UNL tennis team scores double victory
By Paul Domeier
Senior Reporter
Tina Couirctsis kept her perfect
Big Eight singles record intact during
the Nebraska women’s tennis team’s
8-1 and 6-3 victories against Iowa
State and Colorado on Friday and
Saturday.
Couirctsis, a freshman with a 21 -6
record overall and a 5-0 mark in the
Big Eight at No. 6 singles, is assured
of a top-four seed at the Big Eight
tournament, which is a week away.
She said she is confident entering the
tournament because she is playing
better than she did in the fall, when
she was 10-2.
Coutretsis said she is looking for
more success at the conference tour
nament.
My goal is lo win the big bight
title,” she said.
Nebraska coach Gregg Calvin gave
her the ultimate Big Eight vote of
confidence.
‘‘She’s got a good chance against
the Oklahoma Slate girl,” he said.
The Cowgirls arc the defending
conference champions, as they to
taled 130 of a possible 135 points in
Big Eight play in 1989. Oklahoma
Stale will face the Comhuskers on
Sunday, after Saturday’s Nebraska
Oklahoma match.
The Huskers kept themselves in
first-division contention with their dual
victories over two of the Big Eight’s
less-talented teams.
Nebraska roiled over Iowa State,
the probable seventh-place finisher
in the league, Friday at the Woods
Park tennis bubbles.
Saturday at the Cather-Pound
courts, the Huskers outlasted Colo
rado, a team that uses baseline tac
tics.
Nebraska’s Meghan Quinn won
the longest “determination match,’’
as Calvin called it, beating Elkc
Schaumberg, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, in about
three hours to make the score 3-3
after the singles.
“Meghan’s was a huge match for
us,’’ Calvin said. ‘ She won some 50
ball rallies.”
That’s 50 balls, as in hitting the
ball over the net 50 times for one
point.
“(The Lady Buffs) don’t have a
lot of players that make the opponent
serve and volley,” Calvin said. “They
don’t do a lot with the ball.”
Coutrctsis said matches like Sat
urday’s, which started at 2 p.m. and
ended at 7:30 p.m., can wear on the
players.
“When you’re not playing that
well in certain matches, certain points,
it gels frustrating,” she said.
The Huskers are 4-1 with 33 points,
three points ahead of last season’s
pace.
The biggest scare for Nebraska
came early in the second set Saturday
at No. 4 singles when Rachel Collins
went down with a sprained ankle.
Collins, though losing in singles,
continued playing, and she and Nancy
Tyggum teamed to win at No. 1
doubles.
The Huskers have two more
matches before the all-important
tourney, and Calvin warned against
complacency.
“The season is in front of us,” he
said. “We haven’t really accomplished
anything.”
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Nebraska’s Tina Coutretsis displays the form which allowed her to defeat Iowa State's Kristin
Dahlberg.
McDermott says NU men’s tennis is in ‘driver’s seat’
By Paul Domeler
Senior Reporter
Oklahoma Slate helped the Ne
braska men’s lennis team this week
end — and the Comhuskers helped
themselves by posting victories against
Iowa State and Colorado.
The Huskers beat both teams 7-2.
Nebraska men’s lennis coach Kerry
McDermott said the Huskers’ wins —
plus conference-leading Kansas’ 5-4
victory against Oklahoma Slate ~
places his team in a good position
entering the final portion of the sea
son. Nebraska has 27 points from four
matches, while Kansas had 28 points
through four duals going into its match
Saturday at Oklahoma.
Kansas will play at Colorado next
weekend.
“We feel like we’re in the driver’s
scat,” McDermott said.
But the Huskers arc trailing the
Jayhawks, adding their own dual to
common opponents, and McDermott
qualified his confidence.
“We have one hand on the steer
ing wheel. 1 should say,” he said.
Ken Feuer, the only Husker sen
ior, is willing to sit in back for a
while.
“I don’t look at it the optimistic
way,” he said. “I’ve been telling
myself we have no chance.”
Feuer said this year’s race is look
ing too much like the last two years,
when the Huskers challenged for the
title and were jilted into second place.
He said he is going lo concentrate his
spots at No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles.
Feuer said he is not going to worry
about a team championship because
he cannot control it
“If it happens, it happens,’’ he
said. “I’d just be happy leading it
going into Big Eights.”
In doubles, he and Matthias Mueller
arc 4-0, almost assured of a top-four
seed, and in contention for the No. 1
slot.
Feuer and Mueller arc the two
Huskcrs with Big Eight tournament
experience, and Feuer said they arc
shooting for the No. 1 seed and us
first-round bye so they only have to
worry about their two singles matches
the first day of the tournament.
Steve Barley and Joseph Rahme
also arc 4-0, at No. 3 and No. 6
singles, respectively.
Barley said he is surprised by his
success.
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Nebraska track teams I
win quadrangular meet §
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
Jeff Hooper can relax, ai least
for now.
The junior discus thrower from
Carmichael, Calif., uncorked a
throw of 191 -feet-2 to help lead the
Nebraska men’s track team to a
win in a quadrangular meet Satur
day at Ed Weir Track.
Nebraska’s men won the meet
with 106 points. Minnesota fin
ished second with 43, while Kan
sas State was third with 37 and
Missouri fourth with 20.
Ncbraskaalso won the women ’ s
meet with 89.5 points, while Kan
sas State was second with 50 and
Missouri third with 26.5.
Hooper’s mark was good enough
toqualify him lor the NCAAcham
pionships, which will be held in
Durham, N.C., next month. He said
he was happy toqualify for nation
als early in the season, rather than
wailing until the last weekend of
competition as he did last year.
“This answers a lot of ques
tions for me,” Hooper said.
“Knowing that I’ve already quali
fied will make me all the better for
meets down the road.’’
Hooper said the sunny, breezy
weather on Saturday helped him
throw well. H
“I was looking for a head wind jj|
so I could gel a good throw off,” M
Hooper said. “And the wind was ||
coming in really well today.”
Nebraska coach Gary Pepin said j|
he wasn’t surprised by Hooper’s g
effort. B
‘ ‘Jeffs really been throwing well |
for us,” Pepin said. ‘ ‘ He’s going to
need those kind of performances to
succeed down the road.”
Kevin Coleman and Joe Kirby
joined Hooper as standouts for
Nebraska on Saturday. Coleman
won the shot pul with a personal
best throw of 59-5 1/2 and Kirby
captured the 3,000-mcicr steeple
chase title in 8:38.95 minutes.
Kirby said he was surprised by
his performance, which earned him
a trip to nationals.
“I wasn’t expecting to run as
well as I did today,” Kirby said,
whose time was just short of a
personal record.
Pepin said Kirby, a senior, is a
runner on a mission. |j
“He’s got his sights set on F
winning the NCAA championship
this year,” Pepin said. “It’s his
last year here, and he’s been train
ing really hard.
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Nebraska’s Maureen Dunn flies through the air during
Saturday’s triple jump competition. Dunn finished
second.
shapley neips inu
baseball team pound
Northern Colorado
By John Adkisson
Stall Reporter
Joe Shaplcy is back, and his return
to form couldn ’ t have come at a better
time for the Nebraska baseball team.
Shaplcy, a freshman pitcher, pitched
six shutout innings and picked up his
second win of the year as Nebraska
pounded Northern Colorado 7-0
Sunday at Buck Bcli/cr Field.
The win, combined with a 10-3
victory in the nightcap, gave the
Comhuskcrs a four-game scries sweep
over the Bears. Nebraska won 18-2
and 3-2 on Saturday.
Shaplcy, who had a 9.28 ERA
coming into Sunday’s game, said a
mixture of pitches was the key to his
success.
“I was getting both my fastball
and curvcball over today, but at times
1 was a little inconsistent,” Shapley
said.
Shaplcy’s performance came the
day after Nebraska announced that
ace starter Mike Zajcski would miss
the rest of the season with an arm
injury. But Shaplcy said the Huskers
can’t use Zajcski’s injury as an ex
cuse for not winning.
“We can’t dwell on the past or
what happened to Mike,” Shaplcy
said. “ Every body’s goinj* to need to
work a little harder now.’
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