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NU to use post game against Buffs
By Paul Domeier
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska wome n ’ s basketbal 1
team will match strength against
strength when it faces Colorado to
night.
Nebraska women’s basketball
coach Angela Beck said the Corn
huskers want to use their deep post
game to overcome the presence of
Colorado’s Debbie Johnson. Johnson,
a6-fool-5 junior, leads the Lady Buffs
with an average of 12.9 points per
game. i
Beck said she will counter Johnson’s I
Chicago State
matches coach’s
low expectations
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Chicago State men’s basketball
coach Tommy Suitts said Monday
that his team would be “out
matched” against the Comhuskers.
Tuesday night at the Bob Deva
ney Sports Center, the Cougars did
everything they could to prove their
coach was no liar.
Nebraska shot 55.4 percent from
the field and hit 8 of 12 three-point
shots to coast past Chicago State
92-57 before 8,211 fans, ending a
two-game losing skid and raising
its record to 7-7.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said
he was proud of the way his Husk
ers played.
“We shot the ball well again,”
he said. “Our three-point shot was
alive and well, which 1 was pleased
with, because I think we’re going
to need it later on during the sea
son.”
The Huskers were playing with
out starting guard Clifford Scales,
who was sidelined with the flu.
Keith Moody started in his place
and scored 10 points, hitting 4 of 5
from the field, including two three
point shots.
Nee was delighted with Moody’s
performance.
“1 thought the first 20 minutes,
he played perfect basketball,’ ’ Nee
said. “I don’t think he scored a
point, but he distributed the ball.
He was a great quarterback.
‘‘He got us in our offense, and
he got us in our defense.”
Three Huskers have had the flu
in the last two weeks. Reserve guard
Chris Cresswell had it last week
and center Kelly Lively “has a
touch of it now,” Nee said.
But Nebraska wasn’t the only
team on the court that was short
handed. Chicago State was with
out the services of injured guard
Gerald Collins, a 6-foot-2 senior
averaging 15.6 points per game.
“The injury to Collins really
hurt them,” Nee said.
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presence by using an abundance of
post players that are crowding the
interior lane at practice. She said those
players include Ann Halsne, Karen
Jennings, Sarah Muller, Rissa Tay
lor, Sue Hesch and Kelly Hubert.
The six post players will get a shot
at Johnson and the rest of her team
mates at 6:05 p.m. at the Events/
Conference Center in Boulder, Colo.
Colorado enters the game with an 8-7
record overall and a 1-1 mark in the
Big Eight.
Beck said Hubert’s presence in the
>amc is a bonus, as the junior forward
las returned from a serious ankle
injury suffered earlier this season.
She said Muller benefited while Hubert
was out. The Fremont native moved
inside and raised her scoring average
to 9.6 points per game.
Beck said Huber proved she is
healthy midway through Ne
braska’s 67-62 loss to Missouri on
Saturday, when she scored 14 points
and tallied a breakaway layup.
“When she made that ia/up, 1
said, 'Welcome back!”’ Beck said.
Beck said she will try to case her
team’s interior log jam by having
Muller spend some time on the pc
rimeter. She said she also will have
ail of the players battle for time on the
floor.
‘‘It’s going to make Halsnc, Jen
nings and Muller all work a little bit
harder,” Beck said.
Jennings has worked hard all sea
son, leading the team with 14.1 point
per game. Halsne averages 10.4 points
while Taylor scored 14 points agains
Creighton and 11 against Northerr
Illinois.
Beck said Hcsch, a former Ne
braska volleyball player, has improve*
the most of any player during th i:
season, her first year on the squad.
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Heat wave raises Sanders’ spirits
oy Jen «pei
Senior Editor_
As the temperature soared Tues
day afternoon, Nebraska baseball coach
John Sanders’ spirits continued to
climb.
Sanders said Nebraska has been
fortunate because it has been treated
to good weather. Tuesday’s high
temperature in Lincoln was 55 de
grees, meaning the Cornhuskcrs
worked out for the second straight
day outside.
“Every day that we work outside
is worth two inside,’’ Sanders said.
“It’s definitely been a nice way to
start the year. ’ ’
Sanders said his spirits also were
mica oy tnc audition ot two junior
college transfers who joined the
Nebraska program Monday. He said
Paul Fanucchi and Armando Garza, a
pair of right-handed pitchers, will be
valuable additions to the Huskcr pro
gram.
Garza is an Alliance native who
will be a junior in eligibility, while
Fanucchi spent two seasons at Can
ada Junior College in Redwood City,
Calif., before coming to Nebraska.
Sanders said the addition of Garza
and Fanucchi helps ease the loss of
three players who were declared aca
demically ineligible. Those players
include pitcher Dale Kistaitis, first
baseman Frankie Jemigan and catcher
Bob Volk.
banders said Nebraska will have a
tough time replacing Kistaitis’ expe
rience. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Ki
staitis was entering his final year of
eligibility this season.
“Dale had a track record,” Sand
ers said. ‘‘Dale’s experience is not
something that’s easily replaced.”
Sanders said several players have
stepped forward in hopes of claiming
Jernigan’s job. He said those players
include Bobby Benjamin, a natural
outfielder who is former member of
the prestigious USA team that trav
eled abroad in the summer of 1988.
In addition to Benjamin, Nebraska’s
other first base candidates are Joseph
Sharpley, a freshman from Glouc
ester, N.J., Shawn Buchanan, a junior
from Gary, Ind., and Dirk Skillieom,
a sophomore from Los Altos, Calif.
“We’ve got some good people
working over there,” Sanders said.
There’s a lot of possibilities.”
Sanders said Nebraska needs to
find a first baseman because it will
open its season against Colorado Slate
on Feb. 24 in Ft. Collins, Colo. After
lacing the Rams in a double-header,
the Huskers will square off against
Wyoming, then will depart for Hon
olulu lor five games in three days.
Sanders said Nebraska is not let
ting its tough, early schedule affect
its focus, fie said the Huskers are
concentrating on the Big Eight por
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Women win fight
! for center, new
problem erupts
After five long years, female schol
' arship athletes at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln have won the battle.
But in the process of breaking
through the wall that restricted them
from eating and studying at the Hcwit
Center, they created a new problem.
Because of the overcrowded con
ditions that now exist at the center,
Nebraska athletic director Bob Dcva
ney and trainer George Sullivan, who
is the unofficial king of the site, were
forced to prohibit non-scholarship
athletes from eating there.
That decision has sent the non
scholarship athletes trudging to the
dorms to eat and has several officials
from the Nebraska athletic depart
ment wondering what future conse
quences of the decision will be.
In the past, the women had their
own eating area. The official name of
that cafeteria in Harper Hall was
“Training Table II” or the “Late
Plate.”
The menu was supposed to be the
same as the men’s, but athletes said it
wasn’t.
“The food seemed to be leftovers
from three days ago,” said Sara Hesch,
a member of the Nebraska volleyball
team.
Nebraska female student-athletes
have argued for years about a lack of
access to the Hcwit Center, and have
used Title IX as the basis of their
clash. They claimed that the Corn
husker athletic department was not
implementing the title.
Title IX, which originated from a
19/2 Supreme Court ruling, slates:
4 ‘No person...shall, on the basis ol
sex, be excluded from participation
in, be denied the benefits, or be sub
jected to discrimination under any
education program or activity receiv
ing federal financial assistance.”
Devaney made no bones about Title
IX s impact on the decision.
“The reason why the policy was
changed was because there was no
reason to be sued over Title IX,’
Devaney said.
Although most of the women inter
viewed expressed positive reactions,
men had different opinions.
Billy Thorcll, a freshman walk-on
on the baseball team, said he under
stands that women deserve their rights.
But he said his problem arises when
practice runs late and he cannot gel to
his residence hall to eat.
Thorcll said his only alternative is
to leave practice early. Thorcll, and
others like him, are the true victims ol
this policy.
Origins !y the Hewit Center was
built by the money received from the
first Kickoff Classic in 1983, and was
designed exclusively for the football
team. But when extra room wasavail
able, thcrestof the men’s teams were
allowed to eat there.
4‘It all comes down to numbers,”
Sullivan said. ‘‘If this doesn’t work,
we will try something different next
year.”
Devaney and Sullivan said the
welfare of the student-athletes is their
main concern.
The actual ramifications of this
policy remain to be seen, but one
thing is for sure. Now that men arc
required to share their dining space
with women, they’re ‘‘going to have
to learn table manners,” Nebraska
pitcher Doug Tegtmcier said.
Mil haven is a senior history major and is
a Daily Nebraskan columnist and sports
writer.