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Coach hopes Big 8 title motivates NU
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
Nebraska men’s gymnastics coach Francis
Allen said he plans to use the Comhuskers’
come-from-behind victory for the Big Eight
title Saturday night at the Bob Dcvaney Sports
Center as a psychological tool during their
preparations for the NCAA Championships
April 14-16 in Lincoln.
Nebraska won the meet with 284.4 points,
followed by Oklahoma’s 283.5. Iowa State, the
only other school in the conference to field a
team, finished third with 267.2 points.
“I’ll say ‘Hey, you guys have come from
behind before,’ if we have to,” Allen said.
“Hopefully we won’t have to.”
Nebraska trailed Oklahoma 235.9 to 235.75
entering the meet’s final event, but the No. 2
ranked Huskers used a 9.8 mark from Tom
Schlesinger and 9.75 scores by Mike Epperson,
Kevin Davis and Mark Schiefclbein in the high
bar competition to post the victory.
“They said ‘Hey, we’ll give them our best
performance, and they did,” Allen said of his
team. “I couldn’t have asked for much more.”
Allen said the key to victory was the per
formance by Schiefclbein, a junior transfer
from New Mexico who was Nebraska’s first
competitor in the high bar competition.
“Thai’s a good spot to have him in,” Allen
said. “If he misses, we have five good guys
coming up. If he electrifies the crowd, like he
did, it lets the rest of those guys come in easy.”
Oklahoma coach Mark Williams said the
Sooncrs, the 1987 Big Eight champions, were
hindered throughout the competition because
freshman Brian Halstead competed in only one
event because of a shoulder injury.
But, Williams said, Halstead’s return will
give Oklahoma confidence in the NCAA Tour
nament.
“They’re psyched now,” Williams said. “I
came more with the idea of trying to stay close
and scaring Nebraska because I didn’t think we
had the guns to beat them. Now we know that
when we’re at full strength we can beat them.”
Williams said Oklahoma will give thcHusk
ers a strong challenge at the NCAA meet even
though Nebraska has defeated the Sooners
three times this season.
“I’d like nothing better than to beat them in
Lincoln,” he said.
Allen said he wished Nebraska would have
routed Oklahoma so the Huskers could have
kept pace with No. 1-ranked Illinois. He said a
slow start prevented Nebraska from equaling
the 286 Illinois scored Saturday.
“Against a team like Oklahoma we had to
get out first, take the lead and run away with it,”
Allen said. “We didn ’ t do that at any point of the
first half of the event.”
JNCAA wrestling meet disappoints coach
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
A 39th-place finish with only 6 1/
4 team points would discourage many
wrestling coaches, but not
Nebraska’s Tim Neumann.
Neumann couldn’t get away from
the word “disappointing” as he de
scribed the season, but he did express
optimism for next season.
“I really look at it as a hollow
season,” Neumann said. “1 felt some
individuals had very disappointing
seasons. Part of it w as due to a lack of
commitment. We upgraded the sea
son. but we just didn’t meet the chal
lenge.
"But despite the disappointment
as far as the program is concerned
it really helped bring into focus
w hat I need to do w ith some individu
als.”
Nebraska had seven qualifiers at
the NCAA Tournament last weekend
in Ames, Iowa. The Comhuskers’
only two seeded wrestlers — Keenan
humeral the 150-pound weight class
and JeffColtvetat 158 — failed to w in
a match.
Colivet lost 8-2 to Sean Finkbeiner
of Penn State in the first round, while
Turner failed to make weight.
Neumann said Turner was 1.6
pounds overweight with 40 minutes
left in the weigh-in time. Despite
having that much time to work of! the
extra weight, Neumann said, Turner
chose to quit, and that was “the straw
that broke the camel’s back.”
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‘Our recruiting is
looking great.
We're going to
bring some people
in here that can
beat out some of
our returning
people. Hopefully,
this is the last year
I'li have to be dis
appointed about
the season. ’
—Neumann
:
“He’s caused our program a lot of
damage this season, and it doesn't
look good to recruits,” Neumann said.
“He could have worked the weight
ofl, but he chose to cash in his season
and his career.”
Turner has been permanently dis
missed from the team, Neumann said.
Neumann said Turner’s failure to
make weight had a big effect on the
team’s success.
“All year long, when Turner didn’t
practice well, it put a cloud over the
whole team,” he said. “It affected
several of the guys, especially Jeff
Coltvct. They’re real good friends
and they practice together every day.
I’m sure it affected his (Coltvet’s)
performance.”
At 118, Terry Cook won his first
match 10-1 over Will Walters of
Michigan, then dropped an 8-2 deci
sion to Lock Haven’sCraigCorhin. In
the consolation match. Cook defeated
Steve Martin of Iowa.
Wallace Dawkins was pinned in
6:54 by Portland Slate’s Haig Brown
at 126. Neumann said Dawkins was
just “out-talented.”
At 134, Nebraska’s Dave
Drocgemueller lost to Morgan Suite’s
Charles Myles 8-6. At 167, Scott
Chcnowcth decisipned Maryland’s
Glenn Holland 6-4 in the first round,
then lost 7-3 to Jim Gressley, who
eventually finished third in the na
tion.
Chcnowcth lost to Rod Sande of
Minnesota in the consolation round.
In the heavyweight division, Joe
Malaccck recorded a technical fall
over Scott Ulrich of the Air Force
Academy, then lost 15-2 to
Edinboro’s Dean Hall in the second
round.
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all wrestled about as well as they ]
Jayhawks advance to the Final Four
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — All
America center Danny Manning
scored 20 points, and Scooter Barry
added a career-high 15 as Kansas
advanced to the Final Four for the
second time in three years with a 71 -
58 win Sunday against Kansas State
in the Midwest Regional champion
ship game.
Kansas, 25-11 and the sixth seed in
the region, will meet fifth-ranked
Duke, 28-6 and the champion of the
Hast Regional, in Saturday’s semifi
nals at Kemper Arena in Kansas City,
Mo. Arizona, which defeated North
Carolina for the West Regional cham
pionship Sunday in Seattle, will face
Oklahoma in the other semifinal
game. The championship game is
scheduled for Monday night.
Kansas, which lost to Duke 71-67
in the semifinals of the 1986 NCAA
Tournament, made its eighth trip to
the Final Four by overcoming Kansas
State’s 3-2 zone that repeatedly de
nied Manning the ball inside. Man
ning led all scorers even though only
one of his five field goals came on a
direct assist from a teammate.
Kansas overcame a 36-29 deficit
with 18:10 left when Manning and
Southern Cal ends
NU’s first NCAA bid
Nebraska’s first appearance in the
women’s NCAA Tournament was
spoiled Saturday when the University
of Southern California defeated the
( omhuskers 100-82 at the California
Staie-Dominguez Hills Gym in Car
son, Calif.
The loss ended Nebraska’s season
with a 22-7 record.
Chris Piper each tallied two Held
goals to help mount a 14-6 run that
gave the Jayhawks a 43-42 lead with
13:51 to play.
Arizona also overcame a second
half deficit to defeat North Carolina.
Tom Tolbert scored 18 of his 21
points in the second half— including
two key three-point plays — to lift
Arizona, 35-2, to its first Final Four
appearance. All-America forward
Scan Elliot led the Wildcats with 24
points and teamed with Tolbert and
Anthony Cook to hold North Carolina
All-America J.R. Reid to only 10
points.
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possibly could,” Neumann said.
“Cook, in particular, turned his whole
season around, and it was a pleasure tc
have him in the same room. Che
noweth and Malaceck should jusi
kick everybody’s butt next year.”
Neumann said before the season
started that he felt Nebraska could
finish among the nation’s top three or
four teams. He said although he isn’l
ready to make the same prediction for
next year.
“I’ll just say right now that the 10
guys that end up on the mat for us next
season will be ready to do the job for
us,” Neumann said. “Our recruiting is
looking great. We’re going to bring
some people in here that can beat out
some of our returning people.
“Hopefully, this is the last year I’ll
have to be disappointed about the
season.”
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