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Injury doesn t mask
wrestler’s will to win
By David Wilson
Staff Reporter
AMES, Iowa — Despite a broken
nose, Nebraska senior wrestler Tony
De Anda moved up one weight class to
face Iowa State’s sixth-rated 142
pounder in Nebraska’s dual meet vic
tory Saturday.
Alter oreaxing
his nose before the
National Duals on
Jan. 20, DeAnda
began his next
match wearing a
mask. But the mask
didn’t stay on long.
Just minutes into the
match, DeAnda
said he took it ott
DeAnda becausehecouldn’t
see or breath well.
“The doctor said if it comes out of
place again, we’ll just put it back,”
DeAnda said.
DeAnda said his doctor told him it
would take at least a week before his
nose would heal.
“It’s still pretty tender, but I think I
can go with it now,” DeAnda said.
“Every now and then I get a hit, and it
bleeds real easy. But I’m getting used
to the pain now.”
DeAnda, a senior from South Sioux
City, entered Saturday’s dual as the
nation’s fifth-best wrestler at 134
pounds. He said he knew wrestling at
a higher weight would be tough.
DeAnda said he had known his
Iowa State opponent, Derek
Mountsier, since high school.
“He’s a tough wrestler, DeAnda
said. “I just felt out-sized.”
Cornhusker freshman Allen
Hankins, who wrestled at 134 pounds,
DeAnda’s normal weight class, set the
stage with a win over Iowa State’s
Matt Nurre. Hankins’ 14-3 major de
cision put the Huskers on the board,
lowering the Cyclones’ lead to 7-4.
“It gave me momentum,” DeAnda
said. “We needed all the wins we
could get.”
After tying his match at 2-2 with an
escape in the second period, DeAnda
improved his chances for an upset.
But Mountsier recorded an escape
with 1:55 remaining in the third pe
riod and increased his lead to 3-2.
Mountsier added another point for
riding time and won the match 4-2.
DeAnda lowered his record to 23
8, the same record that earned him a
trip to the NCAA Championships last
season. DeAnda finished third last
year among 134-pounders.
DeAnda said he would return to
134 pounds against Oklahoma on Sat
urday and Oklahoma State on Sunday.
Both meets will be held at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
After his career at Nebraska,
DeAnda said he hoped to enter
freestyle wrestling and compete inter
nationally.
“I’m more of a collegiate wrestler,
but I’ll try to make the conversion.”
As for this season, DeAnda said he
had a few adjustments to make before
the 1996 NCAA Championships in
Minneapolis on March 21-23.
“I’d like to be a national champ,”
DeAnda said, “nothing less.”
Baseball
Continued from Page 7
the return of two players. Right fielder
Matt Meyer and center fielder Mel
Motley will anchor the middle of the
batting order along with Sears. Meyer
hit .362 a year ago,'ari<f MOftey batted
.357.
“Sears, Meyer and Motley are a
positive sign,” Sanders said. “The key
for them is to try not to do too much.
They need to just do what they can.”
Motley, Meyer and Sears hit in the
three, four, five positions last year and
combined for 160 RBI. Sanders said
r
he was sure they could provide solid
bats in the middle of the lineup again,
even without Erstad, who batted sec
ond.
The Huskers begin the season three
weeks earlier than they did last year,
facing New Mexico in a three-game
set this weekend and Texas Tech-,
Arizona State and Northwesterti Feb.
15-18 at the Adidas Classic in Phoe
nix.
“Our schedule is really good,”
Sanders said. “We may have bitten off
a little more than we can chew. But I’d
rather play tough teams than play teams
that we can hit around on and think
we’re something that we’re not.”
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1996 Nebraska Baseball
Probable starters <0,
Position Class Ht. WL
1 mm
IB Todd Sears So. 6-6 185
■i imping i' m wm 11 ■ ■ mmtm m
or Ken McMurray Jr. 5-8 180
6-0 ; ; U68
SS Larry Hartzel Jr. 5-11 185
SfeK;I« 185
RF Matt Meyer Sr. 6-3 195
•3B' Eugene Jenkins ."Sr.' • 5-9 170
SP Steve Fish Jr. 6-1 185
S8S&? JaySirianni ISP# Fr. 5-10 175
SP Jason Allen Sr. 6-1 190
■iPj, Johaslrmenta •••Vo^Jr/ &^S§6t6-l ^:;.220
RP Justin Gomes Sr. 6-6 200
KSU
Continued from Page 7
Kansas State, Iowa State and Nebraska
finished together in the standings, one
team could be left out of the tourna
ment.
He said the tournament selection
committee would look closely at the
games between the three teams to de
termine if all three would make the
tournament.
But Kansas State and Iowa State
have yet to face Kansas. The No. 3
Jayhawks are 4-0 in the Big Eight after
beating the Huskers 88-73 on Sunday
in Lincoln.
Nee said Iowa State and Kansas
State would soon find out how diffi
cult it was to play against the the best
team in the Big Eight.
After losing at home, Nee said his
team must find a way to win on the
road.
Kansas State is 2-1 at home in
conference play. The Wildcats have
lost to Oklahoma and beaten Iowa
State and Oklahoma State at Bramlage
Coliseum .
A win tonight would give Nebraska
a 4-2 conference record and a chance
to finish the first half of the Big Eight
season with a 5-2 record.
If any of the three teams jumbled
behind Kansas can win five of their
first seven league games, Nee said, it
would be a major accomplishment.
“That would be a heck of a record,”
he said. “These are very important
games. That’s the way I look at them.”
