NU’s Molnar sets record
with second-place finish
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
Although Nebraska’s Tamas
Molnar didn’t win his race, he was all
smiles on Saturday night.
The sophomore from Nyireghyoza,
Hungary, set a Hungarian indoor record
in the 400-meter dash en route to
losing to Iowa Stale’s Frankie Atwa
ter at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invi
tational.
The 46.37 minute clocking also
was good enough to earn Molnar a
spot in the NCAA championships to
be held in Indianapolis in March.
“This is one of the happiest
moments of my life,’’ Molnar said
after finishing the race.
The400 was one of the most highly
anticipated events of the uack meet.
Atwater and Molnar didn’t disappoint
the Bob Devaney Sports Center crowd
of more than 2,000 as they battled to
the wire.
Atwater, who was named the meet’s
most valuable performer, shattered
the invitational and Sports Center
record by .78 of a second with a time
of 46.20.
But Atwater praised Molnar and
said his presence helped him set the
record.
“He’s really, really good,’’ Atwa
ter said.4 4We help to push each other.”
The two most likely will meet again
in two weeks at the Big Eight Indoor
Championships in Lincoln, and Molnar
indicated that he would be up to the
challenge.
4 4 He beat me tonight, but tonight I
was mainly concentrating on the time,”
Molnar said. “I might think more
about beating him next lime.”
Molnar folL-ved up on his na
tional qualifying mark in the 400 by
helping the Nebraska men’s 400 re
lay qualify for the national meet. He
teamed with Ken Waller, Bob Jelks,
and Mark Jackson to set a Sports
Center and Husker Invite record in
the relay with a 3:08.77 clocking.
Nebraska track coach Gary Pepin
said he was pleased with his team’s
performance in the relay.
‘‘We didn’t think that anybody
could ever come close to breaking the
record in this building,” Pepin said.
‘‘That was a sparkling effort.”
Although Molnar and the relay
team were the only members of the
men’s team to qualify automatically
for the national meet, five other Husker
men may have earned a ticket to
Indianapolis.
Those individuals included Stephen
Golding in the 55 hurdles, Bob Jelks
and James Cobb in the 200, Kevin
Coleman in the shot put, and Jacques
van Rensburg in the 3,000, who all
met the provisional qualifying stan
dards set by the NCAA.
If there are not enough qualifying
marks obtained by athletes by the
time of the NCAA meet, all those
who have met the provisional stan
dards will be invited to attend.
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McKenna said the toughest situ
ation he has faced in his career was
being a member of the USA junior
team. He said the team was a high
pressure squad because all the play
ers on it were locked in a fierce
competition for playing time.
McKenna also is locked in a com
petition at Nebraska, a situation which
he has mixed feelings about.
“Everybody on the team would
like to have the job to themseives,”
McKenna said, “but we’ve got a lot
of great catchers.”
McKenna solidified his role Sun
day by teaming with first baseman
Bobby Benjamin to do some major
damage. While McKenna was hitting
his doubles and scoring his runs,
Benjamin hit a pair of home runs that
soared over the right-ccnterfield fence.
McKenna and Benjamin’s heroics
helped Nebraska jump out to a 7-0
lead after two innings. Kearney State
cut the Huskers’ lead to 8-3 in the top
of the fourth inning, but Nebraska
tallied five runs in the bottom of the
fifth to put the game out of reach.
Doug Tegtmeier, 1-0, was the
winning pitcher, while Kearney Stale’s
Bill Jelkin took the loss.
Nebraska’s nefct game is today,
when the Huskers face Wayne State
at 4 p.m. at Buck Beltzer Field. Sand
ers said the contest against the Wild
cats, who like Kearney State, are
members of the National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics, is an
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