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L“‘-. Sc01t Bruhn/DN Nebraska’s Markus Bergerheim returns a shot against Drake’s Marcos Vincente Saturday in the Huskers’ 5-4 loss. Bergerheim won at No. 6 singles in three sets. Tennis team keeps spirits high after loss to Drake Saturday By Vince D’Adamo Staff Reporter The Nebraska men’s tennis team was hoping to break its four-match losing streak on Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. But the Drake Bulldogs had other plans as they edged the Huskers 4-3, dropping Nebraska’s overall record to 1-5. Husker coach Kerry McDermott said that the loss was bitter, but it showed that the team still had work to do. “We’ve got to keep grinning and bearing it,” McDermott said. “We know we’re decent but not as good as we’d like to be.” The match started out well for the Huskers. In the doubles matches, two of their three combinations were vic torious. The tandem of senior Andy Davis and sophomore Adrian Maizey de feated Drake’s combination of Rene Novotony and Alte Willems 8-4 at No. 1 doubles. Freshmen Jimmy Boiler and Markus Bergerheim knocked off Drake’s tandem of Paul Champlin and Marcos Vincente. This was Bergerheim’s first match since suffer ing an injured foot in September. “We’ve got to keep grinning and bearing it. We know ive’re decent, but not as good as we’d like to be. ” m KERRY MCDERMOTT Nebraska men’s tennis coach The Huskers did not fare well in the singles matches, though, losing four out of six. Davis, at No. 1 singles, lost both sets to Robert Novotony 6-1 and 6-3. McDermott said it was one of those days for Davis. “He ran into a serving machine,” said McDermott. “Novotony is very good, and he basically took it right at Andy.” The two bright spots in the singles matches for Nebraska were Maizey and Bergerhcim. Maizey won impres sively over Champlin in two sets 6-1, 6-0. Maizey said that a good week of practice paid dividends. “I’ve been hitting the ball real well and aggressively,” said Maizey. “It’s really upped my game, and I’m play ing with more confidence.” McDermott was the first who took notice. “When he (Maizey) believes in him self,” McDermott said, “he can play with anyone.” Despite being out of action for six months, Bergerheim was close to top form against the Bulldogs’ Marcos Vincente. Despite losing the first set 6-4, he rebounded nicely by winning the next two sets 6-0 and 6-3. “He’s still rusty,” said McDermott. “He won the match because he hit some big serves when he needed them. He is very confident, and losing the first set didn’t bother him.” The Huskcrs will continue to seek their second victory of the season on Sunday at Arlington, Texas against Texas. Husker diver earns NCAA meet spot From Staff Reports Nebraska diver Jennifer Hamly qualified for the NCAA meet Satur day after finishing sixth at the NCAA Zone-D diving qualifying meet. Hamly was one of four Comhuskers who qualified for the zone meet in Austin, Texas. The top nine women’s and six men’s scores compiled ad vanced to the NCAA meet. Seniors Julie Grimmer and Jeff Bro and sophomore Kevin Gregory quali fied for the zone meet. But Hamly was the only one to qualify for the NCAA meet March 17 19. The senior from Texas took third place in the 1-meter compe tition on Saturday. Paired with her fifth-place finish Friday, Harnly finished sixth. Grimmer finished 16th overall, seven spots away from qualifying. ~ Bro and Gregory also failed to make the national meet. Bro, a senior from Lincoln Southeast, finished 13th to put him out of contention. Gregory ended up in 16th after the two-day meet. Big Eight Continued from Page 9 Randy Rutherford scored 10 points during the run, which featured three straight lay-ups by the Cowboys. “It killed us,” Husker forward Terrance Badgett said. “Even if the run would have been sixor eight points, we’d still be right in it. With the way we started off the game—at that high of a level—and then for them to make that kind of run just killed us.” Oklahoma State finished the half with a 24-3 run and led 41 -27 at inter mission. Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton said Nee tried to stop the Cowboys’ big run late in the first half. “All the sudden that adrenaline gets flowing and you think' Hey, we have these guys on the ropes,’” Sutton said. “Basketball is a game of streaks. When you have momentum, you want to extend that as long as you can. When it’s going against you, you want to curtail it as quickly as you can. “When it’s going against you, you can call timeouts, you can change the offense or defense. I think Danny tried to do that, but they just missed some shots that they can normally hit.” As if the 22-0 run wasn’t enough, disaster really struck in the second half. The Huskers, who shot 36 percent in the first half, shot only 16 percent from the field in the second half and finished the game at 27 percent—on a 15-of-54 shooting performance. Badgett’s basket with 10:36 left cut Oklahoma State’s lead to 53-40, but it was Nebraska’s last field goal of the game. Defensively, Nebraska gave up only 27 points in the second half and held Bryant Reeves to 13 points. Rutherford led all scorers with 20. “Our basic strategy was that we were going to try to take one of their '• top scorers out of the game,” Nee said. “We opened up with a simple box and-one on Big Country (Reeves). 1 felt it worked part of the time. When Oklahoma State finally adjusted, Rutherford started hitting his shots. We felt we’d give them up ” “The best team won,” Nee said. “I just feel like they have a good balance of inside and outside. They’re very effective with the way they play de fense. The key to the game was Okla homa State’s defense. They’re just a good basketball team.” Malesevwins in high jump From Staff Reports Nebraska’s Petar Malesev soared 7 feet ,41/4 inches to win the high jump at the NCAA In door Track and Field Champi onships this weekend. Malesev, a four-time All American, became the first Husker to win the event. But the Husker men finished 11th, while the women finished tied for ninth with North Caro lina. Nebraska’s Paulette Mitchell finished second in the shot put with a school-, Big Eight- and personal-best toss of 55 feet, 5 inches. It wasn’t enough, though, to overtake UCLA’s Dawn Dumble, who won the event with a throw of 57-8 1/2. - -.... I ' Huskers defeat Colonials by ending scoring drought From staff Reports The Nebraska baseball team ended its three-game losing streak with a 7 1 win over George Washington at the Collegiate Invitational Baseball Tour nament in San Antonio Sunday. The Cornhuskers, 5-5, scored a run in the sixth inning, three runs in sev enth and three more in the eighth to break out of a hitting slump to im prove to 1-1 in the tournament. Nebraska had not scored in 15 in nings and managed only eight hits until the sixth inning against George Washington. Jed Dalton started the inning by reaching on an error and moved to third on Matt Meyer’s double. After an intentional walk to Darin Erstad, Dalton scored on Mel Motley’s double-play ground ball to tie the score 1-1. Dalton hit a 2-run double in the seventh to give the Huskersa 3-1 lead. Two batters later, Darin Erstad ran his hitting streak to 10 games with an RBI single to give the Huskers a 4-1 edge. Pitchers Jonas Armenta and Alvie Shepherd took care of the rest by combining on 3 2/3 innings of perfect relief. The Huskers opened the tourna ment with a 1 -0 loss Jo Baylor Satur day. The Huskers managed only four hits in 7 1/3 innings off Baylor starter Kris Lambert, 2-1, but rallied in the ninth against reliever Steve Waites. But Meyer lined into a 4-6-3 double play with one out and men on first and second to end the game. Craig Sanders, 1-1, took the loss for the Huskers but allowed only five hits in 5 1/3 strong innings. Justin Gomes relieved Sanders and pitched 2 2/3 perfect innings to keep the Huskers close, but Nebraska’s hitters could not capi talize. 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