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Huskers, K-State
begin K.C. series
claw
Friday, March 6, 1987
By Steve Sipple
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska basketball team will
attempt to win the rubber game of this
year's three-game series with Kansas
State today in the first round of the Big
Eight Tournament in Kansas City's
Kemper Arena.
The game is scheduled to begin at
12:10 p.m.
The teams split their regular season
games. The Wildcats defeated Nebraska
114-82 in Manhattan, Kan., to open the
Big Eight season. Nebraska avenged
the loss with a 78-76 win in Lincoln
Feb. 14.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee down
played the previous meetings.
"I don't think the regular season
games are significant," he said. "I
don't think we are the same team that
played in Manhattan. The game up here
was a game of spurts. If it would have
lasted five minutes longer, they would
have won."
For a victory today, Nee said, the
Huskers must be prepared to handle
KSU's defense.
"The key is consistency on offense,"
Nee said. "We have to execute against
their pressure man-to-man. They run a
scramble defense, a trapping defense.
If we don't handle the traps, it could be
a long night."
Husker swim teams
take early Big 8 lead
By Jeff Apel
Staff Reporter
Team Scoring, Women: Ne
braska 233, Kansas 186, Iowa
State 89, Missouri 50.
Team Scoring, Men: Nebraska
156, Kansas 93.5, Iowa State
84.5, Missouri 38.
Both the Nebraska women's and
Cornhusker men's swimming teams
assumed early leads Thursday in the
opening day of the 1987 Big Eight
Swimming and Diving Championships
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Nebraska women, backed with a
record-setting time in the 200-yard
medley relay, opened up a 47-point lead
over second place Kansas in the three
day competition.
The Husker men, behind the NCAA
qualifying mark of Eric Ognibene, took
the first step towards winning their
Both teams are coming off upset
victories last week in their final con
ference games. Kansas State beat No.
17-ranked Oklahoma with Mitch Rich
mond's basket at the buzzer, and the
Huskers pulled off a 83-81 overtime w in
against Kansas last Saturday. Nee said
he doesn't think the victories will have
a bearing on today's contest.
"I think it all goes out the window
when the ball goes up," he said. "I
think the team that comes in, executes,
plays to their full potential, plays good
defense, makes their free throws and
puts the ball in the basket is the team
that will win."
The Wildcats' line-up has changed
since their last meeting with the Hus
kers. Senior guard Lynn Smith and
sophomore forward Lance Simmons
replaced William Scott and All-Big
Eight forward Norris Coleman in the
Oklahoma win and will start today.
Scott was only 9-34 26 percent in
his last five games.
Coleman, averaging 23.1 points and
9.1 rebound, played 28 minutes against
Oklahoma. Head coach Lon Kruger
hasn't given reasons for the benching.
The Huskers' hopes rest on the
continued performance of starting
guards Brian Carr and Henry T.
Buchanan. In the last three games, Carr
has shot 56 percent (9-16) and Buchanan
64 percent (9-14) from the three-point
eighth consecutive title by compiling a
62.5 point lead over Kansas and a 71 .5
lead over third place Iowa State.
Nebraska women's swimming coach
Ray Huppert said it was nice for the
Huskers to lead because the Corn
huskers will have to continue to rise to
the challenge in order to capture their
third-consecutive crown.
"I'm very, very pleased with the way
our team has accepted the challenge,"
Huppert said. "We have to come in and
be really aggressive (on Friday), it's
going to be a difficult day for us."
Nebraska men's swimming coach
Cal Bentz said he was pleased with the
first day of the -meet because things
were looking "pretty good" for the
Cornhuskers.
"One of our goals is to win the
meet," Bentz said. "(But) we also want
to make as many NCAA times as
possible."
Daily Nebraskan file photo
Nebraska guard Henry T. Buchanan tries to dribble around
Kansas State's Steven Henson in Nebraska's 78-76 win in
Lincoln Feb. 14. The two teams meet at 12:10 p.m. today in the
first round of the Big Eight basketball tournament in Kansas
City, Mo.
line. The team has shot 52 percent in
those games.
The Huskers 17-10, have had little
success against Kansas State in the Big
Eight tourney, losing all three games.
Cornhuskers wrestle
with hopes for NCAA
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
Nebraska wrestlers will try to qualify
for the upcoming NCAA championship
meet by placing in the top three this
Saturday in Stillwater, Okla., at the Big
Eight championship meet.
But it won't be easy.
A top-10 ranked opponent is in every
weight class but one.
The top three placers in each weight
class receive an automatic NCAA spot.
Another 10 wrestlers are selected by
the conference coaches as wild cards.
Five Big Eight schools compete in
wrestling: Iowa State, Missouri, Ne
braska, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
At least once this season all five were
ranked in the top 20. Oklahoma State
in now ranked No. 2 and Iowa State No.
4.
At 118 pounds for Nebraska is
freshman Jason Kelber, 21-9. At 126 is
Mike Hemann, also 21-9. Nebraska
wrestling coach Tim Neumann said
both wrestlers have a good chance to
qualify for the NCAA meet.
The No. 1- and No. 2-ranked wrestlers
in the country could clash in the 134
pound finals: John Smith, Oklahoma
State, and Gil Sanchez, Nebraska. Smith,
35-1, is ranked No. 1; Sanchez, 41-1, is
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Their last meeting was in 1984 when
KSU won 41-39.
The winner of the game, plays the
Missouri-Colorado winner at 1:10 p.m.
Saturday.
No. 2. Sanchez defeated Smith 13-6 ear
lier this season, but Smith beat him 6-2
two days later.
Neumann said Sanchez must get a
quick start in the match.
"The first-period take-down is going
to decide the match," he said. "If Gil
gets the first take-down, he will force
Smith to choose down to get back an
escape point. That'll be to our advan
tage because Gil can turn him on top."
Andy Latora, 18-8-1, will wrestle at
142. Senior co-captain Bill Ferrie will
return at 150; sore ribs and an injured
ankle have kept him off the mat for two
weeks. Neumann said Ferrie should
wrestle well.
"Bill has sat out the last two weeks
with injuries, but that shouldn't bother
him because he's worked harder than
anyone the last three weeks," Neu
mann said.
Sophomore John Myers, 13-21, will
wrestle at 158. John Cory, 10-12-3 will
wrestle at 167. Junior Cody Olson will
wrestle at 177.
Freshman Mike Traynor, 20-17, will
wrestle at 190. Mike Radnov will wres
tle at heavyweight. Radnov, 8-4, took
over the heavyweight position after Joe
Malecek injured his neck.
Nebraska ended its regular season
with a 12-6 dual record.
By Jeff Apel
Staff Reporter
Joe Federico has played only two
games at Nebraska, but already the
Cornhusker baseball team's right fielder
has established himself as one of the
premier power hitters in recent base
ball history.
Federico, a transfer from Glendale
(Ariz.) Community College, hit his
third homerun of the season Thursday
and also ran his runs batted in total to
12 as the Nebraska baseball team
routed Northwest Missouri St. by a 20-6
score at Buck Beltzer Field.
The win gave the Cornhuskers a two
game sw eep of the division II Bearcats,
who dropped to 2-2.
"We played better defense today,"
Nebraska baseball coach John Sanders
said in reference to the Huskers 22-6
victory over the Bearcats on Wednes
day. Sanders said he wasn't surprised by
the offensive output of Federico, because
the junior outfielder showed through
out fall practice that he was capable of
hitting homeruns.
Federico said he credits most of his
early-season success to the fact that
the Northwest Missouri St. pitchers
were consistently challenging him with
fastballs.
"I'm not trying to make anyone look
bad," Federico said. "But the pitchers I
faced today weren't as good as the
pitchers I faced in junior college. The
level of competition wasn't the same."
Federico sparked a major controv
ersy in the contest when, following his
three-run homerun in the sixth inning,
Bearcat pitcher Steve Nelson threw a
high, inside pitch to Nebraska's Mark
Kister.
Kister responded by glaring at Nel
son. That action led to the flaring of
tempers by both teams, as the Huskers
and Bearcats were warned by the game's
umpires not to continue such actions.
But on the game's next pitch, Kister
lost his bat as he was swinging at a
Nelson pitch.
The bat landed approximately a foot
away from Nelson, resulting in Kister
being ejected from the contest. Ken
Sirak, a freshman shortshop, was also
ejected.
Sanders said he was upset with the
decision because the umpires "just
picked Sirak off the bench" and ejected
him while Kister's bat unintentionally
slipped out of his hands.
Sanders also said Nelson, an Omaha
native, should have been ejected rather
than Kister because the Bearcats blat
antly threw high and tight to Kister
after each of Federico's three home
runs in the series.
But Northwest Missouri St. coach
Jim Johnson said there was "no way"
that the Bearcats threw at Kister.
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