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Schedule prepares
NU soccer team
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
Nebraska soccer coach John
Walker knows it’s not time to cel
ebrate yet.
But Walker said he was excited
about the way the Cornhuskers had
played so far in their spring exhibi
tion season. Last weekend, Ne
braska beat two teams from the
At lantic Coast Conference, the pre
mier soccer league in the nation,
defeating Clemson and Duke.
“It’s the spring season, so we
don’t want to make too much out of
it,” Walker said.
The Huskers beat the Tigers 2-1
and then defeated the Blue Devils
2-0. Clemson and Duke both made
the NCAA Tournament last sea
son.
The week before traveling to
Durham, N.C., Nebraska lost 2-1 to
Texas A&M. The Aggies finished
last season ranked No. 9 and were
also in the NCAA Tournament.
“We’ve set our schedule up so
we arc playing against teams who
are powerhouses,” Walker said.
“We lost to Texas A&M, but we
learned a few things losing to them.”
To keep learning throughout the
spring, Nebraska will play at Ken
tucky on March 31, and conclude
the spring playing Notre Dame and
Portland, the two participants in the
NCAA Championship match last
fall.
The Huskers will play Portland
on April 6 and national champion
Notre Dame on April 13.
“Most teams like to schedule
teams that are nearby,” Walker said,
“but for our players to understand
what it is like to play top competi
tion, now is a good time for them to
learn.”
Of the 14 players eligible to play
this spring, only 11 are healthy.
Tanya Franck and Stephanie Vacek
are still recovering from anterior
cruciate ligament injuries, and
Tanya Wright is out with a broken
leg. Junior goalkeeper Rebecca
Hombacher is sitting out after trans
ferring from Virginia last year.
“We’re not worried about find
ingplayingtime,” Walker said. “It’s
a tight-knit group that likes to get
out and play.”
Walker said five players from
last year’s 10-8 team — Sarah
Determan, Dawn Riesberg, Katrena
Bevins, Andi Bighamand Stephanie
Brennan — had agreed to leave or
had been cut.
In addition to the exhibition
games this spring, the Huskers also
have added four recruits for next
season. They are:
• Lindsay Eddleman, a 5-foot
10 striker from Lakewood, Colo.
Eddleman played on the same club
team as Husker midfielder Kari
Uppinghouse. She picked Nebraska
over Vanderbilt, Texas and Will
iam & Mary.
• Jenny Benson, a native of
Huntington Beach, Calif. Benson
played on the same club team as
two Nebraska starters, Erica
DeVitis and Sandy Smith.
• Jill Nelson, a 5-8 midfielder/
sweeper from Newport Beach, Ca
1 i f. She chose Nebraska over UCLA
and San Luis Obispo.
• Sharolta Nonen, a 5-7
midfielder from Vancouver, Brit
ish Columbia.
Walker said those were the only
four players Nebraska attempted to
recruit, presenting him with a dif
ferent situation from last year.
“We tried to recruit players who
we thought could only play at the
top 10 to 15 programs in the coun
try,” Walker said. “It’s kind of
amazing how quickly things can
change. Last year we had to make a
great sales pitch just to get girls to
come here.”
Track coach
honored again
by Big Eight
From Staff Reports
Nebraskatrackand field coach Gary
Pepin was named the Big Eight men’s
and women’s indoor coach of the year
Monday for the second straight year.
Since the awards were established
in 1987, Pepin has been honored 18
times as the league indoor or outdoor
coach of the year.
“I’m pleased to win the awards, but
at the same time, I didn’t score any
points at the conference meet,” Pepin
said. Nebraska sophomore Janet
Blomstedt was named the Big Eight
Indoor Track and Field Champion
ships most valuable performer after
winning the women ’ s pentathlon com
petition on Feb. 22-24 in Lincoln.
Blomstedt set a new collegiate
record, scoring a total of4,235 points
in the five-event competition. The pre
vious high was 4,212, set in 1992 by
Sharon Jaflofsky of Louisiana State.
Big 8
Continued from Page 7
“Oklahoma looks like they are play
ing really well,” Stewart said. “But
we’ve had good players that have al
ways responded at this time of year.”
At 16-10 and 7-7, Kansas State is
also on the bubble. Wildcat coach Tom
Asbury said he hoped a good touma
ment effort and a tough nonconference
schedule would merit an at-large berth.
Friday, the Wildcats will take on
Oklahoma State, which is 17-9 and 7
7 after winning four of its past five
games.
“I think they’d have to look a long
way not to take our ball club,” said
Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton,
whose Cowboys qualified for the Fi
nal Four last season. “I’m not saying
(the season-ending wins) will help us,
but it certainly can’t hurt us.”
Split
Continued from Page 7
“When you’ve got a cold day, you
have to move guys around to score
runs,” Sanders said. “You have to have
people in scoring position.”
Senior Jason Allen held the Cow
boys scoreless through the first five
innings, giving up just one hit.
Miller was hit by a pitch for a team
high 10th time this season to open in
the fifth inning.
Senior leftfielder Matt Meyer was
walked after Miller’s plate appear
ance. Junior catcher Pete Jenkins
capped the inning by roping a two-out
single to left, scoring Miller and Meyer
to give the Huskers a 3-0 lead.
Wyoming shortstop Ron Cincera
scored Wyoming’s only run of the
game in the sixth inning on a single by
first baseman Wes Brasher.
Allen, who improved his record to
1-1, finished the sixth inning for the
Huskers and lowered his earned-run
average to 3.60. Allen gave the Husk
ers their best performance from a start
ing pitcher this season, holding Wyo
ming to just three hits and one run in
six innings. “Allen pitched well,”
Sanders said. “That was good to see.”
Freshman Mark Rogers took the
loss for the Cowboys, allowing two
earned runs on two hits in six innings.
Nebraska added a run in the eighth
when Todd Sears scored on a single to
right by Josh Dalton.
Junior Spencer Van Linge secured
the 4-1 victory and earned the save
after retiring the final three Wyoming
hitters, striking out two.
Freshman Jarod Bearinger started
the second game for Nebraska by retir
ing the first nine batters he faced. But
Wyoming began the fourth inning with
two singles followed by a walk to load
the bases. A single by centerfielder
Brian Esterline, another free pass is
sued by Bearinger and a fielder’s choice
put the Cowboys on top 3-0.
Wyoming added two runs in the
fifth inning on a two-run homer to left
field by Cincera, which put the Cow
boys up 5-0.
Designated hitter Mel Motley
scored the Huskers’ only run of game
two. After a single in the sixth, he was
doubled home by Sears.
Cincera knocked in the final two
runs in the seventh to put the Cowboys
ahead 8-1.
Sophomore Kyle Schwitzer earned
the win for Wyoming, improving his
record to 1-1. Bearinger dropped to
0-1.
The two teams are scheduled to
play again today at 3 p.m., but Sanders
said the game would likely be can
celled because of cold weather.
Nee
Continued from Page 7
Pond told the Chronicle that the
four packages contained cash.
But why wait four years to bring
this up?
“That’s the question we’d like to
ask Chris Pond,” Nee said. “I don’t
know the answer to that. I don’t know
why.”
Byrne said he wanted to know the
same thing.
“This is dam offensive to us, and it
doesn’t make any sense for someone
to come out after four years,” Byrne
said.
In early January, the NCAA sent a
letter of inquiry to Byrne about the
basketball program’s involvement with
Nwachukwu and Pond. The letter did
not mention anything about money,
Byrne said.
The letter also requested informa
tion concerning the specifics of the
Nigerian player’s visit and Nee’s rela
tionship with Pond, said A1 Papik,
Nebraska’s senior associate athletic
director and NCAA compliance coor
dinator.
Nee said the first two parts of that
inquiry were answered easily, but it
was difficult to describe his relation
ship with Pond.
To try to get more in formation about
Nee’s dealings with Pond, Papik asked
the NCAA for more time. But the
NCAA told Nebraska officials to send
the information that already had been
collected.
Nee said Nwachukwu did not come
to Nebraska in 1992 because of inad
equate academic information, mainly
an unofficial grade transcript.
Pond told Nee he was Nwachukwu’s
coach, and Pond was able to supply a
picture of himself with other African
players, Nee said. Pond sent a video
tape of Nwachukwu to Nee, but after
seeing the player in person, Nee said
Nwachukwu was not the person fea
tured on the tape.
Nee’s contact with Pond ended May
2,1992, after Nee entered the hospital
for back surgery.
Nwachukwu later told Nee that he
did not know Pond, the Husker coach
said.
“I think this could be very signifi
cant,” Nee said. “But then Chris Pond
was leading us to believe that he was a
very integral part of the recruiting pro
cess.”
After being out of the hospital for
three months, Nee said he heard from
Nwachukwu in early August 1992.
Nwachukwu was in New York and
wanted to visit Lincoln. It was that
visit that later sparked the NCAA in
quiry.
Nwachukwu, who decided to at
tended Kilgore Junior College in Texas
and is now a senior at Wisconsin,
refused to answer any questions when
reached at his home Tuesday night.
Nee said he was upset with the
article in the Chronicle.
“I’m just telling you there is no
actual facts backing that in any form,”
Nee said. “All it does is put the Univer
sity of Nebraska, Danny Nee and our
program in jeopardy, in a defensive
position that we can’t defend. We did
not mail him any money or in any way
break any rule.”
Papik said Nebraska’s final report
would be sent to the NCAA in the next
two days. A reply is expected in about
30 days, Papik said.
