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Non-starters help basketball Huskers win
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KIley Tlmperley/Daily Nebraskan
Nebraska’s Carl Hayes (in white, left)
and Eric Piatkowski (right) struggle
Saturday with Bowling Green’s Billy
Johnson. Falcon Joe Moore looks on.
By Paul Domeier
Senior Editor
When Nebraskacoach Danny Nee was look
ing for the right moves Saturday after practi
cally losing two starters, he looked to his right,
down his bench.
There he found Eric Piatkowski, Tony Farmer,
Keith Moody, Bruce Chubick and Chris
Cresswell. And he relied on them heavily.
With non-starters contributing 42 points, 27
rebounds and 15 assists in 97 minutes, the
Comhuskermen’s basketball team puliedaway
from Bowling Green State on Saturday for a
99-85 win and the championship of the Ameri
tas Classic.
“We had a lot of heroes,” Nee said.
He needed heroes because his backcourt
pillars were on the bench. Beau Reid, the team
leader in assists, took a charge with 10:27 left
in the first half, but fell like he was shot and left
the game.
Reid said he bruised the bone in the small of
his back and the pain extended into his left leg.
- Clifford Scales was almost as unavailable,
being called for his third foul with 4:50 remain
ing in the first half and his fourth with 2:45 left
in the half. He sat from that point until only
7:24 was left in the game.
Piatkowski and Moody took over for Reid
and Scales. Piatkowski scored 17 points and
Moody had a career-high eight assists. Cresswell
also played shooting guard and scored five
points.
“If our bench doesn’t play the way it did, we
don’t win,” Nee said.
Even without the starting guards, the Husk
ers recorded assists on 35 of their 41 field goals.
The 35 assists were one off the school record.
“Hitting the open man, that’s just good
basketball,” Nebraska center Rich King said.
That high assist rate can be explained partly
by Nebraska’s trouble hitting the outside jump
ers that don’t usually have assists. The Huskcrs
missed all nine attempts at three-point goals in
the first half and finished four of 19.
The Huskers, particularly Carl Hayes, made
up for that by running. Hayes, with a team-high
20 points Saturday and 18 Friday as Nebraska
beat Tennessee Tech 113-92, was named tour
nament most-valuable player.
“All five of their players were crashing the
offensive boards,” Hayes said, explaining
Nebraska’s ease on the break.
King, who joined Hayes, Bowling Green’s
Clinton Venable, Tennessee Tech’s Van Usher
and Alabama State’s Steve Rogers on the all
tournament team, said he expected to have to
run, but on defense.
“That was probably the quickest team we’ve
faced all season,” King said, then reconsid
ered. “Without a doubt it was.”
He said that caused the Husker problems in '
the first half, when Nebraska fell behind 13-6,
fought back only to see a 29-21 lead disappear
into a tie and finished with a 45-40 advantage.
Venable had 18 points in the half and finished
with 28.
Nebraska calmed down and dominated the
second half, extending the lead as far as 18
points. King had 16 points and followed a
career-high 13 rebounds on Friday with 11
boards against Bowling Green.
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Victory follows changing of NU guards
By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
There has been a changing of the guards on
the Nebraska men’s basketball team.
Keith Moody, formerly the Comhuskcrs’
reserve point guard, has become the starter.
Chris Cresswell, who was the 10th man in a
nine-man rotation, is now the back-up shooting
guard.
With an injury to Beau Reid and foul trouble
for Clifford Scales Saturday night against
Bowling Green State, Moody and Cresswell
received more playing time with more depend
ing on them.
And they loved every minute of it.
“If it was up to me, I’d love to play 40
minutes a night like at my (junior college),”
said Moody, who entered the game averaging
19.7 minutes a game. “It felt good to play 26
minutes instead of 19. Those 19 minutes go by
so fast.”
Cresswcll, who started four games iast sea
son. played seven crucial minutes midway
through the second half, the first time this year
he has played more than a few seconds before
the game was decided.
“So far, I’ve just been able to get in when
we’re really killing someone,” Cresswcll said.
“You don’t gel tested as an athlete until you get
in when your heart races.”
Scales picked up his fourth foul late in the
first half and sat out the first 12 minutes of the
second period. Moody started the half in his
place and scored five points, grabbed four
rebounds and two turnovers, and made a ca
reer-high eight assists.
Reid played only eight minutes because of a
bruised back. Eric PiatJcowski shifted to shoot
ing guard, and Crcsswcll came in to replace
Piatkowski with five points, one assist and no
turnovers.
Moody, Nebraska’s 5-foot-\1-inch No. 11,
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Cornhusker women’s score
in Iowa 10th lowest ever
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s basket
ball team was never in a better
position than 0-0 Sunday afternoon
against No. 15 Iowa.
The Comhuskers, playing in front
of 2,586 people at Carver-Hawkeyc
Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, gave up
the first nine points of the game
and lost 80-46 to the Hawkcycs.
Nebraska’s 46 points tics for the
10th lowest output by a Huskcr
team. The team’s 12 first-half points
were the lowest ever.
The Hawkcycs, who led by 29
at half time and by as many as 38 in
the second half, moved to 6-1. The
Huskcrs fell to 7-3, losing for the
third time in their last five games.
Carol Russell led Nebraska with
10 points. Sophomore Karen Jen
nings, the leading Huskcr scorer,
didn’t score any of her nine points
until the second half.
The women’s team started the
weekend road tripwitha71-56win
at Northern Iowa on Friday night.
Nebraska capitalized on 29
Panther turnovers to knock off
Northern Iowa in front of 174 people
at the UNI Dome in Cedar Falls,
Iowa.
Against Northern Iowa, the
Huskers were led by freshman
Mcggan Yedsena who scored 13
points and dished out seven assists.
Nebraska. 12 34 — 46
At Iowa.41 39 — 80
Nebraska—Jennings 3-5 3-4 9,
Hubert 1-10-0 2. Hesch 0-1 2-2 2, Dahn
3-7 0-0 7, Yedsena 0-5 0-0 0, Halsne 3
11 0-26, Yancey 2-5 0-1 4, R.Taylor 1-6
0- 0 2, Russel! 5-9 0-110, S.Taylor 1 -2 0
0 2, Hiestand 1-10 02. Totals 20-53 5-10
46
Iowa—Tunsil 2-70-2 4, Waugh 7-13
1- 3 15, Foster 6-9 4 7 16, Aaron 5-6 5-6
16, Schueier 7-130-0 16, Tate 1-12-42
4 4, Marx 1-10-0 2, Shrigley 0-1 0-0 0,
Harmon 1-3 0-0 2, Rahming 1-2 0-0 2,
Dillingham 0-0 0-0 0, Bright 1-3 1-2 3.
Totals 32-59 13-24 80.
3-polnt goals—Nebraska 1-4 (Dahn
1-1, Yedsena 0-2. R Taylor 0-1), Iowa 3
5 (Aaron 1-1, Schueier 2-4).
Rebounds—Nebraska 31 (Hubert,
Halsne 6), Iowa 39 (Waugh 10). As
sists—Nebraska 14 (Yedsena, Yancey
4), Iowa 21 (Aaron 9) Turnovers—
Nebraska 33 (Yedsena 6). Iowa 21
(Aaron, Schueier 5) Total fouls—Ne
braska 18. Iowa 15 A—2,586
Scrimmage shows offense
ready for bowl match-up
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska football -team quizzed
itself Saturday in preparation for its
final exam Jan. 1 — and the offense
passed.
At quarterback, where the ques
tions began, the three juniors vying
for the title of starter combined for
267 yards, two touchdowns and an
interception, completing 24 of 38
attempts.
Defensively, a few blanks need to
be filled before Nebraska plays Geor
gia Tech in the Citrus Bowl on New
Year’s Day.
Nebraska, ranked No. 13 and No.
19, will be playing to salvage a sea
son marred by a 27-12 loss to Colo
rado and a 45-10 loss to Oklahoma.
Georgia Tech, at 10-0-1 and the No. 2
team in both polls, will be playing for
a possible national title.
The 100-play scrimmage between
the top two offenses and defenses
yielded 577 yards, four touchdowns,
a field goal and only one turnover.
“I’m a little surprised at how it
went,” Nebraska coach Tom Osborne
said. “The offense blocked really well
and executed well. But defensively I
don’t know what to say. Hopefully,
our offense played real well.’’
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Iowa pins Comhusker wrestlers
Nick Hytrek
Staff Reporter
For the second straight week, the
Nebraska wrestling team fell one match
short of an upcet.
As they did against No. 1 Okla
homa State last week, the Comhuskcrs
needed a win from heavyweight Sonny
Manley to beat No. 3 Iowa State Sat
urday night at the Bob Dcvaney Sports
Center. Manley lost 4-1 to Todd Kinney
and the No. 5 Huskcrs lost 17-16.
“I wish we’d quit giving the fans
their money’s worth and come away
with a win,” said Nebraska coach
Tim Neumann.
The dual was lost in the first four
matches, Neumann said.
“In the lower weights, lowaStaic’s
job was to get a tic,” he said.
The Cyclones got two of them.
Iowa Stale’s Eric Akin tied John Buxton
at 118 pounds and Cyclone Shaun
Rustad lied Randy Street at 142.
“We needed to come out ahead 12
0 after the first four weights," Neu
mann said. “I think Iowa Slate was
glad to be behind only 10-4 at that
point.”
Iowa State won the next three
matches to go ahead 14-10, including
Steve Hamilton’s upset of Nebraska’s
Scott Chcnoweth at 167 pounds.
Iowa State coach J im Gibbons said
Hamilton’s win was critical since
Nebraska was expected to win the last
three matches. Nebraska won two of
the three.
All-American Corey Olson avenged
his only loss of the season by beating
Matt Johnson, nearly pinning Johnson
twice. Chris Nelson also avenged an
earlier loss, beating Dan Troupe to
put Nebraska ahead 16-14, setting the
stage for the heavyweights.
Manley look a 1 -0 lead over Todd
Kinney into the third period but Kin
ney scored two escapes and a take
down to win the match 4-1, giving the
Cyclones the win.
Despite the loss, Neumann was
upbeat.
“When you lose two duals like
this, it’s easy to feel down,” he said.
“But tocome back with two duals like
this after our performance at Las Vegas,
I really feel good.”
Nebraska had finished a disappoint
ing fourth at Las Vegas, while Iowa
State was second.
The Huskers next will compete at
the National Dual Championships in
Hampton, Va., Jan. 11 and 12.
Match results:
118-John Buxton (NU) drew with Eric
Akin. 1-1
126-Jason Kelber (NU) dec Dan Knight
3-1
134-Dave Droegemueller (NU) dec.
Mike Moreno, 3-1
142-Shaun Rustad (ISU) drew with
Randy Street, 5-5
150-Torrae Jackson (ISU) dec Todd
Enger, 16-14
158-Rick Coltvet (ISU) dec. Jamie Pen
ning, 14-5
167-Steve Hamilton (ISU) dec Scott
Chenoweth, 5-3
177-Corey Olson (NU) dec Matt
Johnson, 13-8
190-Chris Nelson (NU) dec Dan
Troupe, 5-2
HWT-Todd Kinney (iSU) dec Sonny
Manley, 4-1
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Nebraska’s Corey Olson (bottom) gets carried away by the
emotion of Cornhusker assistant coach Marie Perry Satur
day.
