Gettin’ Down and Dirty
Nebraska’s Jeff Murphy slides to second base past Peru State’s Matt Miller in last
Saturday’s 9-8 Nebraska win. The Cornhuskers will play the University of Nebraska at
Kearney on Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting. A final decision will be made to
day. The games are scheduled for 2 p.m. each day, with the possibility of a double
header Saturday.
Wrestlers to dual
nation’s best teams
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s wrestling team will try
to improve on its two-year streak of i
fifth-place finishes at the National
Dual Championships this weekend in
Ann Arbor, Mich.
TheComhuskers, ranked eighth in
the country by Amateur Wrestling
News, will be seeded seventh in the
16-team tournament. Nebraska is 6-2
in duals this season.
Husker coach Tim Neumann said
he is anxious to see how his wrestlers
will compete against the best teams in
the country.
“We are looking forward to this
meet,” he said. “It’s one of the pre
mier meets of the year and it’s a good
format. This will give us a chance to
see some people we haven’t seen all
year.”
The tournament consists of teams
that finished in the top eight at last
year’s NCAA championships in Iowa
City, Iowa, as well as the national
champions from Divisions II and III,
as well as the NAIA titlist.
The remaining five spots in the
championships are filled by the top
five point-getters from the NCAA
championships that did not finish
among the country’s top eight.
The only current top-10 team that
will not be present at this year’s meet
is Oklahoma State, because of the
ongoing scrutiny of the Cowboys’
program by the NCAA.
Nebraska’s first dual of the meet
will be at 11 a.m. Saturday against
defending NAI A champion Northern
Montana.
Neumann said that dual will be a
good opening-round challenge.
“They have some real good people,”
he said. “They have a lot of guys
transfer in from Division I schools, so
they will be a quality opponent.”
If the Huskers beat Northern
Montana Saturday morning, they will
face second-ranked Iowa State, which
has a first-round bye.
Iowa State beat Nebraska 31-11
last December.
Neumann said he expected a good
performance from his team at the
meet.
“It’s an honor to be selected, but
we are definitely looking to come
away from the meet with a place,” he
said.
Kecruits
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“The Nebraska players will cer
tainly be underrated,” he said. "Some
of those services don’t think players
are any good unless they’ve jgot 10 or
11 schools chasing them. But some of
the players we got from in the slate, if
they were in Texas, would be highly
ranked recruits.”
The Huskcr recruit gelling the most
attention from recruiting analysts and
the media is quarterback Tommie
Frazier from Brandcnton, Fla. He was
USA Today’s All-America selection
and was heavily recruited by Notre
Dame, Clemson, Colorado, Georgia
Tech and, according to his coach, Joe
Kinnan, Florida Stale and Miami.
Frazier is one player Osborne said
might see playing-time as a fresh
man.
“He’s a very talented player.”
Osborne said. “Some people are
worried that Tommie’s loo much of a
runner and not a thrower. But we
wouldn’t have recruited him if he
couldn’t throw.”
Larry Townsend, a 6-foot-5, 265
pound defensive tackle from San Jose,
Calif., could also sec playing-time
early, Osborne said.
“We might have three or four guys
who can play some next season,” he
said. “But it won’t be until three years
from now that this class will make a
great impact.”
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Nebraska gears up for Kansas btate
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Editor
The last time the Nebraska women’s
basketball team met Kansas State,
Karen Jennings exploded lor a school
record 48 points.
But fans shouldn’t expect the 6
foot-2 junior to catch fire like that
again on Saturday, Nebraska coach
Angela Beck said.
Nebraska meets the Wildcats for
the second time this season at 2 p.m.
in the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The first lime the two teams met, Jan.
21, Nebraska won 87-82.
“They had a tough time matching
up with us,” Beck said. “That allowed
Jennings to score so many points.”
Nebraska, 15-5 overall and 5-2 in
the Big Eight, is in second place in the
conference race. Kansas State is sev
enth at 5-15 and 2-5.
After starting the season 1-9, the
Wildcats have won four of their past
nine games.
“This team (Kansas State) has really
come together well,” Beck said. “They
were not a good basketball team early.”
She said the Wildcats’ second-year
coach Susan Yow kept the Wildcats
close in the first game.
“She made some keen adjustments
that threw us off-kilter.”
Guard Mary Jo Miller helped the
Wildcats as well. Miller scored 25
points and had eight assists against
the Huskers.
Beck said she expected the same
type of performance from Miller this
time.
“She’s always going to cause some
problems,” Beck said.
Some B ig Eight coaches also have
taken that attitude toward Jennings,
Beck said. That extra attention leads
defenses to double- and triple-team
her, forcing more of the scoring role
onto the guards.
Beck said the play of her guards in
the Huskers’ new offense had helped
Nebraska continue to win.
“I think that we’ve gotten a little
more production out of them,” she
said. “When we sec a zone we tend to
slow down to attack it. We didn’t do
that against Iowa State,” she said.
“With a little more experience we’ll
be better.”
-SPORTS BRIEFS
Nebraskawomen’s gymnastics team meets rival Oklahoma
The Nebraska women’s gym
nastics team will face Oklahoma
tonight in Norman, Okla.
Nebraska coach Rick Walton
said the dual had developed into a
rivalry with a long history.
“I’ve been here nine years and
the conference championship has
come down to Oklahoma and
Nebraska every year,” Walton said.
Walton said both teams were in
a similar situation in that nagging it
injuries were keeping both from ei
reaching full potential. N
“Oklahoma is not on track ei
ther,” Wallon said. "They have some u
people who are not healthy and b
they are also struggling in some of a
their events.” o
Nebraska and Oklahoma have
le best raw talent in the confer
ee, Walton said, but right now
lissouri is the healthiest.
“It will be interesting to see
hat happens later in the year when
oth Oklahoma and us arc healthy
rtd we can both put our better kids
n the floor,” Walton said.
Four Husker men’s gymnasts to compete in Olympic trials
Four Nebraska men’s gymnasts
will travel to the USGF Winter Re
Ranking meet in Colorado Springs,
Colo., in hopes of making a name
for themselves on the national
gymnastics scene.
Dennis Harrison, Rick Kieffer,
Sumner Darling and Richard Grace
all will compete in the two-day
event this weekend.
The meet is the first preliminary
qualifying round for the 1992 and
1996 Olympic Games. Harrison,
Kieffcr and Darling will compete
in the 1992 compulsories and Grace
will be in the group performing the
1996 compulsories. In the 1992
round, Harrison and Kieffer both
have very good chances of making
the cut, Nebraska coach Francis
Allen said.
“Dennis (Harrison) should place
in the top 12 or so,” Allen said.
In the 1996 round, Allen said,
Grace should fare even better.
“Some gymnasts aren’t mature
enough yet to work in the 1992
compulsories," he said. “Grace
opted for the 1996 group and I
would say he has a good chance to
win it.”
Sevigne
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Dirksen said, will be in the women’s
shot put, men’s and women’s sprints
and the men’s 400.
In the shot put, Nebraska’s Krista
Madcr has automatically qualified with
a throw of 48-2 1/2 and UCLA has
three women who have thrown far
ther than 50 feet.
The 400 will be highlighted by
Nebraska’s Mark Jackson and Tamas
Molnar, as well as a couple of runners
from Barton County Junior College.
Dirksen said Brigham Young also has
several good sprinters.