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.
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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.