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Football fans cheer for Red and White By Thomas Clouse Senior Editor Go Big Red — and While. Saturday’s 43rd annual Nebraska Red-White game offered more than 24,000 Comhusker football fans at Memorial Stadium a glimpse of next year. The Redrtcam dominated the White team 33-21 to win the intra-squad game. Coach Tom Osborne said the game was a “typical” spring game. “I thought today we looked pretty good at times,” Osborne said. “At times it was kind of disjointed, which is natural. I though it went pretty well.” One problem area was fumbles, Osborne said. Both teams combined for five fumbles with two lost. “You have a lot of different combinations with quarterbacks and centers, who arc not used to playing with each other,” he said. “You don’t like the turnovers, but that is part of it.” The victorious Red team (No. 1 offense, No. 2 defense) was led by redshirt freshman quar terback Tony Vcland. Vcland led the Reds with 55 yards on 10 carries. He also went 4-for-9 passing for 49 yards. Vcland said he had improved his passing since last fall. “I’m a lot more confident than I was,” he said. “I wasn’t sure if I was ready for this level of competition, but (Osborne) kept encourag ing me.” Osborne said he thought that overall, the quarterbacks played well this spring. “The quarterbacking will improve, but we just need to keep working at it,” Osborne said. “Today, I don’t think was probably their best day I’ve seen the quarterbacks have this spring. Vcland gave the White team an assist, throw ing an interception to Tyrone Byrd, who ran it in for a 10-yard touchdown. Byron Bennett missed the extra point, and the White team led 6-0 with 10:07 left in the first quarter. The Reds came back with a 57-yard drive thatended with a 17-yard touchdown pass from Vcland to Vincent Hawkins. Tom Sielcr added the extra point to pul the Red team ahead 7-6. Altera White (No. 2 offense, No. 1 defense) drive ended with a punt, the Red team pul together a 12-play, 85-yard scoring drive that ended with a 12-yard touchdown run by full back Cory Schlcsingcr. In the third quarter, the Red team look its second drive of the half 48 yards in three plays for another touchdown. Vcland finished the scoring drive with a 37-yard scramble off a broken pass play. Another Sielcr extra point gave the Reds a 21-6 lead. The White team took the next drive 75 yards in 14 plays and added a 27-yard field goal by Byron Bennett to make the score 21-9 with 3:21 left in the third quarter. The White team scored again early in the fourth quarter when middle guard Bill Humphrey picked up a Joel Cornwell fumble and returned it seven yards for a touchdown. The extra point was no good, which left the score ai 21-15. The Red team took the next drive 49 yards in six plays for another touchdown as I-back Derek Brown ran it in from one yard out. The score remained 27-15 after the two-point con version failed. After three stalled drives, the Red team increased the margin when Jon McMillen scored from one yard out after a 30-yard,-five-play drive. Jeff Lang missed the extra point to give the Red team a 33-15 advantage. Late in the fourth quarter, the White team answered with a 59-yard scoring bomb from Matt Jones to Duane Wiles. The two-play, 74 yard drive took 15 seconds to narrow the Red lead to 33-21. Vcland said he was confident about the team’s chances in the fall. “I think we made a lot of progress, but then again everyone makes mistakes,” Vcland said. “We sti 11 have a long way to go, but we have the possibility of having a really good team.” Greg Bernhardt/D N l-back Calvin Jones hurdles a defender during the Red-White game Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The Red team, made up of the No. 1 offense and No. 2 defense, beat the White squad (No. 1 defense and No. 2 offense) 33-21. NU runs away with Drake Relays By John Gardner Staff Reporter The Nebraska women’s track team turned in one of the best perform ances in the history of the Drake Relays this weekend. Thanks to a sweep of the three sprint relays at the two-day meet in Dcs Moines, Iowa, the Cornhusker women have now achieved a record 29 individual titles over the years. In the 8(X)-metcr relay Friday, Kathy Travis, Kwani Stewart, Shancllc Porter and Denise Lucas set a Big Eight- and school-record'lime of 1 minute, 33 seconds. The time was only .41 seconds away from the American record set by Louisiana State in 1989. Men’s sprints coach Dave Harris said the women’s performance was one to remember. “It probably went about as well as it’s ever gone for the women,” Harris said. “It’s not too often when a team can sweep three relays, so it’s a major accomplishment.” On Saturday, the same four won he 400 relay in an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 44.37. Later, the 1,600 relay team con sisting of Stewart, Lucas, Susan Rchm and Porter finished the sweep in a lime of 3:38.06, which is a provi sional qualifying time. Lisa Graham grabbed Nebraska’s fourth title, and only individual win, by winning the 800 in a lime of 2:07.24. Harris said it was nice to see Ne braska place in every event it entered. “We had good placings in all events we entered,” he said. “It always would be nice to gel more titles and receive more watches, but it was a team thing, and everyone did real well.” On the men’s side, Kevin Cole man had the only title for Nebraska. Coleman won his lOth-straight shot pul competition of the season with a toss of 63-5 1/2. In other events, Nebraska’s 1,600 relay placed third with a time of 3:08.16, which wasn’t quite good enough to qualify the Huskers for the NCAA championships in June. Stephen Golding placed fourth in the 110 hurdles in 14.13. Golding won the event last year. Travis Grant placed sixth in the 100 in 10.58, Kevin Miillcr took fourth in the 3,000 steeplechase (9:06.87), and the distance medley relay grabbed fifth with a time of 9:54.86. In the individual women’s events, besides Graham’s victory, Nebraska placed in three others. Kathy Travis took second in the 100 in 11.57, Kwani Stewart placed fourth in the 100 hurdles w ith a 13.5 and Theresa Sidling was fourth in the 1,500 at 4:26.13. Harris said the 40-degree tempera ture was a factor, despite all the good performances. “Weather really affected our high jumpers especially,” he said. “It af fected my sprinters a bit, too. That’s one of the first tilings they’d say to me, is, ‘1 just couldn’t go that hard.’ “We really need this weather to be nice to keep improving our limes. The nice weather needs to match up with the day of the meet.” KSU cools Husker bats in split By Jason Bruhn Staff Reporter The Nebraska baseball team got off to a hoi start Sunday but ended cold against Kansas State. In the first game of the double header, the Comhuskers crushed the Wildcats 12-2 on eight hits in a game decided in the seventh inning by the 10-run rule. But the Huskers’ baiting cooled as quickly as the temperature in the second game as the Wildcats rebounded to win 10-0 on the strength of 13 hits. On Saturday, the two teams split two extra-inning contests. Nebraska won the opener 5-4 in 10 innings as the Huskers came back from a 4-0 deficit. After trailing 8-0 in the second game, Nebraska tied the score at 9-9 to send the seven-inning game into extra innings. The Wild cats won 11-10 in nine innings. i The 28-18 Huskers, 9-7 in the Big Eight, remained in third place in the conference. The games were the last home contests of the season for the Husk ers, and were also the final home appearances for five Nebraska sen iors — John Izumi, Tim Seaton, Dale Hagy, Corty Kulhanck and Mike Zajeski. In the opening game the Huskers struck first, scoring two runs in the first inning off runs batted in by Dale Hagy and Jeff Murphy. The Huskers then exploded for four more runs in the fourth inning and five in the sixth to end the game. Brain Hicrholzcr look the loss for Kansas State in three innings after giving up only one hit, but five runs. Starling Husker pitcher Josh Bul lock threw a complete game and took the win to improve to 8-4 on the season. Coach John Sanders was pleased with the Huskers’ opening perform ance. “We capitalized well," he said. “Josh pitched well and it was just a good game all around." The second game was almost the complete opposite of the first, how ever. Kansas State starting pitcher Pat Ralston threw an eight-hit, complete game shutout and the rest of the Wild cats pul on a hilling display in the 10 0 win. Kansas State led 3-0 through four innings before hammering in five runs in the fifth and one run apiece in the sixth and seventh against four Ne braska pitchers. “It was their pitcher that got it for them,” Sanders said. “He did a great job. He shut us out.” H usher s' Mitchell picked in first round by NY Jets NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Jets selected Nebraska tight end Johnny Mitchell as the 15th overall pick in the National Foot ball League draft Sunday. Mitchell turned pro after only two years at Nebraska. He was rated as the second-best tight end available — behind Derek Brown of Notre Dame. Brown, the 14th selection, was picked by the New York Giants. Mitchell was slaying with a friend in California and was not immedi ately available to comment. “I know people arc going to be shooting at me because of some of the comments I made in college,” Mitchell said in an earlier inter view published Sunday. "But I know in the league you have grown men. And I won’t go disrespecting any one. “I think I’ll probably be more on the quiet side when I gel in the league," he said. Mitchell rewrote Nebraska’s rec ord book for tight ends and recep tions this season when he had a team-leading 31 catches for 534 yards and five touchdowns. He set two single-game records for catches and yards by a light end in the season finale against Oklahoma when he caught seven passes for 137 yards. Pair of NU gymnasts tie at women’s championship By Robert Birkeland Staff Reporter The similarities were striking for the two Nebraska women gymnasts in the NCAA National Champion ships in St. Paul, Minn., this week end. First of all, Nicole Duval and Martha Jenkins are true freshman and they were the only two Cornhuskcrs com peting in the meet this weekend. Jenkins and Duval were both at large bids and when the meet was finished the two were tied for 29th with a score of 37.65. Both fell on the uneven bars, which cost them a chance to finish higher, Coach Rick Walton said. “Both could have finished in the lop 20 if they had hit,” he said. Walton said a top 20 finish would have been respectable for them con sidering they went into the meet as at large bids. “I think they got a pretty good idea of where they (will) have to be a year from now to be in the lop 12 or 15 in the all-around,” Walton said. Both Jenkins and Duval said il was an excellent learning experience, but it was difficult lor them to compete as individuals and not have their team mates there. Duval said she thought the team deserved to be at the meet and she was looking forward to having the whole team there next year. Jenkins said she was happy with her performance and that il showed everyone was a little nervous because nobody had their best meet. Walton said that by watching the meet, he thought the way the Huskers competed in the last third of the sea son was at a top-10 level. Missy Marlowe of Utah won the all-around title with a score of 39.65 out of a possible 40. Utah won the team title, scoring 195.65points to outdistance second place Georgia, which scored 194.6 points, and third-place Alabama (193.35). The title was the Utes’ sev enth in the past ten years.