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Nebraska’s Roquayyah Brown tries to grab a rebound away from Oklahoma’s Sheri Black Saturday
in Salina, Kan., at the Big Eight Tournament. The Huskers lost to Oklahoma in the first round.
Sloppy stretch leads to loss,
losing record for Huskers
By Trevor Parks
Staff Reporter
SALINA, Kan. — Nebraska
women’s basketball coach Angela
Beck was so sorry about her team’s
performance she apologized for it.
The Comhuskers played sloppily
in a 77-67 less to Oklahoma in the first
round of the Big Eight Tournament
Saturday at the Salina Bicentennial
Center.
With the loss, 13-14 Nebraska fin
ished with a losing record for the first
time since 1989-90, when the Huskers
finished the year 10-18.
Nebraska committed 25 turnovers,
had 24 fouls and shot 37.7 percent for
the game, including a 10-of-34 sec
ond-half performance and converted
on 4 of 21 3-point attempts.
The 25th-ranked Sooners, who
improved to 21 -7, also struggled, com
mitting 17 turnovers, 22 fouls, shoot
ing 3 of 11 from the free-throw line in
the first half and shooting only 35.5
percent in the second half.
Beck said it was less than a quality
basketball game.
“I think my team came out really
tight in the first half,” Beck said. “They
were kind of primed, and we were
really struggling.”
That showed in the first 6:37 of the
second half.
The Sooners opened the half, ex
panding on a 43-34 halftime lead with
a 15-6 run.
During that span, the Sooners
grabbed a 14-point lead after Mandy
Wade hit two foul shots after a techni
cal on Beck.
Nebraska pulled within nine at 49
40 before the Sooners went on another
run.
After a Wade layup, Sheri Black
followed with a jumper and a layup.
The Huskers called a timeout af
ter Black’s layup, but Pam Pennon
completed the run to give the Soon
ers their biggest lead of the game at
58-40.
Nebraska chipped away at the lead
and pulled to within 12 at 69-57. Then
Anna DeForge scored six ofher game
high 18 points in 56 seconds to pull
the Huskers to within 69-63 with 3:04
left.
But the Sooners, who had five play
ers score in double figures, hit 6 of 7
free throws down the stretch to ice the
win.
Oklahoma coach Burl Plunkett said
making 10 of 11 second-half free
throws was a key after shooting just
27.3 percent in the first half.
“Making 10 of 11, that’s more like
it,” Plunkett said. “It feels good to win
the first one.”
It didn’t look like Plunkett would
get that feeling for a while.
For the first 12:17 of the game, the
teams played evenly, trading the lead
10 times until the Sooners went on an
8-0 run in a 3:15 span to break a 23-23
tie.
Etta Maytubby started the run with
a 3-pointer from the left baseline to
give Oklahoma a 26-23 advantage.
After that, the Huskers could pull
no closer than six the remainder of the
game. 4
Beck saidthe defense left the Husk
ers during that spurt.
“They really,weren’t doing any
thing different,” Beck said. “We were
doingalotofthingswrong,andIthink
we were getting frustrated because
things weren ’t coming aseasy as we’ve
anticipated.”
NU softball team finishes
3-4 at N.M. tournament
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska softball team de
feated the Troy Cox Invitational cham
pions on the first day of the tourna
ment.
But the Cornhuskers were only
able to come out of the tournament,
held in Las Cruces, N.M., with a 3
4 record.
The Huskers defeated eventual
champion Fresno State in a 1 -0 win. A
solo home run by freshman Ali Viola
was the difference in the game. Stacie
Stafford pitched a complete-game
shutout, allowing just four hits.
The Huskers defeated Washington
and Southern Utah for their other two
wins in the tournament.
Stafford was named to the all-tour
nament team as the posted a 3 -1 record
during the three-day tournament.
The Huskers’ record is 11-4, and
they’ll have two weeks offbefore the
National Invitational Tournament
March 17-19 in San Jose, Calif.
Golf team finishes 12th
at rain-shortened meet
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s golfteam fin
ished 12th at the Crown Colony Invi
tational Tournament in Lufkin, Texas
on Saturday.
The 17-team event was shortened
to 18 holes because of rain on Friday.
The Comhuskers shot a 313, 20
shots behind champion Texas A&M.
The Huskers were led by senior
Steve Reiter, who shot a 75 to tie for
14th place. Sophomore Trent
Morrison was next as he tied for 37th
with a 77.
The next action for Nebraska will
be March 13-14 at the Florida State
Invitational in Tallahassee, Fla.
Tennis team falls to Wildcats
at Team Championship meet
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s tennis team
dropped a dual to Arizona this week
end at the H.E.B. College Team Cham
pionships in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The Comhuskers, 1-4, fell to die
Wildcats 6-1. The Huskers’ lone point
cane in No. 4 singles, where Henrik
Andersson defeated Arizona’s James
Ray in straight sets, 6-3,6-3.
In doubles action, Andersson com
bined with Corpus Christi native
Jimmy Boiler to defeat the Wildcat
team of Rowland Kupka and Edward
Schwartz.
Husker team
improves in
last tuneup
From Staff Reports
In the Nebraska track and
field team’s last meet before the
NCAA Championships on
March 10 and 11, two
Comhuskers and the 400-meter
relay team improved on provi
sional marks.
At the Nebraska Last Chance
meet Saturday, freshman Annette
Hall set a career-best mark for the
second-straight daywith a time of
6.91 seconds in the 55-meter dash.
She ran a 6.94 Friday at the Cy
clone National Qualifier meet in
Ames, Iowa.
In the 55-meter hurdles, jun
ior Willie Hibler recorded the
second-best time in school his
tory with a time of 7.31.
And the400-meter relay team
of senior Jenny Johnson, fresh
man LaTisha Croom, sophomore
Jill Myattand freshman Tashika
Lewis recorded a provisional
time of 3:42.91.
At the Silverston Invitational
in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Husk
ers’ distancemedley relay teamof
seniors Renier Henning, Marlon
Jones, Chad Jansen and junior
Balazs Tolgyesi set a new school
record with a time of 9:39.19.
“The guys ran a super race,
and it was a tremendous perfor
mance considering that it took
us 17hourstoarriveatthemeet,”
Husker distance coach Jay
Dirksen said. “They were prob
ably very tired.”
Husker gymnasts win,
lose in weekend meets
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s gymnas
tics team used a new school record on
the the vault to defeat Ohio State
192.325-187.775 Saturday at Colum
bus, Ohio.
The Comhuskers scored a 48.9 on
the vault, eclipsing the previous best
of 48.8 set at the 1989 Big Eight
Championships.
Coach Dan Kendig said the vault
had been his team’s most consistent
event of the year.
“A lot of ways we competed well,
and that was one of them,” Kendig
said. “There is still room for improve
ment on the beam and bars.”
Nebraska had two individual event
winners.
Senior Jennifer Hawkinson won the
vault with a score of9.825. Hawkinson
also finished third on the uneven bars
with a 9.6.
Sophomore Shelly Bartlett posted
a 38.675 score in the all-around, fin
ishing second behind Ohio State’s
Seymin Lau.
Bartlett finished second on the un
even bars with a score of 9.775, and
tied for first with teammate Kim
DeHaan on the balance beam with a
score of 9.8.
The men’s gymnastics team was
defeated by fourth-ranked Ohio State.
The men, ranked third, were knocked
off 229.90-228.55.
The Huskers were led by senior
Richard Grace. Grace finished second
in the all-around, but he scored a ca
reer-high 9.8 on the still rings to place
second.
Nebraska coach Francis Allen said
he wasn’t satisfied with his team’s
performance, especially this late into
the season.
“We had too many falls,” he said.
“I’mnot happy losingthe meet, but we
scored well. It wasn’t a total disap
pointment.”
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