Penny
Continued from Page 9
at the NCAA Championships be
fore climbing to first place as a se
nior.
Jan Bidrman is Heyns’ personal
coach and has seen her develop
ment firsthand.
“She works very hard,” Bidrman
said. “Penny has been improving
every year. That’s a big step for
ward.”
Bidrman also likes Heyns’
chances to win a gold medal at the
Olympics in Atlanta this summer.
“There’s probably three or four
others that are capable,” Bidrman
said. “1 think she’s definitely one
of the contestants that could win it.”
Heyns has reached All-Amcri
can status four times and has said
there were a few reasons for that.
“It’s been a number of things,”
Heyns said, “the relationship with
my coach, the team factor, and ris
ing to the level of the competitor.”
Heyns has constantly risen to the
occasion, especially in the show
case events.
“She prepared herself to com
pete well in each one of them,”
Bcntz said.
Heyns agreed with Bentz.
“You go to these particular meets
aiming to peak,” Heyns said.
While her swimming career as a
Husker always will be memorable,
Heyns said, she will hold other as
pects of her college career close to
her heart.
“My career at Nebraska is more
than just swimming. It’s the people
that I’ve met,” Heyns said. “It’s sort
of a new family that I’ve formed.
Those are memories I’ll cherish
above the swimming.”
Sweep
Continued from Page 9
day,” Motley said. “I think we did a
lot of things we were supposed to do.
It’s a good confidence builder going
into this weekend.”
Sophomore first baseman Todd
Scars, who had four hits in eight at
bats, apparently has broke out of his
early-scason slump. Sears raised his
average to .357 — second-best on the
team — and has now hit safely in 15
of the Huskcrs’ last 16 games.
“I started out really slow,” Sears
said. “I was struggling in the begin
ning Qf the year. It’s slowly coming up
to where I’d like it. But I always think
there is room for improvement ”
Nebraska is scheduled to play a
three-game scries against 19th-rankcd
Oklahoma State beginning Friday at 7
p.m. at Buck Beltzer Field.
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By David Wilson
Staff Reporter
Last year’s Nebraska baseball
team produced two first-round se
lections in the June 1995 amateur
uian, Lfarin
Erstad and
Alvie Shepherd,
I who combined
for more than $2
million in sign
ing bonuses.
But Erstad
and Shepherd
weren’t the only
Cornhuskcrs to
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next level.
Jed Dalton and Craig Sanders,
although not as well-documented as
Nebraska’s two first-round picks,
are trying to make names for them
selves this spring playing profes
sional baseball.
Dalton was the California An
gels’ 19th-roundpick last June, and
after attending a five-day mini
camp to become acquainted with
the team in Mesa, Ariz., Dalton re
ported to Class A Boise, Idaho, of
the Northwest League.
“In the minor leagues,” Dalton
said, “they want to make sure you
can hit-and-run, bunt and things of
that nature before you move up the
ladder. So your first year is a year
when you learn a lot of fundamen
tals.”
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were conditioning for the NFL com
bines and also hoping to find a spot
at the professional level.
After serving primarily as a
starting pitcher for the Huskers last
season, Sanders was selected in the
35th round by the Kansas City Roy
als last year. He reported to Class
A Spokane, Wash., where he was
used in relief situations only.
“The first thing I noticed was the
fact that the competition was very
tough," Sanders said. “Every per
son there was a motivated person
who worked hard. I knew there
weren’t any easy outs in the line
ups.”
Sanders posted a 1.94 eamed
run average in a team-high 22 ap
pearances while striking out 32
batters in 46 innings.
“I did real well,” Sanders said.
“When you play 74 games, you’re
playing the same teams 10 times.
Spokane finished third in the
Northwest League’s North Division
with a 36-39 record. Sanders said
the major difference between col
lege and professional baseball was
the grueling schedule.
“We played 74 games in 76
days, and that’s just a short season,”
Sanders said. “Sometimes you’d
drive all night and have to get up
and start playing the next day.
“You’ve got stats by your name,
but they don’t say, 'He threw after
a 13-hour bus ride.’ Basically, it’s
just survival of the fittest.”
in uv;iat, uamm vwu |/iiiiia
rily as an outfielder, hitting .262
with 10 RBI in 126 at-bats. Boise
finished 48-27 — first among eight
teams in the short-season Class A
league.
“In your first year of pro ball, a
lot of changes go on,” Dalton said.
“The best way to explain it is like a
college all-star game. It’s different
because it’s more like a business,
just like college ball is more like a
business than high school baseball.”
Dalton reported to the Angels’
minor league spring training camp
in Mesa, Ariz., on March 8. He said
he expected to begin the season in
Class A Lake Elsinore, Calif., of the
California League.
Sanders said he and Dalton
worked out this winter with former
Nebraska football players Aaron
Graham and Brook Berringcr, who
Sanders, who tnrows a
curveball, fastball, hard slider, and
a changc-up, said although he had
not learned any new pitches since
joining the Royals’ organization, he
had been working on several varia
tions of his current pitches.
“When you’re throwing every
third day like 1 was, you leam how
to get people out,” Sanders said. “I
think the three most important
things of pitching are location, lo
cation, location.
Sanders, who reported to the
Royals’ minor league spring train
ing camp in Baseball City, Fla., on
March 3, said he probably would
begin the season in Class A Spring
field, 111., of the Midwest League
or Class A Wilmington, Del., of the
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