Hast Division W t Pel. GB The Week
Toronto 8 5 .615 -- 3-3
Bostor 6 5 .545 1 4-1
Detroit 6 5 .545 1 4-2
Milwaukee 6 6 .500 1.5 3-3
Baltimore 4 6 .400 2.5 2-3
Cleveland 4 6 .400 2.5 1-3
New York 4 7 .364 3 2-3 •
Weal Division
Chicago 7 3 .700 - 3-3
California 8 5 .615 .5 3-4
Oakland 8 5 .615 .5 3-4
Seattle 6 6 .500 2 6-0
Kansas City 5 6 .455 2.5 1-4
Texas 4 5 .444 2.5 3-1
Minnesota 3 9 .250 5 1-5
East Division W L Pet. GB The Week
Pittsburgh 8 5 .615 - 5-2
New York 8 5 .615 - 3-3
Chicago 7 6 .538 1 4-3
St. Louis 7 6 .538 1 4-3
Montreal 5 8 .385 3 3-3
Philadelphia 4 9 .308 4 1-6
West Division
San Diego 8 5 .615 - 3-4
Cincinnati 6 5 .545 1 4-2
San Francisco 6 6 .500 1.5 4-2
Los Angeles 6 6 .500 1.5 4-3
Houston 5 7 .417 2.5 2-4
Atlanta 4 6 .400 2.5 2-4
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NU basketball sends
two to Olympic Festival
By Jeff Singer
Staff Reporter
Nebraska women’s basketball
players Karen Jennings and Meggan
Yedsena are two of the 12 selections
to compete on the North squad for
this summer’s U.S. Olympic Festi
val.
The two Comhuskers had to com
pete with 155 candidates during the
three-day tryouts that ended Sunday
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Jennings, first team All-Big Eight
this year, will be competing for the
third year in a row for the North team.
The 6-foot-2-inch Persia, Iowa,
native who will be a junior next year
said she hopes that being on the team
will lead to bigger things.
“Hopefully, this will give me a
solid shot at the Olympics,” Jennings
said. “This is definitely a stepping
stone.”
Yedsena, the Big Eight newcomer
of the year in her recently completed
freshman season, will be playing in
her first Olympic Festival. She was
cut from the East squad after the first
round last year.
The sophomore guard from Maha
noy City, Penn., said that having the
two Huskers play together helps both
players’ games.
Nebraska coach Angela Beck said
having two players on the team makes
the Husker basketball program look
impressive.
“I am really proud of them,” Beck
said. ‘‘This says a lot for the Nebraska
program that two players competed
so well.”
Other players making the squad
include Jamillah Lang of Colorado
and Lisa Tate of Kansas. Iowa team
mates Latonia Foster and Cathy Marx
are the only other collegiate team
mates qualifying for the team.
Others joining the unit are Ohio
State’s Monica Taylor, Purdue’s Tri
cia Callop, Dana Drew of Toledo,
Yconda Hill of Northern Illinois,
Southwest Missouri Stale’s Secelia
Winkfield and Anita Scott of South
ern Illinois.
The team will compete at the
Olympic Festival in Los Angeles, July
12-21.
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NFL taps 4 Huskers
OMAHA (AP) — Four more
Nebraska players were chosen in the
second day of the National Football
League draft Monday.
In the eighth round, the Denver
Broncos chose Nebraska All-Ameri
can defensive end Kenny Walker. The
Los Angeles Rams also took inside
linebacker Pat Tyrance.
In the ninth round, defensive back
Tahaun Lewis was picked by the Los
Angeles Raiders. The Atlanta Fal
cons chose defensive tackle Joe Sims
in the 11 th round.
On Sunday, the Falcons had cho
sen defensive back Bruce Pickens as
the third pick in the first round of the
draft. The Broncos followed by tak
ing outside linebacker Mike Croel as
the fourth player.
The Comhuskers’ defensive duo
was the highest Nebraska pair since
New England took Irving Fryar and
Houston tabbed Dean Steinkuhler as
the top two picks of the 1984 draft.
Heisman Trophy winner Mike Rozier
also was taken in the supplemental
draft that year.
Linebacker Broderick Thomas in
1989, defensive tackle Neil Smith in
1988 and middle guard Danny Noonan
in 1987 also were first-round picks
for the Huskers, who had two players
taken in the first round of drafts in
1979, 1964 and 1937, and three in
1972.
SPORTS BRIEFS
UNL soccer dub
loses 2 matches
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln women’s soccer club
lost a pair of exhibition matches
to NCAA Division I varsity teams
this weekend in Omaha.
The UNL club lost 3-0 to
nationally ranked Wisconsin and
lost 3-1 to Creighton.
Track coach checks optimism
uy unucK tureen
Senior Reponer
Even after last weekend’s individ
ual performances by Comhusker track
and field athletes, Nebraska coach
Gary Pepin is restraining his opti
mism.
With the Big Eight outdoor cham
pionship less than a month away, Pepin
said his teams still need to make
improvements. The conference meet
will be May 19-20 at Ed Weir Track.
“We have quite a few areas where
we need to pick up the pace a little,”
Pepin said. “There’s the men’s and
women’s 4xl00-meter relays, the
men’s 4x400, the women’s jumps...
There are a lot of people who haven’t
qualified yet who need to do it.
“We have several areas where we
feel that we have talent, but just have
n’t gotten it done.”
At the Mount San Antonio Relays
in Walnut, Calif., 18 Huskcrs com
peted among hundreds of athletes from
around the world. The rest of the
Nebraska men’s and women’s teams
competed at the Kansas Relays in
Lawrence, Kan.
oom meets Kept muiviauai scores
and did no! keep team scores.
At the Kansas Relays, Nebraska’s
Susan Hedrick won the women’s400
meter hurdles in 58.66 seconds—her
career best and the third-best Husker
women’s team time.
The mark qualified her for the
NCAA outdoor championships, which
will be May 29 in Eugene, Ore.
Pepin said the mark surprised him.
“That was probably the most
pleasing performance of the week
end,” he said. “Susan has been some
one who has been plagued by injuries
throughout her collegiate career. For
her to come back and pul in a mark
like she did Saturday, that has to be a
psychologically uplifting boost for
her.”
Lynne Frey also qualified for the
NCAA meet in the javelin, placing
fourth with a throw of 162 feet, 1
inch.
In the men’s competition, the
Husker mile relay team was second in
7:34.10 minutes, and Andy Meyer
finished second in the discus with a
throw of 173-2.
rormer nusner riaraiu vjraiiain,
competing unattached, won the 3,000
meter steeplechase event in 8:54.2.
The marks recorded by Husker
athletes were good, Pepin said, but
need to get better to qualify. But, he
said, the lack of qualifiers is no rea
son for alarm.
“We have athletes who haven’t
qualified yet. but that’s pretty much
the way it is across the country this
year,” Pepin said. “The standards are
so high, you usually don’t get the
qualifying marks until the end of the
season.”
Weather has been another factor
for the Huskers, Pepin said. At the
Kansas Relays, it was “bitterly cold,”
he said, and there was intermittent
rain throughout the Mount SAC meet.
Oveiall, Pepin said, the Huskers’
performances pleased him.
“In our sport, you’ll always have
pluses and minuses,” he said. “We
had a good weekend in that the pluses
outweighed the minuses.
“We hope we can keep coming out
on the plus side.”
Smart set at NU
Athletes triumph on academic fields
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Reporter
Academically, the Nebraska
athletic department is “a model for
the rest for the rest of the country to
look at,” broadcaster Dick Enberg
said Sunday.
Enberg, an NBC Sports host and
play-by-play announcer, was in
Lincoln to honor Nebraska’s 13
GTE Academic All-Americans.
“These are extraordinary young
men and women,” Enberg said.
“With all the All-American teams
that are put out — from AP, The
Sporting News and Sports Illus
trated — this is the true all-Amer
ica team.
“These are the people who will
lead our country, the elite on a
t college campus.”
Each year GTE selects full
Academic All-American teams from
the football, volleyball, baseball,
softball and men’s and women’s
basketball programs. Athletes from
other sports are selected in an at
large category to bring the number
of honorees to 430.
Four of Nebraska’s selected
athletes were from the Comhusker
football program. Seniors David
Edeal, Pat Tyrance and Jim Wanck
and junior Pat Engelbert pushed
Nebraska’s national-leading num
Der oi football academic aii
Amencans to 43.
Edeal and Tyranee also were
awarded NCAA Post-Graduate
Scholarships.
Tyrance, who already has been
accepted to Harvard Medical
School, was awarded the Toyota
Leadership Award and was named
the National Football Foundation
and Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete
and Woody Hayes Scholar Athlete
of the Year.
Two Nebraska gymnasts, sen
iors Patrick Kirksey and Mark
Warburton, also were honored.
Kirksey and Tyrancc were two
of the athletes named to the NC A A
Today’s Top Six. Each year the
publication selects six athletes from
the 250,000 at the 825 schools in
the NCAA.
It was the second year in a row
that Nebraska has had two athletes
selected.
Beau Reid, who helped lead the
Huskcr basketball learn to the NCAA
tournament, was a third-team bas
ketball Academic All-American
selection.
Leading the women’s teams was
GTE Academic All-American of
the Year, Nebraska volleyball player
Janet Kruse.
Kruse’s teammate Becky Bolli
was a third-team Academic All
American selection.
Gymnast Jane Clemons, hep
tathlete Lynne Frey and softball
player Jill Rishel received Aca
demic All-American honors in the
at-large category.
The youngest Nebraska selec
tion was women’s basketball player
Karen Jennings. Jennings, who led
the Big Eight in scoring with a 20.5
point per game average, earned her
first Academic All-American hon
ors.
Nebraska leads the nation in
Academic All-Americans in all
sports with 56.
The Nebraska Athleuc Academic
Counseling Unit, the athletic de
partment’s academic support pro
gram, also was honored.
Nebraska’s “Career Counseling
for Student-Athletes” program was
the first recipient of College Ath -
letic Management Magazine’s
Award of Excellence in Academic
Support.
“That’s not by accident,” En
berg said. “Obviously they’re doing
some very proper things here.”
Enberg congratulated the ath
letes for the hard work and self
discipline necessary to combine
successful academic and athletic
careers.
“I can’t offer enough superla
tives,” Enberg said. “I hope they
come and live next door to me.”
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Rec Scoreboard
Co-rec softball
Result* from Sunday’s games.
AB
SPE/Pi Beta Phi 18. Wranglers 7
ATO/Alpha Phi 10, Law 44 5. Baa Habit
15. FCA 8; Mustangs 12, Abel 2 8. Pure
Athletes 10, Delta Tau Delta 4; Jugheads
13, LCA/and friends 12; Sigrna Nu #1 by
forfeit over DU/Kappa Delta; LCA/Alpha
Chi Omega by forfeit over Prichard s drv
riders. ’
BC
S&D 10, Selleck Just for Fun 9;
ASGSA by forfeit over Delta Upsilon/
AOPi; Schramm ll/BWA by forfeit over
Delta Upsilon/AOPi; Jager 11, Acacia 4,
Abel 4/Sandoz 7 by forfeit over The
Sapps; ETC 22, Ace in the Hole 7; Big
sticks 12, Harper 5 10; Magnum PR 16,
Schramm ll/BWA 15; ASGSA by forfeit
over Beta Theta Pi 2; St. Andrews Sli
cers-Jantzi 33. SAE & Theta 0; Free Dirt
7; Knite's Knights 20, The
Trash Cans 10; ASGSA 1 f Magnum PR
Annies 16, Sigma Chi/Phi Mu
0 Abel 8 bv forfeit over Beta Theta Pi 2
Magnum PR 15, AgMen 10; Chicks &
Sticks by forfeit over Neihardt Staffage