Sophomore boosts Cornhuskers to win
By Richard Cooper
Staff Reporter
Frank Graham got the ball rolling
for the Nebraska men’s track team at
the Big Eight Track and Field Cham
pionships Saturday at the Bob Deva
ney Sports Center.
Graham, a
sophomore from
Nebraska City,
won the mile in
4:08.20 minutes,
to finish .72 sec
onds ahead of
Kansas’ Craig
Watckc and Iowa
State’s Ronald _
Pauwels. Graham
Teammate Jacques van Rcnsburg
finished fourth out of 13 runners as
the Comhuskcrs scored 14 points in
the second running event.
Nebraska track coach Gary Pepin
said Nebraska’s distance runners did
well in their races because they
scored 24 points. The men’s team
scored 114.66 points to win the Big
Eight Championship, while Iowa
Stale finished second with 96.66.
Nebraska cross country coach Jay
Dirksen said he’s proud of his
runner’s contributions to the second
consecutive Big Eight Indoor title for
the Huskers. He said that because the
cross-country season lasted until
November, the runners didn’t have
time to get in shape and work on
speed for the indoor season.
“We had to hold up our end of the
stick in this meet,’’ Dirksen said.
Graham, who was seeded sixth
entering the race, said he wanted to
increase the Huskers’ momentum
because they seemed dull after
Friday’s competition. Nebraska was
in third place with 12 points, behind
Iowa Stale’s 14 and Kansas State’s
16.
“I guess that all I wanted to do was
get things rolling, and I did,” he said.
“After I won, we got 10 points in the
55-meter dash and 10 points in the
high jump so I kind of got the ball
rolling.
“I wasn’t expected to do as well as
I did,”he said. “I think all thecoachcs
expected out of me was a sixth-place
finish.”
Pepin said he didn’t expect Gra
ham to win the mile.
“I think one of the great efforts of
the meet was in the mile,” Pepin said.
“Graham just ran a super race. We
had hoped he would place wcl I but we
didn’t figure he would do that well.
“His win really helped bring the
team’s spirit and attitude up,” he said.
“When a guy who wasn’t favored
won — that was a big lift.”
Ivy says ‘champions’ has a nice ring
BECK from Page 8
presses,” Beck said. “I wasn’t
pleased on how we attacked it be
cause I thought we could have
flushed it out and scored some easy
layups.”
Nebraska built its lead to 21-16
and then ran off 12 straight points
before the Cyclones’ Lynn Lorenzen
scored on two free throws to narrow
the gap to 33-18. Center Kim Harris
and guard Amy Stephens each had
four points in the run.
Iowa Slate then came no closer
than 11 points behind Nebraska as the
Huskers’ lead increased to to 15 half
way through the second half.
Weltig said the confidence made
the difference.
The Cyclones ended the regular
season 13-13 overall and 5-9 in the
Big Eight.
“We have good players that are
not playing very well at all,” Wcttig
said. “I think we can match up with
them.”
Beck said Nebraska’s work paid
off.
“We had the motto4ITHWTBAC’
— ‘It takes hard work to become a
champion,”’ Beck said. “I think
those kids worked very hard. We’ve
thought about being a champion all
year long.”
Nebraska will face Kansas State in
the first round of the Big Eight tour
nament Saturday in Salina, Kan. Ivy
said the Huskers will prove their
regular season championship wasn’t
an accident.
“We’re picked as the underdog,”
Ivy said. “They picked us not to win
the tournament so we have to surprise
some more people. I guess we like
proving people wrong.”
Sooner or later, Comhuskers defeat Oklahoma
»y wine Lange
Staff Reporter
The war of words that originated
prior to the Nebraska-Oklahoma
football game last November contin
ued Saturday as a flare of controversy
1 ended the Big Eight Track and Field
Championships at the bob Dcvancy
Sports Center.
The vocal battle, which was si
lenced after Oklahoma proved
Nebraska’s claim of being No. 1 was
erroneous by handing the Com
huskersa 17-7 loss, was rejuvenated
after the Sooner’s Steve Lambeth
dropped his baton in the backstrelch
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Graham said he stuck with the
leader’s pace to win. He said nobody
wanted the lead because the leader
never wins.
“I knew I couldn’t go out too fast
or too slow, I just had to stay with the
pack,” Graham said.
Graham said another reason he
didn’t want to lead the race was
because the other runners were more
experienced. He said the last 4(X)
meters, he ran hard to win.
Graham said his indoor season is
over because he didn’t qualify for the
NCAA Indoor Championships
March 11 -12 in Oklahoma City.
He said the fall cross-country
season prepared him for Saturday’s
meet.
“Cross-country gave me the
strength to run fast,” Graham said. “I
don’t like running indoor track be
cause the turns arc too tight. I’m glad
it’s over with.”
Pepin said the Huskers had to do
well in the distance events and not let
Iowa State dominate the meet like
they have done in the past.
“I felt like our guys really came in
there and added to the team,” Pepin
said.
Dirkscn said he is glad the indoor
season Js over because it slows his
runners’ progress. He said he will
need a month to get his runners ready
for the outdoor season, which begins
April 2. Nebraska will face Kansas
State and South Dakota at Ed Weir
Stadium to open the season.
“We’ll get a good distance base
down for the runners in the next
month and then start working on
speed,” Dirkscn said.
He said the young runners were
not in shape for the indoor season but
they got experience during
Saturday’s meet.
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