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Nebraska’s Corey Olson puts the hurt on Northern Iowa’s Rich Powers. Olson won the
match by default.
NU wrestlers use Missouri dual!
as last tune-up before Big Eights
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s finai wrestling dual of
the season couldn’t have come at a
better time for Cornhusker coach Tim
Neumann.
He’s ready to get on with the Big
Eight championships and NCAA
tournament.
The Huskers will face Missouri on
Saturday at the Bob Devancy Sports
Center. The meet begins at 7:30 p.m.,
and all University of Nebraska-Lin
coln students who present their stu
dent ID cards will be admitted free.
The Missouri matchup is the last
tune-up for the No. 4-rankcd Huskers
before the Big Eight championships,
which will be March 11 at the Sports
Center.
While Missouri has not been ranked
this season, Neumann said he isn’t
about to look past the Tigers.
“It’s getting to be difficult to fo
cus on duals with the Big Eight and
national meets coming up,” he said.
“We are going to train and work
toward the Big Eight, but we still
want to focus on being competitive. ’ ’
Nebraska has not beaten the Ti
gers since 1987, when the Huskers
won 22-15 in Columbia, Mo.
4‘They’ve gotten a lot better as the
season has gone on,’’ Neumann said.
“The kids that have stayed with
(Missouri coach Wes Roper’s).pro
gram arc starting to respond to what
he is trying to build in themselves and
the team. Since the Big Eight meet is
coming up, Missouri’s wrestlers will
be ready for us.
“All we have to do is look back
one year ago.”
Last year, the two teams wrestled
to a 19-19 tic.
When the Tigers return to Lincoln
for the conference championships in
two weeks, they’ll see a different
lineup than the one they’ll face Satur
day night. Neumann said two of his
key performers -- All-America selec
tions Jason Kclbcr and Scott Chc
noweth — will skip Saturday’s meet
to rest for the tournament.
“We’re at the time of the season
that we’ve been pointing to all year,
and we plan on being ready,” Neu
mann said. “It seems like this season
has gone by faster than any year I’ve
been here, but when you look back,
there are a lot of good things that have
happened to this team.”
A few good things that have hap
pened include Nebraska’s current
ranking - the highest in school his
tory. The Huskcrs have coasted to a
school-record 20-3-1 dual record, and
are 9-3-1 against teams ranked in the
AmatcurWrcstling News top-20 poll.
The only losses on the mat have
come against Arizona Stale and Okla
homa State, both of which were ranked
No. 1 at the time. The other loss was
a forfeit to Iowa State after a contro
versial ruling against Arizona State.
Saturday’smatchagainst Missouri
will be shown on a same-day tape
delay by the Ncbras’ a Educational
Television Network (channel 12,
CableVision channel 13).
Notes:
• The Huskcrs earned their 20lh
win Wednesday night in Dcs Moines,
Iowa, by defeating Drake 31-12.
Nebraska jumped to an early lead,
winning four of its first six matches,
before Drake’s Mike VandcrWoude
pinned Dan Harrison at 4:04 of the
168-pound match.
Harrison, along with other start
ers, had moved up to a heavier weight
class.
The Huskcrs went on to win the
last three classes to post the win.
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Univarsity erf Nebraska-Lincoln students who arc tired of having fun
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Craig Christensen, the relations director at the Office of Campus
Recreauon, said the OCR outdoor adventures program still has open
ings for a backeountry ski tour that features an abundance of cold
weather. The program also has space for persons interested in further
ing their tans by canoeing down the Rio Grande River.
The ski trip will consist of an escapade across the Bighorn Moun
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in survival, as they will be forced to climb mountains with altitudes as
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Cornhuskers face hard-luck Cyclones
The Nebraska men’s basketball team will meet a squad plagued by
tough luck when it faces the Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday.
Iowa Stale coach Johnny On said his team has been
hard luck this season. The Cyclones are 8-16 overall and 2-9 in the Big
Eieht with nine of their losses coming by five points or less.
’ ‘It’s iust unreal * ’ On said. “We come so close to winning and then
strangeVhmgs^m l0 happen to us. We just can’t quit. We have to keep
g°Orr’s Cvclones will try to change their fortunes when they face
Nebraska at the Hilton Coliseum in Ames lown^igne whtch will
be televised by Ra^omjchannelS[l(Ml)^e^n^uJ()^n^^_
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March 1 - April 12
Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
222 Administration North
For more information, contact Dr. Judith Kriss,
Counseling Center, 226 Admin. North or call 472-3461
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