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McDermott
Jungs lose finals
at champion ship
By Lori Griffis
Staff Reporter
Nebraska narrowly missed plac
ing its first representatives in the
National Indoor Tournament while
competing at the Rolex Intercolle
giate Tennis Coaches Association
championships at Wichita, Kan.
The tournament was held Friday
through Sunday with teams from the
Big Eight and Missouri Valley Con
ferences competing. To qualify for
the Nauonal Indoor Tournament,
which will take place in February,
singles players had to reach Sunday’s
finals and doubles teams had to win
die finals.
Nebraska’s No. 1 doubles team of
Steven and Stuart Jung lost during
Sunday’s finals. Kansas’ Craig Wil
dey and Chris Walker defeated the
Jungs 2-6,6-4,6-0.
The Jungs are ranked 11th nation
wide while Walker and Wildey arc
ranked 10th, Nebraska’s Head Men’s
Tennis Coach Kerry McDermott
said.
McDermou said he was impressed
with the Jungs’ performance.
“Steven and Stuart went out and
took the first set and I figured they
would have no problems,” McDer
mott said. “They had a few key points
that gave them problems or they
would have won in straight sets.”
Nebraska’s No. 2 doubles tandem
of Robert Sjoholm and H.C. Taylor
lost in Saturday’s semifinals. Walker
and Wildey defeated Sjoholm and
Taylor 6-2,6-4.
In singles play, four Huskers made
it to the round of 16 players. Three
players went to Saturday’s quarterfi
nals. The only Husker to reach the
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Nebraska junior varsity l-back Scott Baldwin stands in
the end zone at Memorial Stadium. Baldwin also
reached the end zone Friday on a 63-yard run in the
Comhuskers’ 35-16 win against the Air Force junior
varsity. He led Nebraska with 134 yards rushing against
the Falcons.
NlTs Baldwin not hoping
for too much too soon
By Jeremy Felker
Staff Reporter
Even with the recent injury to
Nebraska I-back Terry Rodgers,
junior varsity I-back Scott Baldwin
isn't getting his hopes up for an
early varsity debut.
• “I’m just going with the flow
and doing what I know,'' said Bald
win, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound fresh
man from Roselle, N.J.
Rodgers, a sophomore from
National City, Calif., underwent
successful major surgery Sunday
to repair a tom anterior cruciate
ligament. He injured the knee last
Monday in practice.
When it comes to running the
ball, Baldwin has shown he knows
what he’s doing.
Against the Air Force junior
varsity on Friday, Baldwin led the
Comhuskers with 134 yards rush
ing, including a 63-yard touch
down run.
Last year as a senior at Roselle
High School, Baldwin rushed for
1,368 yards and led New Jersey’s
Union County with 122 points. He
was named All-Conference, All
County, All-Metro (Newark) and
All-State for coach Louis Grasso.
See BALDWIN on 8
Coach hopes
for repeat
By Mark Derowitsch
Senior Reporter
Nebraska recruiting coordinator
Jack Pierce wants Oklahoma State
running back Barry Sanders to expe
rience a fate similar to Thurman
Thomas’ performance against the
Comhuskers last season.
Thomas was touted as a Heisman
Trophy candidate going into the
game with Nebraska. But the Cow
boys’ Thomas gained seven yards on
nine carries against Nebraska before
finishing the year with 1,644 yards.
Pierce said Monday he hopes
Sanders fares as well as Thomas did
against the Huskcr defense.
Hie Cowboys face Nebraska this
Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Kickoff will be at 1:30 p.m.
“Barry Sanders is a great running
back," Pierce said at the weekly
Extra Point luncheon at Dillard's.
Sanders leads the NCAA in rush
ing with an average of 203.3 yards
per game. He’salsothenation’slead
ing scorer, averaging 22.5 points per
game. Pierce said Sanders has a dif
ferent style than Thomas.
“He’s a good back on a team with
a lot of balance,” Pierce said. “He has
such strong legs and he’s hard to
bring down ”
But Pierce said quarterback Mike
Gundy is just as important as Sanders
in the Cowboys’ offense.
Gundy, a 5-foot-ll, 185-pound
junior from Midwest City, Okla.,
ranks third in the NCAA in passing
efficiency with a rating of 167.3
points.
“He’s very quick and very intelli
gent,” Pierce said. “He has ran that
offense a long time and he knows
what to do with the football.”
Pierce said the Huskers must
concentrate on shutting down ail
phases of Oklahoma State’s offense.
“We have to show Oklahoma
State how aggressive we can play in
the football game,” he said. “That
will set the tone for the rest of the
afternoon. Then we’ll just have to see
what comes up.”
Pierce said the Cowboys’ offense
can play mistake-free games. Okla
homa State, 4-0 overall and 1-0 in the
Big Eight, didn’t commit a turnover
in its 41-21 win against Colorado last
week. The Buffaloes lost the ball six
times.
Coach Pettit looks for sixth starter
By Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter
A season-long policy will change
when the Nebraska volleyball team
faces Iowa State tonight at Ames,
Iowa.
The match will begin at 7 p.rn. at
Iowa State’s Physical Education
Building.
Nebraska volleyball coach Teiiy
Pettit said the match is critical be
cause he wants someone to step for
ward and claim the sixth starting
position. He said he is concerned
because (he Comhuskers have been
rotating players all year in an attempt
to And a replacement for outside hit
ter Kalhi DeBoer, who graduated last
season.
The players who have been in
volved in Pettit’s rotation include
senior outside hitter Angie Millikin,
sophomore specialists Jarilyn Ober
miller and Becki Bolli, sophomore
outside hitler Sue Hesch and fresh
men Janet Kruse and Chris Hall.
“We’ve been shuffling people in
and out all year long,” Pettit said.
“Now we want to try some different
lineups because we want to And
someone that feels comfortable in a
starting role."
Pettit said Nebraska, which is now
13-3 overall and 21 in the Big Eight,
needs to find a definite lineup so the
Husker starters can develop the unity
that is acquired through' repetition.
He said unity is difficult to develop if
a team lacks a definite starting lineup.
Pettit said a set starting lineup also
would be an advantage down the
season’s stretch. He said he hopes to
end his lineup woes by finding a
permanent starter against Iowa State.
Pettitsaid he doesn’t know what to
expect from the Cyclones.
Iowa State coach Vicki Mealer
said she isn’t surprised by Pettit’s
response. She said opposing teams
enter matches against Iowa State with
question marks because the Cyclones
lost four starters from last year’s team
that finished 20-11 overall and 8-4 in
the Big Eight
“At times, we don’t even know
what to expect,’’ Mealer said. “We’ve
got a talented but inexperienced
lineup.’’
Mealer said Iowa State’s inexperi
ence showed early in the season. She
said the Cyclones were plagued by
inconsistency during the non-confer
ence portion of their schedule.
But Mealer said Iowa State is
beginning to play better. She said the
Cyclones showed that they are a le
gitimate Big Eight contender defeat
ing Kansas State 15-12,14-16,6-15,
18-16,15-9 and losing to Colorado 5
15, 7-15,13-15. Both matches were
pla J ’ Ames.
said an upper-division
finish isn’t unrealistic for Iowa State.
The top four teams in the Big Eight’s
regular-season standings qualify for
the conference tournament on Nov.
25 and 26 in Salina, Kan.
'At times we don’t
even know what
to expect.’
— Mealer
“We’ve taken a patient attitude
this year and it is beginning to pay
off,” Mealer said. “We'
slow, steady progress,
good things can happen.”
Mealer said Iowa State isn’t treat
ing the Nebraska match as any thing
special. She said the Cyclones, who
are currently 9-6 overall and 2-1 in
the Big Eight, are approaching the
match with confidence.
“We’re anxious to see how we
look against them ” Mealer said.
“We’ve made some good progress
this season. Now we want to continue
improving.”
Nebraska middle blocker Carla
Baker said overconfidence won’t be a
problem even though the Huskers
own a 27-0 record against Iowa State.
She said Nebraska learned a valuable
lesson when it dropped a five-set
decision to Oklahoma earlier this
season in Norman, Okla.
“We want to make sure nothing
like that happens again,” Baker said.
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