Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, January 15, 1987
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Nebraska's Shelly Block drives for a layup Sunday against
Kansas. Block scored six points against the Jayhawks in the
Cornhuskers' 81-78 win.
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Senior lands niclie with NU women
By Rob White
Senior Reporter
When Shelly Block came to Nebraska
in 1983 on a basketball scholarship,
she brought with her all-state honors
and a scoring average of 25 points per
game. Now a senior, Block has not been
able to keep up her point production,
but she has improved her game in other
ways.
"When I was in high school I was
more of an offensive threat," Block
said. "But now I don't have to be
because we have plenty of good girls
who can shoot. I try to be a good passer
on offense and on defense I try to work
really hard. That's something I take a
lot of pride in. I'm pleased with where
I've come since high school."
Block averaged 2.4 points per game
through her first three years at Nebra
ska, entering Wednesday night's Big
Eight matchup with Kansas State she
was averaging 4.4 points per contest.
Block had to look for other ways to
contribute because her size and her
position on the team.
"When I was a freshman and sopho
more I lost a lot of confidence in my
shot because now I was an inside
player," Block said. "I'm only 5-8 and
have to go against girls who are 6-0 or
6-1, and it's tough to shoot over them. I
was really frustrated as a freshman and
sophomore, but now I'm starting to
regain my confidence."
Block's field-goal percentage isn't
sparkling at .426 for this season, but it
is an improvement over her three-year
total of .332.
Nebraska women's basketball coach
Angela Beck, in her first year at the
helm, has influenced Block greatly and
will continue to influence her, Block
said.
"I'm thankful that I've had the
opportunity to play under Coach Beck,"
Block said. "I have a lot of respect for
her. I'm going to go into coaching
myself, and I plan on using a lot of her
philosophies as a coach."
Although Block plans to implement
Beck's concepts in the future, she said
it has taken time for her and her team
mates to adjust to them.
"We had a whole new offensive and
defensive system this year, and it's
really gone pretty smoothly," she said.
"We all have worked really hard at
understanding what we want to do on
offense, and I think we finally have the
defensive concepts in our minds."
Block said Sunday night's conference-opening
win over Kansas has the
Huskers on the right track, and she
said she's confident about their chan
ces in the conference race.
"We have to play as a team, and the
win against Kansas showed that," Block
said. "In the preseason we played some
really tough teams, and I think that has
us where we need' to be for the confer
ence." Nebraska took an 8-6 record into last
night's tilt with Kansas State after
being ranked in the top 20 in December,
but Block said the team is on the
upswing.
"We're getting better, but we have a
ways to go yet," she said.
One reason for the Huskers' early
success was the enthusiasm the team
displayed for their new coach.
"We had a lot of enthusiasm at the
start of theyear, and we might have lost
some of that as the season went on,"
Block said. "We lost to a couple of
teams we probably shouldn't have, but
they were by two or three or seven
points and we struggled for a while."
Block had little trouble deciding to
attend Nebraska when she was recru
ited while at Gothenburg High School.
"I've always had kind of a dream to
go to Nebrska and my parents are Big
Red fans, so my decision was pretty
much made right then," she said.
Block said she also considered
attending the Air Force, Kansas and
Wyoming after her senior year in high
school, which produced a third-place
finish in cross country, a second place
finish in basketball and a state cham
pionship in track.
By Jeff Ape!
Staff Reporter
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MANHATTAN, Kan. The Kansas
State women's basketball team
continued its dominance cf Nebraska
Wednesday niht as Sue Leiding
scored 29 pints to lead the Wildcats
to a 81-76 victory at Ahem Field
house, Kansas State, which now h.is a
21-3 series edge between the testis,
opened up a 12-poir.t Uci in the
first half and then held cff several
Nebraska rallies in the second half
to raise its record to 12-3 overall and
1-1 in Big Eight Conference pby.
The loss dropped Nebraska to 8-7
overall and 1-1 in conference play.
Nebraska women's basketball
coach Angela Beck said the Huskers
were at a psychological disadvantage
, because of last year's loss to the
,7il.kats in Manhattan.
Huskers dropped a 101-67 decision
to Kansas State last season.
"We gave away the game in the
first half by turning the bail over,"
Eeck said. "Our offense wasn't
settled. Cut we got some positive
things out of the game. We got some
igood bench play und w .played witfiy.
a winning attitude."
Ceck said she particularly noticed
strong bench play frcm reserve guard
Kit Stevens and Pam Fiene, both of
whom came off the bench when
starters Maurtice Ivy and Stacy
Imming exited the contest with foul
trouble.
"Without Ivy in most of the game,
I thought our girls played pretty
well tonight," Beck said. "But the
girls did not give up when they
could have."
Nebraska managed to break up a
deficit which reached 12 points in
the first half when guard Amy
Stephens scored 1 2 of her team-high
20 points. Center An;;ie Miller also
scored nine cf her 15 points in the
second half, including an inside
shot with 2:19 remaining in the
content which tied the score at
CO GO.
Over the course cf the game's
final two minutes, Kansas State
center Carlisa Thomas scored four
of her 17 points and the Kansas
State Wildcats managed to build a
lead which reached seven points to
seal the victory before 508 fans.
"The bottom line is, down the
stretch we had a tight ball game and
we didn't win," Beck said. "We
didn't find a wav to win."
Super Bowl ticket prices: Super!
By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES With rabid New
York and Denver fans bidding against
businessmen anxious to do their clients
the biggest favor of the year, the
market price of a $75 ticket to Super
Bowl XXI could hit $1,500, according to
those in the business.
Officially, tickets to the game next
Sunday cost $75 and are distributed
only through the National Football
League. But a coast-to-coast resale bus
iness has sprung up.
The athletic entrepreneurs offer not
only tickets, but package deals that
include airfare, hotel reservations, local
transportation to the Rose Bowl in Pas
adena and even pre game breakfasts.
"We're quoting $495 for a seat right
now," Los Angeles ticket broker Larry
Gold said Wednesday.
" "Yardage (goal-line) seats are
between $650 and $1,100 and glamour
seats on the 50-yard line could go as
high as $1,500," said Gold, whose
Ticket Time has placed newspaper
advertisements to both sell and buy
tickets.
Tickets are being advertised in the
Broncos' hometown for as much as
$1,000, and in Giant country, package
deals with transportation and hotel are
going for up to $3,000.
UNL CULTURE CENTER
The UNL Cult uro Cont or is cu nont ly t akintf
applications for:
CULTURE CENTER SUPERVISOR - to
provide personnel and operational super
vision lor t ho Culture Center.
SALARY: $4.25 per hour
APPOINTMENT: January 5, 1987 - June 1,
1987
Applications may be obtained at the
Campus Activities and Programs Offices,
Room 200 Nebraska Union City Campus
and Room .'300 Nebraska Union East
Campus or at the Culture Center, 333 No.
14th St.
Deadline for application is Friday, January
23, 1987
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