Men’s team
wins despite
missing goal
By Tim Pearson
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s gymnastics
team couldn’tquilc achieve its goal of
282 points, but coach Francis Allen
was happy to come out with a con
vincing win at the Big Eight Triangu
lar over Oklahoma and Iowa State.
“(A score of) 280 was fine. It’s
good enough,” Allen said. “If it hadn ’l
been for the high bar, we would have
had 282.”
TheComhuskcrs won the horizon
tal bars with a score of 45.35, but
Allen said that they should have and
could have had a better score in the
event.
Allen said he hoped the Huskcrs’
potential to score big will send out a
message to other coaches.
“Coaches are going to look at our
scores and see that we could have
easily had 282,” he said. “I want to
send other teams a message that Ne
braska is back.”
Nebraska brought home first in
fi ve of the si x events, as wel I as the al I -
around title, which was won by sopho
more Richard Grace.
Individual champions for Nebraska
included Che Bowers on the pommel
horse, Harrison on the still rings, and
Josh Sacgcrt on the parallel bars. Ja
son Christie and Burkett Powell shared
first place on the high bar, while se
nior Louis Ball made his first appear
ance of the season with a first-place
finish in the vault.
Allen praised the performance of
Christie, the only freshman on the
Husker team.
“If I had to pick one thing that I
liked today, it probably would be the
performance of Jason Christie,” he
said.
Harrison said he was glad to come
out of it with a win.
“Itwasa win, but overall wedidn't
do that great” he said. “We weren’t
motivated. We pretty much knew we
were going to win.”
Bruce Chubick, bottom, fights for the ball against Kansas State forward Ron Lucas in the
closing minutes of Saturday night’s two-point loss.
Beane
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making a 24-fool jumper with eight
seconds left in regulation.
“To me, I really like road games,”
\\c said. “(Road games) tell about the
fight a team has, and we’ve got a lot.”
Beane said he thought free throw
shooting was a major factor in the
game.
The Huskcrs shot just 42 percent
from the free throw line while the
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(Road games) tell
about the fight a team
has, and we’ve got a
lot.
—Beane
Kansas State guard
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W i Ideals shot 72 percent.. Beane made
six of his nine shois from the line.
But Beane said he was not satisfied
with the Wildcats’ 11-3 start and their
3-1 jump in the Big Eight.
“We’re going to continue to work
hard in practice,” he said. “We’re not
satisfied yet.”
Kansas Stale coach Dana Altman
said Beane was a major reason for the
Wildcats’ 66-64 victory over the
Comhuskers.
“Beane is a tough young man who
makes a difference,” he said. “I wish
1 could lake ihc credit, bul it’s all
Anthony Beane.”
Kansas State
Continued from Page 7
forwards Eric Pialkowski and Bruce
Chubick. The pair had 16 and 12
points, respectively.
Chubick said Nebraska might have
put too much pressure on itself to win
on Saturday.
“This game had maybe more mean
ing than any so far, because we were
on a two-game skid in the Big Eight,”
he said.
Pialkowski, who returned after sit
ting out last Wednesday’s 86-70 win
over Sacramento State with the flu,
said he’s getting tired of losing.
“It’s our fault— we know what the
coaches want, we know the offenses
and we know what to do,” Pialkowski
said. “Guys are still taking it one on
one, trying to do everything on their
own — we can do that against Sacra
mento State, but you don’t do that
against a Big Eight team.
“Until everyone gets together and
says winning’s more important than
individual stats, we’re probably go
ing to keep losing.”
The Huskcrs will get their chance
to redeem themselves at 8:30 tonight
when they battle fellow 0-3 Big Eight
cellar dweller Colorado in Boulder,
Colo.
The game will be televised live by
ESPN.
The Buffaloes, who arc 8-7 over
all, arc coming off of a 31 -point loss
at home to first-place Kansas on Sat
urday.
Several Nebraska players said to
night is a must win.
“We’ve got to win —there’s no
better way to put it,” Chubick said. “If
we have dreams of playing in March,
I think that’s a game that we have to
win.”
Pialkowski agreed that without
getting some victories soon in Big
Eight play, a third-straight trip to the
NCAA Tournament might be out of
reach for the Huskcrs.
“If we want to go back to the
NCAA Tournament, we’re going to
have to rattle off some wins here,”
Pialkowski said. “Out in Boulder, they j
always play tough out there, so if
we’re not prepared, it could be NIT.” j
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Track team
looks good
in opener,
coach says
By Derek Samson
Staff Reporter
In ihcir first meet of the year, the
Nebraska men’s and women’s track
teams made a good first impression
on Coach Gary Pepin,
“I was very, very pleased,” Pepin
said after Saturday’s Nebraska Open
at the Bob Dcvancy Sports Center,
“This was probably, on the men’s
side, the best first meet in the last 13
years.
‘‘I think we’ll have two very fine
teams.”
Paul Morrison broke hisown school
record record when he threw the 35
pound weight 59 feet 3/4 inches.
Morrison was only two inches off the
Big Eight record.
Other winners on die men’s side
included Petar Malcscv in the high
jump, Riley Washington in the 55
meter dash, Kevin Coleman in the
shot pul, Marlon Jones in the 800
meter run, Rcnicr Henning in the 1000
meter run, Travis Grant in the 200
mctcr dash and Robert Thomas in the
triple jump.
On the women’s side, winners were
Kwani Stewart in the 55-mctcr hurdles,
Paulette Mitchell in the shot put,
Shancllc Porter in the400-mctcr dash,
Destiny Licbl in the high jump,
Chrystall DcNacycr in the 800-mctcr
run, Shancllc Porter in the 200-mctcr
dash and Nicola Martial in the triple
jump.
Mitchell, a freshman who was per
forming in her first meet as a
Comhuskcr, set Nebraska’s shot pul
record with her throw of 50 feel 2 1/2
inches.
