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Nebraska’s Tom Stus comes up for air during his 200-yard butterfly victory Saturday. Stus won
in a time of 1:52.78, but Nebraska lost the dual to Iowa 109-108.
Iowa throws water on 8-0 Husker record
By Jeff Apel
Senior Hditor and
Mike Lange
Slaff Reporter
The only things that stood between
the Nebraska men’s swimming team
and an undefeated season were Iowa
and .73 seconds.
That’s the margin by which Iowa’s
400-yard relay team of Dave
Kohmetschcr, John Linxwilcr, Todd
Kellner and Dan Dumford defeated
Nebraska’s Peter Williams, Rick
Havekost, Mike Irvin and Dan
Novinski.
That victory, combined with a
strong early performance that gave
Iowa an 11-point lead, allowed the
Hawkeycs to post a 109-108 victory
against Nebraska Saturday afternoon
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Nebraska backstroker Ed Jowdy
said the loss was hard to take because
it dropped the No. 9-ranked Com
huskers’ record to 8-1. He said the
loss was also difficult because it oc
curred during Nebraska’s final dual
meet of the season.
“Losing by one point — that
sucks,” Jowdy said. “I’d rather lose by
10.”
Jowdy said it would be difficult for
Nebraska to draw anything positive
from the loss. He said the Huskers will
have to put it behind them and con
centrate on the the Big EightChampi
onships March 3-5 in Lincoln.
“It hurts — especially at home,”
Jowdy said. “But at least we didn tget
embarrassed.”
Nebraska men’s swimming coach
Cal Bentz also said the loss was hard
to take.
“If it’s OK to be disappointed in
the score, I sure am,” Bentz said.
Bentz said he entered the meet’s
final relay with confidence. He said
he thought Williams, Havekost, Irvin
and Novinski could pull out the vic
tory for Nebraska.
But with the second-place finish in
the relay and the consequent loss,
Bentz said, some of the Huskers must
realign their goals. He said the Ne
braska swimmers who weren’t com
peting at their desired levels need to
sharpen their performances.
“We just have to continue to move
forward,” Bentz said. “We just have
to keep on the plain.”
Iowa men’s swimming coach
Glenn Patton said he was pleased with
the Hawkeye’s victory. He said the
win was important because of the
geographical rivalry between Iowa
and Nebraska.
Iowa took a 47-36 lead after the
meet’s first five events with victories
in the 400-yard medley relay, the
1000-yard freestyle and ihc 200-yard
individual medley.
Nebraska then used wins by Law
rence Roddick in the 1- and 3-nricter
diving competitions, Tom Stus in the
200-yard butterfly, Williams in the
100-yard freestyle and Sean Framp
ton in the 200-yard breaststroke to
lake a two-point lead. But the
Hawkeyes used the clutch perform
ance in the freestyle relay to post the
victory.
Patton said neither Iowa nor Ne
braska could have asked for a better
meet.
Dual tie with Sooners,
Northern Illinois loss
gives coach optimism
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
For the second year in a row,
Nebraska’s wrestling team didn’t
lose to Oklahoma.
Before you shake your head and
roll your eyes, consider that last
season ’ s 25-16 Nebraska win was the
first time since 1949 the Comhuskcrs
beat Oklahoma in wrestling.
Saturday’s 15-15 tie with the No.
4-ranked Sooners gave Nebraska
coach Tim Neumann more optimism
about his team than he’s had through
out what he called a “disappointing
season” last week.
“I’m more happy with the way our
guys wrestled against Oklahoma
than with the result,” Neumann said.
“They performed like they should
have all year. It’s great that they quit
saying what they ‘could have’ or
‘should have’ done and started doing
what they can do.”
The Huskers also defeated North
ern Illinois 27-1 1 in the second half of
their double-dual meet. Oklahoma
then defeated Northern Illinois 49-6
in Saturday’s final dual.
Each dual was wrestled simulta
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