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Big 12 baseball suffered numer
ous postponements and
cancelations last week because of
the weather. Of the 13 games sched
uled for last Wednesday through
Friday, 10 were canceled or post
poned. The Texas-Iowa State series,
which was set for Ames, Iowa, be
came the first Big 12 series to not
be played this season.
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The Houston Chronicle reported
in its Monday editions that Texas
Tech did not report several athletes
who had made illegal long-distance
phone calls. Tech is already in hot
water with the news that star run
ning back Byron Hanspard posted
a 0.00 grade point average in the
fall semester.
By not reporting the latest inci
dents, the Red Raiders could break
major NCAA violations. The calls
made from an athletic conference
room were linked to members of the
men’s basketball and football teams.
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Colorado Women’s Basketball
Coach Ceal Barry was offered the
position as top coach of the USA
Basketball women’s program for
the 2000 Summer Olympics. The
job, which calls for a four-year com
mitment, was not appealing enough
to Barry, who was an assistant on
the gold-medal winning team in the
1996 Atlanta Games.
“There were definitely some at
tractive things, but I have a long and
happy relationship with Colorado,”
Barry said.
Texas Tech Coach Marsha
Sharp has cut down her duties at the
school. Sharp, who has been at Tech
for 16 seasons, will remain as bas
ketball coach but has dropped her
job as the Red Raiders’ senior
women’s administrator.
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Marcia Mounsey, a freshman on
the Colorado women’s track and
field team, died at Children’s Hos
pital in Boulder, Colo., on Monday
from acute respiratory arrest, school
officials said.
Mounsey suffered a reaction
from antibiotics that damaged her
lungs in December, and she had
been on a respirator for four
months.
Big 12 Notebook compiled by
staff reporter Peter Marhoefer.
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Texas Tech has jumped not only
to the top of Big 12 Conference
baseball standings, but to the top of
the college ranks as well. The Red
Raiders (32-5 overall and 14-4 in
the Big 12), who were fourth last
week, knocked top-ranked Louisi
ana State (34-6) out of the No. 1
spot in the latest Collegiate Base
ball poll.
Other Big 12 teams ranked in the
poll are Oklahoma State (28-11 and
12-6) at No. 15 and No. 20 Okla
homa (26-10 and 11-4). After
Nebraska’s doubleheader with Peru
State today, NU plays eight straight
games against those three teams.
Hoskers pomp past Broncos
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NU-ficofes 28 runs,
allows five hits in
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doubleheader sweep. ;
By David Wilson
Staff Reporter
Last week’s snow didn’t help the
Nebraska baseball team.
The Comhuskers, who were swept
in three games at Texas A&M last
weekend, got back into the swing of
tilings Tuesday at Buck Beltzer Field,
sweeping a doubleheader from
Hastings College.
Sophomore right-hander Seth Wil
liams (1-0) tossed a two-hitter in the
first game en route to a 4-0 Nebraska
win. In the nightcap, the Husker bats
warmed lip as NU
clobbered
Hastings 24-0.
Bad weather in
Lincoln last week
canceled two
games against Oral
Roberts, and
forced the Huskers
to practice indoors
all week before
they traveled to
College Station, Texas.
“I firmly believe that being inside
last week hurt us a lot,” NU Coach John
Sanders said. “We needed to get our
hitting rhythm back. At Kansas State
we were hot and hitting the ball well.
Then we had to go inside for a week.
That really shut us down.”
Nebraska will play host to Peru
State today in a doubleheader begin
ning at 2:30 p.m. at Buck Beltzer Held.
The Huskers are 10-0 against Division
II teams this season.
In the second game on Tuesday,
Nebraska pounded out 22 hits while
five NU pitchers combined to keep the
Broncos scoreless.
Freshman Ken Harvey led the
Huskers going 4 for 5 with six RBIs.
The 6-foot-2, 230-pound righty, also
knocked his first career home run — a
342-foot opposite-field shot to right
field. Harvey, who is hitting .303 this
season, had not batted in a game since
NU’s March 27 loss to Washington in
Honolulu.
“John felt like today was my day,”
Harvey said. “So I came out to prove
that I can hit the ball. It felt real nice. I
was used to that in high school, but it’s
been pretty subject here. It was nice to
break out.”
With the help of NU Assistant
Coach Mike Anderson, Harvey said he
had recently changed his batting
stance. Instead of “dipping” over the
plate, Harvey said he now stands more
upright.
Sanders said Harvey was due for a
breakout game at the plate.
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Support
leads to
success
By Gregg Madsen
StaffReporter
A map will show that Shelly
Bartlett is about 1,360 miles from
her family in Spokane, Wash.
But in spirit, they’re as close as
a heartbeat.
The senior Nebraska women’s
gymnast hasn’t let the miles come
between her and her brother, two
sisters and parents.
The support they have offered
and the values Bartlett’s parents in
stilled in her have enabled her to
become one of the most successful
Comhusker gymnasts in school his
tory.
Bartlett said her parents, Bob
and Nina Bartlett, have been a
source of strength and inspiration
throughout her life — especially
during her four years at NU.
“I can’t imagine my life without
both of them working together as a
unit for me,” Bartlett said. “I guess
I’ve just grown up with a really
strong family.”
Bartlett said the values that her
parents taught her helped her adjust
to the demanding schedule of a Di
vision I student-athlete.
‘The kind of values that our
whole family has grown up with,
you hear people talk about a Mid
western hard-work ethic, I think
that’s why I fit in here in the Mid
west so well because my parents
raised me on the same value system
of working hard and being goal
driven.”
Bartlett said she calls home as
many times as possible to hear the
latest news about the rest of the fam
ily, including her sisters Maureen
and Anne, and her younger brother
Robert.
“Sometimes I call them every
other day,” she said. “Sometimes I
don’t talk to them for a week or so.
A lot of times there’s so much go
ing on in my life that I just can’t wait
to call and tell them about it.”
Bartlett, who was named the
1997 Nebraska female student-ath
lete of the year this week, has en
Please see BARTLETT on 8
TOP: SHELLY BARTLETT has
become one of the most popular
and successful gymnasts In her
four years at Nebraska. On
Thursday at the NCAA
Championships in Oainesvllle,
Fla., Bartlett will compete In her
last meet as a Corahsuker.
LEFT: BARTLETT, who competes
here on the floor exercise, owns
two school records — on the
balance beam and all-around —
and shares another on the uneven
bars. She enters the NCAAs ranked
as the nation’s sixth-ranked all
arounder.
Photos by Matt Miller/DN