Huskers sign
nations’s best
prep gymnast
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
A little home hospitality and a
strong tradition were all it took
for Lance Ringnald to sign a
letter of intent with Nebraska.
Ringnald, who is described
by Nebraska coach Francis Al
len as the top high school gym
nast in the country, said he
signed with the Comhuskers
because he knows teammates
Brad Bryan and Ted Dimas. He
said he met Bryan and Dimas
while training at the Gold Cup
Gymnastics School in Albuquer
que, N.M.
Ringnald said another reason
he chose Nebraska was the
Huskers’ strong tradition. Ne
braska has captured six of the last
10 NCAA titles and has had three
Nissen Award winners — Jim
Hartung in 1982, Wes Suter in
1986 and Tom Schlesinger in
1988.
“If in the past they’ve done
well, they’ll probably do well in
the future,” Ringnald said.
Allen said the Huskers’ past
success played a key role in the
recruiting of Ringnald and
Kevin Krumley of Doyleslown,
Penn., who is expected to sign
sometime this week.
“It helps recruiting when you
have the Nissen winner,” Allen
I said.
Allen said Ringnald, who
scored a 57.3 in the all-around at
the Junior Pacific Alliance meet
two weeks ago, is in the same
category competitively with
Hartung. He said Krumley is the
top competitor on the Junior
National team.
Ringnald said he’s traveled
all over the United Slates and to
Belgium as a member of the
Senior National Team. He said
he is going to Germany this week
to compete with the team.
Ringnald said he hopes his
extensive experience will allow
him to compete regularly during
his first season at Nebraska.
Nebraska’s Kevin Davis performs on the parallel bars. Corn
husker coach Francis Allen is relying on Lance Ringnald to
replace Davis, who has used up nis eligibility.
“Collegiately, I’d like to do as
well as I can in the NCAA meet,
and internationally I’d like to
make some international team,’’
he said.
Ringnald said also wants to
make an Olympic Team. He said
although his chances of making
the 1988 team are slim, he thinks
he has a good chance in 1992.
Mistakes prompt response
Jeff Apel’s American League
West predictions (Daily Nebraskan,
April 5) showed a tremendous lack of
baseball knowledge. He offered un
founded statements, misleading sta
tistics and even basic factual mis
takes. A few of these should be
pointed out so less-knowledgeable
fans won ’ t depend on Apel ’ s analysis.
The A’s last full-season division
title was in 1975, not 1974. Of the 13
A.L. third basemen who played in
more than 95 games, Jim Presley,
who was singled out as “a glaring
defensive weakness,” was eighth in
fielding percentage. “Second-year
player” Ruben Sierra is a third-year
player. “Outfielder” Larry Parrish
started for the Rangers at designated
hitter for 118 games, at third base 28
games, and played one game in the
outfield without a start. “Designated
hitter” Pete Incaviglia started 130
games in left field and five at desig
nated hitter.
As mistake-filled as the column
was, the most unbelievable part was
the projected standings at the end. No
A.L. West team has even won as
many games as 103. No major-league
team since 1978 has lost as many as
107. Apel predicted both in the same
year. In the past five years, two A.L.
West teams have won or lost 20 more
games than the year before. Apel
picks the same to happen this year.
The last five world champions have
averaged 15 less victories, the last 10
league champions 14 less, and only
one division champ in the past five
years has won more games than the
year before, yet Apel predicts the
Twins will win seven more this year
than last. I’m not saying any of this is
impossible, but the odds of all of them
happening must be astronomical.
Don’t put too much confidence in
Apel’s predictions. He obviously is
not secure enough in basic baseball
patterns and facts to make solid pre
dictions.
Paul Domeier
freshman
news-editorial
Editor’s note: The DN stands
corrected.
NU gets No. 11 ranking
BECK from Page 11
nament, and Montana, which was
ranked No. 14 at the end of last sea
son. In addition, she said, Nebraska
will play in at least f jur major invita
tional tournament4 which will invite
several tcp-20 teams.
“The reasoning behind that is that
last year we had a tough time getting
into the lop 20 because we didn’t play
many other top-20 teams,” Beck said.
“With a tougher schedule, people will
be more aware of us and maybe vote
for us more often.”
Overall, Beck said, this year’s
recruiting class is satisfying because
the Huskers signed most of the play
ers mey were ai icr.
“Of the top eight players that we
wanted, we got six,” Beck said. “We
went after recruits we knew we had a
chance to sign.”
Beck said she hopes to establish
Nebraska as a new power in women’s
basketball. Getting the No. 11 recruit
ing class in the nation is a big step, she
said.
“We’re building a tradition here,
and we’re building it on youth,” Beck
said. “We’ve told our returning play
ers that if they develop like they
should during the off-season, there
shouldn’t be freshmen coming in and
taking over the program. But you
never know. If they’re good enough,
they will.”
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