Sports
Tourney spoils softball team’s fun
By Darran Fowler
Staff Reporter
A spring break trip to California proved to
be anything but fun for the Nebraska softball
team.
Nebraska softball coach Ron Wolforth said
the week-long trip was challenging because the
Comhuskers played nine of the country’s top
10 ranked teams and also squared off against
20th-ranked U.S. International. Nebraska, 13
17, finished its trip with a 3-6 mark.
Nebraska opened its trip by competing in
the Pony Invitational in Fullerton, Calif. The
tournament included every top 10 squad except
Nebraska opened the tournament by defeat
ing Bowling Green 1-0, but then suffered con
secutive one-run defeats to the nation’s top
three ranked teams.
Nebraska lost to 2nd-ranked Oregon 2-1,
top-ranked Fresno Slate 4-3 and 3rd-rankcd
Oklahoma State 1 -0. The loss to the Cowgirls,
who won the tournament by defeating Fresno
State 4-0, was followed by a 7-5 setback to
Utah.
The Huskcrs also suffered 2-1 and 3-2 set
backs against California Statc-Northridge,
which is ranked 3rd in Division II, prior to
defeating U.S. International by consecutive 2
0 scores.
Wolforth said Nebraska was bolstered by
strong pitching from Marie Bowie and Stepha
nie Skcgas throughout the trip. But he said in
consistent clutch hitting from the middle part
of the lineup hurt the Huskcrs.
Wolforth said Nebraska, which has nine
freshmen on its roster, needs to have more
mental composure when the score is close.
“Our pitching, with the exception of a
couple innings, was very good far us,“ he said.
“This is stifi a good softball team. With so
many freshmen we just need to keep plugging
away, but the mental part of it’s lough to get ail
cylinders firing at one time.”
Wolforth said softball has reached parity at
the national level. He said that parity causes
him to not be concerned about the Huskcrs
losing record.
“With the exception of the top four teams,
everyone else will have 15 to 20 losses this
season which is really unusual,” he said.
In talking with opposing coaches at the
tournament, Wolforlh said a majority of those
teams arc experiencing disputes among the
players. He said playing a tough schedule early
in the season will benefit Nebraska.
“In ihc long run this will help us out, be
cause as a team we’re sticking together, unlike
other teams,” he said.
Wolforth said Nebraska, behind a three
hitter by Bowie, was the only team to hold
Oklahoma State to one run in the tournament.
But, he said, Nebraska cannot be satisfied with
that or the fact that it suffered narrow defeats to
good teams.
“Whether it’s one run or ten runs it’s still a
loss,” he said. “The W’s (wins) have got to
come”.
Wolforth credited senior outfielder Janelle
Frese and junior Lori Cook with solid perform
ances at the plate.
“Frese had a pretty solid offensive 10
days,” he said. “She is still hitting the ball real
well. Lori Cook came off the bench and deliv
ered several key hits for us.”
NU tennis player beats mononucleosis and Iowa State
By Paul Domeier
Staff Reporter
Ken Feuer’s glands kept the Ne
braska men’s tennis team from beat
ing two ranked teams during spring
break.
Nebraska men’s tennis coach
Kerry McDermott said Monday that
Feuer was diagnosed as having
mononucleosis before the Com
huskers left for the Califomia-Irvine
Marriott Classic in Irvine, Calif.
Feuer plays No. 4 singles and No. 3
doubles for Nebraska.
With a makeshift lineup, Ne
braska finished the tournament with a
1-3 record. The Huskers’ losses in
cluded a 6-3 setback to fourth-ranked
Cal-Irvinc and a 5-4 defeat against
15th-rankcd Arkansas.
“I kept thinking if Ken would
have been with us we could have
beaten two of the top 15,” McDer
mott said. “I was disappointed that
we lost some close matches.”
Nebraska beat Washington 7-2 to
qualify for the 16-team tournament.
The Huskers defeated Harvard in the
first round, then lost three straight
matches, including the setback to
Arkansas.
Nebraska then stayed in Califor
nia to face San Diego State, and won
that match, 5-4.
McDermott said with the bad
news of Fcuer’s diagnosis came the
good news that he was near the end of
his illness.
Osborne hopes Huskers
can reload during spring
By Nick Hodge
Senior Reporter
Nebraska football coach Tom
Osborne’s major concern as spring
practice opened Monday was replac
ing eight All-Big Eight performers
lost to graduation.
Osborne welcomed more than 160
Comhuskers for the first day of prac
tice at Memorial Stadium.
Osborne said the Comhuskers
“lost a lot of really talented players”
from last year’s team that finished
11-2.
“1 think this is one of our heavier
rebuilding years,” he said. “I guess I
don’t like the term rebuilding be
cause many times that carries the
connotation that you’re not going to
be very good.
“We always feel that we have to
be good and hope we’ll be good every
year. But we certainly have a lot of
spots to fill. We still think we’ll have
a good football t« an.”
Osborne said the quarterback po
sition heads the list of areas that need
immediate attention for the duration
of spring practice. He said Nebraska
needs to find a consistent replace
ment for three-year starter Steve
Taylor.
Osborne said the Huskcr coaching
staff will also be closely watching the
improvement made in the defensive
secondary and offensive line.
Despite the obvious concern of
lilling the gaps left by graduation,
Osborne said he’s confident that the
younger Huskcrs will mature.
"I don’t think we have everything
put together right now,” Osborne
said. ‘ We’re a long way from where
we have to be. I think we have a
chance to be good. It’s better than the
alternative of walking out here think
ing that you’re not going to be any
good because you don’t have the tal
ent. We have some guys with some
potential.”
“He had been complaining in
practice about how tired he was,”
McDermott said. “He gets more tired
than anyone else anyway, and we
always told him maybe he would feel
better the next day. Then he got real
sick and his glands started to swell up,
so we took nim in.”
Feuer was healthy in time for the
Big Eight opener against Iowa State
Sunday in Ames, Iowa. The Huskers
crushed the Cyclones, 8-1.
“We took it to them in singles,”
McDermott said.
Five Huskers, including Feuer,
won their singles matches in straight
sets. McDermott said Feuer played
well even though he was not overly
aggressive against Iowa State.
“Ken was a little conservative on
his volleys,” he said. “Instead of
putting them away he just pushed
them back on the court.”
Feuer tired in the third set of the
doubles, but McDermott said he
knew the junior from Massapequa,
N.Y., would come through.
“Ken competes so well he’ll make
it even though he had been sitting
out,” McDermott said. “He told me
there was no way he was going to quit
in the doubles.”
McDermott said he is still worried
about the No. 2 doubles team of
Robert Sjoholm and Matthias
Mueller. Against Cal-Irvine they beat
Mark Kaplan and Richard Lubener,
4-6, 7-6, 7-6. Last fall, Kaplan and
Lubener reached the quarterfinals of
the U.S. Open.
But Sjoholm and Mueller lost two
other matches in California, which
McDermott said comes partly from a
lack of communication.
“Robert likes someone to pump
him up, and Matthias doesn’t need
that,” he said. “It’sjustacase of one
who wants to talk, (and) the other
doesn’t”
Mueller has won 14 consecutive
matches. McDermott said he hopes
Sjoholm and Mueller will make the
next rankings.
McDermott said Nebraska played
great singles throughout the week.
Steven Jung, who is ranked 22nd,
wcnt4-l in California and beat Glenn
Wilson of Iowa State, 6-3,6-2.
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