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By Kent Endacott
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska basketball team
has signed a 6-foot-7, 190-pound
power forward from Seminole (Okla.)
Junior College.
Seminole Coach Riley Wallace
confirmed Wednesday that Peter
Manning has signed a letter of
intent to play for Nebraska Coach
Danny Nee next season. Wallace
said Manning averaged 14 points
and 1 1 rebounds last season at Sem
inole. Manning will be a junior in
eligibility.
"He's a real active player, very
coachable," Wallace said of Man
ning. "He's one of those guys that
just seems to have a smell for the
basketball."
Wallace said Nee beat out Mem
phis State, Providence and Villan
ova for Manning's signature. He said
Western Kentucky tried to sign
Manning during the early signing
period in November.
"Providence was after him until
the very end," Wallace said. "He
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didn't want to go to Villanova because
they don't have a physical educa
tion department and they weren't
going to count some of his hours.
"But he really liked Coach Nee.
He came down here and saw him
play three times once before they
played Oklahoma. He also has friends
at Nebraska."
'He's one of those
guys that just
seems to have a
smell for the
basketball
Wallace
Wallace said Manning has good
quickness and should fit in well
with Nee's up-tempo style.
"He really runs the follow well,"
he said. Manning, of Trenton, N J.,
was recruited to Hutchinson (Kan.)
Junior College by Gary Bargen, now
an assistant at UNL. At Hutchinson,
Manning teamed with Nebraska
players Derrick Vick and Henry
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After playing his freshman sea
son at Hutchinson, Manning red
shirted his sophomore season be
cause of a back injury. When Bargen
left to coach at Nebraska, Wallace
said, Manning decided to transfer to
Seminole.
And, he said, he's glad he did.
"I've been here for three seasons
and he's the best rebounder I've
coached," Wallace said. "And I've
had some pretty good players, like
Sylvester Kincheon, now up at OSU
(Oklahoma State) and Archie Mar
shall at Kansas.
"When the ball goes up, Pete
goes at it."
Tyrone Jones, a 6-6 forward from
Hutchinson who Nebraska was known
to being recruiting heavily, report
edly will sign with Purdue.
Nebraska apparently has two
scholarships left to give out this
year. Another player Nee was re
cruiting heavily, Melvin Branch, a
6-10 center from Barton County
(Kan.) Junior College, signed with
Pittsburgh last week.
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Sjoholm, Jung win
By Steve Sipple
Staff Reporter
Brad Scheidegger was given the nick
name "Black Cat" by his teammates
earlier this season, but a new name
may be in order.
Scheidegger came back from first
set losses in the semifinals and finals
to win the No. 5 singles title at the Big
Eight Conference Men's Tennis Cham
pionships last Saturday and Sunday in
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Scheidegger, whose nickname came
from a shirt he often wore to practice
advertising Black Cat firecrackers,
defeated Oklahoma State's Jack Salerno
in the semifinals in a three-set thriller.
The junior transfer from Oklahoma
then captured the title when he defeated
Kansas's Larry Pascal 3-6, 6-1, 7-5.
Cornhusker coach Kerry McDermott
said he wasn't surprised by Schei
degger's ability to respond after the
first-set losses.
"He has played so many three-set
matches this year," he said. "I think in
both matches (semis and finals) I
came up after the first set and asked
him how he was doing.
"He said, 'Aw, I lost the first set,' and
I just told him, 'you know you can beat
him, you beat him last week and you
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"It just came down to him believing
he could do it, and he did."
Schedegger finished the season 19-6,
including a 6-4, 62 victory against Pas
cal in a dual a week before the confer
ence meet. He said that victory gave
him confidence heading into Sunday's
finals.
But he had to defeat Salerno, a left
hander with a strong serve, to even face
Pascal. After losing the first set, Schei
degger broke Salerno's serve in the
first game of the second set and coasted
to victory.
Then came top-seeded Pascal, and
Scheidegger again lost the opening set.
"No problem," he said.
"I knew I still had a good shot
because he doesn't have a hard serve
like Salerno," Scheidegger said.
Scheidegger won the second set eas
ily and said he felt he had momentum
going into the final set.
But Pascal held service in the first
game and broke Scheidegger's serve to
take a 2-0 lead.
Scheidegger eventually evened the
set at 3-3 but suddenly Pascal regained
command, holding serve in the seventh
game and then breaking Scheidegger's
serve to go up 5-3.
'I was worried," he said. "He was
serving for the match. He has been
pressuring me the whole time and was
getting everything back and making
me beat him."
Pascal quickly took a 3-2 lead on
points (in collegiate tennis, the first
player to score four points wins the
game). But Scheidegger hit a passing
shot to even the score and then broke
Pascal with a lunge shot.
He lost only two points in winning
the last three games for the title.
"The win says a lot for his personal
ity," McDermott said. "He's a good
team player and just a real good kid to
have around."
Had it not been for some regrettable
circumstances at Oklahoma, Scheideg
ger might not be around.
After finishing his freshman season
with a 13-15 record in singles play and
second place in doubles at last year's
conference tournament, he wasn't of
fered a scholarship as a sophomore. So
he became a Husker.
After sitting out last year, Schei
degger came back this year and flashed
the form that helped him win the title
in last summer's Nebraska State Closed
Tournament. There he beat six-time
champ Bill Roach, then ranked No. 1 in
the state, in the finals.
Now Scheidegger has McDermott
thinking big for next year.
"The thing about Brad is I don't
know if he realized that if he worked
harder he could get even better," he
said. "He could really become a good
player."
Nebraska crew
gets second, third
in Midwest meet
Nebraska's crew club came
away with two top-three finishes
last weekend at the Midwest
Rowing Championships in Madi
son, Wis.
Nebraska' lightweight four-man
team Cox Dena Cacioppo, Jeff
Harr, Morton Lollant, Jim Mason
and Mark Pitzxer finished
second. The team was coached
by Jim Steve Morin.
In the mens open-pair compe
tition, Nebraska's Paul Larson
and Steve Knapp finished third.
The lightweight four-man team
will compete Esinst Club Espanol
in Mexico City's 75th Anniver
sary Rowing Regatta on May 17,
and the open-pair team will com
pete in the Dad Vails in Phil
adelphia. Mason said air fares alone to
Mexico City are about $200 each,
and the team is searching for
contributions: