OU beats NU gymnasts
By Erik Unger
Staff Reporter
Neither Oklahoma nor Nebraska
wanted to win Sunday’s women’s
gymnastics meet, according to Com
husker coach Rick Walton.
But Oklahoma got the win any
way, 185.90 to 185.40, at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center to hand the
Buskers their first dual loss this year.
Both teams looked tense, Walton
said, missing more routines than they
hit.
Walton said health problems for
senior Nita Lichtenstein (shoulder
injury) and freshman Debbie Bryan
(mononucleosis) helped decide the
outcome.
Bryan, normally one of Nebraska’s
all-around competitors, did not com
pete in the floor exercise. She took
second in the balance beam.
“We hope to be healthy soon, like
by next Sunday,” Walton said.
Next Sunday is the Masters Clas
sic and Nebraska will be competing
against second-ranked Alabama and
fifth-ranked Arizona State.
“We will need to hit all of our
, routines to avoid being run out of our
!own gym next weekend,” Walton said.
He said the Huskers will need to
improve on their “dismal” perform
ance on the uneven bars, 45.7 points.
Nebraska responded, however, with
a season-best 46.85 on the beam and
trailed only 140.1 to 139.3 going into
the final rotation, the floor, normally
Nebraska’s strongest event. Nebraska’s
Lisa McCrady is the defending Big
Eight champion in the floor.
But Nebraska suffered through its
lowest scoring floor routine of the
year, with 46.1 points.
“We gave it our best shot,” McCrady
said. “We were just a little overag
gressive.”
She said the team added difficulty
for higher scores in later meets.
That difficulty, though, contrib
uted to a couple of key mistakes that
cost Nebraska.
Both McCrady and Lichenstein
stumbled through their new routines
and sophomore CeCe Ocel scored
her lowest mark of the season, a 9.05.
Walton said part of the reason for
the season-low scores was the tough
judging, but that wasn’t the only
problem.
“When you don’t do a good job,
you don’t get rewarded,” Walton said.
One bright spot for Nebraska was
freshman Robin Richter, who won
the beam and placed second and third
on the uneven bars and the vault,
respectively.
IChubick’s
hard work
rewarded
By Todd Cooper
Staff Reporter
Bruce Chubick’s teammates and
coaches possibly were the only ones
not surprised at his seven-point spurt
Saturday night in Nebraska’s 105-93
victory over Oklahoma.
“It was just a matter of when his
time comes,” forward Tony Farmer
said, “and his time came tonight.”
During that three-minute streak.
Chubick hit a four-foot putback, a
free throw, a tip-in, and a 17-foot
jumper. The Huskers led 60-59 when
he entered the game. When h§ left,
Nebraska was up 74-63.
“He just sparked us,” forward Beau
Reid said. “That was the best I’d ever
seen him play.”
enubick naa nine points on per
fect shooting and four rebounds in
only nine minutes of play.
And Chubick was waiting for it.
I “I’ve waited fora chance like this,
and finally when the opportunity
presented itself, I took advantage of
it,” he said. “I just wanted to go out
there, work hard and let whatever
happened take place.”
Chubick’s work ethic is nothing
new to the Huskcrs.
“If you ask everyone on our team,
the thing they ’d say they thought most
about Bruce is how hard he works,”
center Rich King said.
Reid agreed.
“I probably feel as good as anyone
for Bruce just because I can relate to
how hard he works in practice,” Reid
said. “It's fun to see his hard work
rewarded.”
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ketball team,” Nee said. “(Northern
Illinois) will be in the (NCAA) tour
nament, and I told my players that
every tournament team you can beat
will help our seed down the road.”
The crowd of 14,568 was the sixth
of 14,000 or more for Nebraska this
season, tying the 1982-83 season for
most games reaching that mark. The
Huskers have three home games
remaining. The team had no crowds
of 14,000 last season.
Oklahoma . 38 55 — 93
At Nebraska 39 66 — 105
Oklahoma—Webster 7-155 8 19, Ware
0 3 2-6 2. Keane 3-4 7-0 13. Price 4-13 4 4
15, Harris 8-20 1-1, Mullins 7-14 2-2 20,
Sallier0 00-00, French 1-1 4 46 Totals 30
70 25-34 93
Nebraska—Farmer 5-10 4 5 14, Hayes
410 1 -2 9, King 7-12 5 6 19, Scales 7-12 2
2 16, Reid 3-4 7-8 13, Owens 3-5 4-4 10,
Moody 0-3 0-0 0, Piatkowski 5-9 4 4 15,
Ramos 0 0 0 0 0, Chubick 4 4 119 Totals
38 69 28-32 105
3-point goals—Oklahoma 8 23 (Price
3 11, Harris 1-5, Mullins 4 7), Nebraska 1-5
(Farmer 0 1, Hayes 0 1, Reid 0-1 Piatkow
ski 1-2) Rebounds—Oklahoma 37 (Harris
10), Nebraska 42 (Farmer 10) Assists—
Oklahoma 27 (Price 13), Nebraska 30
((Scales, King 7) Turnovers—Oklahoma
20 (Price 5), Nebraska 18 (King 8) Total
fouls (dq)—Oklahoma 24 (Webster,
Keane), Nebraska 29 Technical fouls—
Oklahoma bench, King A—14,568
Probable Starters
PPG RPG APG
F Carl Hayes Jr. 6-8 14.6 5.6 2.3
F Tony Farmer Jr. 6-8 11.8 7.0 1.5
C Rich King Sr. 7-2 14.2 7.8 2.7
G Beau Reid Sr. 6-8 10.2 4.8 4.1
G Clifford Scales Sr. 6-2 10.1 3.1 3.2
F Brian Mohs Jr. 6-4 7.3 3.0 1.2
F Donnell Thomas Sr. 6-4 16.7 7.9 0.6
C Randy Fens So. 6-8 2.2 2.7 0.2
G Mike Hidden Jr. 6-5 5.8 2.3 1.3
G Donald Whiteside Sr. 5-10 10.7 1.6 3,5
And Reid thinks it will be rewarded
even more in the future.
“1 think he can be as good as
(Creighton forward) Bob Harstad,”
Reid said. “Every single characteris
tic Bob Harstad has I can see in Bruce
Chubick. They both have that work
ethic and they both surprise you with
their quickness and jumping ability
maybe when you don’t expect it.”
Harstad is Creighton’s all-time
leading scorer and last year’s Mis
souri Valley Conference Player of the
Year. As a sophomore, he was the
MVC player of the year runner-up.
He started all 32 games as a fresh
man.
Despite Harstad’s accomplish
ments, Reid believes it’s a fair com
parison.
“I think Bruce will prove me to be
prophetic because I think he’s going
lo have a great career,” Reid said.
“He just works so hard. People that
work hard can make up for a lot of
things.”
And for Chubick, that includes
overcoming criticism from fans who
say he doesn’t deserve lo play Divi
sion 1 ball.
“Some people in Nebraska don’t
think he even deserves to be on the
team,” Reid said. “They think it was
a political recruit to keep the big boy
in state at Nebraska. That’s just not1
true. Bruce is a great player.”
But the rcdshirl freshman from
Atkinson West Holt doesn’t know if
he silenced those critics.
“I’m sure that didn’t shut a lot of
critics up right there, but I don’t really
care,” Chubick said. “As long as I can
be happy with myself, that’s all that
matters to me.”
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Nebraska’s Shelly Pendley swings on the uneven bars Sunday.
Pendley scored an 8.6 on the event in the dual with Okla
homa.
Huskers set record
By Todd Cooper
Staff Reporter
Although it hadn’t happened in
school history, Beau Reid saw Ne
braska’s 66 second-half points against
Oklahoma as a flash from the very
recent past.
“That’s the way we were playing
in the beginning of the year,” Reid
said. “It seemed like we were just
putting up ungodly amounts of points ”
But the total was never this “un
godly.”
The Comhuskers had scored more
than 60 points in a half this year.
Their 64 points against Tennessee
Tech in December tied a school rec
ord, and the team had a 61 -point sec
ond-half outburst against Colorado
on Feb. 4. But the Huskers hadn’t
seen anything this big, and that’s what
makes Saturday night’s outburst note
worthy, Reid said.
“To me, that means we’re playing
well again,” he said. “It’s so much
more fun to play because you don’t
have to worry about where your shots
are going to come from.”
For 1 1/2 minutes of the half, those
shots came directly above the hoop.
The Huskers had four of their eight
“44 --
It’s tco bad we haven’t
gotten two halves like
that
King
Nebraska center
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second-half dunks in a run that in
creased the Huskers’ lead from five to
11 points.
Those slams let off the frustration
of a career of Oklahoma losses, Reid
said.
“They’ve dunked on us enough in
here,” Reid said. “It’s nice to beat
Oklahoma twice in one season.”
Nebraska center Rich King agreed.
“We’ve been on the other end of
that too many times,” King said. “And
we’ve been on a lot worse ends than
that (12-point loss) before.”
King said there’s no reason the
Huskers can’t score 66 points in a half
more often.
“When everyone’s running hard,
passing well and playing unselfish,
we’re capable of doing that,” he said.
‘It’s too bad we haven’t gotten two
halves like that.”
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