Tuesday, April 28, 1987
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Colts may not choose
Bennett as No. 2 pick
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK The only sure
thing in the first round of Tuesday's
National Football League draft is
the first pick the Tampa Bay
Bucs will take Vinny Testaverde, the
Miami quarterback and Heisman
Trophy winner.
Testaverde already has been
signed to an $8.2 million, six-year
contract by the Bucs, who were
burned last year when they took Bo
Jackson with the first pick and he
opted for baseball over football.
The draft begins at 8 a.m. EDT at
New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel,
an hour that forces West Coast
teams to be ready to go at 5 a.m.,
and there's been a lot of trade talk.
The consensus is that there are
perhaps 10 players available who
can have an immediate impact.
That leaves the good teams to play
the bad teams with excess players
and multiple draft picks in return
for that one blue-chipper.
Then come the Indianapolis Colts,
who until Saturday night were also a
sure thing. They were going to take
Alabama linebacker Cornelius Ben
nett, who is advertised as the second
coming of Lawrence Taylor.
They are still likely to take Ben
nett, but when Randy McMillan was
hit by a car in Maryland Saturday
night and suffered a broken leg, it
left the Colts without their princi
pal running back. That left an open
ing for the San Diego Chargers,
which picks fifth, to exchange choi
ces with Indianapolis, take Bennett,
and leave the Colts to choose one of
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lwood of Auburn or Alonzo Highs
mith of Miami.
The third pick belongs to the Buf
falo Bills, who would love to have
Shane Conlan, the Penn State line
backer who comes from nearby
Frewsburg, N.Y. Conlan is likely to
be available lower, and the Bills
might trade with Houston, which
picks eighth, getting an additional
pick and still getting their man.
"Are we willing to trade the
pick?" asks Buffalo coach Marv
Levy. "The answer is yes, if the trade
is right. We have to feel unequivo
cally that we've helped ourselves."
Then on to the other blue-chippers
defensive back Rod Woodson of
Purdue; defensive linemen Reggie
Rogers t)f Washington and Jerome
Brown of Miami; and running backs
Fullwood, Highsmith and D J. Dozier.
Behind them come such poten
tial first-rounders as quarterbacks
Kelly Stouffer of Colorado State and
Chris Miller of Oregon; linebacker
Mike Junkin of Duke; defensive
linemen Shawn Knight and Jason
Buck of Brigham Young; Danny Noo
nan of Nebraska; John Bosa of Bos
ton College and Tony Woods of Pitt;
offensive linemen Harris Barton of
North Carolina and John Clay of
Missouri and wide receivers Hay
wood Jeffires (pronounced Jeffries)
of North Carolina State, Mark Ingram
of Michigan State and Ricky Nattiel
of Florida; running backs Paul Palmer
of Temple, Roger Rick of Texas A&M
and Kenny Flowers of Clemson, and
tight end Rod Bernstine of Texas
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Men's, women's lEiaastics coaclue
optimistic after BJCAA defeats
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
Even though neither Nebraska team
won the NCAA meet Friday and Satur
day, men's and women's gymnastics
coaches said they're optimistically
looking toward next season.
The men's team finished second
behind host school UCLA. UCLA had a
final score of 285.30, and Nebraska
scored 284.75. Penn State placed third
with 284.20.
Allen
This was the third consecutive year
that the Cornhuskers ended second at
the meet. Last season Arizona State
defeated Nebraska by three-tenths of a
point on a controversial ruling, and
Ohio State beat the Huskers in 1985. In
1984, Nebraska finished fifth in the
country and from 1979 to 1983, they
were national champions.
Men's coach Francis Allen said that
it is disappointing to finish so close to
the national title three years in a row,
clinch regal
By Richard Cooper
Staff Reporter
AMES, Iowa Nebraska's Donna
Deardorff and Lori Sippel held Missouri
to seven hits as the Cornhuskers clinch
ed the regular-season Big Eight Confer
ence title Sunday by defeating the
Tigers 1-0.
Nebraska, 32-9 and 8-2 in the Big
Eight, scored the only run of the game
in the fifth inning when Leeanna Miles
scored on Jane Kremer's single to
center field. With the win, Nebraska
earned the No. 1 seed in the Big Eight
post-season tournament next weekend
in St. Joseph, Mo.
On Saturday, the Huskers defeated
Missouri 2-1 behind Sipple's 14 strike
outs. Sipple pitched a no-hitter through
the first five innings but gave up one hit
each in the sixth and seventh innings.
In the second game Saturday, Nebra
ska defeated Kansas 3-2 in 10 innings
when Rhonda Gorraiz scored on a
single by Jill Rishel. Deardorff allowed
nine hits and struck out seven Jayhawk
batters.
With the wins against Kansas and
Missouri, Nebraska extended its
winning streak to six in the Big Eight
and nine since the Huskers' wins against
Utah and Missouri on April 11. Nebraska
will host its last home games of the
season today when the Huskers face
Kearney State in a doubleheader. The
games are scheduled to start at 3 and 5
p.m. at the Nebraska Softball Complex.
Nebraska coach Ron Wolforth said
he was very happy with the Huskers'
play.
"Both Donna and Sip pitched solid
ball games today," Wolforth said. "Our
hitting was strong, and the defense
backed up our pitchers well this week
end." In Sunday afternoon's game the
Huskers finished their Eig Eight regular
season with a 3-0 victory against Kansas.
Sippel allowed only three hits and
struck out five Kansas batters to raise
her career strikeout total to 703. In the
weekend round robin tournament, Ne
braska had five successful pick-off
attempts; the most crucial one caiue in
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but he is still proud of his team's
accomplishments.
"Just think of how many teams
haven't been in the top three during
that period," Allen said.
Tom Schlesinger and Kevin Davis
took home top honors in the all-around
to lead Nebraska. Schlesinger finished
first with a score of 113.25, and Davis
placed second with 1 1 2.05. Schlesinger
earned Ail-American honors in the
horizontal bars by placing second, and
Davis became an Ail-American in the
pommel horse with a sixth-place finish.
Allen said that Nebraska won the
first part of the meet and had a chance
to win the whole event.
"We could have won very easily,"
Allen said. "It was sort of like losing a
basketball game on a last-minute bas
ket." Everyone from this year's team will
return next year with the exception of
Neil Palmer. Add to that the return of
Mike Epperson, who redshirted this
year with a wrist injury, and two highly
recruited freshmen, and Allen is again
thinking national title.
"We're pretty much in fat city," he
said.
The two recruits are Brad Bryan and
Ted Dimas, both from Albuquerque,
N.M.
"There were three top recruits this
year one went to Illinois, one went
to Oklahoma and one (Dimas) went
here," Allen said.
Meanwhile, th women's team fin
ished 10th at the NCAA meet in Salt
Lake City. Women's coach Rick Walton
said he felt his team could have placed
higher, but he was still pleased with
the effort.
"When this team walked off the floor
weekend softfe&H victories
Sunday's game against Missouri.
In the third inning of that game with
the score still tied at 0-0 Missouri's
Chris Banghurt was picked off at third
base by Husker catcher Katie Wolda.
The pickoff ended the Tigers' most
serious scoring threat of the game.
"I was real pleased with our pick-off
plays this weekend," Wolforth said.
"We had been practicing those all
week and apparently it paid off for us."
Wolforth said he is concerned about
playing Kearney State because it is a
"scrappy" tern. He said Kearney State
always plays Nebraska tough, which
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we had earned a lot of respect," he
said. "A lot of people are going to real
ize next season that if you take them
lightly you'll be watching us at the
NCAA's from the sidelines."
Walton said that because Nebraska
competed in the first rotation, where
judges get a feel for the scoring, the
team score was hurt.
"We had some great performances,
but it's difficult to be in the first rota
tion," he said. "The scoring there is
kind of tight."
Walton
The year of NCAA experience will
benefit Nebraska next season, Walton
said.
"We feel pretty good (about next
year)," Walton said. "We don't lose
anybody and we have a year of expe
rience under our belts."
Georgia won the meet with a score of
187.90, and Nebraska tallied a 179.50.
Michele Bryant finished 27th in the
all-around, Crystal Savage finished 31st
and Jeaneane Smith finished 39th.
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conference title
means they can't take the Antelopes
lightly.
Wolforth said he is proud of how the
team has bounced back to win nine
straight games.
"After we lost those two games down
in Stillwater we bounced back real
nice," he said. "I give the girls a lot of
credit. They really proved themselves
the last part of the season."
Wolforth said the game against
Kearney State is important because
the Huskers need to keep the momentum
up going into the Big Eight Champion
ships next weekend.
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