Husker soitball team
wants out of the cellar
By Derek Samson
Senior Reporter
Nebraska softball coach Rhonda
RcvClle has a tough task on her hands.
Pumpinguphcr2l-29Comhuskers
is a problem at this point in the season,
she said.
r-“You’re tryingto
look for rcasons,to
keep the teafn
motivated,”
Rcvcllc said.
“We’re not play
ing for any cham
pionships or
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postseason. With
summer and finals
coming up, it’s
Revelle
hard for them to stay focused
But Revelle said she didn’t have to
look any further for motivation than
the Huskers’ position in the confer
ence.
The Huskers want out of last place,
she said, and they have eight confer
ence games left to accomplish that.
“Now, we’re trying to accomplish
personal challenges and minigoals,”
she said. “One of our big things is we
don’t want to finish in the cellar.
That’s why this weekend is so impor
tant.”
Improving the Huskers’ 1-11 Big
Eight record won’t be easy against the
38-18 Tigers, who are third in the
conference.
“Ideally, we want to gel three out of
four, but I’d be happy with a split,”
Revelle said. “Missouri is playing re
ally well. I feel like we’re going into
Missouri feeling like we have great
odds. We beat them three out of four
last year, and the teams arc basically
the same.”
The Huskers arc coming off of a
doublchcadcr sweep of Creighton on
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You’re trying to look
for reasons to keep
the team motivated.
We’re not playing for
any championships
or postseason. With
summer and finals
coming up, it’s hard
for them to stay
focused.
— Revelle
Nil softball coach
-ft -
Monday.
Missouri, 8-8 in conference play,
won three out of four last weekend
against seventh-ranked Oklahoma.
The Tigers’ hard-nosed style of
play concerns Revelle.
“They’re real steady on the mound,”
Revelle said. “They aren’t All-Amer
ican, but they’re extremely steady and
consistent. The thing that we’re really
going to have to be aware of is their
aggressiveness.
“They run wild. They force the
defense to make the plays.”
But the Huskers can’t worry about
their opponent or where they’re play
ing, Revelle said.
“What I think takes a lot out of a
team is the third straight weekend on
the road,” she said. “We goon our Big
Eight weekends, and we get thumped
pretty good.
“We just can’t place that much
importance on Missouri and what
they’re doing. We have to do our part
and focus on the task at hand.”
Jon Waller/DN
Nebraska assistant coach Paul Meyers argues with
two umpires during the Comhuskers’ weekend series
against Kansas. The Husker baseball team, coming off
a doubleheader sweep over Missouri on Wednesday,
will have to wait anotner week to take the field after its
game with Creighton was rained out Thursday.
Huskers sign nine wrestlers
From Staff Reports _
. .Nine recruits have signed national
lettersof intent to wrestle at Nebraska,
Coach Tim Neumann said.
Neumann said the recruiting class
was comparable to the past two years,
when Nebraska finished in the top
five nationally in recruiting.
“As a group, 1 feel very good about
our recruits,” Neumann said. “Ath
letically, it is probably the best class
we have ever had. We were in dire
need of help in the upper weights, and
we s igned five great upper weight k ids
that a lot of other schools wanted.”
In the upper weight divisions:
• Monte Christensen, who finished
with a 129-9 high school mark at Fort
Calhoun, will compete at 167 or 177
pounds.
• Kenny Mbah, who won a state
championship and was 37-0 last year
at Hickman High Schoofin Colum
bia, Mo., will wrestlt at cither the
177- or the 190-pound weight class.
• Matt Holovach, who won a state
championship and was 28-2 last year
at Manhattan (Kan.) High School,
will wrestle at 190 pounds for the
Huskcrs.
• Kalin Makawi, who had a career
record of 170-7 at Raymond (Wash.)
High School, will wrestle in cither the
177- or 190-pound weight class.
In the lower weights:
•Ryan Bauer, a 118-pounder from
Bismarck (N.D.) High School, was
74-1 in his high school wrestling ca
reer.
• Jeff Nielsen, a two-time Class B
state champion from Crete, will com
pete at either 118 or 126 pounds.
• Dusti n Morris, a 142-pound wres
tler from Cody (Wyo.) High School,
captured three state titles in high
school.
• Matt McDonnell, a 150-pounder,
was a two-time state champion and
had a career record of 157-16 at Ster
ling (111.) Newman High School.
“•Terry McCreary, fromChippcwa
Falls (Wis.) High School, will com
pete at the 150- or the 158-pound
weight class. He posted a 102-20 h igh
school record.
The nine wrestlers will join Matt
I n franca and Chris S tcelc, who signed
with the Huskcrs in the fall.
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