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[ Nebraska wrestling team places third
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
The biggest wrestling tournament
so far this season produced “the best
weekend of wrestling Nebraska has
ever had,” according to Comhusker
coach Tim Neumann.
Nebraska, ranked No. 5 by Ama
teur Wrestling News, finished third in
the 42-team tournament in Las Ve
gas, and five Huskcrs placed in the
top six in their weight classes.
“Going into the meet, our goal
was to finish in the top five,” Neu
mann said. “But we honestly thought
that if our kids wrestled well, we
could get in the top three.”
J Jason Kelbcr wrestled well
enough to win the 126-pound weight
class, beating Oklahoma State’s
Kendall Cross 4-2 for the champion
ship. Kelber never had beaten Cross.
Joe Malccek won the heavyweight
division, defeating Indiana’s Scott
Holman 5-1.
At 167, Scott Chenoweth lost to
Arizona State’s Dan St. John — the
defending national champion - 3-1
to take second.
Chris Nelson defeated two ranked
wrestlers before finishing fourth at
190, and Corey Olson was sixth at
177.
Eight of 10 Nebraska starters ad
vanced to the quarterfinals in the
tournament.
Neumann said three other Huskcrs
- Dave Droegemeuller (134), Layne
Billings (142) and Paul Herrera (150)
— “were a move or a couple of moves
away from placing” this weekend.
All three were beaten in the quarterfi
nals.
“You never know this early in the
season how well your team will per
form at a meet like this,” he said. “If
those four kids would have wrestled
back, we would have been right on
Oklahoma State’s heels for second.”
Arizona State won the meet with a
140.5 score, and Oklahoma State was
second with 129.25. Indiana and
Iowa State rounded out the top five,
behind Nebraska.
Oklahoma finished 11th.
HUSKIES from Page 7
“From the films I’ve seen, they
look good,” he said. “They’re well
coached. Molinari’s doing a nice
job.”
Northern Illinois is 2-0 at home
this season, while the Huskers’ losses
have been road setbacks against
Miami of Ohio and Michigan State.
Nee said the Huskers arc in for a
difficult but win-able contest against
Northern Illinois.
“They’re a good team,” he said.
“They have experience and they
have the home-court advantage.”
The experience begins with the
players who run the show for North
ern Illinois.
The Huskies return all five starters
from last year’s team. Northern Illi
nois is led by Stacy Arrington and
Donald Whiteside, a pair of junior
guards who average a combined 22
points per game.
Nee said the Huskies’ guard tan
dem makes their inside game potent
even though it will be giving up nine
inches to Nebraska. Northern Illi
nois’ post game includes forward
Donnell Thomas, a 6-fool-4 junior
who averages 19.5 points and six
rebounds per game.
In addition to Thomas, Northern
Illinois’ inside attack includes Randy
Fens, a 6-8 freshman center who
averages 8.3 points, and Antwon
Harmon, a 6-7 junior forward who
averages 9.8 points per contest.
The Huskies’ remaining returning
starter is 6-7 Andrew Wells, who
became the team’s sixth man after
suffering a concussion in Northern
Illinois’ first game. In three games,
Wells is averaging 27 minutes, six
points and nine rebounds while com
ing off the bench.
The Huskers arc ready for their
third game away from the Bob Deva
ney Sports Center this season, Nee
said.
“I think this trip should help us,”
he said. “Now that we have live
games under our belts, our new play
ers arc going to have a better feel lor
what it’s like to be on the road.”
Nee said his squad did not hurt
itself by defeating Harvard and Pep
perdine cn route to winning the
Amcritas Classic.
“Winning helps build confi
dence,” Nee said.
Nee said two Nebraska players arc
especially excited about the trip.
Those players arc junior guard Clif
ford Seales and sophomore forward
Carl Hayes, who hail from Westch
ester (111.) St. Joseph High School.
Westchester is located 58 miles
from DcKalb.
Northern Illinois will have a
weapon to counteract Hayes’ and
Seales’ homecoming advantage.
That weapon is James Schraut, a 6-4,
190-pound freshman.
Schraut began the season as the
Huskies’ student manager, but was
issued No. 24 after injuries at the
beginning of the season reduced
Northern Illinois’ roster to nine play
ers.
GREEN from Page 7
how the Bulls slack up against other
teams this season.
But in the world of college foot
ball, a guess is worth just about every
thing.
It’s a simple, textbook example of
a program hitting the big time loo fast
for its own good. The fans and media
don’t know what they’re doing. The
team is good, but the tradition isn’t
there.
It’s wonderful that Colorado’s
fans now have a football team to be
proud of. It’s good for the Big Eight
and college football in general. But as
every Huskcr fan knows all too well,
getting your hopes up too high makes
for a long and crummy winter.
Will Colorado’s success last?
What happens next season, when the
Buffs lose 10 of their 22 starters?
--
Next year, Colorado opens its
schedule with Stanford, (hen has road
games against Illinois and Texas,
before reluming to Boulder, Colo.,
for a date with Washington. The 1
Buffs also face Nebraska in Lincoln.
Yikes!
Colorado’s team won’t fall off the
face of the earth next year, but a 7-4
record is possible ... even probable.
The emotion from Sal’s death will
have subsided by then (hopefully)
and teams Colorado beat this year
will be waiting anxiously for Septem
ber to come.
Here’s hoping Ralphic III, the
team’s mascot, isn’t diagnosed of
cancer this spring. We’ll never hear
the end of it.
Green is a news-editorial major, a Daily
Nebraskan sports senior reporter and a
sports columnist.
OPPOSE from Page 7
A shortened season also would he
less fun and rewarding, he said. The
games are a reward for the players
after all the time they spend preparing
for the games. Nee said.
Fewer games also could cut reve
nue, Nee said.
“We have 23 sports here at Ne
braska and they’re all financed by
basketball and football,’’ he said.
Nee estimated that almost every
school in the country faces the same
situation. He said by “messing with
basketball,” everyone will be hurt.
Nee said there arc compromises
that could be made on the proposal.
“The prescason is too long.
Games shouldn’t be allowed until the
end of November," he said. “There
would be enough time to prepare if
practice didn’t start until Nov. 1.”
Nee said the 28-game schedule is
all right, but one or two fewer games
in the same lime period would be
acceptable.
However, Nee said he would pre
fer that the NCAA left basketball
alone.
* * We have a great, great game and
I wish they wouldn’t mess around
with it," he said.
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BUCKEYES from Page 7
Ohio Stale will have to continue
to serve well to be effective, Stone
said.
“Wc’rc not a very tall team so wc
feel to overcome that wc have to be
scoring points on our serve,’ ’ he said.
“For us to be successful we’re
going to have to serve well and get a
couple points a game off our serve. At
the very least, wc have to get it so they
can’t run the middle every time. But
that’s easier said than done.”
The Buckeyes are led offensively
by Holly O’Leary, who has recorded
a team-high 612 kills in posting a
.276 hitting percentage. She averages
S.01 kills a game.
“Holly’s a great player,” Stone
said. “She gets a lot of swings offen
sively, but that’s not much different
than a player on a basketball (team)
who’s hot and gets a lot of shots.
About 1,000 tickets remain for
this weekend’s matches. A two-day
tournament pass is being sold for $10
at the South Stadium ticket office.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents will not be admitted free.
LEADERSHIP from Page 7
In the next game, though, the
Huskers were thrashed by No. 10
Iowa, 74-59, and then came the in
consistency of last weekend.
Beck said one of the problems
may be that she is assimilating her
few veterans with her most talented
recruiting class. The young players
came in sharper than the returnees,
she said.
Beck said she needs the contribu
tions of her old players to show the
lreshmen how to win at the Division
I level. The win over Northeastern
could bean indication that that is
happening, she said.