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Sports NU pitcher not drafted, signs with Seattle By Todd Cooper Staff Reporter Nebraska junior pitcher Doug Tegtmeier joined teammates Bobby Benjamin and Kevin Jordan as a pro fessional baseball player Tuesday, by reporting to the Seattle Mariners’ rookie camp in Bellingham, Wash. Tegtmeier signed after meeting with team officials from Seattle at Omaha’s Epplcy Airfield Tuesday morning. Terms of his contract were not dis closed. M MM MM tin Mi M M M Mi M Mm m Tegtmcier was not one of the play ers picked in the June 5 baseball draft. Out of high school, he was selected in the eighth round by the New York Yankees, but turned down a $ 103,000 package from the team to play for Nebraska. “It’s hard to figure out,’ ’ said Dick Tegtmcier, Doug’s father, in a phone interview from the family’s home in Beatrice. “To have a guy with that kind of God given talent_He’s 6 5 and 220, with an above average arm, and not to be drafted, I just don’t understand it. “Doug is 17-2 since June 20of last year. That kind of record can’t be a nuke.” Tcgtmeier was 7-2 for Nebraska last year with a 5.47 ERA, and was 10-0 with a 3.20 ERA while pitching summer league in Anchorage, Alaska. Before his career even began at Nebraska, Dick said, Doug planned to leave after his junior season. “He just decided that after his junior year he was going to go try it,” he said. “It was hard for him to con centrate on baseball .... He had hassels here and there with classes, and he decided really that the lime had come.” But a shot at the pros looked dim at the completion of this year’s draft. Doug was at the phone for three Nebraska alters football schedule This year’s Ncbraska-Oklahoma football game has been bumped back a week so CBS Sports can televise the game. This change, added with the one made for the Nebraska-Baylor game to accommodate ESPN, now means the Comhuskcrs start their season a week earlier and conclude a week later than what was originally planned. Nebraska’s regular season now’ ex tends from holiday to holiday. The game at Norman, Okla, which was originally set for Nov. 17, now will be played Nov. 23, the Friday after Thanksgiving. i----— days waiting for a call,” Dick said. ‘‘But the package he got was a good package. He probably got as much money as an eighth or a ninth rounder.” Nebraska Coach John Sanders was surprised that Teglmeicr was not drafted, but said Doug’s decision to turn professional was not unexpected. ‘ ‘The better the program, the more turnover as juniors you’ll find,” Sanders said. ‘‘If you look at our records, our better teams arc the ones that lose players to the draft.” Tcgtmcicr will be missed, he said. ‘‘Doug gained a lot of experience over the year,” he said. ‘‘He was a legitimate starter and was very suable. Certainly we’d like to replace Doug with that type of player.” Players like Tcgtmcicr, Jordan and Benjamin will be ‘ ‘lough to replace,” i Sanders said. “Wc try to reload, but absolutely, they’ll be missed.” Tegtmeicr will spend about six weeks in Bellingham and then will be assigned to either a rookie league or class A ball, his father said. “He may go to A ball in the Caro lina leagues,” he said. “They’re re ally high on him right now ” Nebraska will not lose junior Shawn Buchanan, who was drafted late by the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sanders said. “Shawn decided that he still had goals left to accomplish here,” he said. “They were more important than the money he was offered, and I re ally respect that decision.” Husker senior Dale Kistailis has signed with the Toronto Blue Jays after being picked in round 29 of the draft. --- I PIZZA And MOW ! - I l i l I | 13th &Q St . 475-1246 I 44th & 0 St . 475-4070 ■ 4120 S 48th. 483-288’ | 11th &G St . 477-6661 J^l4th & Superior. 435-6000 Dine in. cairy out or call for delivery. 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