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Gymnastics coach excited for next year By Lori Griffin Staff Reporter Records were broken tn all catego ries for the Nebraska women's pm nasties team this season, and tom husker coach Rick Walton said he couldn’t have asked for mom — except a higher finish at the NCAA Championships. Walton said Nebraska broke every individual and team avord this sea son. He said gymnasts Cry stal Sav age, Jeaneane Smith and Michele Bryant broke the 38-point barrier in the all-around competition, while the Huskers were also one of six teams to break the 190 point barrier in team competition. Nebraska broke the team sewing record twice this season. The old mark of 187 40, which was set last season. was broken when the Huskers tallied 189.05 points in a triangular meet against California Statc-Fuller ton and Arizona in Tucson, Ariz. Nebraska then broke the record a week later by scoring 190.10 points in a home dual meet against Missouri. Nebraska also set team records in the vault with a 47.75 score, the un even bars with 47.85, the balance -—-, beam with 47.10 and the floor exer cise with 47.95 points. Bryant broke the individual vault record held by Savage and Smith with a 9.75 score against Missouri, and Savage broke Smith’s record in the uneven bar competition with a 9.85 score. Smith broke the Nebraska all around record set last year by Savage by tallying a 38.3 score. Two Husker records were tied this season. Bryant, Smith and Savage all tied the record in the balance beam with a 9.55 score. Freshman Lisa McCrady tied Smith’s record of 9.7 in the floor exercise. Walton said Nebraska accom plished all of its goals this season and even exceeded some. Walton said Nebraska’s best per formance came against Missouri. The Huskcrs hit 23 of 24 of their routines en route to breaking the 190-point barrier. “When you have no mistakes and score over 190 points, you set your self up for the best performance of the year,” Walton said. “It would have been nice if it would have happened at a regional and a national champion ship, but you set yourself up for a goal to try and have more than one compe tition like that.” Walton said he was pleased with Nebraska’s season this year. The Huskers captured their second-con secutive Big Eight title March 26 in Ames, Iowa. Walton said Nebraska’s success will benefit the team next season. He said he is excited about next year’s schedule because it includes an invi tational at the Bob Devaney Sports Center and meets against Utah and UCLA, who finished second and third at this year’s NCAA Championships. See WALTON on 21 Sipple reaches 1000th career strikeout WOLFORTH from Page 17 those records were close at hand, so I wanted to get them if I could,” Sippel said. “They were just icing on the cake.” Sippel, 19-7, struck out nine bat ters against Kansas and gave up three hits. She also hit a three run home run in the third inning, the third home run of her career. Sippel pitched the final three in nings of Nebraska’s win over Mis souri, striking out seven of the 10 batters she faced. She also hit a solo home run in the top of the seventh inning. “It was just really an appropriate way for Lori Sippel to close out her regular season at home,” Wolforth said. Sippel and the other Nebraska players may get a chance to play at home again this season if the Huskers get to host a College World Series regional game, Wolforth said. Sippel said that in order for Ne braska to accomplish that, the Husk ers will need to play like they did this weekend. “I’m real pleased with the last three games,” she said. “We’ve got ten runs early so we couldn’t coast, but we were in control.” Kansas coach Kalum Haack, a former assistant coach at Nebraska who recruited Sippel, said he was impressed with Sippel’sperformance against the Jayhawks. “I’m happy for her,” he said. “She’s one of the best kids I’ve ever coached.” Nebraska pitcher Donna Dear dorff picked up wins against Kansas on Saturday and Missouri on Sunday to raise her record to 13-9. Wolforth said that despite the loss to Missouri, the weekend overall was a success because Nebraska im proved its record in the Big Eight Conference to 7-3, which gives the Huskers the No. 2 seed in the Big Eight tournament. The tournament is in Oklahoma City, Okla. May 6-8. Nebraska will play Saturday against the winner of Friday’s Iowa State-Oklahoma game. Oklahoma State will be the lop seed with a conference record of 10 0, including 6-0and 1 -0 victories over Nebraska. Sippel said the key to beat ing Oklahoma State in the tournament would be to score the first run of the game. “I don’t think anybody has gotten out there and scored early on them,” she said. Wolforth agreed that scoring early would be a key against Oklahoma State. “There’s nothing else we can do defensively and pitching wise against Oklahoma State,” he said. “We have to hit the ball hard.” Wolforth said that run production shouldn’t be a problem against any other Big Eight opponent except Oklahoma State. “This team against Big Eight pitching, except Oklahoma State, should never be held to less than three runs,” he said. Attention Students: Need a Storage Space for the Summer? We Can Help! 25 sq. ft. to 300 sq. ft. units available. 10% Summer Student Discount ==BEST SELF ST0RAGE== 5151 N. 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