McLaughlin
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The request for a hardship sea
son would have been denied if she
had competed in one more meet.
“She was just under the limit,”
Kendig said. “If she would have
competed this past weekend and
then got hurt, she couldn’t have
received it.”
The freshman from State Col
lege, Pa., said she was happy she
could regain her year of eligibility
and have four years of collegiate
gymnastics left.
“Since I can redshirt, I guess I
picked a good time to get hurt,”
McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin, the only new
comer to this year’s team, had
been showing signs of having a
great first season as a Comhusker.
In the first meet of the season
against Utah State, she recorded a
personal-best 9.6 in the balance
beam.
At the meet before her injury
against Missouri, McLaughlin re
corded a personal-best 9.725 on
the uneven bars.
That score is tied with sopho
more Kim DeHaan for the best
Nebraska 'score in the uneven bars
this year.
“Everything has been falling
into place,” McLaughlin said. “I
was starting to get better, but this
will give me more time to prepare
for the all-around next year.”
McLaughlin said she couldn’t
move her knee for the next three to
four weeks. Then she must un
dergo rehabilitation before return
ing to her gymnastics career.
“I can play on the bars as long
as I don’t do any landings,”
McLaughlin said. “I should be
good for the summer.”
Last year, McLaughlin went
through a similar situation when
she dislocated her left kneecap.
After both the women’s and
men’s teams defeated Oklahoma
Saturday night, McLaughlin said
both teams visited her and men’s
gymnast William Mulholland, who
also had surgery Saturday for a
knee injury.
“After the meet all of them
came to the hospital,”
McLaughlin said. “This injury is
tough because we have a very
small team in numbers.”
Against Missouri, senior
Martha Jenkins suffered a hyper
extended elbow warming up on
the uneven bars. The injuries have
left the Huskers with only eight
healthy gymnasts.
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Cowboys dethrone Jay hawks
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) —
Bryant Reeves played his best game
of the season Monday night, scoring
33 points and grabbing a career-high
20 rebounds as No. 24 Oklahoma
State beat No. 2 Kansas 79-69 to
move into first place in the Big Eight.
Oklahoma State (16-6, 6-1) took
control of the game by outscoring the
Jayhawks 20-6 over the final 13 min
utes of the first half. Kansas (17-3,6-2)
cut a 12-point second-half deficit to
four with 33 seconds left, but the Cow
boys sealedthe victory with free throws.
Reeves was outplayed by Kansas’
Greg Ostertag in all three games a
year ago, but dominated this time. He
had 14 points and 12 rebounds in the
fljrst half, while Ostertag scored just
two points and grabbed one rebound.
Ostertag finished with eight points
and two rebounds.
The Cowboys held Kansas to three
field goals over the final 13:10 of the
half to take a 31-20 lead. Reeves
scored eight of those points and point
guard Andre Owens had five.
Reeves picked up his third foul on
the Jayhawks’ first possession of the
second half. Kansas promptly started
getting the ball inside and outscored
the Cowboys 8-2 in the opening three *
minutes to cut the lead to 33-28.
But then Reeves scored baskets on
two straight trips, widening the lead
to nine and giving the Cowboys
breathing room. Their largest lead
was 6048 on a 3-pointer by Randy
Rutherford with 4:36 remaining.
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meet here or there, that was fine,
because it really didn’t count.”
This year, he said, it does count.
“It does matter,” said Grace,
who led the Huskers to a 9-point
victory over Big Eight rival
Oklahoma on Saturday with a
season-high all-around score of 57.
“With all the freshmen, it gives
them the experience they need to
compete in the big meets.”
Four freshmen and two sopho
mores are expected to play an
integral role in the Huskers’
campaign to repeat as national
champions.
Without freshmen Jim Koziol,
Daniel Burianek, Don Kinison and
Lev Schieber, and sophomores
Ryan McEwen and Ted Harris,
Grace said, Nebraska doesn’t have
a chance this season.
“I think they have the talent to
win another national title,” he said.
“I try to motivate the freshmen, and
I tell them I want them to experi
ence what it was like walking out
and receiving their first-place
trophy. It’s an experience you can’t
even tell them. You can’t explain
how it felt. I want them to experi
ence that for themselves.”
A year ago, the Huskers ran
away from the field at the NCAA
meet, outdistancing runner-up
Stanford by nearly 2.5 points.
Grace said last year’s team had
enough raw talent and experience
that it did not need to work hard
during the regular season.
“It’s weird,” he said. “I used to
enjoy just coming in and having
fun. Ibis year it’s more structured.
You don’t want to have too much
fun, because the freshmen will look
at that and think this is just a joy
ride.
“Last year, we knew how we
needed to work out, and we could
kind of slack off. These guys don’t
know what to expect, and you don’t
want to let them take the easy way
and let up.”
At this point, he said, the team
had a long way to go.
“Sometimes, Rick (Kieffer) and
Ted (Harris) and Jason (Christie)
and I will start reminiscing about
NCAAs, saying how great it was,
the feeling,” Grace said.”
“Our first meet, we hit on 50
percent (of our routines). At
NCAAs last year, we went 97
percent. I told them we have got a
long way to go.
In addition to serving as an infor
mal director of the Huskers, Grace
is also looking toward 1996 — as
in the ‘96 Olympic Games in
Atlanta.
“He’s got a jump,” Nebraska coach
Francis Allen said. “He’s been out
there, and they know he’s there.”
Grace placed fourth in the 1994
NCAA all-around competition and
first in the parallel bars at the same
meet. As a sophomore, he won the
floor exercise at NCAAs.
