Women favored to win
Huskers heading to districts
By John Gardner
Staff Reporter
Circumstances will be very simi
lar to the Big Eight championships
held two weeks ago when the Ne
braska cross country teams travel to
Wichita, Kan., this weekend.
The NCAA District V Champion
ships, which are qualifying meets for
nationals, will have seven Big Eight
teams competing in the Gateway
Conference district championships.
Those teams include: Iowa State,
Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Kan
sas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
“I Colorado is not a member of the
Gateway Conference.
Coach Jay Dirkscn said the Com
husker women are favored to win the
title again. Kansas State will be the
Husker women’s biggest competition.
Kansas, formerly a threat, lost its No.
3 runner, so it will be tougher for
them to get close.
“Obviously, (the Wildcats) will
have to run better than they did in the
Big Eight meet to beat us,” he said.
From this meet, the lop two teams
qualify for the NCAA meet in two
weeks. Dirksen said he conceivably
sees Nebraska as one of them.
“We would have to have a pretty
big letdown to not have a chance to
qualify,” he said. “If we do what
we’re capable of doing, we should
place in the top two.”
Nebraska will be running the same
seven as at the Big Eight champion
ships. They are Fran ten Bcnsel, Lisa
Graham, Stephanie Quandt, Julieanne
Campbell, Michele Schaefer, Ther
esa Stclling and Sylvia Veit. Once
again, Nebraska will be without Ka
tie Fletcher, who is injured. Dirksen
said Fletcher, if healthy, would proba
bly be his No. 3 runner.
“Thai’s what is so good about this
team,” he said. “We have so much
depth.”
As usual, the women will be led by
ten Bensel and Graham. Dirksen said
Graham is really coming on and ten
Bensel is coming oil a big win. len
Bcnscl won the Big Eight title quite
handily, pulling her in position to win
the individual title.
“I don’t really sec Fran running
away with it, but she is definitely the
favorite,” Dirksen said. “We don’t
want to kill her going into the na
tional meet, though.”
The competition is so stiff, Dirksen
said, that the top five or six places
could go on to place in the top 25 at
the national meet. '
“There are a lot of good runners
from this conference,” he said.
Iowa State is the heavy favorite to
win on the men’s side. Nebraska’s
men, still going through a rebuilding
period, will probably place anywhere
from fourth to sixth, Dirksen said.
The Husker men are only taking five
runners — Tom Banks, Kevin Clark,
Rennier Henning, Kevin Miller and
David Iteffa — to the meet.
“Those five have unquestionably
been the best ones,” Dirksen said.
Husker volleyball team to concentrate
on improvement, assistant coach says
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
On paper, tonight’s Ncbraska
Missouri volleyball match looks like
a mismatch of gigantic proportions.
It might look the same on thecourt.
The Comhuskers, 20-3 and ranked
ninth by the NCAA, will try to extend
their 13-match winning streak when
they face the Tigers at 8 p.m. at the
Bob Dcvancy Sports Center.
Meanwhile, Missouri is again plod
ding along in the Big Eight basement.
The Tigers have lost 20 of their past
21 conference matches, including nine
straight this season.
That all adds up to a blowout,
right?
Not necessarily, according to
Nebraska assistant coach Brian Bc
gor.
“They don’t have any pressure
coming into the match,” Bcgor said.
“They can play relaxed and come in
and do some good things.”
Nebraska has been doing good
things over the last 13 matches. In
that span, the Huskers have won 39 of
41 games and clinched a share of the
Big Eight championship.
Tonight, a win would give the
Huskers their 16th-consccutivc out
right conference title.
Begor said the Huskers will be
concentrating more on improvement
than on Missouri.
“The issue in the match won’t be
the University of Missouri,” Begor
said. “The issue will be us working on
things on our side of the court and just
trying to get better.”
Saturday night, Nebraska will try
to close out a perfect Big Eight regu
lar season when it faces Oklahoma,
14-14 and 5-5. The Sooners are the
last team to have won a game from
Nebraska, taking the third game in a
four-game loss to the Huskers in late
October.
Saturday’s match will start at 7:35
p.m at the Sports Center.
UKianoma coacn wines raosi ?>aiu
his team, which will play tonight at
Iowa State, is just trying to get into
the four-team Big Eight tournament.
“If we don’t beat Iowa Slate, the
Nebraska match is pretty much mean
ingless in terms of us getting in the
tournament,” Pabsl said.
Bcgor said that in the first Huskcr
Sooncr match, Nebraska had some
trouble with Oklahoma’s tall middle
blockers.
“Their middles did a little better
job than we anticipated going into the
match,” Bcgor said. “It took us about
two and a half, three games to make
that adjustment.”
Pabst said that the Sooncrs’ serv
ing and serve reception will be im
portant if Oklahoma is to have a chance
Saturday.
“In the first match, we got into a
scrvc-rcceivc that we just couldn’t
handle,” he said. “But if we serve
tough and pass well, we can stay with
them.”
Coaches say Huskers to face strong teams
By Thomas Clouse
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men ’s and women’s
swimming and diving learns will pound
the water against strong competition
at home today and Saturday after three
meets on the road.
The women’s team takes on Colo
rado State tonight at 7 and Wyoming
at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Bob Dcva
ney Sports Center Pool.
Coach Ray Huppcrt said Nebraska’s
young team should match up well
with a young CSU squad.
“To date, we arc very similar in
how we’re swimming. It’s always a
great meet with Colorado State,”
Huppcrt said. “Wc have had a mar
velous rivalry.”
The women’s team also faces
Wyoming on Saturday. The Cowgirls
are coming off a loss to Colorado
State.
The Nebraska women’s record
dropped to 1-3 after losing to Kansas
last week.
Huppert said he doesn’t want to
focus on the team’s dual record, be
cause it has no bearing on the Big
Eight or NCAA meets.
“There is no one more competitive
than I,” Huppert said. “We know we
have to do a lot of work to get our
athletes ready by February.”
In the last four years, the winner of
the Kansas-Nebraska dual has fin
ished second to the winner of the
meet in the Big Eight meet, Huppert
said.
“I’m not banking our chips in yet,”
Huppert said. “With such a young
team, our emphasis is to work hard
and swim fast at the end of the year.”
The Nebraska men’s team will split
the waves against W yom ing and Iowa
in a double dual at 10 a.m. Saturday in
the Devaney Sports Center Pool.
The men’s team is 2-1 in dual
competition after beating Kansas 123
120 last week.
Coach Cal Bent/ said he doesn’t
have much information about Wyo
ming, but Iowa “is always a strong
Learn.”
The Hawkeycs arc ranked 12th
his week.
“Iowa is strong up and down the
line,” Bent/ said. “It will be quite a
challenge.”
The team needs to take this oppor
tunity to compete as well as it can,
Bcntz said.
“To try to play strategy games
wouldn’t be wise,” he said. “We need
lo go right at them.”
Bcntz said he is pleased with his
team’s performance this season.
“I think we have an excellent pro
gram,’* he said. “We’re coming on."
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