Friday, January 23, 1987
Daily Nebraskan
Page 5
Jayiu&wte tonnnce BJU
By Chuck Green
Sports Editor
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Nebraska's 86
65 loss to Kansas Thursday night at the
Allen Fieldhouse was both a new and
old experience for the Cornhuskers.
The loss marked the first time the
Nebraska men's basketball team had
lost back-to-back games this season.
Nebraska dropped a 91-75 loss to Iowa
State on Tuesday.
But, unfortunately for the Huskers,
losing to Kansas is nothing new.
Nebraska has now lost its last eight
games to Kansas.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said he
was impressed by the Jayhawks.
"As far as the teams we've played,"
he said, "they're the best. The game
could have been a lot worse if we had
laid down."
Nebraska opened the scoring on a
jump shot by Derrick Vick, but Kansas
answered with a 13-0 spurt in the next
4 12 minutes. A layup by Vick cut the
Jayhawks' advantage to 11, 15-4 with
15:00 left.
Kansas responded with a three-point
jump shot by Kevin Pritchard.
Nebraska cut the Jayhawks' lead to
7, 18-11, on a Richard Van Poelgeest
free throw, but that was as close as
Nebraska came the rest of the night as
Kansas led by at least 10 through the
last 30 minutes of the game.
"The game went in spurts," Nee
said. "Anytime you let Kansas start
running with the ball, they get seven or
eight points. We'd stop them, but then
they'd get seven or eight more."
Kansas shot 50 percent from the
field, including 57 percent in the second
half. The Jayhawks outscored Nebraska
44-37 in the second half.
Nebraska shot only 40 percent from
the field.
Henry Buchanan and Vick led Ne
braska with 12 points each. Danny
Manning of Kansas led all scorers with
22 points.
Former Omaha South standout Ced
ric Hunter had 14 points.
Gymnasts traveling
into lair of the Lions
By Rich Cooper
Staff Reporter
Nebraska's women's gymnastics team
will have its hands full tonight when it
competes in a triangular meet
against No. 6 ranked Penn State and
No. 10 ranked Ohio State in University
Park, Pa.
Nebraska, 0-1, last weekend scored
181.90 in its loss to Arizona behind
the strong performances of sophomores
Jeaneane Smith and Crystal Savage.
Smith won the all-around title against
the Wildcats with 37.05 points; Savage
finished third with an all-around score
of 36.80.
Coach Rick Walton said he remem
bers the last time the Huskers com
peted at Penn State. The Cornhuskers,
in front of 4,000 hostile Penn State
fans, defeated the Nittany Lions 178.35
to 176.30. Last year the Huskers
defeated Penn State in Lincoln 182.05
to 178.70.
"The thing I remember most about
the 1985'meet was as it got later in the
meet the pressure kept building, but
our people performed," Walton said.
"This year's team is the best I've ever
had, and I think our girls can do the
same thing if they perform."
The Huskers will be the second
ranked team in the meet behind Ohio
State, which last week defeated No. 3
Georgia by scoring 184. The Buckeyes
are 3-0 and have scored more than 180
in every meet this season, Walton said.
Walton said both teams are very
strong and if the Huskers are to pull an
upset they will have to stay on their
events and not let the Penn State
crowd affect them.
He said last week against Arizona
the Huskers had 13 falls but still man
aged to score above 180. If the Huskers
can cut the number of falls in half they
should score about 184, Walton said.
"Both Penn State and Ohio State
have good teams, but I think we have a
good team also," Waltcm said.
The event Walton said he was most
pleased with was the uneven bars. The
Huskers took the first two places;
scored a 9.55 and Savage and Racine
Smith scored 9.5 and 9.2 respectively.
If the first three Husker gymnasts
would have stayed on the uneven bars,
the meet would have been closer, Wal
ton said.
Walton said Ohio State has a lot of
depth. The Buckeyes have several peo
ple who can score 38 or higher in the
all-around, he said.
Against Georgia, two Ohio State
gymnasts scored more than 37 in the
all-around. Sophomore Julie Somers
scored a 37.3 and Monica Stavros scored
a 37.0. Senior Mary Olson, the Buckeyes'
top gymnast last year, also has scored
above a 37 in the all-around, Walton
said.
Walton said as the season progresses
his team will earn the respect of the
major contenders for the NCAA title
because the Huskers will compete in
14 meets in the next 16 weeks.
In the early part of the season, Wal
ton said, he will look to his upper
classmen for leadership to help the
freshmen get through the tough meets.
He said he thinks freshman Angie
Burdette will improve this weekend
because she has the experience of
competing in a college meet behind
her.
"Angie, I think, was a little nervous
last week and should be able to come
through in her best events, which are
balance beam and uneven bars," Wal
ton said.
Burdette scored 35.0 in the all
around and 9.3 on vault against Ariz
ona. In the uneven bars she fell, which
dropped her score to 8.9.
Walton said the next few weeks will
be tough because the Huskers will
compete in three meets in two weeks.
One of those meets will be against No. 1
Utah at Salt Lake City. Walton said the
tough schedule will give the Huskers
the experience needed to make it to
the NCAA finals on April 24 and 25 in
Salt Lake City.
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