Pepin optimistic for season
but won’t make predictions
PEPIN From Page 7
The returning All-Americans in
clude Linetta Wilson in the sprints,
Renita Robinson in the triple jump,
Sammie Resh in the 3,000-meter run
and Toyia Barnes in the shot put.
Wilson qualified for the NCAA in
door meet in the 400-meter run with a
time of 54.94 seconds at the Sas
katchewan Indoor Games.
The top recruits for the Nebraska
women are Yvonne Van Der Kolk, a
middle-distance runner from Illiver
sum, The Netherlands, Nora Rocken
bauer, a javelin thrower from
Budapest, Hungary, Ximena Res
repo, a sprinter from Columbia,
South America and Frank tenBensel,
a distance runner from Arapahoe.
Pepin said the Nebraska men will
also be bolstered by the return of two
All-America selections and a solid
recruiting class. The returning All
Americans include Regis Humphrey
in the middle distance events and
James Morris in the triple jump.
The top recruits for the Huskcr
men are James Cob, a sprinter from
St. Louis, and Kevin Coleman, a
weight specialist from Elgin, III.
“We have some real outstanding
athletes who didn’t compete last
year,” Pepin said. “But this year
they will and it’s almost like having a
new recruit coming in.”
Pepin said he’s optimistic about
his new recruits. He said he does not'
want to make any bold predictions
about them because he has not seen
them compete enough on the colle
giate level.
“I’m a bit conservative in telling
just how good the young athletes
really arc,’’ Pepin said.
Pepin said Nebraska continued its
preparations for the Big Eight’s in
door season by staging the Nebraska
Open Saturday at the Bob Devancy
Sports Center. He said the goal of the
meet was to prepare his teams for the
Big Eight and national meets.
The highlight of the Nebraska
Open occurred when senior sprinter
Mark Perry qualified for the NCAA
meet by completing the 55-meter
dash in 6.21 seconds.
“What I saw was flashes of good
athletes and good performances,”
Pepin said. “Some kids were com
peting (at the collegiate level) for the
first time and were really nervous.”
Pepin said the next couple meets
are important because they will pro
vide Nebraska with some strong
competition. He said the Nebraska
men will be tested when they lace
Arkansas on Feb. 4, while the Husker
women will be tested when they
compete in the Frank Scvigne
Husker Invitational on Feb. 10 and
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Nebraska’s Mike Hemann (on top) battles North Dakota’s Cory Leopold. Hemann defeated
Leopold 3-1 as Nebraska beat the Fighting Sioux 41-3.
NU wrestlers will take no surprises;
coach doesn’t see Notre Dame win
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By Steve Sipple
Siatf Reporter
The Notre Dame wrestling team
won’tcalch Nebraska by surprise this
season.
The 16th-ranked Fighting Irish
will go after their second-straight
dual victory tonight against 14th
ranked Nebraska in a 7:30 p.m. match
at the Joyce Athletic and Convoca
tion Center in South Bend, Ind.
Last season, Notre Dame stunned
Nebraska with a 21-18 dual victory at
Bob Dcvancy Sports Center. The
Fighting Irish, 4-2 at the lime, took
the Huskers by surprise, Nebraska
coach Tim Neumann said.
But tonight, the Fighting Irish
enter the match with a 6-0 dual record
and the attention of the 7-4-2 Corn
huskers.
“Last year, I think that they were
n’t expected to win the match,”
Neumann said. “This year, I honestly
don’t think they can win.”
Neumann said he didn’t know
Notre Dame was undefeated.
“I didn’t realize that. I’ll be
darned,” he said. “I guess we’re the
underdog then.”
Notre Dame coach Fran McCann
disagreed.
“No way. He’s (Neumann) play
ing games,” McCann said. “They’ve
beaten some good people. My good
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Lock Haven (Pa.) -- those are solid
teams. We’ll have to wrestle our best
to beat them.”
Nebraska defeated Big Eight rival
Iowa State 19-14 Dec. 10 at the
Sports Center and recorded a 22-12
win against No. 6-ranked Lock Ha
ven in a Jan. 14 dual at Lock Haven,
Pa.
Notre Dame has recorded dual
victories against Air Force, Purdue,
Ohio University, Ohio State, Illinois
State and Adams Slate.
McCann said his team’s most
impressive win came against un
ranked Ohio State. Notre Dame
scored a 21-18 victory against Buck
eyes, who carry all-4-1 dual record,
in a Jan. 15 dual at Columbus, Ohio.
‘ ‘That was our best meet as far as
a total team effort,” he said. ‘‘Tobeat
Nebraska, we’ll have to have that
kind of effort.”
Neumann said Nebraska and
Notre Dame are evenly matched.
‘‘This vear’s dual should aodown
to the wire,” he said. ‘‘We both
match up real good. There’ll be some
really good matches -- it’ll be our
good guys against theirs. We'll sec
who’s better.”
Neumann said the dual’s 134
pound match between Notre Dame’s
Jerry Durso and Nebraska’s Dave
Droegemueller will be one of the
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3th with a 21-3 record will face
Droegemuellcr, who is ranked No.
1*7.
“That match should be a dandy,”
Neumann said.
Another of the dual’s best matches
will feature a Nebraska wrestler
against a former Husker recruit.
Neumann said he recruited Notre
Dame’s Todd Layton, a 150-pound
wrestler with a 16-5 record. Layton
will face 17th-ranked Paul Herrera
tonight.
Nebraska will go alter its fiflh
straight dual win without its surling
118-pound wrestler, Terry Took.
Cook suffered a broken thumb on his
right hand during a 20-7 victory
against North Dakota’s Greg Schmitz
Sunday at the sports center. Nebraska
defeated North Dakota 41-3.
Neumann said Cook underwent
surgery Monday to repair the thumb
and should return to the Huskers’
lineup in time for the March 5 Big
EighlChampionships in Ames, Iowa.
“He’s depressed,’’ Neumann
said. *4 He’s had a tough year as far as
bad breaks.’’
Cook relumed to Nebraska’s
lineup last Friday and scored victo
ries in duals against North Dakota
Slate and Clcmson. He made his re
turn after recovering from arthro
scopic knee surgery and bone spurs in
his neck.
OU recruits will redshirt, expert says
EMFINGER From Page 7
West Covina, Calif., defensive line
man Gerry Irons of Woodlands,
Texas, lineman Lance Larson of
Moorhead, Minn., wingback Vernon
Powell of East St. Louis, III., safety
John Recce of Jersey Village, Texas,
tight end Billy Wade of Spring,
Texas, linebacker Darren Williams
of Chicago and Omar Soto, a fullback
who is transferrins from Arizona
Western Junior College.
Em finger said the states top
player is Anderson, with Hoskins
following close behind. He said
Bryant trails both of those players in
terms of skill.
Emfinger said NCAA probations
that were placed on Big Eight rivals
Oklahoma and Oklahoma Stale did
not affect Nebraska’s recruiting. He
said Oklahoma and Nebraska will
both have strong recruiting years,
while Oklahoma State wifi suffer
slightly.
Oklahoma was banned from tele
vision for one year and placed on
probation that includes scholarship
reductions for two years for recruit
ing violations. Oklahoma State’s
probation prohibits them from ap
pearing on television for two years
and reduced their number of avail
able scholarships for three years.
“Oklahoma is still Oklahoma. All
recruits will do now is go up there and
redshirt,” Emfinger said. “I think
probation is going to affect Okla
homa State because now they won’t
have the most fabulous class they’ve
ever had. But they’ll still do all right
because they do a great job of evalu
ating players and letting them de
velop.
