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Huskers need defense,
intensity to win games
By Jason Brunz
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s basket
ball team will start the second half
of its Big Eight season this week
end, playing host to a pair of games
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Comhuskers, 13-6 overall
and 3-4 in Big Eight games, will
face Oklahoma State Friday at 7
p.m. and Oklahoma on Sunday at 2
p.m.
The Cowgirls, 15-3 overall and
5-2 in the conference, will be look
ing for their second straight win
over the Huskers. Leading Okla
homa State will be forward Renee
Roberts, who is averaging 13.4
points and 4.6 rebounds per game
this season.
The Sooners, 11-8 and 3-4, will
come to Lincoln looking for re
demption after losing 79-58 to the
Huskers in Norman, Okla., earliei
.this season.
Nebraska junior forward Tina
McClain said defense would be the
key factor in both games.
“Our defensive efforts againsi
OSU earlier in the season were vir
tually nonexistent,” McClain said
“We have to come out with a loi
more intensity.”
McClain has emerged as the
Huskers’ leader with her recent
“We have to come out
with a lot more
intensity. ”
TINA MCCLAIN
Nebraska forward
explosion on both sides of the ball.
The 5-foot-10 forward ranks third
on the team in scoring with 13.6
points per game and leads Nebraska
with 6.5 rebounds per game.
McClain scored a career-high
25 points in the Huskers’ loss to
Iowa State last Sunday in Ames,
Iowa. McClain is playing like
Nebraska’s best all-around player
right now, Husker coach Angela
Beck said.
“She’s my best defensive
player,” Beck said. “She can take
any kid on the floor, inside or out.”
Beck said Nebraska needed to
have a successful weekend if it
wanted to achieve its goal of finish
ing third or fourth in the Big Eight.
Defense, McClain said, should pull
the Huskers through.
“My main goal is to stay consis
tent,” McClain said. “We just have
to hope for the best.”
NU makes changes for duals
By Antone Oseka
Staff Reporter
As the Nebraska wrestling team
gets ready to face a weekend of Big
Eight challengers, the Comhusker
lineup isn’t as solid as Coach Tim
Neumann wants it to be.
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State
travel to the Bob Devaney Sports Cen
ter to try to defeat a No. 2-rated Ne
braska team that has only lost to top
ranked Iowa this season.
Nebraska first will face Oklahoma
at 7:3 0 p.m. Saturday, and less than 24
hours later, the Huskers will battle
against third-ranked Oklahoma State
at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Neumann said Nebraska would
bring a slightly different lineup into
the weekend. Seventh-ranked Brad
Canoyer will start things off both days
for Nebraska at 118 pounds. At 126
pounds, freshman Jose DeAnda could
take the mat for Nebraska, depending
on die status of starter Jeramie W elder.
Neumann said he would decide the
starter minutes before the dual.
Senior Tony DeAnda returns to
134 pounds for Nebraska after a week
of wrestling at 142, where Dusty
Morris will take over again.
Seventh-ranked Jason Kraft will
take a few weeks off to train while
senior Mike Eierman will see his first
action this year for Nebraska. Eierman,
an All-American in 1993, was recently
reinstated to the team after being sus
pended for much of the season.
Neumann said Eierman had been
improving in practice.
“I haven’t let Mike wrestle until
he’s ready to wrestle,” Neumann said.
“He’s training like a leader.”
At 167 pounds, both Chad Nelson
and Mike Roller will see time this
weekend. Nelson will wrestle against
the Sooners, and Roller will go against
Oklahoma State.
Neumann said Canoyer would need
a win over Oklahoma State’s Teague
Moore to get Nebraska off on the right
foot if the Huskers were to beat the
Cowboys.
“I’m sure we’re going to go into
177 (weight class) needing to win the
hist three to win the dual.”
But the Huskers feel good about
those three weight classes. Last week
at Iowa State, the Huskers needed to
win the last three to win the dual. Erik
Josephson, Ryan Tobin and Tolly
Thompson each won, clinching the
victory.
Meets present
early tests
for gymnasts
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s gymnas
tics team and part of the men’s team
will hit the road this weekend.
The women’s team travels to Okla
homa for a quad meet Sunday at 2
p.m., and two members of the men’s
team will compete in the U.S. Winter
Cup in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The women’s team will face Okla
homa, Texas Women’s University and
Denver University, all three of which
will compete in the NCAA Midwest
Regional with Nebraska on April 13
in Salt Lake City.
Comhusker women’s coach Dan
Kendig said the excitement over the
Huskers’ 193.425 performance against
Missouri last weekend at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center had improved
the team’s confidence in practice this
week.
“Success breeds that kind of thing,”
Kendig said. “They feel like they can
walk into any gym and do that.”
Even though the Huskers’ score
last week was the seventh-highest in
Nebraska history, Kendig said his team
still had room for improvement.
“If everyone takes it upon them
selves to get a little better each week,”
he said, “then we’ll keep enjoying
success.”
Senior all-arounder Joy Taylor is
questionable for the meet because of a
sore quadricep, Kendig said.
On the men’s side, senior Jason
Christie and sophomore Jim Koziol,
along with 1995 Husker graduate Ri
chard Grace, will be in action.
They will face members of the U.S.
senior and junior national teams and
other provisional Olympic qualifiers.
Christie and Grace will compete in
the Team 1996 division, where the top
14 all-around gymnasts earn spots on
the 1996 Senior National Team.
Koziol will be in the Team 2000
over-19 divi sion, and could earn a
spot on the 2000 U.S. Olympic squad
with a finish in the top 14.
Baseball
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last season, posted a 1-1 record and
held opposing hitters to a .253 aver
age. Sanders said he was not sure what
thisweekend’s lineup would lookl ike.
Senior outfielders Mel Motley,
Matt Meyer and Eugene Jenkins, along
with 1995 freshman All-American first
baseman Todd Sears, will fill the
middle ofthe lineup. But Sanders said
he was unsure of how the rest of the
infield would pan out.
Junior college transfer Larry
Hartzell, freshmen Corey Miller, Josh
Dalton, Craig Moore, and sophomore
Clifton Durham will be tested to find
an infield combination that works,
Sanders said.
Martial
Continued from Page 7
Olympics this summer in Atlanta, said
she needed to stay healthy in her final
season at Nebraska.
“You have to be confident,” said
the senior from Las Vegas. “When
you’re hurt, you cannot let that de
stroy you.”
Husker coach Gary Pepin said he
admired Martial as a person and an
athlete.
“She’s got a lot of natural ability,”
he said. “The higher level of competi
tion, the better she performs.”
Pepin has seen Martial’s develop
ment on a first-hand basis as her posi
tion coach. Martial and Pepin agree
that having the same coach breeds
continuity.
Martial has been the Big Eight in
door and outdoor triple-jump cham
pion for three consecutive years. She
is the all-time Big Eight record holder
in the outdoor event.
Pepin said the coaching staff re
cruited Martial intensely. She said she
chose Nebraska because of the bal
ance of academics and athletics.
“It combines both very well.
There’s a real good support staff,”
Martial said. “The coaches are there
to respond. Many schools don’t have
that.”
Martial’s attitude is ideal when
helping younger athletes reach their
potential, Pepin said.
“She’s a very fine person. She has
high morals, a strong work ethic and
she’s interested in people,” Pepin said.
“If a young person needs someone to
talk to, she’s usually the first one
there.”
ISU
Continued from Page 7
return to Lincoln with the rest of the
Huskers. He left Bramlage Coliseum
with three friends through an upper
exit while the rest of the team exited
the arena from a ramp on the west side
of the building.
Despite what was happening off
the court, Nebraska guard Erick
Strickland said it was time to turn
things around. If the Huskers lose Sat
urday, they will finish the first half of
the Big Eight season 34 after a 3-1
start.
“We’ve got to regroup now and get
ready for Iowa State,” Strickland said.
“That’s the next step for us.”
That may be a difficult step.
Iowa State is second in the league
behind third-ranked Kansas and hasn’t
lost since Jan. 10. On the road, how
ever, the Cyclones have struggled.
In Iowa State’s five road games,
the Cyclones are 3-2. The two losses
were at Marquette and Kansas State.
Away from the Hilton Coliseum, Iowa
State has beaten Drake, Wyoming and
Colorado.
But the Cyclones will have an ad
vantage in one area — preparation.
Because of an NCAA rule that re
quires basketball teams to take one
day off a week, Nebraska did not
practice Thursday, leaving the Husk
ers with only one day of preparation
for Iowa State.