Winget recovers to help lead
HusKer pitching staff to success
By Tony West
Staff Reporter “
Nebraska pitcher Cody Winget
is battling much more than just die
competition when he steps on the
hill.
The senior from Murray, Utah,
was diagnosed with mononucleosis
2 1 /2 weeks ago. Winget said he got
the illness during the Gallagher
Tournament in San Diego on Feb.
24-26.
But on Sunday in the
Comhuskers’ 17-2 win over Mis
souri, the illness or Winget’s lack
of participation in the last three
weeks didn’t show.
Winget said he had only thrown
about two or three times in the
bullpen in the past few weeks.
Winget, who improved his
record to 2-1 with the win, went
seven innings and gave up only one
earned run on seven hits. He also
had four strikeouts.
On the season, he has a'5.32
ERA in 15.2 innings pitched.
The 6-foot-3 right-hander said,
however, that his performance may
not be the best judge of his physical
state.
“Ijust felt out of whack,” Winget
said. “I’m always tired and feel like
I have no strength.”
Winget said he had trouble mak
ing certain adjustments whi le pitch
ing because of his illness.
Winget’s last appearance before
Sunday was at Oklahoma on March
8, when the Huskers lost 3-2.
“Being sick and just trying to
come back, I couldn’t make the
adjustments,” he said. “It was a
hard outing for the first time back,
but I got outs and that was what I
was supposed to do.”
And that’s what he did last year,
when he started 10 games. Winget
finished with a 5-3 record and a
Jeff Haller/DN
Nebraska pitcher Cody Winget delivers a pitch against
Missouri at Buck Beltzer Field Sunday. Winget, a senior
right-hander from Murray, Utah, has overcome a one
month bout with mononucleosis to become the Huskers'
No. 1 starter. -
5.11 ERA. He transferred to Ne
braska after going 10-2 at Southern
Idaho in 1993.
The next game for the Huskers is
tonight at Buck Beltzer field against
Kansas at 7 p.m.
And Winget said that he was
really glad to be back in action.
Nebraska running backs
return to spring practice
From Staff Reports
Nebraska running backs Lawrence
Phillips, Damon Benning and James
Sims returned to practice Monday at
Memorial Stadium, Coach Tom
Osborne said.
Phillips finished three-fourths of
practice and Benning participated in
half of practice, Osborne said, and
both seemed to be getting better.
I-back Brian Knuckles did not
practice, but Osborne said Knuckles
may return either Wednesday or Fri
day.
Overall, Osborne said he was glad
to see some running backs return.
“It looked better having guys in
there that have been out there before,”
Osborne said.
The Comhuskers will have a 50-60
play scrimmage Wednesday.
Carpenter
Continued from Page 9
points. The Comhuskers were sec
ond with 76, and Michigan rounded
out the field of three with 31.
The North Carolina women
edged out Tennessee 77-71 for the
team title. The Husker women fin
ished third with 56, while
Georgetown and Michigan rounded
out the competition with 39 and 3 0,
respectively.
Pepin said he was pleased with
the overall effort of the team for the
first outdoor meet.
Series against KU
may test Huskers
By Jeff Griesch
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska baseball team will
continue a five-game homestand with
a two-game series against Kansas in a
7 p.m. game tonight and a 3 p.m. game
Wednesday at Buck Beltzer Stadium.
The Comhuskers enter the series
locking to improve on their 5-5 Big
Eight record and 16-11 overall mark.
Nebraska coach John Sanders said
the Huskers’ record was a bit disap
pointing but said he was confident
Nebraska could put together a strong
second half of the season.
“I think we’re a dam good team,
but we just don’t happen to have a
dam good record right now,” Sanders
said. “But part of it is that we haven’t
exactly been playing a creampuff
schedule.”
The Jayhawks’ 10-20 record makes
them look like creampuffs, Sanders
said, but the Huskers will be tested by
Kansas.
“They are a solid ball club with
solid players, and we are going to have
to be ready,” Sanders said. “They’ve
been in some tough games, but they
are trying to turn it around.”
Kansas has made consecutive trips
to the NCAA Regional Tournament
—includinga trip to the College World
Series in 1993 — but the Jayhawks
have struggled this season.
Kansas is 2-6 in the conference.
The Jayhawks were swept at home in
a three-game series against No. 3 Okla
homa State by a combined score of
36-12 over the weekend.
The Jayhawks still have All-Big
“I think we’re a darn
good team, but we just
don’t happen to have a
darn good record right
now. ”
■
JOHN SANDERS
Nebraska baseball coach
Eight pitcher Jamie Splittorff, who
entered the season with a 17-3 career ■
record.
But Splittorff has struggled too. He
has staggered to a 2-5 start and owns
a 5.53 ERA.
Without Splittorff s dominant pres
ence, the Kansas pitching staff has
went into a decline with a ballooning
6.53 team ERA, and opponents are
hitting .306.
The Jayhawks’ hitters haven’t pro
vided much offense either, hittingjust
.259 and just. 198 in Big Eight games.
Meanwhile, the Huskers carry a
.323 batting average and a 5.65 ERA
into the series.
The Huskers have not won con
secutive games since defeating Kan
sas State on March 24 and March 26,
and Sanders said the Kansas series
provided an opportunity to start a
streak.
“We want to get our ball club on a
roll,” Sanders said. “I think it is a good
time to get on a roll if we can be more
consistent and play well.”
Echo-Hawk
Continued from Page 9
another doubleheader.
In the first game Sunday, Echo
Hawk doubled in Saundra Brown in
the bottom of the fifth to tie the game
killed.”
That winning attitude showed this
weekend when Nebraska played host
to No. 19 Oklahoma State.
Nebraska won the first game of a
doubleheader 4-2 Saturday before los
ing the second game 9-8 in nine in
nings.
On Sunday, the two teams split
at tour.
Echo-Hawk rounded second when
Cowgirl centerfielder Angie Irby’s
throw went into the Nebraska dugout.
The umpires originally allowed
Echo-Hawk to score on the play, bu{
then it was ruled that she must go back
to third.
Echo-Hawk said the play could
have changed the outcome of the game.
NCAA
Continued from Page 9
bounds. And Dollar, the backup point
guard who played in the shadow of the
lightning quick Edney, came up with
eight assists.
“I think he had the best tournament
of any player of the 64 teams up until
tonight,” Harrick said of Edney. “But
what a gutty performance by the rest
of the guys. They sucked it up and
played hard.”
instead of the Razorbacks taking
control at the end like they had done
all tournament long, it was the Bruins
who came up victorious at the end.
UCLA managed to hold Arkansas
without a field goal for a 4:47 stretch
that ended with Williamson’s first
basket of the second half with 2:25 to
play.
That made it 77-68, and the Razor
backs were out of the last-minute
miracles they had managed in the early
rounds.
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