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1994 NCAA MEN S
GYMNASTICS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
April 22-23
Bob Devaney
Sports Center
FIRST SESSION (Preliminaries)
Friday, 7 p.m.
SECOND SESSION (Team Finals)
Saturday, 2 p.m.
THIRD SESSION (Event Finals)
Saturday, 7 p.m.
Admission
All sessions reserved - $20
Group of 20 or more - $2/ticket
Friday
Reserved - $7 ,
General admission - $5
Student general admission - $3
Saturday (each session)
Reserved - $8
General admission - $6
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For tickets call 472-3111.
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April 22
7 p.m.
SATURDAY
April 23
3 p.m.
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April 24
1 p.m.
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NU track teams limp into meet
By Trevor Parks
Staff Reporter
Nebraska track and Held coach Gar)
Pepin is just hoping his teams can
survive this weekend.
The Comhusker men will have tc
go up against top-ranked Tennessee
attb^GatoradcTrackClassicin Knox
ville, Tenn.; with an injury-depleted
sauad.
Pepin said the
meet would be
tough even if the
Husker men were al
full strength, con
sidering the
strength of the Vol
unteers.
“I don’t know il
we could beat them
Pepin
even n we naa ev
eryone ” Pepin said.
“We’ll be lucky to escape.”
Ohio State, Kentucky and Soutl
Carolina will alsocompeteinthemcet
which starts Friday.
Although the men might have a
tough time, Pepin said, the women
have a shot to fare well, despite inju
ries to di st an ce run ner Theresa Stel 1 i ng
and sprinter Shanelle Porter.
“We’re without two of our best,
Shanelle Porter and Theresa Stelling,
and that’s really going to hurt,” he
said. “We still have a chance to win,
but it’s going to be tough.”
Porter, who has not competed dur
ing the outdoor season, has a stress
fracture in her foot and might be out
the entire season.
Pepin said the injury might require
surgery and could threaten Porter’s
track career.
But one Husker who has survived
the injury bug that has plagued the
team thisseason is sophomore thrower
Paulette Mitchell.
Mitchell, who will compete in the
discus and shot put this weekend, said
i this meet would be a good test for her
because of the style of competition
that would be there. *
The Council Bluffs, Iowa, native
has already set provisional qualifying
marks in the shot put and discus in all
three outdoor events this season.
Although Mitchell has the provi
sional marks, she still isn’t positive
that she has made the NCAA meet.
-You’re fair game in that posi
tion,” Mitchell said. “If you get an
automatic, you’re in, and that takes
the pressures off.”
Mitchell, who finished fourth at
the indoor national championships,
said there might be added pressure on
her this year.
“Once you do go good, you’re ex
pected to do good,” she said. “In all, I
just need to keep perspective, and 1
will be fine.”
Pepin said Mitchell was one of the
best young throwers in the country,
but these next two weeks would be key
for both her and the team as they
prepared for next weekend’s Drake
Relays._ _
Tennis women set for Big Eight meet
By Tim Pearson
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska women’s tenn is team
is heading into the Big EightChampi
onships on a roll.
The Com huskers lake a 10-8 record
into the meet and arc coming ofTa 1
1 weekend.
Even though the Huskers lost a 5
4 decision to Colorado last weekend
in Ames. Iowa, Coach Scott Jacobson
is confident about his team's chances
in the Big Eight meet, which will be
held in Norman, Okla.
“We played about as well as we’ve
played all year,” he said.
The Huskers will get a chance to
avenge their loss to the BuITaloes Fri
day when they face No. 4 seed Colo
rado in their first-round match.
Jacobson said he knew his team
could beat the BuITaloes.
“We’re confident we can play with
Colorado,” he said. “We had four
team match points to win the dual,
and we lost S-4.
“If we play at that level, then we
can win. But it’s another day, and it’s
another city. The outcome of Friday’s
match maypcndononcortwo points.”
Three freshmen will be leading the
Huskers in search of Jacobson’s first
Big Eight title.
Annie Yang, Cathy Liptak and
April Yarmus will all have to play
well for the fifth-seeded Huskers to
pull off any upsets, Jacobson said.
Yang, the Huskers’ No. 1 singles
player, is 14-10 on the season, but
Jacobson said her record didn’ t clearly
reflect how she had played.
“She’s beaten some good people,”
he said. “She’s not intimidated by
anybody.”
The three Husker freshmen haven’t
been intimidated by anybody, which
surprised Jacobson.
“I was hopeful that they’ddo well,”
he said. “But if you would’ve told me
that our three players would be beat
ing someone in the Top 50, it would’ve
taken me by surprise.”
The play of Yang, Liptak and
Yarmus is the reason the Huskers are
in the position they arc in now,
Jacobson said.
“Those three have played at an
extremely high level,” he said. “Those
three freshmen, to a certain extent,
have carried us throughout the course
of the year.”
Even if the Huskers don’t fare well
at the Big Eight meet, Jacobson said,
the future for the women’s tennis team
looks bright.
“We’re better than we’ve been in
years past,” he said. “This is the best
program I believe I’ve had in my three
years here. We’re very young, and our
lop four players are freshmen.
“The future looks very, very good. ”
NU tennis men
like chances
in OU rematch
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s tennis
team is looking to duplicate last
year’s second-place finish at the
Big Eight Championships this
weekend at the Oklahoma City
Tennis Center.
The Cornhuskers go into
Friday’s opening round as the
sixth seed. They will go against
No. 3 seed Oklahoma, which beat
the Huskcrs 7-0 in the regular
season.
Although the Sooncrs,whoarc
ranked 34th in the ITA Rolcx
Collegiate Rankings.defeated the
Huskcrs rather handily. Coach
Kerry McDermott is optimistic
about his team’s chances.
“The guys basically feel that if
we play well, we can win,” he
said. “We’re anxious and ready to
go”
Nebraska is 6-15 overall and
1 -5 in the Big Eight. The Huskcrs
are comingolTtwo weekend losses
to Colorado and Iowa State.
Seniors
Continued from Page 7’
and five Big Eight individual titles.
“We all feel like we need to earn
our place in Nebraska history,”
Harrison said. “Coming into our ca
reers, people said we were going to be
one of the best teams at Nebraska.”
But they haven’t lived up to expec
tations, Harrison said — at least not
until they can claim a national title.
“Hopefully, this will be the year
that we can go out and do our job and
win it,” Harrison said.
Bowers agreed.
, “It would mean everything,” Bow
ers said. “That’s the whole reason I
came to Nebraska—the tradition and
to be part of a team. It was unfortu
nate, but that was something I was
unable to experience in high school.
So it makes me want it even more
now.”
After four years of competition.
Bowers said, the national meet has
taken on added significance.
“The regular season is not as im
portant,” Bowers said. “This is the
one meet that everything has come
down to. I think, as an experienced
team, we have learned this is the meet
we want.”
The Huskcrs have been so focused
on the NCAA meet that they may have
placed too I ittle emphasis on the regu
lar season, Allen said.
“I never want to lose,” Allen said,
“and don’t get me wrong, neither does
the team. It’s just that they know what
the most important meet is. We lost a
couple of meets this year, and we
learned from those losses.”
After three championships,
Harrison said, he knows when the
national meet rolls around.
“You can tell it is different by the
atmosphere,” he said. “We don’t re
ally do anything different in prepara
tion for nationals, but there’s a lot
more tension and there’s a lot more
pressure.”
Allen said he was confident his
team, cspcciallyh is fourseniors, would
be able to stand up to the pressure.
“It’s going to be a great gymnastics
event,” he said. “We are glad to host
the event and hope to go out a win
ner.”
NCAA
Continued from Page 7
nal would be ready when the Huskcrs
came calling.
“I came here just to scare (Ne
braska coach) Francis (Allen),”
Hamada said with a smile. “We feel
we can compete here. Each of the last
three years has been different, but
hopefully the outcome will be the
same.”
The two championships have g iven
the Cardinal the confidence it needs to
win, Hamada said.
No. 2 Ohio State, Iowa and Penn
State also are confident going into the
national meet.
The Buckeyes, who were ranked
No. 1 much of the season, beat Ne
braska in Lincoln on March 13. That
setback was the Huskers’ first in a
dual or triangular at home since 1989.
Buckeye coach Peter Kormann said
his team gained valuable experience
in the meet, but that may not be an
accurate indication of what will hap
pen this weekend.
“It was to our advantage to come
here this year,” Kormann said. “We
talk about that win a lot. We didn't
have our best meet, but I don’t think
Nebraska had their best meet either.”
Regardless, Kormann said, the
Buckeyes look at the victory as a posi
tive.
“That doesn’t matter this week
end,” he said. “It’s going to come
down to who hits the most routines.”
The Huskers didn’t worry too long
about the loss to the Buckeyes, Allen
said. Nebraska has avenged its other
two losses this season—to Oklahoma
and Stanford. Only Ohio State re
mains.
“We are the healthiest we have
been all year,” Allen said. “I’ve been
saying all year that if we get Sumner
Darling and Che Bowers healthy, we
will be in good shape. Now they arc
healthy.
“And I am going to have an awful
deep team.”
The national meet will not be a
repeat performance of Nebraska’s re
gional meet, Allen said.
' At the regional meet April 9 in
Colorado Springs, Colo., Nebraska
outdistanced the field by scoring
287.25 points. Stanford and Okla
homa, the other two qualifiers from
the West Regional, did not have such
an easy time.
“It was a real fight at regionals for
second place,” he said, “and espe
cially third place. Oklahoma and
Stanford were fighting with UCLA
for the last spot, and UCLA didn’t get
it.
“Luck ily, we were far enough ahead
that we weren’t involved in the fight
at regionals, but this time we will be
right in it.”
