For the fourth straight year, the
Nebraska women’s golf team has
qualified for the NCAA West Re
gional.
The Comhuskers, who finished
third at the Big 12 Tournament, join
four other Big 12 schools in the re
gional. Texas, Texas A&M, Okla
homa State and Texas Tech will
also compete in the tournament
which starts May 8 at Tucson, Ariz.
NU is the eighth seed and the top
11 finishers in the regional make the
NCAA Championships. The Husk
os have missed the NCAAs by one
stroke the past two years.
The brackets are set for the Big
12 Conference Softball Tournament
this weekend in Oklahoma City.
Friday morning. No. 8-seed
Baylor (37-20 and 4-8) [days No. 9
Texas Tech (34-18-1 and 1-13) and
seventh-seed Texas (27-22 and 6
10) plays No. 10 Iowa State (1$-2P
and 1-11) The winner of the Bears-'
Tech game plays No. 1 seed Mis
souri (43-11 and 15-3) later Friday,
while the winner of the Cyclones
Longhoras game [days No. 2-seed
:'r In other opening-round action,
Nd. 4 Nebraska (26-20 and 10-6)
plays No. 5 Oklahoma State (34
18 and 10-7) and thud-seed Kan
sas (33-18 and 11-6) plays No. 6
Texas A&M (35-26 and 7-9) in the
double-elimination tournament.
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Texas started off the Big 12 Con
ference tennis era with a title sweep.
Both the Longhorn men and women
— the regular season conference
champs — won the league tourna
ment titles two weekends ago.
On the men’s side, top-seed UT
upended second-seed Kansas 4-1 as
the Longhorns won the doubles
point and three of four singles
matches to win die tide. As for the
women, Texas edged third-seed
Texas A&M 5-4.
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With two weeks left in the con
ference baseball season, four teams
have clinched spots in the league
. tournament .1."’ '
Baylor, Texas Tech, Oklahoma
and Oklahoma State all have,*,
clinched berths in the league tour
nament which starts May 15 in
Oklahoma City, ';"U_
Senior wide receiver Andre
Anderson was dismissed from the
Kansas State football team last
week by KSU Coach Bill Snyder.
Anderson, who lost his scholar
ship before the spring because of dis
ciplinary reasons, was listed as No.
1 on the depth chart and was to re
place NFL draftee Kevin Lockett
The native of West Palm Beach, Fla.,
caught 23 passes and five touch
downs for the Wildcats last season.
Snyder said Anderson cannot
return to the field under any circum
stances. ~~~
Big 12 Notebook compiled by
staff reporter Vince D’Adamo.
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each blast homei'fijtns
against the Bluejays.*?
By David Wilson
Staff Reporter
OMAHA — The Creighton base
ball team can’t beat Steve Fish.
For the third time this season, the
senior right-hander earned a complete
game win over the Bluejays as Ne
braska rolled to a 4-1 victory Tuesday
at Rosenblatt Stadium. The
Comhuskers improved to 24-30 and
earned their first win on the road.
Fish, who earned his team-high
I
be got into a
groove, he was pretty much sailing.”
NU catcher Andrew Sawyers put
the Huskers ahead -0 in the top of the
second with iwo-run line shot over
the left center field fence. But the
Bluejays (24-22) struck right back.
Fish issued his only walk of the
game to right fielder Mike Haynes in
die bottom half of the inning. Third
baseman Ryan Gripp followed with a
single to right, which NU right fielder
•? Designated hitter. Andy Vosik then
ners on the comers for left fieldo John
Bichelme^lS' with one out.
Bichelmeyer knocked Haynes in with
a sacrifice fly to cento, closing the
Huskers’ lead to one.
Creighton touched Fish for six hits,
while four BJuejay pitchers combined
to allow eigpkCU Coach Jack Dahm
said he was pleased with his team’s
effort.
“We made probably three or four
mistakes theeutire game,” Dahm said.
“We had a great approach at the plate
and we had spate great swings. -
“We hit (Fish) hanfall night long.
But to his credit, when there were gtgrs
U
We just want to
finish up hard.”
KenHabvet
NU third baseman
in scoring position, he came up with
the big pitches. That’s the sign of a
very good pitcher. He’s beaten us three
times and that’s pretty tough to do. We
don’t have a bad offensive ball club.”
The Bfuejays readied base in all
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By Mitch Sherman
Senior Reporter
n '?'■■■* -Days before spring football
practice began March 31, Jason
Peter watched a videotape of
Nebraska^ 17
12 win over
S Jl Colorado last
season in an at
tempt to gain
**-1 motivation en
tering a month
of tireless
workouts.
.j a#"!
* Filar Cornhusl
search fc
motivational videotape next1
they hope to watch clips of a^
ingful bowl game in January
: preferably a national championship
victory in the 1998 Orange Bowl
; — not a regular-season win in No
vember.
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I think we exceeded everybody's
expectations*
- Jat Foreman
* „ NUMike linebacker
young players on both sides of die
ball emerged and made die task of
replacing 14 starters appear much
less daunting.
“I was a little nervous coming
In,” Peter said, “but the young guys
are playing at a level where they’re
ready to be starters at Nebraska.”
Major strides on defense and
nagging injuries across the depth
chart characterize the spring of
1997. But only two Huskers — re
serve linebacker Casey Macken and
reserve fullback Ben Kingston,
both of whom tore knee ligaments
— figure to remain off die field in
August.
Here’s a position-by-position
look at NU’s prospects for next fall:
Quarterback
Senior Scott Frost looks to have
a solid hold on the top job, despite
completing less than 30petcein of
his passes this spring without a
touchdown. “My improvement has
come in die option game,” Frost
said. “I’ve improved running the
option key, malting the^gbod pitch
and being more aggressive.”
Sophomore Frankie London
earned the No. 2 spot this spring,
but behind him, junior Monte
Christo and sophomore Jeff
Perino seemed interchangeable.
And star recruits Eric Crouch and
Bobby Newcombe possess the
physical tools to make an imme
diate impact.
Running Back
Freshman Dan Alexander
grabbed the most attention this
spring, doing his best imitation of
a diesel-run, 18-wheeler semi-truck*
from both the I-back and fullback
spots. But Alexander must wait his
turn behind a slew of veterans at
both positions.
Junior I-back Ahman Green has
lost the excess weight that slowed
him last fall and owns the No. 1 spot
on the depth chart. “Ahman was
really disappointed in the season he
had last year,” rush end Grant
Wistrom said. “He’s ready for a
breakout season.”
Coaches expect sophomore
DeAngek) Evans, who missed the
entire spring with a groin injury, to
run soon and' enter fall camp
healthy/Evans backs up Green, fol
lowed by senior Jay Sims. Junior
Joel Makoyicka starts at fullback?
and. juniors Billy Legate and Josh
Cobb will bid for time. Freshman:
Willie Miller also looked impres
sive at fullback this month.
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