newcomer to the Tulsa squad is
5-9 junior Cherylie Meppelink, who
averaged over 23 points per game at
Seattle Pacific in 1984-85 before trans-
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All-Pac Ten player a year ago. The
Ducks open their season this Saturday
against Wyoming.
After the Oregon game, Nebraska
goes on the road for their next three
games at Creighton, Southern Illionois
and Texas A&M.
"We play four out of our first five
games on the road and that's a very
difficult way to start a season," Nee
said. "Playing on the road in college
basketball is very t ough."
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f erring to Tulsa. Meppelink was No. " in
the nation among all NAIA players and
earned honorable mention All-America
honors.
"I'm not. t tying to be over confident,"
Beck said, "but I think they'll need
more than just one girl to get the job
done. They could surprise me, though."
Ball State finished a 13-14 season
and has All-America candidate Emma
Jones returning. Jones averaged 20.3
points per game in 1985-S!).
"Ball State had one of their best
season's ever last year." Bock said,
"but it was still under .-lOO and they're
struggling to do the things at the level
they need to."
"Montana State had a good season
last year, they played aboe ."(H), and
they are one of the better teams in their
conference (Mountain West)," Beck
said.
The Nebraska attack is led once
again by All-America candidate Maur
tice Ivy, but Beck said that she is look
ing for more balance from her offense.
"We've got six kids that we expect to
be scorers and produce points for us,"
Beck said she was especially pleased
with Ivy's performance in the club's
final Red-White scrimmage.
"She was 10 for 12 from the field and
her shot selection and control of the
offense was excellent," Beck said. "I
think that before there was a lot of
pressure put on her to do more on
offense, but now we have more kids to
score."
Beck said she is also encouraged by
her team's defensive efforts.
"Some of our defensive systems look
good," Beck said. "I think this team did
a good job of learning a new system
quickly and is further along than any of
my past teams at this point. They have a
good self-concept about the team and a
lot of pride and I'm excited."
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