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Sports Husker track teams sweep weekend meet By Darren Fowler Staff Reporter The only competition that the Nebraska men’s and women s track teams could find Saturday in a quad rangular meet at the Bob Devancy Sports Center was among them selves. Nebraska track coach Gary Pepin said he was pleased with the Com huskers' performance in their second meet of the season. He said the per formance was especially pleasing because Nebraska was uncontcsted in a lot of events. The Nebraska women tallied 94 points to outdistance 2nd-place Washington, which finished with 63. Colorado State finished 3rd with 31 points, while Wyoming tallied 21 and Wichita State 14. The Nebraska men also outdis tanced the five-team field, as they won nine events to finish with 108 points. Washington finished 2nd with 53 points, while Colorado State was 3rd with 29. Wyoming and Wichita State rounded out the scoring with 25 and 20 points. “All of them did it on their own, without much competition,” Pepin said. “In some events it was us against our own guy.” Pepin said the Huskers still have room for improvement “Both teams have a lot of poten tial and we have enough good ath letes lo w in the conference meet,” he said. “But we're going to have lo get better and improve and get some people healthy. “1 thought we did better than we did a week ago and I thought most of our athletes trained pretty hard through the week.” Pepin said freshman Yvonne van der Kolk and Joanne Gomez had outstanding performances. Gomez qualified for the NCAA champion ships by leaping 40-11 1/2 in the triple jump, while van der Kolk joined her as an NCAA qualifier by running 800-meters in 2:08.16. Pepin said van der Kolk’s and Gomez’s performances were impres sive because they weren’t competing against a lot of tough competition. ‘‘Yvonne’s was a national quali fying performance absolutely on her own,” he said. ‘‘And it was kind of the same with Joanne Gomez. She was ahead by more than two feet of the whole field in the triple jump and qualifies for nationals, so that was a heck of a performance.” Pepin also praised the perform ance of senior Lineua Wilson. Wilson won the 400 with a time of 55.14 and anchored Nebraska’s 1,600. She teamed with freshmen Denise Lucas, Fran tenBensel and Tanya Lidy to win that event in 3:54.06. See PEPIN on 10 WHNam Lauar/DaHy Nabraskan Nebraska freshman Brad weishaar competes in the pole vault event. Weishaar failed to place in the competition, which was won by Wyoming’s Beecher St rube. Dutch freshman qualifies for NCAA track championships By Paul Domeier Staff Reporter Yvonne van dcr Kolk qualified for the NCAA Championships Saturday in her first indoor race as a member of the Nebraska women’s track team. Van der Kolk, a freshman from Hilvcrsum, Netherlands, ran the 800 meter dash in 2:08.16 minutes, nar rowly finishing under the NCAA qualifying time of 2:09. She said, however, that she was not satisfied. ‘'It’s terrible,” van der Kolk said. “I expected to run a 2:07 or 2:08. If I wouldn’t have qualified, then I would have really been upset.” Van der Kolk said she ran the 800 in under 2:05 last year. She said she hopes to reach that mark by the con clusion of Nebraska’s indoor season. Van der Kolk said she skipped Nebraska’s season-opening meet last weekend because she suffered from jet lag during her first days back from Christmas break, and then injured her hamstring. She said that she decided to run in this meet on Thursday, and never gave a thought to holding back, even though she finished nine sec onds ahead of her closest competitor. Her hamstring feels fine now, she added. The meet was van der Kolk’s first indoor meet, but not her debut as a Husker. She said she ran in four cross country meets last fall to face some competition and to help the team. But van der Kolk’s experience extends far beyond those five colle giate meets. When she started run ning at age 8, she won her first meet, and she’s been running international events since 1985. Van der Kolk said she was con tacted by Nebraska two years ago. Last April, she went on a recruiting trip, and she chose Nebraska over Boston because of the coaches, facili ties and a major that the university offered. **I want to be an international i business major,” van der Kolk said. “Studying is as important as running — maybe more important than run ning.” Van der Kolk said her best events arc the 800 and the 1,500. She will be running her first mile, the indoor equivalent of the 1,500, in a couple of weeks, she said. She expects to qual ify easily for that event, too, now that she has the first race under her belt. “My first race is always kind of Jifficult,” van der Kolk said. I NU defeated by Tigers; Big 8 record falls to 0-4 By Nick Hodge Senior Reporter The frustration of the Nebraska men’s basketball team continued Saturday when Missouri defeated the Comhuskers 89-72 at the Bob Devancy Sports Center. With the loss, the Huskers stretched their winless Big Eight record to 0-4. Nebraska has lost eight consecutive regular-season conference games dating back to the final four games of last season. Nebraska sophomore forward Beau Paid said he doesn’t under stand wily the Huskers have been shut out in league play. ‘it’i frustrating because we have the people to match up physi cally with anyone," Rekl said. Saturday‘I sports center crowd of 13.066 witnessed a match up that featured a frustrated Husker squad against a talented, high powered Tigers team which is ranked No. 5 by The Associated tv— nCSi, Nebraska fell to 12-8 overall. Missouri, which has won its last nine games, improved to 18-3 and 4-0 in conference play. Husker coach Danny Ncc said he is frustrated by Nebraska’s lack of success in the conference. "We can’t get consistency in what we do," Nee said. "It’s re ally disappointing because we, have good crowds, and wc have a lot of enthusiasm, and we just can ’ t get over the hump." Nee said Missouii has a very good basketball team. "I was thoroughly impressed with Missouri from top to bottom. I still feel they're a real quality team. They have so many ways they can beat you,” Nee said. Neither team shot well in the first half, but Nebraska kept pace with the Tigers until hilling a dry spell in the final minutes. The Huskers scored four points in the last five minutes of the half to fall behind 37-31 at halftime. In the first half, the Huskers connected on 11 of 26 shots for 42.3 percent, while Missouri made 14 or 37 field goal attempts for 37.8 percent. Both teams’ shooting improved in the second half, but Missouri shot bettor. The Tigers hit 69 per cent of their second half shots by connecting on 20 of 39 field goals attempts. Meanwhile, Nebraska made 15 of 34 shots for 44.1 per cent. However, the Huskers conun- . tied to baule Missouri in the early stages of the second half before foul troubles sidelined centers Rich King and Richard van Pocl geest. King fouled out with 13 minutes left and van Poelgcest was whistled for his fifth foul with 10 minutes left in the game. Back-to-back three point bas kets by Reid and Eric Johnson pulled Nebraska to within a point of the Tigers at 56-55 with 12:06 remaining in the game. In less than a minute, the Tigers reeled off eight-straight points to take a 63-55 lead with 1K17 re maining. Missouri never looked back. The Tigers steadily increased their lead, and at one point led 89-66. Missouri coach Norm Stewart said his Tigers were able to over come the determined Husker play early in the game to win. The Huskers were led by Reid’s 16 points. Senior forward Pete Manning added 14 points and van Poelgcesl scored 13 points. Manning pulled down a team —,—„... high 11 rebounds, white Johnson contributed a game-high eight as sists for Nebraska. Missouri guard Byron Irvin led the Tigers by scoring a game-high 22 points. Meanwnile, forward Nathan Buntin added 14, guard Lee Coward added 13, and guard Anthony Peeler and forward Mike Sandbolhc each scored 11 points for Missouri. Nebraska will try to vent their frustrations Tuesday at Ames, Iowa, when they play Iowa State. In tut im mi i»u uuuu »i.i. muni Big 8 victories build prestige KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - There’s probably not a Big Eight official alive who would admit how he really feels about Kansas State’s win over Kansas Saturday. It would be like the governor of Oklahoma taking sides in an Oklahoma-Okla homa State football game ~ political suicide. But secretly, they must all be de lighted. They might also, if their in nermost feelings were known, be pleased as punch that Oklahoma Stale beat Iowa State in such con vincing fashion. It’s not that anybody’s mad at Kansas or Iowa State. It’s just that with all of this NCAA money and prestige on the line, conference unity can be hanged. The NCAA tournament selection committee is getting ready to make its annual judgment and fill out its 64 team bracket. And the Big Eight, which had five teams in last year's tourney, could be in dire peril of having its representa tion shrink to two. After that, who knows? The best chances would seem to be Kansas State and the young and talented Oklahoma State squad. But with plenty of action still to come, every victory is vital to both teams. That’s why it was important for the Big Eight to see Kansas Sl ue beat Kansas and Oklahoma Stale 1cut Iowa Stale. The Wildcals rallied behind bu l . \ Fred McCoy in the second half to b , > the 18th-ranked Jayhawks 71-70. In other games involving Big Eight teams, Oklahoma State defeated Iowa State 90-88 and Missouri clob \ beredNflbraska 89-72. .*,{< /' 4 ) I _I Nebraska's Peter Manning tries to block a shot by Missouri’s Mike SamSbotbe.