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Sports Track meet will include Tour conferences ? By Darran Fowler Staff Reporter_ Four conferences will be repre sented when the Nebraska men’s and women’s track teams compete in a quadrangular meet Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Nebraska track coach Gary Pepin said he is looking forward to the meet because the three teams that the Comhuskcrs will face should provide good competition. He said the Ne braska athletes are looking forward to meeting the challenge. Joining Nebraska for the 3 p.m. meet are Western Athletic Confer ence rival Wyoming, Pac Ten com petitor Washington and Missouri Valley foe Wichita Stale. “Wichita State isn’t a deep team, but they have some talented ath letes,” Pepin said. “Wyoming is a strong team in the Western Athletic Conference and has been at or near the lop of the W AC the past couple of years. Washington is an extremely well-coached team, and has been in the upper half of the Pac Ten the last few years.” Nebraska will be competing in its second meet of the season, the first in which scores will be kept. The Husk ers opened their indoor season by competing in the Nebraska Open last Saturday. Pepin said he hopes Nebraska can build on its performance at the Ne braska Open. “Overall, I was pleased for the first meet of the season,” Pepin said. “For several of our athletes, this was the first time they’d competed in a Nebraska uniform, and that caused for some nervousness. “We’ve got some areas of im provement, but with three meets to go before the conference meet, there’s plenty of time lor that.” Washington women’s coach Orin Richburg said he is looking forward to lacing Nebraska. He said the Husker women, who have won nine straight Big Eight indoor titles, will introduce Washington to the type of competition that it will face in the Pac Ten. The Pac Ten is “very, very tough from top to bottom,” he said. Richburg said he hopes Washing ton benefits from Nebraska’s com petitive nature. He said he also hopes that the Huskies gain knowledge and experience from competing against teams they don’t normally see. ‘‘We hope to have a decent per formance,” Richburg said. ‘ We’re a really young team going against a predominately strong team year in and year out. It will be a good compe tition for our young kids.” Richburg said his most impressive performer is Angie Tasker. He said Tasker is a mainstay because she competes equally well in a variety of events. Richburg said hurdler Joyce Schweim, 3,000-meter runners Jen nifer Draughn and Jennifer Gillette, middle distance runners Randi Evans and Januka Peterson and high jumper Celia Evans are also good athletes. Washington men’s coach Ken Shannon said the strength of his team is in sprint events. He said the Hus kies are also bolstered by several football players. Shannon said the lop football player who will compete for Wash ington is Dana Hall, a former Califor nia state champion in the high hurdles. He said sprinter Eugene Harris and long jumper Aaron Pierce will also compete. Orlando McKay, the Arizona state champion in the 100,200and 400 last year, supports the Huskies’ sprinters, he said. Shannon said Washington’s dis tance runners will be bolstered by Bruce McDowell, who led the Hus kies to their second-consecutive na Doug CarrolbSpecUJ to th« Daily N*brtaken Nebraska’s Linetta Wilson relaxes after competing in the 500-meter run. lional championship in cross country, arrl Atle Nacshcim, an All-America selection in the steeple chase. Shannon said the only area where Washington can’t compete with Nebraska is in the long jump. Wyoming coach Duane Schopp said he doesn’t know how many events his teams will be competitive in. He said his top athletes will not compete in the meet because they will stay in Laramie, Wyo., to train and prepare for the Frank Scvignc Husker Invitational. That meet will be Feb. 10 and 11 in Lincoln. “We’re bringing a pretty good squad,” Schopp said. ‘‘They’re middle-of-the-road and just need a little more experience.” Schopp said the top performers competing for Wyoming are hurdlers Tom Garrison and Brenda Frost, both who are defending WAC champions, and Julie Burgess, a top-notch high jumper. Schopp said Wyoming’s women’s team, which finished 2nd in the WAC last year, should be competitive this season. He said the Cowboys’ men’s team’s success depends on the im provement of its distance runners. Wichita Stale coach John Korncl son said his team will be small on Saturday because it lacks condition ing. He said two of the Shockers top competitors -- sprinters Semi Akinremi and Isaac Adcnayju - will not compete. Akinremi was involved in a car accident earlier this week, wjjjle Adenavju, who finished fifth ip the semi finals of the lOOat'i/iefTfyr# pics last summer, is not in very good shape, he said. Schopp said Wichita State will bring a full crew of good distance runners. He said hurdler Henry Van derweth is also a strength for the Shockers. Lack of Sooners stifles meet s competition By Steve Sipple Stall Reporter__ Injuries and academic problems incurred by Oklahoma gymnasts have taken the luster off of Sunday’s Big Eight meet in Norman, Okla. The meet, which features Ne braska, Oklahoma and Iowa State, begins at 2 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center. Oklahoma, considered one of the nation’s best teams during the presca son, has lost four gymnasts to injury or academic problems. Only four Sooners will participate in the meet. Nebraska ana Iowa State will lake eight gymnasts to Norman. Only the lop five scores are added in each event. Thus, Oklahoma will get one zero in each event. his team can’t compete against tradi tional-rival Nebraska with such lim ited numbers. “There’s no way. We’re not going to even try,’’ Buwick said. “It’s like pulling a basketball team out there with four guys. Two months ago, we had one olthc best teams in the coun try. If I had all my guys, I’d say there’s no way Nebraska could beat us.’’ Oklahoma will be without junior Jeff Lutz, senior Mall Hervey, and freshmen Kevin Crumley and Scott South. Lutz injured his wrist last summer and quit school. Crumley injured his back in practice two weeks ago and is out for the year. Hervey and South arc ineligible because of academic problems. Her vcy was ruled academically ineli gible this year, while South failed to meet the academic requirements of Proposition 48. “Nebraska and Oklahoma have always enjoyed a big rivalry,” Buwick said. “Now we’re not going to see one.” Nebraska coach Francis Allen agreed Oklahoma’s shortage has put a damper on Sunday’s meet. “It’s too bad,” Allen said. “We’re trying to mentally get our gymnasts ready to go out and do a good job and just say ‘to hell with all that.”’ With Oklahoma’s team depleted, Iowa State could challenge the de fending national champion Huskcrs. But that won’t happen, Allen said. “Iowa State’s just not recruiting the kind of gymnasts that are talented enough to beat Nebraska,’ ’ he said. Nebraska will now focus on trying to score well to qualify for the NCAA meet, Allen said. The NCAA meet will be held April 13-15 at the Bob Devancy Sports Center. To qualify for the NCAA meet, teams’ top five point totals in meets held after Jan. 5 arc averaged, with the top 10 teams qualifying. Throe of the five scores must come from road sites. Scoring well for the NCAA meet could be all the motivation Nebraska needs for the upcoming meet, Allen said. “We’re ready,’’ he said. “We’re hungry. We need a meet.” Nebraska’s last competition was Nov. 18 and 19 in the Big Eight Invitational at the sports center. The Huskcrs, who are 4 0 in first-semes ter meets, won the five-team meet by scoring 272.25 points to outdistance runner-up Arizona State, which tal y-% -m. lied 262.3 points. Iowa Slate finished 4th with 248.5 points. Allen said his gymnasts returned from their semester break during the first week of January. Since then, the Huskers have performed impres sively during workouts, he said. “They’re better than I thought they’d be,” Allen said. “I honestly think we can reach the finals of the NCAA’s. “If we can continue to improve and nobody gets hurt, we can win the • NCAA title. Considering Oklahoma’s prob lems, Iowa State coach Dave Mickcl son said Nebraska will be the favorite to win Sunday’s meet. “Nebraska definitely looks sharp from what 1 saw at the Big Eight Invite,’’ Mickclson said. “I don’t expect any less Sunday.” Sooner coach Greg Buwick said 3H.. 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At 167, Notre Dame’s Todd Tomazic won a 4-3 decision against the Comhuskers’ Scott Ctenowoh-Owts Gamcr.w>Q by disqualification against Ne braska’* Cody Olson at 177. ‘Jason Kelber and Layne Billinas looked the best they have all year 9 9 9 -Neumann But Robbins came through with a 9-5 decision against Kurt Engler. And Manley capped Nebraska’s fifth straight dual win with a 6^3 dual .win against the Irish’s Chuck ..•a.. tTk • < ititktkxitilitiittttitliuui Weaver. “The momentum really swung in Notre Dame’s favor at 167 and 177,” Nebraska coach Tim Neumann said. “But Tommy and Sonny came out and pul out the fire.” Neumann also had words of praise for Nebraska’s 126-pound Jason Kclber and 142-pound Laync Bill ings. Kelber, ranked No. 8, jumped to an 11-3 lead against 18th-ranked Marcus Gowens before scoring the pin at 1:55 in the first period. Billings pinned Shawn Dillon at 4:05. “Jason Kelber and Layne Billings looked the best they have all year and Paul Herrera pulled out the match of the year with a big move at the end (of his match), Neumann said. Herrera, wrestling at 150, scored on a five-point move with nine sec onds left to defeat Todd Layton, 9-5. With the move, Herrera gained two points for the takedown and three points for a near-fall. Nebraska wrestled without ninth ranked, 118-pound Terry Cook w ho is expected to miss four to six weeks * with a broken thumb. In addition to Cook and Kelbcr, Nebraska’s Jeff Coltvct is ranked No. f 11 at 158 pounds in the latest rank ings. On Wednesday, Coltvet scored r a 8-7 win against Mark Gerardi. Nebraska’s next match will be \ Feb. 3 against No. 20 Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls, Iowa. •. *>'» .V v 111 s U « < i i 11 UMill » II