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Mike Kluck
Weak schedule
gives scalpers
fewer chances
Nebraska’s fall football schedule
never seemed to bother me until this
week.
Sure, last week I was disap
pointed when Nebraska wasn’t go
ing to play host to the Pigskin Clas
sic, but it didn’t bother me until a
couple days ago.
So why has my reasoning
changed?
Student football tickets went on
sale Monday and I began looking at
the schedule — not to see who the
Huskers were playing — for scalp
ing value.
In past years the money I’ve made
from scalping my season tickets have
helped pay a generous portion of my
tuition.
This year—with the likes of Ak
ron and Central Florida dotting NU’s
home slate — I’ll be lucky to make
enough money scalping to buy a
Happy Meal at McDonald’s.
In the old Big Eight Conference
you could always count on the
Comhuskers playing at least a decent
Oklahoma or Colorado team at home
and maybe even sneaking in a good
non-conference game to draw in the
bucks — not for the football team,
but for me.
This year I don’t expect this to
be a common phrase on home
gameday afternoons: “I’ll give you
$100 for two Central Florida tick
ets and $100 apiece for Kansas
State.”
Probably, the more common
phrase will be, “Zip for the Zips.”
What’s worse,there will probably
be a bunch of unsold tickets by Ak
ron fans. You see, last year 1,800 fens
showed up for the Zip’s homecom
ing game at the Rubber Bowl and this
season if the Zips don’t draw at least
17,000 fans per home contest they
will lose their Division I status.
With Akron being lucky to draw
iu,uuu tans at home, do you think
they will sell their allotment of tick
ets for its Nebraska road game? Not
even a Zip fan probably wants to zip
over to Lincoln and watch his or her
team get massacred.
So more tickets in the market
place drips the scalping market price
—simple economics.
The worst thing about my prob
lem is that there is no one I can Name.
I can’t blame Nebraska Athletic
Director Bill Byrne. He did try to get
the best teams possible to come to
Lincoln and nobody would come
here for the Pigskin Gassic.
So, this year I’m going to have to
be creative in my scalping ways.
Phrases like these may become
common soon: “I’ll sell you an Ak
ron, Texas Tech and Kansas State
ticket for $100" or “You buy my Cen
tral Florida ticket and I’ll throw in a
volleyball ticket.”
The things you leam in college.
Klnck is a journalism gradu
ate student and a Daily Nebras
kan senior reporter.
Snow, golf Nyquist’s loves
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
It might be hard to believe, but
there are places in the world where
the winter lasts longer than in Ne
braska.
NU freshman golfer Hanne
Nyquist knows that all too well.
Nyquist is a native of Oslo, Nor
way, where she doesn’t get a chance
to hit golf balls outdoors until mid
May and has to end her season just
three-and-a-half months later in
September, leaving little time for
Nyquist to hone her skills.
It is from this snowy Scandina
vian landscape, however, that the
Nebraska women’s golf team
plucked possibly its finest player
ever.
“Hanne has as much potential
as any player in the country right
now,” NU Coach Robin Krapfl
said. “She has helped greatly.”
In only her first season for the
Comhuskers, Nyquist has already
won the Utah-Dixie Classic and
tied the school record for the low
est round score with 70, twice. She
also entered the spring ranked as
44th women’s golfer in the nation.
Nyquist said her play has im
proved greatly since coming to Lin
coln.
“My short game and the mental
part of my game has been a lot bet
ter since I came here,” Nyquist said.
“I feel good about my game.”
Nyquist came to play at Ne
braska in a roundabout way. After
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CUFFTON DURHAM fields a ground ball in the first game of Nebraska’s doubleheader with Peru State. NU
wen both games 15-8 and 14-2.
NU Masts Peni State
Harrington knocks
two grand slams as
the Huskers reach
.500.___
By Mitch Sherman
Senior Reporter
For the first time since March
2, the Nebraska baseball team
reached the .500 mark Wednesday,
but from here
on out, things
don’t get much
easier.
In fact,
things get
much more
difficult.
The
Cornhuskers
_ (22-22) swept
™®**^*®" a double
header from Peru State 15-8 and
14-2 at Buck Beltzer Field, capi
talizing on a pair of grand slams
from second baseman Kevin
Harrington. The two wins com
pleted a perfect four-game
homestand in which NU out-scored
non-Division-I competition 57-10
over the last two days.
“This was a good couple days
to get some life into the bats,” Ne
braska Coach John Sanders said.
“Now our goal is to take that into
the weekend.”
The Huskers return to the road
—where they own a 0-10 record
this season — Friday for a three
game series with Oklahoma, fol
lowed by six games in seven days
against No. 1 Texas Tech and Okla
homa State.
“We really have a challenge
ahead of us,” Sanders said, “and the
guys are excited for it. It’s going
to take everything we have, but we
want to play these games.” x
Wednesday before a crowd of
150, Peru State led 5-2 in the fourth
inning of the first game and 6-5 in
the sixth inning before Harrington
launched his first grand slam to
give the Huskers a 9-6 lead.
‘‘I’ve never even hit one grand
slam < before today,” said
Harrington, a junior from Half
Moon Bay, Calif.
Nebraska scored six runs in the
seventh to seal the win, and Bran
don Banuelos (2-2) picked up the
victory, allowing two runs in three
innings. Kyle Becker (2-1) took the
loss for the Bobcats, who dropped
to 13-20.
u
It’s going to take
everything we
have, but we want
to play these
games.”
John Sanders
NU baseball coach
In game two, NU sent 15 bat
ters to the plate in the fourth inning,
scoring 10 runs on eight hits.
Harrington again provided the
knockout punch, upping the score
to 8-0 with his seventh home run
of the season.
Sophomore left-hander Jay
Sirianni (1-0) pitched 5 2/3 perfect
innings before Aaron Baumert
blooped a single up the right-field
line. Bobcat starter Lance Rurz (0
3) allowed four runs in three in
nings. Harrington finished the day
5 for 9 with nine RBI, and center
fielder Francis Collins added six
hits and four runs in 11 at-bats.
Huskers
want in
Super Six
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s gymnastics
team worked diligently to get into this
afternoon’s session of the NCAA
Championships
in Gainesville,
Fla.
Today at 1,
they’ll be work
ing just as hard to
get out.
If the
Comhuskers fin
ish in the top three
of the six-team
afternoon session WllklRSOR
at the O’Connell Center, they will ad
vance for the first time in school his
tory to the Super Six team finals Fri
day night at 7.
But making the Super Six will be
difficult for each team in the even
seeded afternoon session. The 10th
seeded Huskers face 10-time national
champion Utah, UCLA, LSU, Penn
State and overwhelming favorite Geor
gia.
NU was left out of the Super Six
last year by .025 of a point, finishing
fourth in the afternoon session behind
Michigan, and ending the season
ranked No. 10.
Nebraska Coach Dan Kendig said
making this year’s Super Six will re
quire a flawless performance.
“The teams that advance are going
to be the ones that make the fewest
mistakes,” Kendig said. “It’s just that
simple.”
Another key for the Huskers will
be replacing injured sophomore Amie
Dillman on the vault and the flow ex
ercise. Dillman, from Katy, Tfexas, tore
ligaments in both knees while landing
on a practice vault at the NCAA Mid
west Regional in Salt Lake City.
Freshman Nicole Wilkinson will
replace Dillman on the flow exercise.
Wilkinson said she is excited about
competing in the pressure-packed at
mosphere of nationals.
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