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atDevaney Center Nebraska vs. Kansas FRIDAY, January 12 7 p.m. Nebraska vs. Kansas State SUNDAY, January 14 2 p.m. Corporate Sponsor: GENERAL ADMISSION: - Adult - $4; Youth - $2; THE DIALCORR UNL Student - FREE Consumer Products Croup Gymnasts expect to win Nebraska women’s gymnastics coach Dan Kendig is ready for the season to begin. The Cornhuskcrs travel to Ames, Iowa, on Sunday for a 7 p.m. dual meet against Big Eight rival Iowa State. i m excueu, Kendigsaid.‘i wish 1 had another week to prepare, but I al ways think that.” Since returning from winter vaca tion, the Huskers have had one week to prepare for the meet, which will be Kendig in (he Hilton Coli seum. Kendig said he expected them to be ready for Sunday. * “It’s the first meet, so you never really know what to expect in some ways,” Kendig said, “especially from the new kids. And it’s the same with Iowa State. Wc don’t know what to expect from them. “I think that if wc go out and do our job, wc should be victorious.” Kendig said he expected his experi enced gymnasts to make an impact in this meet. Senior Joy Taylor, along with jun iors Shelley Bartlett and Kim DeHaan, will provide that leadership. But the 1 lth-rankcd Huskers also will rely on contributions from four freshmen — Courtney Brown, Misty Oxford, Jes sica Swift and Amic Dillman, each of whom have cracked the starting 1 ineup. Kendig said he was unsure how the newcomers would perform in a meet situation, but he’s ready to find out. This meet, Kendig said, will be a chance to set the tone for the season. - “Ideally, if wc score over a 190, it would be really nice,” Kendig said. “Of course it doesn’t matter where wc start at. It’s where you finish.” Sunday’smeet will serve as a tuneup for next weekend, when Nebraska trav els to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to take on na tional powerhouse Alabama and Penn State. — Gregg Madsen Track teams looking for more experience Thirteen members of the Nebraska men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams will compete for the first time this season on Saturday. Three preseason meets arc going on this Saturday. Some Cornhuskers will be competing in the Ward Haylctt Invite in Crete, the UNK Open in Kearney and the Jayhawk Invitational in Lawrence, Kan. Cornhuskcr coach Gary Pepin said the Huskers hoped to gain additional experience before the season. “We’re only sending a few people. We never compete very many this early in the season anyway,” Pepin said. “It’s basically a young group. So it’ll be a very low key weekend.” Weekend Preview Sophomore Tashika Lewi sand jun ior Angee Henry will compete in the Ward Haylett Invitational. Both run ners are slated to compete in the 60 meter sprints. Nine Husker shot put and discus throwers will participate in the UNK Open. On the men’s side, senior Greg Armitage, sophomore Eric Mach,jun ior Erik Richardson and freshman Josh Vollertsen will travel to Kearney. Sophomore Scott Warren also may compete on Saturday. Senior Paulette Mitchell, sopho mores Doreen Heldt, Tressa Thomp son and Marcie Scharton arc sched uled to compete in the UNK Open for the women. Sophomore Janet Blomstedt and senior Colleen McKinney will travel to Lawrence. Distance runners Banti Iteffa and Balazs Tolgyesi also should help the Huskers later in the season, Pepin said. — Vince D'Adamo Huskers to wrestle at Reno Challenge After coming off a narrow victory over fifth-ranked Minnesota and see ing its top wrestler suffer his first loss of the year, Nebraska needs big wins in Saturday’s Reno Challenge, Coach Tim Neumann said. Wrestling begins at 1 p.m. in Reno, Ncv. The Cornhuskers will square off against Oklahoma State, Oregon State and Arizona State. Nebraska first wrestles Oregon State, and the winner of that match will wrestle the winner of the Oklahoma Slate-Arizona State matchup. Previously undefeated and top ranked heavyweight Tolly Thompson lost 4-1 to second-ranked Billy Pierce of Minnesota on Tuesday. Pierce’s only loss of the season was to Thomp son earlier in the year. — Antone Oseka NU swimmers dive into Big 8 competition The Nebraska men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams face their first Big Eight competition of the sea son when they travel to Lawrence, Kan., this weekend. The ninth-ranked women’s team will compete against Kansas on Fri day. The Jayhawks bring an 11 -0 dual meet record into the meet. The Cornhuskers arc 3-1. The men’s team will compete in a double dual with Kansas and Minne sota on Saturday. Nebraska is 2-5 in dual meet competition this year. 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Despite Minor’s slump, Sooners playing hard By David Wilson Staff Reporter Although Oklahoma senior Ryan Minor has started every game for the Sooners this season and leads the Big Eight Conference in scoring, Okla homa coach Kelvin Sampson said he would not consider Minor to be the Sooners’ best player this season. His numbers may not show it, but Minor, the Big Eight’s most valuable player last year, has been struggling offensively this season. “Ryan is trying a little bit too hard,” Sampson said. “He’s not being as pa tient as he should be.” But Sampson said he didn’t feel that Minor’s slump had hurt the team. The 9-4 Sooners will play host to 12 3 Nebraska on Saturday at 12:45 p.m. in Norman, Okla. “Our team, around Ryan, has really played well.” Sampson said. “We are strugglingoffensively, but we arc play ing hard and competing hard.” “If I had to pick an MVP at this point in the season,” Sampson said, “it would be (senior forward Ernie) Abercrombie. He has been our most consistent player this season.” But even though Abercrombie is one ol the Sooners top players this season, Sampson said he didn’t think the Big Eight’s leading rebounder was as big or as at hlet ic as Nebraska center Mikki Moore. Sampson said the 6-foot-11 Moore was the best “big guy” in the Big Eight this season. “Talent-wise, Nebraska has the edge,” Sampson said. Sampson said junior point guard Tyrone Foster had helped Oklahoma pick up the pace on offense this sea son. Oklahoma has won eight of its last nine games, including a 64-59 victory at Kansas S|ate in its Big Eight opener, improving its record to 9-4. Sampson, who is recovering from back surgery on Jan. 5, was named conference coach of the year last sea son after leading Oklahoma to a 23-9 record and its first NCAA tournament appearance in three years. Over the past two years, Oklahoma is a combined 21-1 at home, but Sampson said experience would give Nebraska an advantage in Oklahoma’s first Big Eight home game Saturday. “Nebraska may be the most experi enced team in the Big Eight,” Sampson said. “We have a very inexperienced team.” ou Continued from Page 7 “I know what ’s waiting in Norman Nee said, “and I know what’s waiting in Stillwater, Lawrence, Manhattan and Ames. “It will be difficult playing on the road.” For the Huskers to have success against the Sooners and the rest of the conference,junior Mikki Moore needs to put together some big games, Nee said. Moore had eight rebounds in 23 minutes against the Buffaloes. Nebraska will be looking for its first victory over the Sooners in Norman since 1991, when the Husk ers beat Oklahoma 111-99. Nee said he expected a typical Big Eight Con ference game. “I expect 13 more games of the same intensity,” Nee said, “grinding out spurts, banging on the boards and things like that.” hoped his team would use the victory to improve on last year’s 4-10 confer ence record. “We have half the amount of wins we had a year ago (at home),” Nee said, “so that’s a good start.” Nee said he did not expect a great deal of confidence to stem from the victory.