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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. ”
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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
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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.
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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.
The Huskers play Notre Dame to
night in a 7:00 game.
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