Myatt shifts gears
MYATT from page 10
coach, said Myatt’s hard work has
paid off and she has made the tran
sition easily.
“Jill has done well,” Maxwell
said. “She works hard in practice
to make herself a better sprinter.”
In addition to being four-time
Big Eight Champion — winning
two titles on the 4 x 400 relay team
and the 600-yard run in two out
door meets-—Myatt is regarded as
a leader of the team.
“Some people are vocal when
it comes be being a leader, but I
prefer to lead by example,” Myatt
said. “Team unity is something that
I encourage because as well as be
ing an individual sport, it’s also a
team sport, and unity is very im
portant.”
Myatt said the Huskers—who
have won 17 consecutive indoor
titles—are the oo-favorites along
with Texas at this weekend’s Big
12 meet.
“Tbxas is loaded, but if we can
come together and perform to our
capabilities I believe we can win,”
she said. “We work so hard during
the year, and no award would
match a fourth indoor title.”
Coaches ready far meet
TRACK from page 10
Sophomore Nanceen Perry’s 23.51
seconds in the 200-meter dash is
by far the nation's fastest time this
year. Senior Donna Howard and
sophomore Suziann Reid own the
top two spots in the country in the
400-meters. The 4 x 400-meter re
lay team also owns the quickest
time in the nation.
On the men’s side, Iowa State
is one team that will try to prevent
NU from claiming the first Big 12
title. Cyclone Men’s Coach Steve
Lynn said the Huskers will be the
favorite at home, but there are other
teams who could take home the
league trophy.
“Oklahoma is the strongest
they’ve been since 1977,” Lynn
said. “They have more sure points
than anyone else.
“Texas is very strong in the field
events and they’ll bring a solid
team. Texas is an unknown.
They’ve had some great perfor
mances and I don’t think they’ve
run everyone.”
ISU brings a team with six All
Americans to the meet, including
Frank Nwankpa. Lynn said
Nwankpa will be a contender in the
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We just hope we
get into the meet
and have the
performances and
breaks to be in it
at the end.”
Steve Lynn
ISU track and field coach >
60- and 200-meters.
Lynn said the meet will be tre
mendous and the addition of the
Texas schools has added depth and
quality to the conference. However,
more than just strong performances
will win the meet for someone, he
said.
“Anytime you win,-you get a
few tweaks,” Lynn said. “You have
to get on a roll and don't screw up.
We just hope we get into the meet
and have the performances and
tweaks to be in it at the end.”
Krapfl eager for top 10 spot
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BySamMcKewon
Staff Reporter
said she doesn’t think her team will
finish in the top 10 in the tournament,
next week will be a good early posi
tive test for NU.
“We may not finish very high in
the tournament,” Krapfl said, “but
that’s not a high priority. We want to
build toward the end of the spring,
when the really important tourna
ments are.”
This year the team will build
around junior Rachelle Thcha. Tacha
is ranked 40th in the nation, and in
the fall she averaged a score of 77.06
pa round. The Manhattan, Kan., na
tive won the Big Eight individual
championship last spring.
Krapfl said Thcha’s improvement
was (me of the driving faces behind
the surprising fall season.
“Rachelle stepped her game up a
notch in the fall,” Krapfl said. “She
got to another level.”
Another pleasant surprise has been
freshman Hanne Nyquist. Nyquist,
from Oslo, Norway, jumped to 44th
in the national rankings and shot a
school-record round of 70 at the Big
12 Preview meet in the fall.
Nyquist is just one part of a group
of newcomers that have filled out the
Huskers’ lineup.
“The four new starters came in
with a little mare maturity and expe
rience than I had expected,” Krapfl
said. “I didn’t think we’d be setting
school records.
The short game has been a prob
lem for the Huskers in the past, but
Krapfl said the team needs to over
come that obstacle to be in the top 10.
“We’re doing anything that we
can,” she said. “We’re going to work
hard on our short game and take ev
ery conceivable step to improve it.”
Once again NU’s goal is to make
the NCAA Championships, which are
at Columbus, Ohio. In each of the past
two seasons, the Huskers have missed
qualifying for the tournament finals
by one stroke.
“We want to work up to the NCAA
Championships with every meet that
we go to ” Krapfl said. “We’ve got to
be good enough to get in the NCAA’s
by the end of the year.
Krapfl said Nebraska has the tal
ent to be a top 10 team, but now it is
just an issue of the team wanting it.
“The biggest challenge is always
mental,” she said. “The team is going
to have to believe that it is in the top
10 in the country.”
Tbumament excites baseball team
BySamMcKewon
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska baseball team faces
Division I competition for the first
time this afternoon at the Rawlings
Spring Training Tournament in Phoe
nix.
“It’s time to go play in a Division
I tournament,” NU Coach John Sand
ers said. *T think the guys want to do
that.”
Nebraska takes on Northeastern at
3 this afternoon. The Comhuskers
play in-state rival Creighton on Fri
day and Northern Iowa on Saturday
during the round-robin tournament.
The teams with the twfthest and two
worst records play each other on Sun
day.
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NU improved to 3-0 with a double
header sweep of the University of Ne
braska at Kearney on Tuesday. The
Huskers won the first game 6-1 and
triumphed 8-6 in the nightcap.
Pitching has been Nebraska’s
strength in its last three wins. NU has
held opponents to a .237 batting aver
age and compiled a team camed-run
average of 3.33 for the season. Senior
left-hander Pat Driscoll has yet to sur
render a run in 7 1/3 innings of work
this season. Right-hander Steve Fish
has also been impressive with a vic
tory and a 2.45 ERA.
Nebraska plans to throw senior
right-hander Pete Lythgoe for the first
time this season against the Huskies.
Fish will throw on Friday with
Driscoll taking the hill Saturday.
Like its opponents, Nebraska has
had its share of problems at the plate
this year. The Huskers are hitting .250
as a team, but struck out 18 times in
two games against the Antelopes. In
NU’s first game against Wayne State,
NU batters fanned eight times.
Leading the way has been junior
second baseman Kevin Harrington,
with a .333 average and three RBI.
Nebraska has one advantage over
the competition in Phoenix — game
experience this season.
Sanders said the Huskers have had
a chance to work out the kinks more
than the other teams, but he is still
concerned entering the tournament.
“We’ve got to crank the season up.
We need to get started with tourna
ment play and carry that into into the
Big 12 season.”
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Huskers roar past Bears in second half
BEARS from page 10
have to turn it up a notch.”
Whatever the Huskers lost without
Doage defensively, they made up for
offensively. NU shot 66 percent from
die field in the second half as five play
ers scored double figures.
Nebraska, which held a 51-44 lead
at half, expanded its lead with red-hot
shooting. NU hit nine of their first 11
shots to go up 58-37 five minutes into
the half. Rogers scored 10 points dur
ing an 18-8 run that was capped by a
3-pointer by freshman Nicole Kubik.
“My teammates were doing a great
job of getting the ball to me,” Rogers
said. “1 just happened to be in the right
place at the right time, and when we
have people like Anna DeForge who
demand the respect to be double
teamed, it opens up a lot for me.”
Despite the loss of Doage in the
second half, Nebraska controlled the
ball and the tempo. The Huskers held
a double-digit advantage throughout
the half but turned the ball over nine
times. NU finished with 15 turnovers
against the Bears (11-12 and 4-6) who
were forcing 26 per game.
Defensively, the Huskers held the
Bears’ leading scorer, Kacy Moffitt,
to only six points. MofFitt, a 6-4 sopho-1
more—who averaged 17.9 points in
Baylor’s last six contests—attempted
only three shots in the first half and
did not score until the final two min
utes of the second half.
Fifteen players contributed to the
NU’s dominance, with 12 getting in
the game for at least three minutes.
“I felt comfortable using a lot of
players,” Beck said,”because we ex
pected a victory. If we wouldn’t have
gotten a win tonight, we would have
hit rock bottom. It would have been
really hard to get back. We should
• have won, we did, and I’m happy.”
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