Wednesday, January 12,1994 Daily Nebraskan Page 9
Coach sees great possibilities for 8-7 Husker women
By DereK ramson
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska women’s basketball team
didn’t slow down during the winter break,
playing six of seven games on the road and
competing in the San Juan Shootout.
Coach Angela Beck said the 8-7 Comhuskers
were showing positive signs, even after losing
their first two Big Eight games last weekend to
Oklahoma State and Oklahoma.
“I think we did well, getting three wins,” she
said. “We did what we expected to do. Oklaho
ma and Oklahoma State still went well even
though we didn’t win.
“I think we have a pretty good basketball
team and I m pleased with
what I’ve seen so far.”
Beck said she hoped her
team was not discouraged
by its 0-2 start in confer
ence play.
“From what I’ve seen, this
league looks pretty strong,”
Beck said. “We just haven’t
put together a 40-minute
game yet. I think we have
the potential to stir things
up a little in the Big Eight.”
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I think we have the potential
to stir things up a little in
the Big Eight.
—Beck
Nebraska women's basketball coach
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Nebraska faces only one more non-confer
ence opponent, Southern Utah, in the remain
der of its schedule.
Beck said the team’s inexperience had shown
in some close games early in the season.
“We’re not just young, but we lack experi
ence,” she said. “We lost three starters. I thought
we might be a little better, but we’ve lost quite
a few close games. ”
After losing to DePaul in the first round of
the San Juan Shootout, the Huskers came back
to defeat Interamerican University and the
Puerto Rican Nationals.
“San Juan was a lot of fun and I think it was
good for us,” Beck said. “We lost the game we
really needed, which was DePaul, but we cruised
after that.”
Nebraska will play host to Kansas Friday
and Kansas State Sunday.__
Runners gam academic honors
From Staff Reports
Nebraska cross country coach Jay
Dirksen saw three of his runners named
to the Academic All-American squad
by the Cross Country Coaches Asso
ciation.
Theresa Stelling and Kris
Ellcnbccker each received the honor
after leading the Nebraska women’s
team to a 20th-place finish in the
NCAA Championships and a Big
Eight title.
Stelling, an All-American after a
24th-placc finish in the NCAA Cham
pionships, is a senior elementary ed
ucation major from Auburn with a
3.84 grade point average.
Ellcnbeckcr, a junior from Sioux
Falls, S.D., has a 3.57 GPA in biolog
ical sciences.
“They are typical of the type of
student-athletes we’ve tried to recruit
here,” Dirksen said. “It is quite an
honor to have the two named to the
team.”
On the men’s side, Kevin Miller
was named to the team. The junior
from Rugby, N.D., finished 10th at
the NCAA District V Championships
to help the Cornhuskcrs earn the third
place award.
Miller carries a 3.42 GPA in me
chanical engineering.
Huskers 15th in cup standings
FromStaff Reports
Nebraska finished 15th in the USA
TODAY/NACDA Directors’ CupTop
25 poll for the fall all-sports competi
tion.
USA Today and NACDA—which
stands for National Association of
College Directors of Athletics —
award points based on the schools’
finishes in the most popular men’s
and women’s sports.
Nine sports—five men’s and four
women s — have been completed in
the fall competition. Penn State won
the fall competition with 344 points,
while Notre Dame finished second
with 324.5. Wisconsin, North Caroli
na and Stanford rounded out the top
five. Nebraska placed 15th with 147.5
points.
Colorado, which placed seventh,
was the only other Big Eight school in
the Top 25.
The standings will be updated in
June to name a 1993-94 champion.
NU wrestlers among top 15
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska wrestling team was
one of four Big Eight teams rated
among the top 15 in the latest wres
tling rankings.
The Huskers checked in at No. 11.
Oklahoma State was the top-ranked
team, and Iowa and Oregon State
finished off the top three.
Other Big Eight teams ranked in
cluded Oklahoma at No. 9 and Iowa
State at No. 13.
The 11 th-ranked Huskers arc pre
paring a dual meet against Indiana on
Jan. 15 and for the National Dual
Championships in the NU Coliseum
Jan. 22-23. Nebraska’s first-round
opponent will be sixth-ranked North
Carolina.
Replacements
Continued from Page 8
Orange Bowl.
Benning collected 323 yards and
four touchdowns on 55 carries during
the regular season.
“When Calvin was hurt, it got us
all a lot of playing time and that
should really help next year,” Phillips
said. “I think the Orange Bowl boost
ed up my confidence. It meant a lot
playing a top-ranked team.”
Both backs know the road ahead of
them and understand what they need
to do in the off-season.
“I look to take things more as they
come and try to relax,” Benning said.
“I wasn’t as relaxed this year as I
should have been. I’ll be more com
fortable with everything next year
and be able to relax more and play
better.”
The Replacements
l-backs Lawrence Phillips
and Damon Benning will
contend for the spot left
vacated by Calvin Jones, who
has entered the NFL draft.
How Phillips & Benning Compare:
Regular Season
Att. Net Av. TDs
Calvin Jones 185 1,043 5.6 12
Tommie Frazier i 26 704 5.6 9
Lawrence Phillips 92 508 5.5 5
Damon Benning 55 324 5.9 4,
1994 Orange Bowl
Att. Net Av. TDs
9 28 3.1 -
114' mmm i
13 64 4.9 1
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Jones
Frazier
Phillips
Benning
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Phillips also pointed out areas tor
improvement in his game.
“I can use some working on my
ball control,” he said. “1 was having
kind of a hard time holding onto the
ball and that’s something I’m plan
ning to work on.”
Phillips, a 6-foot, 200-pound true
freshman from West Covina, Calif.,
said he was especially glad he played
this season.
“They came to both Clinton
(Childs) and myself at the beginning
of the season and asked us to redshirt,
but neither of us wanted to, he said.
“If I would have, I wouldn’t have
gotten that experience this year, and
now with Calvin leaving, I would
have been behind next year.”
Bcnning assured Nebraska fans that
Jones’ departure wouldn’t hamper the
Huskers.
“You always miss a player like
Calvin, but I don’t think we’re going
to be hurt by it,” he said. “I think we’re
still very talented. We’re going to be
very talented on defense and with
Tommie having two years under his
belt, we’ll be strong on offense.
“We’ll still be tough.”
Cuts
Continued from Page 8
school like Nebraska — where the
football program is a main source of
revenue — the plan will backfire, he
said.
“They’re doing it in the name of
cost reduction,” he said. “But com
mon sense tells you that is not the way
you go about cost reduction. To try to
undercut your biggest revenue-pro
ducing mechanism is not a very cost
effective way of doing it. But that’s
basically what they have done.”
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