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Fight Night
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Saturday, April 19, 1997-7P.M.
4-H Building, State Fairgrounds
Amateur boxing at its best!
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Fairgrounds the day of the event
Huskers hit the road at .500
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By David Wilson
Staff Reporter
through its Big 12 Con
the Nebraska base
one game out of the
cellar in the
ague. '
The
Comhuskers (22
overall and 4
1 in the Big 12)
will look to make
up ground in a
three-game series
against 20th
ranked Oklahoma
beginning today at
Okla.
in die Big
conference tour
City, May 15
18.
Nebraska is 0-6 against thfc south
em schools of the conference this sea
son — including a three-game sweep
by Texas A&M last weekend in Col
lege Station, Texas. But since losing
13 straight games Feb. 22 through
March 11, the Huskers have gone 15
9. . V ,
“This season’s been full of
stretches and runs,” NU Coach John
Sanders said. “We dug ourselves such
a massive hole with that losing
streak.”
The Huskers will enter this
weekend’s series with a four-game
winning streak. NU reached the .500
mark for the first time since March
26 after taking doubleheaders from
Hastings College on Ttiesday and Peru
State on Wednesday. Twelve ofNU’s
22 wins this season have come against
non-Division I schools.
“It’s nice to get back — because
playing below .500 is pretty pathetic
as far as I’m concerned,” NU second
baseman Kevin Harrington said after
hitting two grand slams against Peru
State. “This is the hardest part of the
season coming up, so it’s good to get
these wins.”
The Sooners, who rank second in
the league, have won their last seven
games and own a team batting aver
age of .357—.002 above their school
record.
With just one senior on its roster,
Oklahoma has relied on younger play
ers to spark its attack.
Sophomore Casey Bookout leads
the Sooners with a .436 batting aver
age and has knocked in 14 runs in
OU’s last 11 games. Bookout has also
spanked a team-high 10 homers.
The Sooner bats will face Nebraska
ace Steve Fish today. The right-handed
senior owns a 4.89 eamed-run aver
age and has won a team-high six
games. But against conference oppo
nents this season, Fish posts a 1-3
record and a 7.90 ERA.
Junior left-hander Kenny
Duebelbeis (3-2 and 4.89) will start
for Nebraska in Saturday’s 2 p.m.
game and senior lefty Pat Driscoll (2
5 and 5.78) will take the hill on Sun
day at 1 pan.
Offensively, NU is led by first
baseman Todd Sears, who went 2 for
7 against the Bobcats on Wednesday.
Sears lowered his average to a team
high .440. Against conference oppo
nents, Sears is batting .439.
After three games in Norman, Ne
braska will travel to Lubbock, Texas,
for a three-game series against No. 1
Texas Tech April 22-23. The Red
Raiders (34-5 and 14-4) also rank first
in the Big 12.
The Huskers return home to Buck
Beltzer Field on April 25-27 to play
host to 15th-ranked Oklahoma State
(30-11 and 12-6). The Cowboys rank
third in the conference.
Road 1 for NU
ByMkeKluck n
Senior Reporter
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After a two-game*,,split with
Creighton Tuesday night in Omaha, the
Nebraska softball team is facing the
crossroads of its season this weekend.
NU beat the Bluejays 5-4 in the
first game, but lost the second 0-6 in
what was the Comhuskers’ first loss
to Creighton in 10 games,
i “We really had a heart-to-heart talk
|§rith the team after the ganse,? NU
Coach Rhonda Revelle said. “We are
at a point in our season where we can
roll over and let this season play out
or we can figure out a way tp fight our
way through it.” % ^
* Deciding which road to take won’t
be easy for NU (17-17 overall; 3*J4n
' the Big 12 conference) as they face
league foes No. 9 Missouri and No.
24Ransas away from Lincoln.
The Huskers play the Tigers (36
10 and 10-2) in a doubleheader be
ginning at noon on Saturday in Co
lumbia, Mo. Then Nebraska travels to
Lawrence, Kan., on Sunday for two
games a^inst the Jayhawks (27-14
and 9-2) beginning at noon.
So far this season, the Huskers
have beaten Kansas 3-0 on March 15,
at the Cowgirl Tournament in
Stillwater, Okla., but lost to the
-Jayhawks 5-4 in the Cellular One.
Classic. The loss came the day after
NU lost both senior Ali Vida — for
the season — and freshman Jennifer
Uzama on the same play against Iowa.
“These games are not crucial,”
Revelle said, “The whde conference
season is crucial. Although for us, ev
ery garite at this point in time has a lot
of importance. All games are big now.
Revelle said the Huskers have been
focusing on concentration this week
in practice. NU has swept just one of
the last five doubleheaders in which
it has played — against Creighton on
April 3.
“We have really lacked an ability
to concentrate for that long a period
of time,” Revelle said. “I want us to
be completely focused on every mo
ment and every pitch of every game.
We need tp have a focused energy, and
right now I thinks it’s an unbridled
energy.”
Nebraska has been hurt in games
this season in which it has jumped out
to a big lead, losing focus and letting
the other teams come back, Revelle
said.
“We’re just starting over,” Revelle said.
“We haven’t been playing well recently.”
I DRAFT from page 7 •
-> “My name is not going to come up
any faster by sitting around and watch
ing the draft,” Benning said. “It's like
when you were a little kid and wait
ing for your ride to arrive. It would
never come while you watched for it,
but the minute you went to do some
thing else that’s when it arrived.
That’s kind of the philosophy I’m tak
ing this weekend.”
Both Benning and Tomich said
they are looking forward to this week
end to gain direction with their lives.
“Since January I haven’t had any
stability,” Tomich said. ‘I’ve had a
structured lifestyle for four-and-a-half
years and then in December, I just kind
of got thrown out there for the first
time ever.
“This weekend is going to be good
because I’m going to get things
straightened out and figure out where
I’m going to be living.”
Joining Benning and Tomich in
the waiting game this weekend on
where finding out where their football
careers will take them are comerback
Michael Booker, offensive lineman
Chris Dishman, linebacker Terrell
Farley, linebacker Jen Hesse, defen
sive back Mike Minter, defensive line
man Jeff Ogard, fullback Brian
Schuster, safety &ic Stokes, offensive
lineman Adam lYeu and linebacker
Jamel Williams.
The problem for most of the 12
Huskers waiting to be drafted is they
don’t know when they will or if they
will be picked. Except for Booker and
Williams who are predicted to go late
in the first or early in the second
rounds, the rest of die players could
—-7-—
My philosophy is to
expect the worst and,
hope for the best ”
Damon Benning
former NU running back
go in any of the remaining six rounds
or not even be drafted.
Tomich, who has been projected as
an NFL linebacker, said he has heard
he might go anywhere between the
second and sixth rounds.
The Pro Football Weekly said
Tomich is a “tweener” who doesn’t
have enough size for defensive end
and is to slow to play linebacker. How
ever, the report also said Tomich has
“enough ability to make a team and
contribute.”
Tomich said he has heard a report
saying he already hasreached his
physical potential. But he has blown
off that report because he has talked
to many different teams in the which
have expressed an interest in him play
ing for them.
Also during a March testing ses
sion in Lincoln, Tbmich posted some
of the best times of his career.
Benning said he has talked to five
different teams this week including his
favorite team the Pittsburgh Steelers,
which called on him Thursday night.
“Nobody is trying to give out any
information,” Benning said. “My phi
losophy is to expect the worst and hope
for the best.”
NU has 6
in NCAA
finals
FINALS from page 7
llth in the country.
He finished third at the 1996
NCAA Individual Finals in Palo
Alto, Calif., but Harris said he
wants to improve on that finish in
Iowa City, Iowa.
Sophomore Marshall Nelson
qualified on the high bar, vault,
pommel horse and parallel bars,
winning each event at regionals.
Nelson said finishing fourth at
regionals has made preparation for
the individual event finals difficult.
“It’s been pretty hard to come
into the gym and be motivated,”
Nelson said. “For me, I just want
to finish the season on a high note.”
Allen said Nelson has a good
chance to do just that.
The Greeley, Colo., native is
ranked fourth on the parallel bars
and seventh on the pommel horse
and high bar.
Nelson said competing only for
individual honors will be a change
of pace.
“We still have to go out and hit
our routines” Nelson said. “It’sjust
that you know it isn’t counting for
tire team. You have to draw a lot of
your motivation from inside.”
Senior Ryan McEwen and
freshman Blake Bukacek, both
from Lincoln, will compete on the
high bar.