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Wednesday, March 2,1988
NU women net top 3 Big Eight awards
By Kyle
Schurman
Staff Reporter A
Nebraska added I
to its women’s Big i 1
Eight basketball 1
championship by
sweeping the con
ference’s top three
post-season honors' _
Tuesday.
Cornhusker
coach Angela Beck
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Ivy
Harris
was named Big Eight Coach of the
Year, junior Kim Harris received the
Big Eight Newcomer of the Year
award and senior Maurtice Ivy was
named the Big Eight’s Most Valuable
Player.
Four Huskers were also named to
all-Big Eight teams. Ivy was selected
to the first-team for the third straight
year, senior Amy Stephens earned
second-team honors and and Harris
was an honorable mention selection.
Earlier this season, senior Stephanie
Bolli had been named to the academic
all-Big Eight team.
Beck said the entire team, includ-*
ing assistant coaches Theresa Becker
and Steve High, deserve a lot of the
credit for the awards.
“I definitely turn my coaching
honor over to my staff and players,”
Beck said. “It’s nice thata few people
arc getting the ink, but it’s a team
effort.”
Beck said Nebraska’s success had
a lot to do with Ivy’s award.
“I figured the player of the year
award would go to the player who
helped her team win a conference
championship,” Beck said. “She’s
worked hard for it. She has contrib
uted a lot to Nebraska’s success.”
Ivy, whoaveraged nearly 19points
a game this season, said that winning
the most valuable player award was a
goal of her’s before the season began.
“It was one of my goals since I was
soclose last year,” Ivy said. “I figured
I could win it with a pretty good
season. My primary goal was to win
20 games and the Big Eight champi
onship because when the team is
successful it makes the individual
more successful.”
Ivy holds Nebraska career records
in scoring, field goals made and free
throws made. She ranks second in
steals, fourth in rebounds and sixth in
assists.
Ivy said she did not think about the
award during the season, which is
helping her to enjoy it more now.
“1 didn’t wait for it to happen, Tvy
said. “When you don’t expect things
to happen, you appreciate them
more.”
Harris, who scored 10 points and
pulled down seven rebounds per
game this season, said she was sur
prised to win her award.
“There was a lot of tough compe
tition,” Harris said. “I didn’t expect
the noriorablc mention, either, be
cause my stats arc comparable to
others at my position. It’s an honor to
get those two awards. It’s an exciting
feeling.”
Beck said Harris is very deserving
of the awards.
“She has really contributed, not
only scoring points, but rebounding
too,” Beck said. “To her credit, we’ve
been giving her the toughest assign
ments on defense, so that takes some
thing out of her. She’s a tenacious
player when she puts her mind to it.”
Beck said the awards will not de
tract from Nebraska’s preparation for
this weekend’s Big Eight tournament.
“We’re going to congratulate ev
eryone and then move on,” Beck said.
Ivy said the team will not be dis
tracted by all the awards because the
other players arc happy for the people
that received them.
“The team is real supportive,” Ivy
said. “It all came in line and we swept
it. You couldn ’ t ask for anything more
as a player or coach. All of us are
pretty excited and happy about it.”
Nebraska’s softball team opens spring season today
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
Rebounding is usually associated
with basketball, but Nebraska soft
ball coach Ren Wolforth wants to sec
how the Comhuskers bounce back
after the fall season.
Nebraska opens its spring season
Wednesday at Las Cruces, N.M.,
against Baylor. The Huskcrs will
then participate in the Roadrunner
Classic Tournament Thursday
through Saturday in Las Cruces.
“The single most important thing
is how we respond after the tourna
ment,” Wolforth said. “This tourna
ment will help us gam mental stabil
ity and confidence as we go on.”
Wolforth said No. 2-rankcd Ne
braska is looking forward to opening
its season against Baylor. The Bears
will be a good season-opening oppo
nent for the H uskers because they are
a “middle-of-the-road” Division I
team, he said.
“They aren’t a terrific or great
team,’’ Wolforth said, “but they are a
little above average and have some
solid pitching.”
Wolforth said the Huskers can’t
afford to make mistakes if they’re
going to defeat the 4-0 Bears.
Baylor coach Paula Young said
her team is looking forward to play
ing Nebraska. She said the Bears
know they’ll be facing an uphill
struggle against the Huskers.
“We feel this is a great opportu
nity for us,” Young said. “We have
beaten them twice in the past and they
have beaten us twice, but we have had
some good games. We look at this
game as we have nothing to lose and
are looking for the upset, but we
realize we are the underdog.”
Young said the Bears will enter
the contest with an advantage be
cause they have played four games.
She said the warm climate in Waco,
Texas, also allows Baylor to practice
outside, a luxury Nebraska normally
doesn’t enjoy.
Wolfonh said if the Huskcrs don’t
play well, he’ll stay away from the
excuse of not being able to practice
outside.
“We have had good practices and
preparation, and we have been able to
hit every day,” he said.
Nebraska will face Baylor at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday and will play the
Bears again in the opening round of
the Roadrunncr Classic Thursday
morning.
Wolforth said the Roadrunncr
Classic will provide Nebraska with
strong competition because the
tournament’s field includes six teams
now ranked in the top 20.
California Stale-Fullcrton, Ari
zona, Arizona State and Fresno State
will join Nebraska as the top five
ranked teams in the three-day tourna
ment. The other teams that will par
ticipate are 18th-ranked Nicholls
State of Thibodaux, La., 20th-rankcd
Hawaii, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
New Mexico State, Utah State, Utah,
Baylor, Michigan, Fresno State and
Oregon.
“It is a tough tournament and
probably the premier tournament in
early March,” Wolforth said. “It is
the first tournament that will deal
with rankings and w ill help us to find
out early where we stand.”
Arizona softball coach Mike
Candrea agreed that the tournament
is one of the best in the country. He
said the tournament draws its
strength from the good representa
tion of teams it gets throughout the
country.
Candrea said Arizona will also
have an advantage entering the tour
nament because the Wildcats already
have played 20 games this season.
“We have won some games al
ready and our starters now know what
their role is,” Candrea said. “I feel
some schools who haven’t played yet
are here to sec what they got.”
Wolforth said the Huskers have a
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good chance of going 3-0 in the tour
nament because they will face New
Mexico and Nicholls State after fac
ing Baylor Thursday. He said an
undefeated record is important be
cause Nebraska will play Arizona
State and Cal Statc-Fullcrton Friday.
Wolforth said he is confident
Nebraska will play well against 10-1
Arizona State and 14-1 Cal Statc
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“We should be ready to go and
should be up in the finals on Satur
day,” Wolforth said. “We had belter
play up to that billing.”
Arizona State softball coach Mary
Littlcwood said she likes the tourna
ment because it is a good opportunity
to face teams that aren’t in the same
conference.
Littlcwood said the Sun Devils
expect a good game against Ne
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“We know Nebraska is an excel
lent team because we have played
them at least once the past few
years,” Littlcwood said. “We expect
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