Charges heat up NU-CU rivalry
By Susie Artn
Senior Reporter
If the rivalry between the Creighton
and Nebraska baseball teams wasn’t
hot enough before, it is now.
According to published reports
Saturday, Nebraska athletic director
Bill Byme requested the NCAA to
investigate possible NCAA violations
in the Creighton baseball program.
That fanned the flames even fur
ther.
Creighton coach Todd Wenberg
said he thought the liming of the
accusations was a ploy to distract his
team from the four-game series with
Nebraska.
“My perspective is that it was timed
to take our focus off the game, but it
backfired big time,” he said. “It just
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All the bullshit we’ve been hearing in the papers
... / felt like I wanted to shove it up their asses.
—Martin
NU pitcher
made our kids even more ready to
play.”
The Bluejays won the first three
games against the Comhuskers this
weekend and improved their record to
12-8.
In fact, Wenberg said the timing
couldn't have been better.
“It was great for our learn,” he said.
“It definitely fired the whole team
up.”
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Wenbcrg said he was uncertain if
Creighton would conduct an internal
investigation.
Nebraska coach John Sanders said
he didn’t think the accusations af
fected either team’s play.
Husker pitcher Jeff Nollette said
the Nebraska players just tried to for
get about all the added hype.
“There’s tension anyway,”he said.
“It probably affected the crowds more
than the players.
But Nebraska pitcher Brian Mar
tin, who improved his record to 3-1 in
Sunday’s 3-2 victory over Creighton
at Buck Beltzer Field, said he thought
the accusations added tension to the
game.
“All the bullshit we’ve been hear
ing in the papers... I felt like I wanted
to shove it up their asses,” Martin
said.
Sanders said he believed Byrne did
the correct thing by filing the accusa
tions with the NCAA.
“We try to run an honest, clean
program, and we try to do things by
the book,” he said. “We expect our
competitors to do the same thing.
“Now it is in the hands of a third
party.”
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Michigan, Tar Heels advance to rinal rour
From the Associated Press_
Michigan, perhaps the best team in
the country at playing half a game, is
going back to the Final Four after a
show of brute power and raw talent
overcame a big dcficitagainslTemple
on Sunday.
Meanwhile, a dunk didn’t do the
' trick in regulation so North Carolina
went to the 3-pointer in overtime and
advanced to the Final Four for the
ninth time under Coach Dean Smith.
The Wolverines danced on the court
and donned Final Four shirts at the
end of their 77-72 victory Sunday,
looking ahead to a meeting with Ken
tucky in New Orleans.
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A CONTEMPORARY
PRESENTATION
For the third straight game, Michi
gan played one dismal half and one
superb half. Fortunately for the Wol
verines, they put together their best
play in the second half against the
Owls, coming back after trailing by
10 points.
Jalen Rose led Michigan with 17
points, 13 in the second half, as he
took control of the offense along with
off-guard Jimmy King, who had 14
points. Chris Webber, who survived a
beating under the boards, had 13 points
and 12 rebounds.
Michigan (30-4) was aided in the
final minutes by a technical call against
temple coacnjonnunancy. meuwis
trailed only 67-62 with 1:49 left when
Chaney complained about a call.
The top-seeded Tar Heels (32-4)
had a chance to beat second-seeded
Cincinnati (27-5) at the regulation
buzzer Sunday, but Brian Reese
missed a dunk after taking an inbounds
pass with .8 seconds to play.
Once the overtime started, Donald
Williams took care of things from
beyond 19 feet 9 inches, making con
secutive 3-pointers as North Carolina
beat the Bearcats 75-68and kept them
from returning to the Final Four.
North Carolina will meet Kansas,
the Midwest’s second seed that beat
lop-raiiKcu inuiana ctj-ii oaiuruay,
in the national semifinals next Satur
day in New Orleans. That is a rematch
of the 1991 semifinals when Roy
Williams, Smith's longtime assistant
beat the Tar Heels when Smith was
ejected late in the game.
The Tar Heels were in trouble in
the first half when Cincinnati guard
Nick Van Exel snapped out of a tour
nament-long shooting slump with 21
points, all but three on 3-point field
goals. The Bearcats led by as many as
IS points in the opening 20 minutes.
But the Tar Heels rallied to take a lead
late in the half and then clamped
down on Van Exel, holding him to
two points after halftime.
Byrd
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pleased that he’s on the road to recov
ery,” Darlington said. “He has a deep
faith in God that will be paramount to
help him overcome this situation; I
think he’ll overcome this.”
Alberts, who teamed with Byrd to
help the Huskers become the Big
Eight's best scoring defense in 1992,
said his teammate will be able to
overcome this tragedy.
‘Tyrone is a tough kid — he 11 be
all right, he’ll bounce back,” Alberts
said. *
Byrd earned All-Big Eight honors
last season at free safety and was
expected to compete for a job in the
National Football League this sum
mer.
Darlington said the accident would
probably delay Byrd’s entrance into
the NFL for at least a year.
‘‘If his neck is in a brace, any
thoughts of playing in the NFL would
not be realistic at inis time, he said.
Byrd was expected to get his soci
ology degree in May, and Osborne
said he hoped he could still accom
plish this goal.
“It might be tough for him to play
pro ball next year; hopefully, he’ll get
his education taken care of,’’ Osborne
said.
Alberts said he thought Byrd’s
accident would be on some of the
players’ minds during the spring sea
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NU swimmers,
divers place
20th at finals
From Staff Reports _
The Nebraska men’s swim
ming and diving teams finished
20th at the NCAA Champion
ships held this weekend in Min
neapolis.
The Comhuskers’ score of
57 points placed them just ten
points behind Big Eight rival
Kansas, which finished 18th.
The Huskers were led by Alan
Kelsey, who earned his third
All-American award of his two
year career by finishing seventh
in the 100-yard freestyle with a
time of 43.94 seconds.
Kelsey’s, time moved him
into second on the Husker all
time bests list behind Peter Wil
liams.
Overall, Nebraska ended the
meet with two All-American
relay teams and three All-Ameri
can individual performers. The
Huskers’ 800 freestyle relay
team finished 11th with a time
of 6:32.66.
Nebraska’s JustinFinney fin
ished 12th in the 100-yard but
terfly with a time of 48:39.
Diver Kevin McMahon was
the highest individual Husker
finisher, collecting a third place
in the 3-meter diving competi
tion with a score of 587.40.
Baseball
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and catch the ball at the same time.”
Husker second baseman Darin
Petersen grounded out to first, but
drove in Garcia.
With two outs and Dalton on third
base, O’Brien could not Find the strike
zone.
O’Brien walked four consecutive
batters and threw a wild pitch which
allowed Marc Sagmoen to score the
winning run.
O’Brien was able to get out of the
third without any further damage as
Derek Dukart flew out to center to end
the inning.
Dukart narrowly missed a grand
slam for the Huskcrs before flying
out, as he blasted O’Brien’s 1-1 pitch
foul down the right field line.
Troy Schulte relieved O’Brien in
the fourth inning after O’ Brien walked
Perry to leadoff the inning.
Schulte did not allow a hit over
five innings and walked only one
Husker batter.
Creighton drew first blood with a
run in the top of the first inning and
threatened again in the fourth before
Sagmoen threw out Blue jay second
baseman Jon Dunlop at the plate from
right field to end the inning.
The Bluejays scored again in the
seventh on a two-out RBI double by
center fielder Kimera Bailee.
The Huskcrs needed some luck to
get out of the seventh as BilfyHahn
followed Bailee’s double with a line
driveoff Martin’s foot. Martin recov
ered to throw out Hahn to end the
inning and prevent the tying run from
scoring.
Martin was able to stop a final
Creighton rally in the ninth inning as
Hahn flew out to center with runners
on first and second to end the game.
NU
Continued from Page 7
said.
The Women of Troy were led by
Jualeah Wood’s 16 points and 12 re
bounds, but four USc players, includ
ing All-Americacandidate Lisa Leslie,
scored in double digits.
The game marked Nebraska’s sec
ond appearance in the NCAA Tourna
ment and the first time the Huskcrs
advanced past the first round. But
those marks were not enough to sat
isfy the team, Beck said.
“Nebraska is Nebraska, and we’re
a heck of a ball team. We're not just
happy about being here.
“We’re looking forward to the fu
ture.” » 5* ™