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Track Continued from Page 7 Dirksen said. Saturday’s quadrangular is a good meet for this time of year and espe cially for the younger athletes to get used to col lege-level competition, he said. Pepin said the score of Saturday’s meet will be unimportant because he is just looking for the teams to pro vide some good individual competi tion. Pepin said NU’s strength lies in its depth. The Huskers are unique because they are well balanced in all areas, whereas Saturday’s competition, as well as some Big Eight teams like Oklahoma, are strong in some areas, but do not compete in others, he said. “No one group can make or break our team,” Pepin said. The Huskers got a bad break, however, when middle distance run ner Kirk Petit broke his foot last Sat urday at the Nebraska All-Comers Meet. Pepin said that injury was damag ing because middle distance is one of the areas where the Huskers lack bodies. The team had some strong per formances during the last meet, he said. Some highlights were provided from Stephen Golding’s 55-meter hurdle time of 7.34 seconds and Ty son Smith’s 7-foot 1/4-inch high jump. Michelle Paulman/Dally Nebraskan Nebraska freshman Jeff White clears the bar at last weekend’s All-Comers Meet. White finished 14th with a high mark of 13 feet, 101/2 inches. Coach: NU needs fewer errors By Erik Unger Staff Reporter The Nebraska women’s gymnas tics team will face a Missouri squad that is a lot like them, and a lot differ ent. Both teams arc undefeated, have the ability to score big points and have ihe luxury of only two or three experienced gymnasts, said Com husker head coach Rick Walton. But Walton said the difference between the teams shown Iasi week is what worries him the most about Sunday’s meet. He said Missouri made only one or two mistakes en route to a 188-point performance at home, while Nebraska struggled through eight mistakes to score 183 points on the road. “To make us competitive, we need the ability to string together routines,” Walton said. Consistency will be difficult be cause Nebraska still has an injury problem, especially on the bars, but Walton said the lineup is fuller in the other three events. Shane Foster, who sat out last week’s meet with an elbow injury, will compete, and Walton said he hopes to have her on the bars, Ne braska’s weakest event. Despite injuries and mistakes against Illinois, senior Lisa McCrady said team members, especially the freshmen, were more confident in practice this week. “It’s easier getting one meet under their belt,” she said. wThcre will be no surprises.” Walton said last week’s meet helped the freshmen feel like part of the team. It added morale and should help the Comhuskers’ performance, he said. It gave them a definite role on the team, he said. Sunday’s meet at the Bob Dcva ney Sports Center begins at 2 p.m. and will be over before the Super Bowl begins, Walton said. Rec Scoreboard j Results from Wednesday night's games. Men* basketball Independent B Brown House 56, Mann's Men 32; SS Squad 60. GC Brownstar-leiting 39; Cather 7 Ind. 52, Gators 46; Bug Eaters 57, Slee Stacks 50; Young Guns 76, Sigma Mu Upsalon Tau 30; The The 90, FCA Reserves 62; Hammer Time 77, Harbingers 56. Fraternity A Phi Delta Theta 53, Acacia 38, Beta Theta Pi 69, Delta Upsilon 52; Alpha Tau Omega 62, Ag Men 1 42. Fraternity B Beta Sigma Psi 37, Sigma Aipha Epsilon 29; Phi Kappa Psi B1 63, Acacia 50; Delta Upsilon Bi 70, Phi Delta Theta 28 Fraternity C Sigma Alpha Epsilon by forfeit over Farmhouse; Farmhouse Magic by forfeit over Delta Tau Delta C1; Sigma Alpha Epsilon 33, Triartgle-Screamin C Men 32: Chi Phi C1 24, Kappa Sigma 22; Chi Phi C2 30, Theta Chi 22; Beta Sigma Psi 56. Tau Kappa Epsilon 30; Sigma Phi Epsi lon 67, Sigma Nu C1 19; Sigma Phi Epsilon C1 by forfeit over Delta Tau Delta C2; Alpha Tau Omega 42, Phi Gamma Delta 17; Pi Kappa Phi 42, Alpha Gamma Rho 20; Phi Delta Theta 58, Delta Upsi lon 35. Residence B Spurs 38, Burr 3 West 35; Abel 7 50, Cougars 36; 8100 76. Schramm 2 64 Residence BC Harper 2B 44, Abei 6B 18; Cather 13 B 58, Burr West B 30. Falcons B 67, Abel 12B34. Residence C Abel Niners 45, Selleek 8200 25; Abel 11 55, Abel 6 18; Cather 11 64, Cather 9 24 Women's basketball Musketeers 35, Nu Crew 12; Volley bailers 72, Ballbusters 30; The Whippers 46, Haven't Got A Clue 42.40T. Ok 1 Continued from Page 7 83 points.” The Sooners, who have four play ers averaging double-figure scoring, are led by junior Carin Stiles. The 5 foot, 9-inch guard averages 19.1 points a game, second in the Big Eight. The Huskers have a slight height advantage over the Sooners, but a large margin on the boards. Nebraska leads the league in rebound margin, out-rebounding the team’s opponents by 6.6 rpg. Oklahoma is the worst in the conference, being out-rebounded by 7.2 rpg. With Wednesday’s loss, the Husk ers fell into a five-way bottleneck for second place in the Big Eight. No. 24 Oklahoma State leads the league al4 l. “We just have to keep ourselves in a position where we are still in reach.” Beck said. She said the productive previous week may have contributed to the Huskers’ loss. The week before the Kansas game, Nebraska won at Iowa i State 81-68, knocked off Oklahoma „ State67-64andcrushedColorado68 t 53. J “After that week, I don’t think we , ever put the Kansas game in focus,” | i Beck said. “We just didn’t have the { 1 consistency we did in those first three ( [ games.” I I ——I For information about FREE FOOD for pregnant women, infants, and children under the age of 5, call: i l-soo-ytflcllim ! c.ii o». 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All-btar Game to feature Michael Jordan NEW YORK (AP) — Leading vole-getter Michael Jordan of Chi cago will join Detriot’s Isiah Tho mas, New York’s Patrick Ewing, Philadlphia’s Charles Barkley and Boston’s Larry Bird in the Eastern Conference starting line-up for the NBA All-Star Game. David Robinson of San Antonio received the most votes of any Western Conference players. Also starting for the West team will be Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers, Kevin Johnson ol Phoenix, Karl Malone of Utah and Chris Mullin of Golden State. The All-Star Game will be played Feb. 10 in Charlotte, N.C. Swimmers to face Missouri By Benji Greenberg Staff Reporter The Nebraska women’s swimming and diving team will try to stay in the flow Saturday in a dual with Missouri at the Bob Devaney Sports Center pool. Last weekend, the 20th-ranked Comhuskers lost to Minnesota and opened their Big Eight season by beating Iowa State. “We saw good things at Minne sota despite the loss, but we got back into the flow at ISU,” Nebraska coach Ray Huppen said. “We need to have a positive attitude against Missouri, because they aren’t going to be a pushover.” Huppert said Missouri has some excellent individuals, especially Alex Kay in distance and butterfly. “Mizzou is much improved from last season and coach John Little has recruited the people he wants for them to be successful,” Huppert said. “They’re better than the last place team from last season.” The Huskcrs enter the meet 5-1 in duals. Nebraska suffered a blow this week when freshman distance freestyler Jenny Melrose was ruled out for the rest of the season because of a blood clot in her lung. Huppert said even without Melrose’s injury, the team already was thin at distance freestyle but that he would shift people around. “We’re climbing a ladder so we can work our way up to the confer ence championships,’’ Huppert said. “We know what our potential is, and we still haven’t done what we’re capable of doing.” NU swimmers host Tigers By vicKi Burge Staff Reporter Saturday’s dual between the Ne braska and Missouri men’s swimming ind diving teams will be the third day >f a three-day meet for the Com mskers — sort of. According to Coach Cal Bentz’ blan, the dual that starts at 1:30 p.m. it the Bob Dcvaney Sports Center will follow hard practices Thursday ind Friday to simulate a three-day meet. And the swimmers also will be shifting around in the meet, which will be broadcast on Nebraska Edu cational Television. Distance swim mers and sprinters won’t be swim ming in their normal races. “Individual medley swimmers will he swimming distance freestyle and ^distance swimmer) Richard Johannsen will swim back-to-back races in the 1000- and 200-yard freestyle,” assis tant coach Rick Paine said. With all that going on, NCAA qualifying times are unlikely. “I don’t expect NCAA times, but a few might come close,” Bentz said. ‘‘Missouri will fight... I’ll admit they have never been afraid of us, but the difference is we will let our number three and four swimmers go for the big points.” Diving coach Jim Hocking said he is looking forward to the meet as a chance for redemption for last week end’s dual against Iowa State. ‘‘I was really disappointed in our performances at Iowa State,” Hock ing said. “I was so glad that Cal had some good swimmers, because if the team had to rely on just our points, we l wouldn t have won the meet.”