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From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s gymnas
tics team travels to Salt Lake City this
weekend for the first time, but the
Huskers are hoping it won’t be their
last trip.
Undefeated Nebraska (7-0) hopes
to make a return trip to Salt Lake City
on April 21 for the NCAA Champion
ship Meet.
The Huskers can take a big step in
the right direction if they are able to
get past the meet this weekend with
their perfect record intact.
Nebraska will face Utah and Ari
zona on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the
Hunstman Center. The Utes, who fin
ished third at the national meet last
season, have not missed a beat this
year.
They own a 7-0 record coming into
the meet and are led by junior Suzanne
Metz, who has posted all-around scores
as high as 39.60 this season.
The Nebraska school record for the
all-around is 39.15, which was set by
junior Jennifer Hawkinson last year at
the Big Eight Championships. No oth
er Husker has ever scored more than
39 points in the all-around.
“We are looking forward to this
matchup,” Nebraska coach Dan
Kendig said. “Nationals are going to
be there, so we are excited to compete
in the Huntsman Center. We just need
to focus and hit our routines.”
If last week’s dual win over Iowa
State was any indication, the Huskers
are hitting their routines just as well as
any time this year.
Nebraska posted a team score of
193.30, the third highest total in team
history.
The Huskers were led by freshman
Kim DeHaan and Shelley Bartlett,
along with sophomore Joy Taylor and
juniors Nicole Duval, Jennifer
Men’s tennis set to face Creighton
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s tennis team
opens the season at Creighton Satur
day at 3 p.m. in Omaha.
Freshman Fredrik Riesbeck will
compete at the No. 1 spot. Junior Andy
Davis will play at the No. 2 spot at the
meet.
Although Creighton doesn’t pose a
major threat, Husker coach Kerry
McDermott said the team was not
looking past Creighton to its second
meet against Southwest Missouri State
on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. That matchup
will be held in Kansas City, Mo.
Riesbeck and Davis, who is cur
rently ranked ninth in the region, will
be joined at the top by sophomore
Omar Acevedo, who will play No. 3
singles.
Freshman Henrik Andersson will
play No. 4 singles for and senior Jay
Segrist will play No. 5 singles,
McDermott said.
Brad Bernthal, a transfer from
Kansas, will open the season at No. 6
singles. Davis and Acevedo will play
No. 1 doubles while Bcmthal and
Riesbeck will start at No. 2 doubles.
-Sports Briefs
Track teams to take on local colleges
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s and wom
en’s indoor track and field teams
have one final tuneup before the
Big Eight Conference Champion
ships next weekend.
The Comhuskers, who were sup
posed to travel to Manhattan, Kan.,
this Saturday to participate in the
Kansas State Invitational, have de
cided to stay in Lincoln instead.
The Huskers will compete in the
Nebraska Collegiate Invitational at
3 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
Participating in .thcJQr.lftyjU.
meet are Concordia, Doane,
Hastings, Midland Lutheran,
Northwest College oflowa, Central
College (Iowa), Northwest Missou
ri State, Nebraska-Kearney and
Nebraska Wesleyan,
Gymnasts to face Cyclones, Sooners
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s gymnas
tics team will be seeing some famil
iar competition this weekend.
The Cornhuskcrs travel to
Norman, Okla., to take on Iowa
State and Oklahoma. The Huskers
have beaten Iowa State twice and
Oklahoma twice this year.
Nebraska is coming off a strong
meet in which it defeated UCLA
and Minnesota by posting a team
score of 279.55.
The Sooners scored 283.30 last
weekend against No. 1 Ohio State.
The Buckeyes, who visit Lincoln
on March 13, escaped by scoring
283.75 points.
Cowboys
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said.
In the conference race, the 6-3
Cowboys are tied with Kansas for
second place behind Missouri.
But with a little luck. Sutton said,
the Cowboys could have easily been 9
0 and on top of the conference.
The Cowboys have lost three times
by a total of eight points, including a
one-point overtime loss to Kansas.
“I never expected any team to be
undefeated this late in the season,
especially not Missouri," Sutton said.
“Thev have been getting the breaks,
but if we get some of those breaks we
could have been in their position."
Regardless of positions in the stand
ings, Sutton said, any team is capable
of beating any other team in the con
ference.
Huskers
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really hurt Nebraska on Saturday.
Then you go inside and Big Country
(OSU center Bryant Reeves) is the
premier big man and the MVP oflast
year. He is a dominant player.”
Nebraska will pay mostof its atten
tion to Reeves, who is averaging 20.5
points and 9.8 rebounds a game. In
Big Eight games, Reeves averages
21.6 points and 11.8 rebounds.
Nee said 6-foot*?-inch Bruce
Chubick would have the responsibili
ty of stopping the 7-foot Reeves.
“I believe you have to play them
man-to-man,” Nee said. “1 believe you
have to find waysofhelpingouton Big
Country. But when you help out on
him, with any of those other (OSU)
guys, it’s like you’re just hoping they’ll
miss and that is not good.”
Oklahoma State leads the Big Eight
in scoring margin, three-point field
Hawkinson and Martha Jenkins.
“Our confidence is good and get
ting stronger,” Kendig said. “We just
need to correct some problems in our
middle two events (uneven bars and
balance beam) and we will be right on
track.”
Kendig said the Huskers would
need to be right on track to beat the
Utes in their home arena. He said a
well-rounded meet would be neces
sary.
The Huskers set a school record for
their team score on the vault last week.
“We were awesome on the vault,”
he said, “but we still haven’t had a
complete meet.”
Arizona is no pushover, either.
The Wildcats finished sixth at the
national meet last season and are led
by senior Kristi Gunning, an All
American in the floor exercise last
year.
Women s tennis
plays Saturday
From Staff Reports _
Nebraska coach Scott
Jacobsen said the Husker wom
en’s tennis team gained valu
able experience from its open
ing matches.
The Huskers, who lost to
Drake and then beat Marquette
last weekend, play host to
Creighton and Southwest Mis
souri State on Saturday in Lin
coln at the Cather-Pound tennis
courts at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.,
respectively.
Colorado
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Sports Center.
“We’re going to need some emo
tion,” Beck said. “1 think Colorado is
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for the Big Eight, and now it’s a CU
KU battle. They’ve kind of forgotten
about us this year, but their players
know this is a tough place to play.
Obviously, there is a lot riding on this
game.”
State Farm Insurance bought
35,000 tickets for Sunday’s matchup,
and every agent statewide has tickets
to distribute.
Nebraska Assistant Sports Infor
mation Director Terry Beek said Ne
braska hoped to break its home atten
dance record of5,993 set in last year’s
first-round NCAA tournament game.
Beek said Nebraska wanted to chal
lenge the Big Eight record of 13,532
set during the Colorado-Kansas game
this season.
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goal percentage and three-point field
goals made, and it is second in field
goal percentage, rebound margin and
field goal percentage defense. In con
ference games only, the Cowboys also
lead in scoring defense.
Nee said Oklahoma State was not
the type of team the Huskers wanted to
face on the road.
“They can go big, they can go small
and they can go athletic,” he said. “By
far the toughest matchup that we’ll
have is Oklahoma State, and playing
in Stillwater is very difficult.”
