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Soccer club to compete in tourney
By Jeremy Felker
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln soccer club will travel to Over
land Park, Kan., this weekend for
what club vice-president Lane Kent
says will be the highlight of its season
— the 10th annual Charlrand Tourna
ment.
“This is what we’ve been focusing
on since day one of practice,” Kent
said.
The tournament is composed of
two four-team brackets.
The Comhuskers’ bracket in
cludes Missouri, Iowa State and
Oklahoma Stale.
The second bracket includes Kan •
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sas State, Kansas, Central Missouri
State and the University of Nebraska
Omaha.
Kent said the two teams in each
bracket with the most points will play
teams from the opposing bracket in
the semifinals.
The winning teams will then pro
ceed to the championship match.
Kent said a win is worth two points
and a lie is worth one.
Kent said Iowa Slate will be the
toughest opponent in the Huskers’
bracket, “besides us.”
The tournament will give the
Huskers achance to show they can be
a legitimate Big Eight soccer team,
Kent said.
“This is our big chance to win a
tournament like this,” he said. “A
chance to prove ourselves as a powei
in the Big Eight.”
‘This is what
we’ve been focus
ing on since day
one of practice.’
—Kent
The Huskers will play Missouri
Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
The Iowa State match will begin a
11 a.m. with the final game agains
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Lincoln boxing club faces an un
certain future unless it can obtain
liabifity insurance for its boxers,
according to Kathy SheUog, ac
tivities coordinator for Campus
Activities and Programs.
SheUog said that after the
American Medical Association
came out a year ago with a state
ment opposing taxing because of
head traumas suffered during
bouts, UNL had to look seriously
at discontinuing the boxing club
for liability reasons.
In order for UNL to recognize
the dub, Shellog said, Che club
„ must obtain some kind of liability
insurance that wiii cover members
during practice and competition.
Cfiff Wa’ton, faculty adviser
and coach of the boxing club, said
the U.S. Amateur Box mg Federa
tion has a blanket policy that the
. club is currently looking into. The
UNL club, Walton said, would join
as an official ABF team and pay
extra fees for insurance.
"We’re just waiting for the
US A/ ABF to send us an update of
their policy," Walton said. "I
know Greek Fight Night had ABF
insurance. We had originally ex
pected to have the information last
week. Hopefully by the ertd of this
week Hi have k.”
Roy Loudon, UNL administra
tor for personnel, insurance and
risk management, said he was
supposed to have the insurance
information from the club 10 days
ago.
“I think if they get the insurance
it would certainly weigh in their
favor,” Loudon said,
Walton believes boxing at UNL
will continue.
“It’s just a matter of getting the
paperwork more than anything
else,” Walton said*
For now, the club hasn’t made
any pemuinent plans to continue
practices in the NU Coliseum,
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Dodgers take 3-1 lead in Series
i OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Re
liever Jay Howell got even by getting
Mark McGuire with the bases loaded
in the seventh inning Wednesday
night, preserving the Los Angeles
Dodgers' 4-3 victory over the
Oakland Athletics and moving them
within one game of the World Series,
championship.
The crippled Dodgers will try to
win their sixth title and first since
1981 when ace Orel Hershiser faces
Storm Davis in Game 5 Thursday
night. Of the 35 teams that took a 3-1
lead in the Series, 30 went on to win.
Howell, victimized by McGwire's
game-winning home run in the ninth
inning a night earlier, got revenge this
., *une. Herd ievodafcarte/Tiro Batcher
with two outs in the seventh ahead 4
3, but a walk and error loaded the
bases.
McGwire, just 1-for-13 in the Se
ries, swung at a frst-pitch fastball and
popped it straight up to first baseman
Tracy Woodson. Howell finished for
a save in the same tallpark where fans
constantly booed him last year when
he pitched for the A’s.
He ended it by strikirj out A’s
home run king Jose Canseco, who hit
a grand slam in the first game, on a 3
2 pitch with the tying run on first and
getting Dave Parker on a foul pop to
third.
The Dodgers ended a streak of 13
consecutive victories by the home
team in the World Series. They did it (
the hard way, with top hitters Kirk
Gibson and Mike Marshall unable tc
start because of injuries and catchei
Mike Scioscia forced to leave with a
twisted right knee in the fourth in
nine.
Oakland’s starting lineup had out
homered Los Angeles 132-36 this
season, but Belcher and Howell con
tinued the Athletics’ Series-long
slump.
Belcher, just the third pitcher to
start in the Series on his birthday - he
turned 27 - went 6 2-3 innings and
allowed three runs, two of them
samed, on seven hits.
Neither team played particularly
well. Oakland made two errors and
Los Angeles one. although there were
several other sloppy plays.
Oklahoma Stale scheduled to begin at
■ 3:30 p.m.
Semifinal-round play will begin
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. with the cham
t pionship match beginning at 1 p.m.
The Huskers will use the basic 4-2
4 offense, Kent said.
“If we can hold up with that, then
we’ II stick with it,” Kent said. “Other
wise, we might shift to a 4-3-3 and fee
if we’re more effective that way.f
He said the Huskers know what to
expect from the teams at the tounta
[ ment.
“Most of the teams we face use the
4-3-3, and that’s what we’ve played
basically against all year, except for
t UNO,” he said. “They use the same
t offense we use.”
Novak receives
much attention
By Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter ,
A lop high school middle blocker,
with Nebraska lies, is drawing heavy
recruiting attention from volleyball
programs across the country.
Sue Novak, a junior at H.L.
Richards High School in Oak Lawn,
III., who is the younger sister of
Nebraska outside hitler Val Novak,
has established herself as one of the
premier prep players in the country',
Richards High School volleyball
coach Faralyn Jaquith said. She said
Sue has received recruiting informa
tion from “countless” Division I and
small colleges.
“Shccould walk onto any Division
I court and start right now,” Jaquith
said. “She’s definitely an impact
player. She can play any position on
the court.” ~~ ? * •
Jaquith said she doesn't think
Val’s presence will influence Sue to
become a Comhuskcr. She said Sue
has emphasized throughout her high
school career that she docsn’t w ant to
be referred to as Val’s sister.
“I would say she docsn ’ t w ant logo
to Nebraska just because her sister is
there,” Jaquith said. “She has
changed her mind before, but I think
that’s her gut feeling.”
Jaquith said Sue is a better player
than Val was as a high school junior.
She said Sue is an excellent all
around player who improved her oOly
weakness this fall.
“Up until this season, she was like
a freckle up to 11 o’clock because of
her serving,” Jaquith said. “But she
has really improved her serving.
She’s a complete player now who is
an awesome middle blocker in the
front and back court.”
Jaquith said Sue is talented enough
to start for any Division I program.
She said Sue is the key reason why
Richards High School is ranked No. 1
with a 25-3 record this season.
Jaquith said Sue has become one of
the most dominant players she has
ever coached by maintaining a year
round commitment to volleyball. Sue
has gained extensive experience by
participating in the Second City Vol
leyball league and a junior program
tfnich caters to athletes who plan on
participating beyond the high school
level, she said.
NCAA rules prohibit Nebraska
volleyball coach Terry Pettit from
commenting on prospective recruits.
Nee receives fine
COLUMBUS (AP) — Nebraska
basketball coach Danny Nee, who
was ticketed for speeding early this
year and used a legal maneuver to
keep from losing his driver’s license,
was ticketed for speeding in Platte
County last month.
Platte Countv Court records show
the Nebraska State Patrol stopped
Nee on Sept. 6 for driving 84 mph ift
a 55 mph zone on U.S. Highway 81.
According to court records. Nee
paid a$100 fine for the violation and
$21 in court costs last Friday. The
speed on the ticket was reduced to 7ft
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