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homa State in contention for the
conference title and came back with a
7-2 defeat. Nebraska did rebound in
the Big Eight tournament, but head
to-head victories gave the Cowboys
the title over the second-place Husk
ers.
McDermott said duals against the
two Oklahoma schools always are
Huskers
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son play, they must now go 10-2
down the stretch, he said. The auto
matic bid goes to the champion of the
Big Eight tournament in May.
‘‘We have to win all four,” he
Pepin
Continued from Page 6
the Husker quartet heading to Cali
fornia. She will be tackling a new
challenge at the meet, as she will
compete in the 10,000 run for the first
vital to Nebraska. He said his players
know what is at stake, so he hasn’t
been harping on the standings.
“They have enough pressure on
them,” he said. “Ifl keep reminding
them about it it just puts too much
pressure on them.”
But that will change.
“In the next couple days I’ll put a
little kindling on the fire to tell them
how important this is,” McDermott
said.
McDermott said his squad hasn’t
said. “We can’t afford to lose any
more before the Oklahoma State sc
ries. It’s that stage of the year where
it’s getting down right critical (to w in
games).”
Oklahoma State, the conference
leader, comes to town for a double
header next weekend.
Going 10-2 or belter is something
time in her career.
Kwi/.era will compete in the 800
run and van der Kolk will be in the
1,500 run at California.
Pepin said the Husker men have
been relatively free of injuries. An
exception is sophomore javelin thrower
Roddy James, who has been suffering
seen Oklahoma State, and saw only a
little bit of Oklahoma at the Corpus
Cristi Invitational. The Huskers look
stronger on paper, McDermott said,
as they are a notch better at each
position.
However, he said, the teams are
strong mentally.
“They’re not like last year, but
very competitive,” he said. “That’s
what’s keeping them in contention.
“Sometimes desire wins more
matches than talent.”
Nebraska is capable of, Wolforth said.
However, he added, because of the
team’s “split personality” this sea
son, it also is capable of going 3-7 or
worse.
“It’s been that kind of year,” he
said. “I have no idea if they are going
to come out and get after people.”
from an elbow injury.
Tamas Molnar, a sophomore
sprinter who won the indoor Big Eight
championships in the 400 and 200
dashes this season, has been taking a
break from competition, Pepin said.
He said Molnar is healthy and will
compete again soon.
Cards
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plicates, through the mail. The six
weeks waiting for that package were *
awful. I memorized everything
about those cards - pictures, sta
tistics, everything. I could flip at
the speed of light through as many
cards as my left hand couid hold,
stopping at the card 1 wanted.
Those cards saved me during
the strike that season. 1 made my
own 1980 All-Star teams and started
a five-game scries on the living
room floor. Using a graphic from a
Street & Smith yearbook, I recre
ated Boston’s Fenway Park, with
my parents’ stereo becoming the
now-Brown Monster.
Sitting on my knees for hours at
a time, my hemes batted, ran, pitched
and caught in thrilling games that
usually ended with George Brett
I
driving in Willie Wilson for the
winning run. I never finished the
scries, since I got bored with it and
mom wanted her living room back.
I once tried to include my best
friend in a living-room game. My
favorite hitters kept ripping deep
shots to right, and my friend’s
favorite outfielders kept making
miraculous diving catches. Base
ball-card baseball must be played
solitaire.
Those days made baseball card
collecting as good as it could get. I
had every card available, plus in
nocence, love, parental resentment
and no interest in investment.
Nowadays, kids can pick up com
plete sets near the check-out lanes
at Target like gum, camera film or
75-ccnt tabloids. Mom and Dad
will smile, pat the kid on the head
and say, ‘ Good investment,Chris!
We’ll hurry right home, put them
in sterilized plastic sheets and you
can look at them when you're 18.
Maybe later we’ll pay 15 bucks at
a card show so one of these players
can autograph your card.”
No, no, no, that’s not right.
Baseball cards are for the kids.
Nebraska’s cards arc for the 10
year-olds who idolize Fast Eddie
Anderson and won’t care that the
Comhusker center fielder is going
back, back, back for a deep fly ball
somewhere next to the pitcher’s
mound. Charlie Colon can take his
card and show it to the other Lin
coln Northeast alumni. If Okla
homa State has its own set, anyone
can replay this weekend’s series,
with the home team sweeping.
Like Barbie dolls, mud pies,
sparklers and garter snakes, base
ball cards should be valuable only
to kids. To kids, they should be the
most precious things in the world.
Dontekr Is a junior news-editorial major
and a Daily Nebraskan senior reporter
and columnist.
William Lauer/Daily Nebraskan
Nebraska's Shaun McGinn lunges back to first base on a
pick-off attempt against Northwest Missouri State.
Vosik
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it will set us back at all.”
• Sanders said earlier this week
that his pitching rotation likely will
include John Ofstun, Doug Tcgtnicier,
Josh Bullock and Joe Shaplcy.
Ofstun is 3-0 with a 3.54 earned
run average, while Tcglmcicr is 4-1
with a 5.1 1 mark. Bullock is 3-2 with
a 3.89 mark, while Shaplcy is 2-1
with a 5.94.
Nebraska’s leading pitcher is re
lict ace Dave Matranga, who is 7-1
with a 1.51 ERA. He also has tw'o
saves.
Oklahoma State’s leading pitcher
is Dennis Burbank, who is 6-0 with a
3.11 ERA. The Cowboys rank fourth
in Big Eight team pitching with a4.98
ERA.
Nebraska is second with a 4.23
mark.
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