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CALL TODAY 484-5211 http.7/Vwvw. binary, net NU coaches like the | idea of pushing back ( baseball, softball | schedules. By David Wilson Staff Reporter Though the Nebraska baseball team will not play a game until Feb, 18, many warm-weather schools are well into their first week of the regu lar season. Because of that, the NCAA is re viewing legislation that would push the start of both the baseball and soft ball seasons to mid-April and having them run until the end of June. The proposal, introduced by the athletic directors of the Big 10 Conference, could take effect as soon as 1999, NU Baseball Coach John Sanders said. And a later start, Sanders said, would minimize the warm-weather schools’ advantages. “They’re (southern teams) practic ing outside—not just playing,” Sand ers said. “This would give everybody that reasonable chance to do those things.” NU Softball Coach Rhonda Revelle wrote an article in a coaches’ magazine that helped push the idea of moving the season back. Revelle said with 220-plus Divi sion I teams—more than half play in a true winter climate—it makes sense to move the season back. ' “We want to play national cham pionship caliber teams and we can’t have them come here,” Revel le said. “So for the first month or first six weeks we are on the road.” ^, That also hurts the softball program’s fan base. Sports like soccer, volleyball and women’s basketball are supported well by Nebraska fans. Revelle said if the temperature was above 40 degrees, more than 600 fans would come to NU games. But if the temperature dropped below 40, she said, “we’re lucky to have the parents come out.” ii me season is pushed back a month, the College World Scries, nor mally played during the first week of June at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, would likely be played at the end of June. But a later-then-usual World Se ries will also give college summer leagues a later start. Sanders said those leagues could work around post-sea son play. “Eighty-three percent of college baseball teams don’t go to the NCAA regionals,” Sanders said. “Those guys will be ready to play ball right after the season ends.” Revelle said the committee needs to look into such factors as when school ends, other academic conflicts, Sartors Revelle summer job factors and housing prob lems that could be encountered. The Huskers, who have not quali fied for a regional since 1986, will start this season on new turf, which was installed last month. The new turf will drain better and not pose a hazard to the players. “The turf we were on, we had for 14 years,” Sanders said. “It’s like car pet at home that wears out. You get down to the pad eventually. It became really dangerous.” TTie Huskers were able to practice outside this week, but that opportu nity is rare in January, Sanders said. Even if the season is pushed back a month, Sanders said, the northern schools will never have all the advan tages of the warm-weather teams. “Unfortunately, we’d still have some cold weather up here and prac tice opportunities wouldn’t be the same as a warm-weather school,” Sanders said. De Vitis leaves NU soccer team " . ' • ■ \ We lker’s Iding t'lo.a puzzle that has brought the three year-old progi-am into the nation’s elite. T h e Comhuskers fin ished 23-1 in 1996 and were on the ioorstepofaFinal a. berfl before tosing io Portland the quarterfinals last fall • inu iuoi only one player, Kim RatlifT, to graduation. While NU returns most of its fire power from last year’s squad, the team will be without midfielder/striker Erica De Vitis and possibly midfielder ■ ■ Jill Nelson. De Vitis, a 5-foot-4 sophomore from Irvine, Calif., has decided to re turn closer to home. She has trans ferred to Southern California. “We support Erica 100 percent,” Walker said. “She was always kind of homesick here. That was the primary reason. It was an amicable parting.” De Vitis made her mark as a cre ative one-on-one player with an at tacking style in her two years at NU. She started all 24 games for NU last season scoring eight points on two goals and four assists. Walker said Nelson, a freshman from Newport Beach, Calif., plans to leave, but has not yet come to a final decision. Nelson saw limited action, coming off the bench to play 19 games last year. She had four points on two goals and a pair of assists. Walker has compiled an accom plished 47-13 record in his three years at Nebraska. Last week, he was picked as the National Senior College M Women’s Coach of the Year. But he refuses to take sole credit for the award. “It’s a nice honor,” Walker said. “But it reflects more on my players and my assistants — Marty Everding and Megan Bechtold.” Walker was also the Big 12 Cotir ferehce Coach of the Year and the NSCAA Central Region Coach of the Year. On Feb. 2, Walker will coach in the NSCAA Select All-Star Classic in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It is made up of the nation’s top seniors, much like college football’s Senior Bowl. Walker will coach players from schools such as Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, San Diego, Wisconsin, Stanford, Portland and NCAA runner up Notre Dame. “I’m looking forward to it,” he said. “There are quite a few All Americans. We’re not going to put in a major game plan, we’re just going to go out and have fun.” Schwartz adjusts to new role ’■ - ' By Sean Lewis Staff Reporter Brooke Schwartz has gone from a go-to player to a reserve in less than rmftVAXtr snnvthinitiKai lvu> m'lion tka ■V; 1 tu I } I : $ ri wvnwwtf mo HTViaglllg acvcu points per game and ranks third on the team in 3-point shooting in her first season. Wednesday night against Missouri, she had 14 points and grabbed six rebounds. She was 6 of 8 from the field. Coach Angela Beck said Schwartz has had to make adjustments this sea •* . ' son and that one day, Schwartz will become a special player for NU. “I think it’s been a tremendous adjustment for her from high school,” Beck said. “From being everything that her team needed to craning to college and playing team ball and hav ing to adjust to the fundamentals of the game. “Another adjustment she’s had to make is coming off the bench. I’m sure she’d like to start, but I think she un derstands that this is another level.” Schwartz said it is a totally differ ent level of play and a different sys tem for her to learn. “In high school, I could score at will and here there’s so many other players that can score,” Schwartz said. “Everyone’s a scorer, hot just one player.” Defense is still an area of concern, Schwartz said. Although she has 34 steals, fifth on the team, she isn’t to tally happy with her performance. “If you were a good player, the coach didn’t care what you did. Here you could be the bottom player and you still have to be disciplined as much as the top player.” Beck said Schwartz’s defense is a little behind the rest of her teammates, but that Schwartz has the natural in u— I think she’s going to be a great leader.’’ Angela Beck ' NU women’s basketball coach stincts and ability to force steals when people don’t expect them. Making the transition from the star to coming off the bench hasn’t been difficult, according to Schwartz. Be ing one of the first players off the bench for the Huskers is just as good. “It doesn’t really matter here what player you are, as long as you contrib ute,” she said. “I feel like I’m contrib uting, doing what I need to do as a player on the team, and that’s just fine to me.” Beck said Schwartz will have a chance to earn a starting spot next sea son when senior point guard Lalbya Doage graduates. “I think she’s going to be a great leader,” Beck said. “Right now she’s just trying to gel and become one of the team and do what she can to make us SUCCMffill.”