Oklahoma tumbles under NU
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s and women’s
gymnastics teams were victorious Sun
day night at the Bob Dcvaney Sports
Center, but both Cornhuskcr coaches
said their teams were capable of belter
performances.
Sophomore Jim Ko/iol paced the
third-ranked men to a 226.1-223.9
defeat of No. 8 Oklahoma. The Olym
pic Training Center team finished third
with a 214.825.
Koziol won the all-around with a
mark oi'56.3 ilespite competing with a
partially torn right bicep. This past
week, Koziol revamped his routines
because of the injury, but he said the
changes didn’t make things that much
easier.
“I’m in pretty good pain right now,”
Koziol said.
Injuries completely sidelined true
freshmen J.D. Reive and Marshall
Nelson. Allen said their return would
elevate Nebraska to the next level.
“We’re potentially the best team in
the country,” he said.
Senior Jason Christie, who was
slowed by a sinus infection, finished
second in the all-around with a score
of 55.925. •
For the women, junior Shelly
Bartlett won her fourth all-around title
of the year with a 39.1, and helped her
team to a 193.725-191.8 victory over
Iowa State. Freshman Misty Oxford
finished second in the all-around with
a career-best 38.7.
Even though Bartlett finished third
in vault with a career-high 9.8 and won
both, the balance beam (9.7) and the
Moor exercise (9.875), she said her
performance could have been better.
“I didn’t put it all together as well as
1 had before,” she said, “I just felt Hat
tonight.”
Coach Dan Kendig agreed.
“We were due for this,” he said.
“But for us to come out of it with a
iiood outcome, I’m very pleased.”
Scott Bruhn/DN
Nebraska freshman Courtney Brown performs on the balance
beam Sunday night during the Huskers’ victory over Iowa
State. Brown scored a 9.5.
Oxford’s career-high score in the
al 1-around, Kendig said, was a big step
in improving her confidence. She fin
ished sixtli in the beam with a career
best 9.65.
But for the rest of the Huskers, the
balance beam proved to be the biggest
problcmol'lhc night. Kendigsaid there
would be only one way to improve on
the beam.
“1 think everyone is trying to come
up with a magical cure for beam,” he
said. “There is no magical cure. You
just have to come out and not make a
mistake.”
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OU downs Huskers
Weekend
The Oklahoma baseball team
swept Nebraska in a three-game
series this weekend in Norman,
Okla., outseoring the Cornhuskers
45-32.
Nebraska starting pitchers al
lowed 19 earned runs and 31 hits in
16 2/3 innings as the Cornhuskers
dropped to 3-10 overall and 0-3 in
the Big Eight.
Fourteenth-ranked Oklahoma,
which improved to 8-4 and 3-0,
won 18-11 Friday, 10-5 Saturday
and 17-16 Sunday.
— David Wilson
Tennis
In its home debut of the spring,
the Nebraska women’s tennis team
defeated Colorado State 5-2 Satur
day, but was shut out 8-0 on Sunday
by Wichita State at the Woods In
■ door Tennis Center.
Nebraska’s overall record fell to
1-8.
— Vince D’Adamo
| Track
f With one week remaining until
the NCAA Championships in In
dianapolis, the Nebraska men’s and
. women’s track teams sent athletes
to six different sites, hoping to im
prove on their times and qualify
more athletes for nationals.
The men’s distance relay team
of Alex Lamme, Miklos Roth, Jonah
Kiptarus, and Balazs Tolgyesi set a
school and Big Eight record with a
time of 9 minutes, 37.34 seconds at
the Silverstone Invite at Ann Ar
bor, Mich.
Other Husker men posting
NCAA automatic qualifying marks
were Charles Reid and Frank
Mensah at the Cyclone Last Chance
Qualifier in Ames, Iowa.
Triple jumper Andrea Bourland
leaped 42 feet, 2 1/4 inches at the
Cowboy NCAA Qualifier in
Laramie, Wyo., earning her a spot
at nationals. The Cornhusker
women’s 4 x 400-relay team also
posted an NCAA provisional quali
fyingtime at the Mobil USA Indoor
Track and Field Championships in
Atlanta with a time of 3:38.
Tourney
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in league play this season have come
against the Huskers.
“Tamccka Dixon played so good, it
made me sick,” Beck said. “They seem
to play their best ball against us.
“So we allowed Tamccka to have
an All-American night. That's one rea
son I voted her Big Eight player of the
year, because she stood out above all
the rest when the time came down.”
Nebraska senior Kate Galligan, who
scored a career-high 38 points when
Nebraska lost to Kansas 94-85 on Feb.
11, was limited to 12 points Sunday.
Galligan agreed with her coach’s analy
sis of Dixon.
“She’s so quick, she’ll just elevate
her play at the end of the game,”
Galligan said. “There’s no doubt she is
the player of the year, and she just
knows when to take over the game.”
With 12 minutes remaining, the
Huskers took a five-point lead when
sophomore Anna DeForge made a
layup and hit a 3-point goal. DeForge
led the Huskers with 18 points.
Aided by two Charissc Sampson 3
point goals, the Jayhawks tied the score
at 57 with four minutes remaining.
Kansas then took a 63-61 lead, and
after a Nebraska timeout with 26 sec
onds remaining, Sampson stole
Nebraska’s inbound pass and the Husk
ers’ upset chances.
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