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--. I ’ ■ ‘ • : V 1 Monday, April 1, 1996 Page 5 Matt Miller/DN Husker quarterback Scott Frost warms up before Saturday's scrimmage. Behind Frost stands Matt turman, who is the No. 1 quarterback on the Husker depth chart. Injuries hamper Huskers’ offense By Mike Kluck Senior Reporter With only one week of spring practice under its belt, Nebraska is beginning to look more like a MASH unit than a football team. By the end of the Cornhuskcrs’ first spring scrimmage Saturday at Cook Pavilion, six players were either injured or had not practiced because of injury. Included among those injured were three offensive backficld play ers, Husker coach Tom Osborne said. “We’re just a little thinner at the backficld spots than we have been in a longtime,” Osborne said. “For four practices, we probably have a little bit more than our share of injuries.” with the injuries at the I-back posir tion. Sophomorc-to-be Ahman Green, the No. 1 I-back, did not scrimmage Saturday because of a sore quadrieep and groin muscle. No. 3 I-back James Sims pulled a hamstring at the end of a 28-yard run during the top unit’s first drive. Sims, a junior, probably will be out most of spring practice, Osborne said. No. 1 tight end Tim Carpenter sprained his knee midway through the workout and also may miss the rest of spring practice. Also missing the scrimmage Saturday because of injuries were fourth-string quarterback Frankie London (shoulder), No. 2 Will line backer Ryan Terwilliger (call) and top right cornerback Mike Fullman (groin). But despite the injuries, Osborne said, the Huskers had a satisfactory workout. “It went about how a first scrim mage. usually goes, some good, some bad, some sloppy plays, some not so bad,” Osborne said. “But overall I was eneouraged.” Osborne said he paid close at tention to the play of senior Matt Turman and junior Scott Frost, the Huskers’ top two quarterbacks. Both Frost and Turman directed the top offense, and while Turman ran for 20 yards on five attempts, Frost gained 51 yards on 12 at tempts. The big difference, how ever, was passing. Turman com pleted 2-of-l 3 passes for 20 yards. Frost, after completing only one pass on his first five attempts, fin ished 6-of-12 passing for 89 yards. Playing against reserve defen sive units, sophomore Monte Christo completed 8-of-12 passes for 155 yards. Redshirt freshman Jeff Perino hit 3-of-8 attempts for 65 yards and a touchdown. “I thought Scott Frost had a pretty good day today,” Osborne said. “Matt did OK. He had one or two bad plays and several good plays. He did all right. “Just looking at it from the side lines, Frost probably had the best day of the group.” Frost, who transferred to Ne braska from Stanford and sat out last season, said he felt good in his first live action with the top offen sive units. “It took me awhile to shake off the rocks, and I still have a long ways to go,” Frost said. Turman said he was pleased with his first performance as the No. 1 quarterback, but he said the Husker offense would have to improve be fore the April 20 spring game. “Offensively, we’ve got some work to do still,” Turman said. NOTE: • Senior rush end Jared Tomieh was selected in a vote by his team mates as 1996 Nebraska Lifter of the Year. L>owDoys use five home mns to defeat NU From Staff Reports The Oklahoma Slate baseball team, powered by five home runs, defeated Nebraska 18-8 Friday at Buck Bellzcr Field. The 19th-ranked Cowboys im proved to 7-1 in the Big Eight and 21 - 7 overall. The Cornhuskers dropped to 2-7 in the Big Eight and 10-17-1 over ill. Husker freshmen Seth Williams and lay Sirianni combined to allow 11 earned runs in the first five innings. Williams, who was credited with the oss, fell to 1-2. Saturday and Sunday’s games tgainst the Cowboys were canceled xxausc of snow. The Huskcrs are ichcdulcd to play host to No. 26 Okla loina on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Huskers finish in 25th i I at NCAA Championships From Staff Reports Despite being shut out on the final day of competition, the Ne braska mcn’sswimmingand diving team placed 25th at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, this weekend. Nebraska finished the competi tion with 37 points. Texas used the home pool to its advantage to win the championship, racking up 479 points. Auburn, the favorite head ing into the meet, finished second with 443.5 points. The Comhuskcrs didnot help their cause in the preliminaries when the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Juan Benavides, Francois Boshoff, Mark Bennett and Josh Mathias was dis qualified. The Huskerrelay team was seeded ninth before the meet. With the exception of Mathias, all of the relay members competed in the 100-yard freestyle. Benavides finished 25th with a time of 44.43 seconds. Boshoff recorded a time of 45.23 seconds, good for a 44th placc finish. Bennett posted a time of45.59 seconds, finishing 51st. In the 200-yard freestyle on Fri day, Boshoff recorded a time of 1 minute, 39.55 seconds to place 35th. Mathias finished a whisper behind Boshoff at 1:39.61, and Bennett came in at 1:39.67. In the 100-yard breaststroke competition, Adrian Costello finished 23rd with a time of 55.99 seconds. Senior diver Travis Niemeycr finished 11th in the 3-meter event with 499.30 points. Huskers capture Big 8 title By Gregg Madsen Staff Reporter AMES, Iowa—Nebraska women’s gymnastics coach Dan Kendigusually doesn’t pay attention to team scores | ^-1 during the course of a meet. Saturday night at the Big Eiglit Cham pionships, the third year coach made an exception. “I hate to admit it, but I was watch ing,” he said. _ I Sometimes it just layior occupies my mind. I wasn’t checking every score, but 1 was looking.” Kendig was checking the Hilton Coliseum scoreboard because the heavily favored Cornhuskers trailed Iowa State by 2/10 of a point heading into the final event. But an outstanding performance from senior all-aroundcr Joy Taylor paced the Cornhuskers to a season high 49.1 -point performance on vault. That finish propelled Nebraska to its third consecutive Big Eight title and a 195.05-194.15 defeat of the Cyclones. The score, a Big Eight meet record, was the second-highest score in Ne braska history, trailing only the Husk ers’ 195.75 set against Southern Utah on March 23. Oklahoma finished third with a 192.425, and Missouri was fourth at 187.55. 7 aylor won the vault with a career high 9.9 and claimed the all-around title with anew conference-and school record 39.375. Junior Kim DcHaan held the old school record, a 39.275 last year against Iowa State. Taylor also won the balance beam with a 9.85 and finished second on the uneven bars with a 9.85. “I just wanted to come out and hit everything,” Taylor said, “and that’s what 1 did. So I’m happy.” Although he was checking the scores, Kendig said he was confident in his team’s chances heading into the final two events Taylor agreed with Kendig, who was named Big Eight coach of the year for the third straight season on Satur day. “We knew it wasn’t over,” Taylor said. “This team fights and doesn’t give up. We knew we were fine.” Although Taylor played a large part in erasing that deficit, she wasn’t the only gymnast who garnered praise from Kendig. Misty Oxford finished second in the all-around with a career-high 38.9. Oxford placed third in the vault (9.85) and fourth on the uneven bars (9.8). Oxford,a freshman from Kelso, Wash., was named Big Eight newcomer of the year. “I’m very happy,” Oxford said. “To get an award like that, it’s just great. I don’t know how to describe it really.” Two other freshmen had clutch per formances for the Huskers. After falling on her uneven bar rou tine, Laurie McLaughlin responded with a 9.75 on the beam. Amie Dillman scored a 9.8 on the vault after she suffered an asthma at tack following her 9.775 performance on the floor. DeHaan won the uneven bars with a 9.9 and finished in a three-way tie for first in the floor exercise with a 9.85. Junior ail-arounder Shelly Bartlett struggled on the balance beam, but still finished sixth in the all-around with a 38.3. “Shelly struggled a little bit tonight, but it’s nothing we can’t fix,” Kendig said. “1 fwe can go 195 with her having a little trouble, we’ll take that.” Muller earns three titles at Arizona invite From Staff Reports The Nebraska men’s and women’s track and Held teams posted winners in eight events this weekend at the Sun Devil Invite in Tcmpe, Ariz. Senior Kathy Travis Miillcr won three oft hose titles for the Comhuskcrs. Miillcr won the 100-mctcr dash with an NCAA provisional quali lyingmark of 11.56 seconds. She won the 200 meter dash with a time of 24.77 and also helped the 4 x 100-rclay team to a win. Sophomore Tressa Thompson won the women’s shot put, junior Andrea Bourland won the triple jump, junior Willie Hibler won the 110-meter hurdles, senior Brady Bonsall won the 5,000-meter run and junior David Amct won the pole vault.
