Home runs power Huskers past Antelopes
By Steve Sipple
Senior Reporter___
For Nebraska’s Marcel Johnson
and Joe Federico, it didn’t matter who
their home runs came against, just
that they came.
Johnson nailed a grand slam and
Federico hit both a three-run home
run and a solo shot to lead Nebraska to
a 17-4 victory against Kearney State
Tuesday before 342 fans at Buck
Bcltzer Field.
The win was Nebraska’s 13th
straight at home and raised its record
to 28-8 overall. The Comhuskers,
ranked No. 17 in the Collegiate Base
ball/ESPN national Top 30, are 7-1 in
the Big Eight.
Kearney State, which had an 11
game winning streak snapped, fell to
14-16.
Johnson said his second grand
slam of the year, which gave Ne
braska 5-0 second-inning lead, felt as
good against the Antelopes as it
would have against anybody. That, he
said.includcsOklahoma—thcHusk
ers Big Eight opponent this weekend.
“They’re all the same,” said
Johnson, a junior transfer from Val
lejo, Calif. “It’s the same baseball,
just a different hand. We’re just pol
ishing things up for the Big Eight.”
Johnson’s home run, an opposite
field shot over the 375-foot sign in
right-center field, was his third of the
season.
NU tennis team
learns from loss
By Nick Hodge
Staff Reporter
Nebraska tennis coach Kerry
McDermott said he hopes the Com
husker men will learn from their 5-4
loss to Wichita State Friday at the
East Campus Courts.
McDermott said the Shockers
benefited throughout the match from
gusty winds.
“They played really well,”
McDermott said. “The windy condi
tions evened things out a lot.
“Some of our guys overhit balls
and made errors. Hopefully, we can
leam from it. We’ll have a couple
more matches outdoors when we’ll
have to face the (weather) elements,
too,” he said.
McDermott said high winds force
players to play a different style of
tennis.
“The wind was definitely a major
factor,” McDermott said. “It forces
players to make big adjustments. The
guys were frustrated with the ele
ments.
“The ball moves around a lot in the
wind. You can’t take big swings or
play a power game in the wind 1 ike our
guys were doing. You need to play
more crafty,”
i ne nusKcr men, 110 overau ana
2-0 in the Big Eight, bounced back
Saturday at the Lincoln Racquet Club
by defeating Colorado 8-1. The Ne
braska women, 3-7 and 1-1, lost to the
Buffaloes 6-3.
McDermott said he was pleased by
the teams’ efforts on Saturday.
“Our men seem to bounce back
every time they lose to win a big
match,” McDermott said. “We were
hungry to win. The guys played well
and seemed to concentrate better.”
McDermott said the Nebraska
men were thinking more about the
match with Colorado than they were
about Wichita Stale.
The big thing with Colorado is
that in the back of their minds our
guys knew Colorado was in the Big
Eight, so they might have been look
mg ahead to them,” McDermott said.
We got our confidence back.”
Despite losing 6-3 to Colorado,
which is favored to win the Big Eight,
•lie Nebraska women’s team played
well, McDermott said.
I'hc women really surprised me,”
McDermott said. “They really played
well. 1 felt they played agood match.”
Ihc Huskcr women beat Iowa
State 6-3 on April 1 to open Big Eight
play. The women’s efforts thus far in
the season should give them some
confidence, McDermoU said.
“The women realize they can play
with teams in the Big Eight,” McDer
mott said.
Federico’s three-run home run
capped a seven-run third inning and
gave Nebraska a 12-0 lead. His sec
ond blast came in the seventh inning
and increased the Huskers’ lead to 15
4.
Nebraska also beat the Antelopes
15-0 on March 15. That loss was
Kearney State’s 12th in a row. Feder
ico, a senior from Temple City,Calif.,
said he wasn’t aware the Antelopes
had won 14 their last 17 games since
the defeat.
“We try to play hard against every
body, know matter who it is,” Feder
ico said. “All we want to do is play
well and get ready for the Big Eight.”
Before traveling to Oklahoma this
weekend, the Huskers will play a
doublcheader today against Missouri
Western at Buck Beltzer Field. The
teams will play a nine-inning game
starting at 1:30 and follow with a
seven-inning contest.
Johnson said he has no trouble
getting ready for midweek games
against non-conference opponents.
“I’d like to think every team we
play is No. 1 and our job is to knock
them off,” Johnson said. “You don’t
play well if you don’t do that.”
Nebraska settled matters early
against the Antelopes. They jumped
to a 13-0 lead before the Antelopes’
scored four runs in the fourth inning.
Kearney State center fielder Scott
Broady’s two-run single off relief
pitcher Phil Goguen was the key
blow.
Goguen entered the game in the
fifth inning after Husker starter Mike
Zajeski held the Antelopes scoreless
through four.
Zajeski allowed only one hit and
walked three in raising his record to 2
1.
Zajeski, a freshman right-hander
from Orland Park, 111., was aided by a
Nebraska defense which made double
plays in each of the first three innings.
The Huskers have 39 double plays
this year.
Tom Heser, a left-hander from
Omaha, picked up the loss. Heser,
now 1-2, relieved starter Kyle Fair
bairn widi two out in the first inning.
Heser entered after Fairbaim
walked Bobby Benjamin and Johnson
with two out. After a balk moved the
runners to second and third, Heser
walked Eric Helfand. Federico
grounded out to third to end the threat.
In the second, the Huskers scored
with two outs when Terrance Batiste
was hit by a pitch, was balked to
second, and stole third. Ken Ramos
and Mate Borgogno then drew walks
to load the bases.
After Benjamin drew another walk
to force in the First run, johnson hit his
grand slam to make it 5-0.
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