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Nebraska’s next meet is Sun
day, when the Huskcrs face Ohio
State at the Bob Devaney Sports
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Allen said Nebraska is confi
dent about its chances against Ohio
State. He said the Buckeyes
strength lies in the all-around
competition.
Allen said he hopes Nebraska
will continue to draw big crowds
this season. The Nebraska Sports
Information office estimated that
537 fans risked missing the start
of Sunday’s Super Bowl in favor
of attending the contest against
Oklahoma and Iowa State.
Nebraska will face Houston
Baptist on Feb. 18.
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Nebraska's Becki Clark competes in the three-meter diving competition.
NU’s Huppert gets 100th career win; I
swimming teams have tiring weekends I
By Jeff Apel
Senior Editor
Nebraska women’s swimming
coach Ray Huppcrt wasn’t overly
excited last week about the prospect
of earning his 100th-career coaching
victory.
Evenafterachicving thcmilcstone
Saturday, he still wasn’t excited.
“It’s always nice to have individ
ual honors,’’ Huppcrt said. “But the
real credit should go to the kids and
the assistants. They’re the ones that
made this possible.”
Huppcrt recorded his 100th coach
ing victory when Nebraska defeated
Southern Illinois 78-62 Saturday in
Carbondalc, 111. The Comhuskcrs gave
Huppcrt his 99th career win by de
feating Missouri 63-31 on Friday in
Columbia, Mo.
Huppcrt credited his team’s suc
cess to mental toughness. He said the
Huskcrs overcame a tough schedule
that required them to swim two meets
in less than 24 hours.
Huppert said Nebraska left Co
lumbia at 11 p.m. Friday and arrived
in Carbondale at 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
They faced the Salukis at noon.
“It was an awfully long trip,”
Huppert said. “The kids wanted to
shoot me by the time it was over.
They were exhausted.”
Huppert said he was never worried
about his team’s ability to handle the
adversity.
“I knew we were going to be able
to handle that,” he said.
Huppert praised the performance
of Nebraska’s Michelle Butcher, who
spent the weekend winning 1,000
yard freestyle titles. Butcher also
competed in the 200-yard butterfly
and the 400-yard individual medley.
Huppert said Butcher showed the
effects of a busy weekend.
“The minute she got on the bus on
Saturday, she fell asleep. She was
exhausted,” he said.
In the men s competition, HusKer
coach Cal Bent/ recorded his 101 si
victory when his team defeated Mis
souri 65-45. The rest of the weekend
wasn’t as successful for the Nebraska
men’s team, however, as it finished
last in the prestigious Dallas Morning 1
News Invitational and dropped a 63
50 decision to Southern Illinois on
Sunday.
Bent/ said his entire team was
exhausted after its long weekend. The
Huskers began their weekend by split
ting up and traveling to Columbia or
Dallas, then competed as a team against
Southern Illinois.
Steve Keller, who finished last in
the consolation finals of the 500-yard
freestyle, did not help Nebraska, as
the Huskers finished sixth in the meet.
Michigan won the competition with
316 points, followed by U.S National
with 307, Texas with 297, UCLA
with 296, Southern Methodist with
238 and Nebraska with 210.
Coacn says wrestlers were nreu up
but ‘came up short’ against Cowboys
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Coach Tim Neumann saw exactly
what he expected Thursday night
against Oklahoma Slate’s wrestling
team in Stillwater, Okla. -- great ath
letes, good depth and lots of fans.
Unfortunately for Neumann and
his No. 4-ranked Comhuskers this
combination spelled a 21 -12 defeat at
the hands of the No. 1-ranked Cow
boys before a crowd of almost 2,300
at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Whatever problems the Huskcrs
had, Neumann said, lack of intensity
wasn’t one of them.
“That was the most fire our guys
have shown all year,” he said. “We
were up to the challenge, but we just
came up short. We wrestled as well as
we could have.”
The highlight of the night for
Nebraska came in the 126-pound
match, in which Nebraska’s Jason
Kclbcr, ranked No. 3, defeated top
ranked Kendall Cross 5-4. It was the
second time this season Kclbcr de
feated Cross.
Kelber led Cross 5-2 with 10 sec
onds left in the match, but let Cross
escape. Instead of backing away to let
the clock run out, Kelber shot in to
grab Cross’s legs. Kdber nearly got
taken down but got out of bounds and
let the clock run out.
Cross was awarded two points for
the escape and for Kclbcr’s technical
violation.
The win tied the team score 3-3,
but the Cowboys won five of the next
eight matches to defeat Nebraska.
The Huskcrs beat Cal-Statc Fuller
ton 33-8 in a dual earlier in the day.
Nebraska’s lineup against the
Cowboys included two starters -
Kelbcr and Scott Chenoweth (167) -
who were slowed with ankle injuries.
A third starter, Layne Billings (142),
did not compete because of a dislo
cated rib.
Paul Herrera dropped weight to
move down from 150 to fill in for
Billings. Herrera defeated ninth-ranked
Eric Wilson 11-4.
Oklahoma Slate’s depth was a key
in the dual, Neumann said.
In the last three years, Nebraska
has drawn the second-, third- and
eighth-best recruiting classes in the
nation. The Cowboys have gotten the
top-rated class in each of those years.
“A good example is at 134,”
Neumann said. ‘‘Oklahoma Stale has
four guys at that class that would be
All-Americans. Three of them have
beaten (Nebraska starter) Dave
Drocgcmueller this year, and he’s a
pretty good wrestler.”
Injuries also hurt the team, Neu
mann said.
“When Chenoweth gets hurt for
us, he has to wrestle anyway, at less
than 100 percent,” Neumann said.
“When their starter gets hurt, they
can just put in another guy that’s
close to an All-American.
“If it had been anyone other than
Oklahoma Stale, Chenoweth wouldn’t
have wrestled.”
Neumann said he doesnT think the
Huskers’ loss to Oklahoma State will
have any effect on the ratings.
“The lop four teams (Oklahoma
State, Arizona Stale, Iowa and Ne
braska) are pretty much set,’ ’ he said.
“Those arc the teams with the best
chance of winning the national title
this year.”
The loss to Oklahoma State was
disappointing, Neumann said, but he
and the other coaches and wrestlers
refuse to let the setback discourage
them.
“Before the dual, I thought we
were one of the five teams in the
country that had the best shot at win
ning the national championship,” he
said. “I still do. Thursday night did
nothing to take that thought away
from us.”
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r quality of play was the only thing that
made people watch, high school sports
would be held in empty gymnasiums.
I’m not against athletic grams
because I’m a racist pig who wants to
subjugate all inner-city poor who don’t
have the benefits of a suburban edu
cational system. I know some people
use athletics as a way out of poverty,
and as a way to an education - and
they still could.
Students with money and the de
sire for an education could go to col
lege and play club sports, just like the
Nebraska Bugcaters used to do when
they were taking on Lincoln High in
football. Those who have to go pro
fessional right out of high school to
cam money could attend college during
the off-season.
Outrageous, I know. So I have one
other alternative; one I prefer, and
one which is more outrageous than
the one just suggested. But I have run
out of space, so that suggestion will
have to wait until next week.
Dumi'ltr Is a Junior news-editorial major
and Dally Nebraskan senior reporter and
columnist.