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NelSaskan Tuesday, March 1,1988 Tennis teams strive for improvement By Mike Kluck Staff Reporter Although the Nebraska men’s and women’s tennis teams have the same goal, their expectations are different. Nebraska tennis coach Kerry McDermott said the Comhuskers’ goal this season is to continue to improve. He said if Nebraska improves throughout the season, both teams will be competitive at the Big Eight Championships April 30-May 1 in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. McDermott said he has high ex pectations for the men’s team be cause the Huskcrs possess a veteran squad that has the potential to earn a top-20 ranking and a lop-four finish in the Big Eight. But McDermott said the goal for the Nebraska women will be a fifth place finish in the conference. He said the two team’s goals arc differ ent because the Huskcr men are led by returning juniors and seniors while the women arc led by newcom ers. The women have two freshmen and two sophomores in their top four positions while the men possess three juniors and one sophomore in their top four spots, he said. McDermott said the Nebraska men will be led by junior Steve Jung, who will be the Huskers’ No. 1 singles player. He said Jung, who has a 34-16 career record, has a good chance of being ranked among the top 50 players nationally this spring. “He has been playing really well,” McDermott said. “He has beaten three players this year who arc ranked in the top 80 so we arc looking for him to have a top 50 national ranking.” McDermott said Steve will team with his twin brother, Stuart, to form Nebraska’s No. 1 doubles team. He said Stuart, who teamed with Robert Sjoholm to capture the Big Eight No. 2 doubles title last season, will also play No. 4 singles. McDermott said Sjoholm will play No. 2 singles this season. He said Sjoholm, a native of Marichamn, Finland, has a good chance of being ranked in the top 100 players in the United States. Sophomore Ken Feucr will com pete at the No. 3 singles spot and senior Brad Scheidegger will try to defend his Big Eight title at the No. 5 spot, McDermott said. McDermott said the Huskcr men will draw leadership from their jun iors and seniors. He said the leader ship will be important for Nebraska’s success in the Big Eight. McDermott said the Nebraska women will make up for a lack of depth at the lower positions by rely ing heavily on an abundance of talent in the upper ranks. McDermott said freshman Ildiko Guba, a native of Budapest, Hun gary, will play the No. 1 singles position this year. He said he expects Guba, who participated in the 1986 Wimbledon Junior Championships and the French Open Junior Champi onships, to reach All-America status by the lime she leaves Nebraska. McDermott said Guba will team with sophomore Mary Jo Young to form Nebraska’s No. 1 doubles team. He said Young, an Ontario, Canada, native, will also fill the No. 4 singles spot. Doneta Holmcn and Nancy Tyggum will fill the No. 2and 3 spots for the Huskers, McDermott said. McDermott said he enjoys the cooperation generated by the Ne braska women. McDermott, who replaced Kathy Hawkins as the Husker women’s coach this season, said his main focus is to recruit in an effort to improve both programs. “We are currently recruiting toget the women’s program similar to the men’s,” McDermott said. “We need to get some rankings so we can get broader exposure.” The Nebraska men’s tennis sched ule: March 2-5 - Corpus Christi Invite at Corpus Christi, Texas; March 12 - Southwest Missouri State at Springfield, Mo.; March 18 20 - San Diego Team Tourney at San Diego,Calif.; March 21 - U.S. Inter national at San Diego; March 24-27 - Marriot Classic at Irvine, Calif.; April I - Iowa Stale; April 8 - Wic hita State; April 9 - Colorado; April 16 - Oklahoma State; April 17 - Oklahoma; April 23 - Missouri at Columbia, Mo.; April 24 - Kansas at Lawrence, Kan.; April 30- May 1 - Big Eight Championships at Lake Ozark, Mo.; May 20-28 - NCAA Championships at Athens, Ga. The Nebraska women’s tennis schedule: February 26-28 - Wichita Invite at Wichita, Kan.; March 18 20 - Fresno St. at Long Beach St., Calif., and Pacific, at Fresno, Calif.; March 22 - San Jose State at San Jose, Calif.; March 23 - Santa Bar bara at Santa Barbara, Calif.; March 24 - Cal-Slate Fullerton at Fullerton, Calif.; March 25 - Long Beach State at Long Beach, Calif.; March 26 - Loyola-Mary mount at Los Angeles, Calif.; April 1 - Iowa State; April 9 - Colorado; April 16 - Oklahoma State; April 17-Oklahoma; April 23 - Kansas State at Manhattan, Kan.; April 24 - Kansas at Lawrence, Kan.; April 25 - Missouri at Columbia, Mo. Husker baseball team now among top 30 By Steve Sipple Senior Reporter A strong offensive performance helped Nebraska’s baseball team remain unbeaten and enter the na tional rankings with a four-game weekend sweep over Northern Colo rado and Colorado State. Nebraska, now 7-0, defeated Northern Colorado 20-5 and Colo rado State 19-8 Saturday in a double header at Fort Collins, Colo. The Comhuskcrs then swept Colorado State Sunday, winning the first game 12-1 and the second 18-4. The wins lifted Nebraska to a No. 28 ranking in Collegiate Baseball magazine’s national Top 30. It’s the Huskers’ first appearance in the rat ings this season. Nebraska pitching coach Tom Pratt said the Huskers’ 69-run explo sion helped keep pressure on the opponents’ pitchers and off the Husk ers’ staff. “I was really happy in regard to the hitting in that it took a lot of pressure off our pitchers,” Pratt said. “But we have to understand the fact that we Hog Hollow sweethearts hit the ring Wednesday By Jeff Apel Senior Editor Actor Sylvester Stallone is best known for his daring acts that arc often performed against great odds. Wednesday night at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, a little bit of Stallone’s influence will rub off on the Farmer’s Daughters when Babe and Sally Farmer highlight a seven match Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling card by facing Hollywood and Broad way Rose. Sally Farmer said her wrestling has been influenced by Stallone’s acting because both careers require a vast amount of talent and physique. She said Stallone, who has starred in such films as the “Rocky” scries, “Rambo” and the “Italian Stallion,” has also influenced her career be cause his mother, Jackie, is her man ager. Farmer saidG.L.O.W. hasbccomc a favorite pastime of males ages 18 to 49 through the use of people like Jackie Stallone and Ml. Fiji, a 5-foot 8,350-pound Polynesian who bench presses 250 pounds, half-squats 600 and full-squats 425. The January edi tion of G.L.O.W. magazine reported that female wrestling ranked 26th of 416 programs with adult males in that age group. Farmer said there is a simple ex planation lor the year-old program’s popularity. “It’s competitive and we all look pretty,” Farmer said Sunday after noon from her hotel room in Houston, where she was resting after perform ing in front of almost 10,(XX) people the night before. “Every time we’re in California or in the Midwest we have grandpa — people that age — come up to us. The only lime we have trouble is if someone doesn’t want us to tell their husband.” Farmer said she isn’t surprised by the rapid success of either the G.L.O.W. organization or her wres tling career. She said G.L.O.W.’s director, Matt Cimber, has made a total commitment to the organiza tion. Farmer said it is only a matter of lime before G.L.O.W. surpasses the World Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance, the organization’s two male counter parts. “We know it’s going to be a suc cess,” Farmer said. “It’s, like, in our blood.” Farmer said her wrestling career began five years ago when she hitch hiked a ride from Hog Hollow, a self named town in southeast Nebraska, to Lincoln. She said she then bought a one-way ticket to Las Vegas, which is G.L.O.W.’s production headquar ters. Farmer said G.L.O.W. requires all potential wrestlers to complete an extensive training period of endur ance and ability testing before being hired. She said she wasable to pass the test because she received extensive wrestling training while “fighting off the boys behind the barn” as a child. “It’s really hard to get with G.L.O.W..’’Farmer said. “But forme, it happened right away.” Farmer said she enjoys playing the “good guy”rolc in wrestling. She said she likes all the wrestlers in G.L.O.W. except Hollywood and Col. Ninotchka, the dreaded Russian fighter who received her training from the KGB. Farmer said her dislike for Holly wood increased after a six-woman Russian Roulette match in which she and her former partner, Amy Farmer, wrestled Hollywood and her former partner, Vine. Farmer said she gave Vine a con cussion, which prompted Hollywood to state, “Nobody hurts my partner and lives.” She said Hollywood and can’t lay back, and wc did at limes. “But it does give us confidence to know we have a great hitting team behind us.” Pratt said Nebraska’s offense continued to show quality depth. Seven Huskers had three or more hits during the trip, and six had five or more runs baited in. Nebraska also pounded 10 home runs during the trip. Nebraska freshman outfielder Bobby Benjamin continued his carly-season hot streak by hitting three home runs, including two in the Huskcrs’ final game on Sunday. Benjamin, who hit a home run in his first collegiate at bat against Wyo ming, leads Nebraska with four home runs and 13 RBIs this season. Two other Nebraska newcomers added punch off the bench. Freshman inficlder Mate Borgogno went 5 for 10, scored four runs and had six RBIs. Borgogno went 3 for 4 and hit his first collegiate home run in the Huskcrs’ first-game win Sunday. On Saturday, junior-college transfer Marcel Johnson led Nebraska’s onslaught. Johnson, who •nanH played for Lancy College of Oakland (Calif.) last season, went 5 for 7 with nine RBIs in the two victories. Pratt said Nebraska’s ability to substitute players made the weekend wins that much more satisfying. “One of the things that was amaz ing was that we beat them with the whole club,” Pratt said. “Thai’s a relief. It provides a more competitive atmosphere within our own club and it gives the starters a rest.” Pratt said Nebraska’s pitchers also See PRATT on 10 Babe (left) and Sally Farmer her new partner, Broadway Rose, have been after the Farmer’s Daugh ters ever since. “We just hate them,” Farmer said. “They arc just so mean. We have to fight them as best as we can — make them look like jackasses.” Sally and Babe Farmer said they try to keep Holly wood and fJroadway Rose in line by giving them their famous farmer roll, in which they jump their opponents from the turn buckle, wrap their legs under their opponents’ arms and roll them around the ring. Babe said she likes to use the farmer (oil, particularly on Holly wood. “I can’t stand (Hollywood),” Babe Farmer said. “She’s just a street punk.” Babe Farmer said she will try to get the crowd involved in tomorrow’s show by bringing a stuffed replica of her pig Homer into the ring and pre senting it to a deserving member of the audience. She said she loves to give things away because it shows her true side outside of the ring. Stallone said Babe’s gift habit is just one representation of the differ ences between the Farmer’s Daugh ters. “While Babe is a bit of a flirt, Sally is all tomboy and enjoys a good scrap more than anything,” Stallone said. Sally said personality conflicts help G.L.O.W. survive. She said the organization could not be successful without the help ol all the “villain’ characters who will appear on Wednesday night’s card. Joining the Farmer’s Daughters and Hollywood and Broadway Rose for the 7:30 p.m. card arc Thunderbolt and Lightning, a tag-team tandem that will wrestle Dementia and Evangelina; a six-woman tag-team match that will pit The Cheerleaders and Sunny the California Girl against Habana, Bcaslie and Daisy; and a five-female fracas that will feature Mt. Fiji and Zclda the Brain against 360-pound Big Bad Moma, Jailbait and MTV. The card will also feature a Hag match where the stars and stripes will be defended by Liberty and Justice against Col. Ninotchka and Maj. Tanya; a tag-team dual between Godvia and CpI. Kelly against Tif fany Mellon and Roxic Astor; and a 28-girl battle royalc where the win ning wrestler receives $30,000 after all of her opponents have been tossed over the top rope.
