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Starters span spectrum Steadfast seniors spawn success . •***" Danny Nee, the Nebraska men’s basketball coach, talked about the constant effort from Keith Moody. Nee talked about Rich King playing this week with a broken nose. Nee said, “I can’t say enough about Beau (Reid) or Clifford (Scales) or Kelly (Lively).” OK then, I’ll try. Lively, Scales, Reid, King and Moody, the five seniors on the Corn husker basketball team, have been a constant on this year’s team. Constant doesn’t mean consistent: Scales is just coming out of a long slump, King occasionally plays pas sively, Reid’s shooting comes and goes. But they have been a constant because Nee has relied on them to win or to lose. They’ve lost six times. They’ve won 24 times. So despite the occasional lapses that can frustrate Nebraska’s record crowds, the seniors have been suc cessful. They span the team spectrum, with a center, a forward and a guard in the starting lineup, one backup and one reserve whose major contributions come in practice. Sunday against Kansas, all five got a chance to start. Lively played for the first three minutes, the first time he has played this year with the game in doubt. And he did just fine. When he left the game, the Huskcrs trailed 6-4. Lively won’t be replacing any of the players in front of him in the Big Fight or NCAA tournaments, but he proved he can do the job. “I’m just happy to get a chance to feel part of the team, to Ik acknowl edged as part of the tr im,” Lively said. Moody had developed into the consummate backup point guard, entering the game aggressively, dis Domeier tributing the ball and harassing the opposition, then he screwed up that system. He got to playing so well, he cracked the starting lineup. Sunday Moody made his second star t, with about his average perform ance: two points, four assists, two steals. He received a huge ovation as the last senior to leave the game. Reid received a standing ovation after fouling out, a fitting way for him to end his SjiorLs Center career. For a good player, Reid makes a huge number of dumb mistakes, but he sets the tone for the entire team with his altitude and emotion. His biggest conuibu tions may not be in what he does, but in how he docs it. Nee credited that emotion with helping the Huskers play their best defense of the season against the Jayhawks. It aiso got Reid a scat. “I think I probably gel two fouls a game because I’m playing intense,” Reid said. But the defense led to the victory. ‘‘I wasn't going to walk out of here a loser,” Reid said, and he didn’t. Scales finally broke out of his slump Sunday, scoring 14 points and hold ing off Kansas w ith nine points early in the second half. His defense was great, as always. Jayhawk bomber Terry Brown was held scoreless in the second half. “It was a team effort, but 1 feel good ubout that,” Scales said. Nee said Scales is a good student and a good person. “And he’s a hell of a basketball player,” Nee said. No kidding. Scales reminds me of Kevin Pritchard, and like Pritchard is a borderline NBA prospect. I think he’s got a better chance to make the jump the NBA than Pritchard with his little extra quickness and his ability to get off and make lough shots. Kingccrtainly will maketheNBA. If he played tough and fought for position every minute instead of ev ery other minute, he would be a lot tery pick, one of the first 11 selections in the draft. For now, he’s one of the best play ers in the conference, the most impos ing force in the Husker lineup. He’ll have to play wonderfully for Nebraska to have postseason success. He’s been playing wonderfully for a couple of weeks now. Sunday’s game was so much: It secured third place in the conference for Nebraska. It was Nebraska’s only victory over a team currently in the Top 25. It kept the Huskers highly ranked and in contention for a high seed in the NCAA tournament. It might have been the best game Tony Farmer, a junior, has ever played. But it will lie remembered as the seniors’ game. They combined for 110 of the 200 player minutes, with 40 points, 19 rebounds, 11 assists, three blocks, seven steals. They were the constant, there for Nebraska to rely on. Before this year, the only constant was losing. From Nee’s first statement at his first press conference this year to his opening statement after the last game of the year, he has talked about his seniors and what their experience means for Nebraska’s success. And still, Nee said, he can’t say enough about them. But enough will be said about Reid, Seales, King, Moody and Lively. Nebraska fans will be talking about this group for a long time. Domcicr is a senior news-editorial major and the Daily Nebraskan sports editor. 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Also, the intramural wrestling tournament will be gin Monday. _ f Hi-Lites 3712 So. 14th Street (14th & Calvert) Cut & Style Perm Special Now $10 Matrix Perm with Lori Now $40 . ^ A ~ , r\r\ Reg. $19 Reg. $45 421-2690 - -/ Men’s Basketball 1. Sigma Alpha Epsilon-A (5 0) 2. Alpha Tau Omega-A2 (5-0) 3. Midnight Blue (6-0) 4. Cathcr 3-A (5-0) 5. Sigma Phi Epsilon-A2 (5-0) 6. The The (6-0) 7. Lambda Chi Alpha-B2 (6-0) 8. Sclleck 8100 (6-0) 9. Sigma Alpha Epsilon-B2 (5 0) 10. The Hosers (6-0) Women’s Basketball 1. Vollcyballcrs (5-0) 2. Alpha Omicron Pi (4-0) 3. Your Loss FYI (5-0) 4. The Holy Hits (5-0) 5. Alpha Phi-A2 (3-0) 6. U.N. Nuns (4-1) 7. Grant/Aurora (4-1) 8. Fine Young Ladies (4-1) 9. The Bombers (3-2) 10. Alpha Xi Della (3-1) Co-rec Volleyball 1. Pi Kappa Phi/Kappa Alpha Theta (6-0) 2. Fluffaluffacuss (4-1) 3. Delta Tau Delta (6-0) 4. F.Y.I (5-1) 5. Magnificent Seven (5-0) 6. Chi Phi-3 (5-0) 7. SA Spikcrs II (5-1) 8. Dead Puppies (5-0) 9. Kappa Sigma/Gamrna Phi Beta (5-0) 10. Schramm 2 & Posscy (5-1) Men’s Indoor Soccer 1. Roscoc Pounders (4 -1) 2. International Stars II (3-1) 3. Alpha Tau Omega-A (3-0) 4. Farmhouse B (3-0) 5. Delta Upsilon A (3-0) From the Office of Campus Recreation OSU wins tourney .. /N. • I _ _U TM/ilr SAUNA, Kan. (AP) — Liz Brown scored 19 of her 23 points in the second half Monday night to lead Oklahoma State to a 74-63 victory over Kansas in the champi onship game of the Big Eight women’s basketball tournament. The victory improved the Cow girls to 25-5 overall and earned them an automatic berth in the upcoming NCAA Tournament. It was the second straight Big Eight tournament title for Oklahoma State, which also won the conference’s regular-season championship. “Our kids expected to win it this year. This is not the highlight of the season, v^Kianomu juiu, Halterman said. “We want to ac complish some things in the (NCAA) tournament for ourselves and the Big Eight.” With Oklahoma State leading 41-40 in the second half, Brown took over. The 5-foot-5 senior started a 14-5 run by Oklahoma State with three consecutive 17-foot jumpers in a 31 -second span. The Big Eight Player of the Year then added two free throws and a pair of jump shots, and when teammate Shea Jackson dropped in a layup with 11:11 remaining, OSU held a 55 45 advantage. Brett tired of negotiating The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — George Brett expected this year to be different. The veteran Kansas City Royals first baseman and three-lime Ameri can League baiting champion said worrying about his 1991 contract kept him up a few nights ago. “No kidding, I was all worked up,” Brett said. “My heart was pounding like the nightbefore the seventh game of the World Series.” Brett, 37, is anxious about ongo ing negotiations to restructure his contract, a process that caused linger ing ill feelings last year. Although he won his third batting title last season, Brett’s 1990 start was woeful, with a .200 average on May 7. He blamed that on residual unhappiness over the contract talks. Although Brett is bound to a guar anteed $1.5 million contract for 1991 and the Royals hold options for two more years at that salary, owner Ewing Kauffman already has made propos als to rework Brett’s financial pack age- J . Kauffman also indicated a desire to wrap up a buyout of the so-called lifetime real estate deal negotiated in 1985 with former co-owner Avron Fogclman. But Brett said he is baffled about why negotiations arc stalled. “I thought the whole con tract thing would be done in January. The Roy als had a couple of players (right fielder Danny Tartabull and left fielder Bo Jackson) file for arbitration and they were about a million dollars apart from the club’s offer,” Brett said. ‘‘A million dollars — and they both got settled with no problem. So, why is this thing with me so hard?” Seesaw Continued from Page 7 cause he has sccontl-icam All-Big Eight selections Shawn Buchanan and Bill Vosik balling behind him. Hagy, a transfer from Eastern Washington, a Division I school that dropped its baseball program last year, said coming to Nebraska changed more than just his uniform. He said that with the transfer, he changed his hitting style from being a slap hitter to sitting back and taking a bigger cut. It also changed his altitude. “It was lough playing at Eastern (Washington) because we lost so many games, you were playing for your self,” he said. “We can play as a team here.” Nebraska coach John Sanders said teamwork was the key Monday, but I said he was more pleased with the chance to play three Division I games at home so early in the year. Nebraska also defeated Western Illinois in a single game Sunday. Nebraska’s offense was not one dimensional in the second game. Vosik went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and des ignated hitter Gary Tackett went 3 for-5. But it was the pitching of Ne braska winning pitcher John I/.umi that Hagy said was the key to his success. I/.umi, a left-handed reliever, en tered the game in the fifth and gave up a three-run home run to Western Illi nois’ Ron Nunez to allow the Leath ernecks a 6-5 lead. Then Izumi pitched a scoreless sixth inning. “It got me going,” Hagy said. “I/umi shut them down the second inning he pitched, then the bats picked up.” -1 Rec Scoreboard Results from Sunday s games. Men’s basketball Fraternity B Sigma Phi Epsilon 47, Phi Kappa Psi 29; Chi Phi B1 62, Beta Sigma Psi 46; Pi Kappa Phi 48, Beta Theta Pi B1 44, Sigma Nu B2 61, Phi Delta Theta 54, Sigma Chi 53, Tau Kappa Epsilon 31; Sigma Alpha Epsilon B1 59, Farmhouse 55; Alpha Tau Omega B2 60, Phi Kappa Psi B1 39; Delta Tau Delta B2 70. Alpha Gamma Sigma 32; Delta Upsilon B1 50, Triangle 30, Alpha Tau Omega B3 79, Sigma Nu B1 32; Alpha Gamma Rho 44, Sigma Alpha Epsilon B3 36; Sigma Phi Epsilon B1 71, Kappa Sigma 52; Lambda Chi Alpha B2 66, Beta Theta Pi B2 41; Phi Gamma Delta B2 69, Acacia 52; Theta Chi 58, Delta Upsilon B2 54 Independent B Gravity Kings 53, BDM&Co 49; Blue Wave 67, Slee Stacks 47; Looped Mor tars 59, Islandeis 30; NROTC by forfeit over Status Quo; Bug Eaters 60, BP Express 59; St Andrews Slicers by for feit over EC BHS Team, Falcons 69, Country Boys 42, Lobos 57, Sreksuh 49, Midnight Blue 77, Renobs 39; St. An drews Slicers 54, NROTC 41 Co-rec volleyball A Betty s & Barneys 2, Brew Dogs 0; Acacia-B 2. Sweethogs 0 B The Reprise 2, Phi Slamma Jamma 1, Delta Tau Delta 2, Joe’s Team 1; Abel 4/Sandoz 7 2, Law I 0, Schramm 2 & Possey 2, FCA II 0; Just Don’t Matter 2, Sigma Nu/AOP 1. Cornerstone 2, Abel 11 1; UNMC COD 2, Redsand 0; I House 2, ATO/PBP 1. C Screaming Architects 2, Vitals 0; Mr. Happy by forfeit over SAE/Delta Gamma; Chi Phi 2 2. AFROTC Falcons 1; The Richards 2, Carrot Top 0; It’s Just Us 2, AGC 1; B.S. Spikers by forfeit over Flim Flam Flukes; ASGSA by forfeit over Neihardt Staffage, Triangle 2, Sharks & Minnows 1. Indoor soccer Fraternity A Alpha Tau Omega 11, Sigma Phi Ep silon 0, Phi Delta Theta 5. Chi Phi A 0 Fraternity B Farmhouse B 4, Delta Upsilon 3; Lambda Chi Alpha 6, Chi Phi B 0; Sigma Alpha Epsilon 6, Tau Kappa Epsilon 1; Delta Tau Delta 6, Phi Delta Theta 0. Residence A NU Tennis 3, Gather 3 1; Roscoe • Rowdors 2, International Stars II 1.
