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Date: May 6, 1997
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Huskers will face
first Big 12 teams
By Andrew Strnad
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s and women’s
track and field teams will get their first
taste of Big 12 Conference outdoor
competition this weekend as they
travel to Norman, Okla., for the Okla
homa Invite.
The Comhuskers will compete
against Kansas as well as the host
Sooners.
NU will send its top sprinters and
throwers to the invite in order to im
prove its already impressive list of
qualifying marks.
The Huskers have 21 NCAA pro
visional and automatic qualifying
marks on both teams, including 10 for
the women’s team and 11 for the
men’s team.
Both squads, however, have expe
rienced an abundance of injury prob
lems lately, particularly on the men’s
side.
Five of the 11 Huskers with quali
fying marks for nationals will not
compete this weekend, most notably
distance runner Philip Maiyo, who is
lost for the remainder of the outdoor
season because of a stress fracture.
NU Coach Gary Pepin said the in
juries are becoming a concern for the
team with the conference meet quickly
approaching. The Big 12 outdoors are
May 16-18 at Waco, Texas.
“It’s very difficult for the men to
compete because we have so few schol
arships,” Pepin said. “So we have no
one to replace them when they get
hurt.”
On the women’s side, leg injuries
continue to hamper NCAA defending
long jump champion Angee Henry.
Henry has qualified for this year’s
NCAAs in three events, and Pepin
believes that despite all of the injuries
that have plagued Henry this outdoor
season, she should be ready to con
tend for another title in a little more
than a month at the NCAA meet in
Bloomington, Ind.
“Angee hasn’t been 100 percent
most of the year, but she does have
the fourth-longest jump this year,”
Pepin said.
Athletes not competing at the
Oklahoma Invite will travel with NU
Distance Coach Jay Dirksen to the
73rd annual Howard Wood Dakota
Relays which start today in Sioux
Falls, S.D.
“It’s a nice, short trip for them, and
it should offer some good competi
tion,” Pepin said.
With the conference meet only two
weeks away, Pepin said the Huskers
need to start picking up the pace now.
“We’ve only got this meet and the
dual next week here in Lincoln before
the conference meet,” he said.
Devaney
is finally
released
From The Associated Press
Former Nebraska Coach and
Athletic Director Bob Devaney has
been released from Lincoln Gen
eral Hospital after suffering a heart
attack and a bout with pneumonia,
his wife Phyllis said Thursday.
Devaney, 81, had entered the
hospital March 19 after suffering
a heart attack. Devaney battled
pneumonia about two weeks later
while still hospitalized.
He was being cared for in a
health center in the Devaney’s
apartment building, Phyllis
Devaney said.
“He doesn’t seem to change too
much.... He’s very quiet,” she said.
“Right now, we’re worried about
him having a relapse of his pneu
monia.”
Devaney brought Nebraska’s
football program into national
prominence and won back-to-back
national championships in 1970 and
1971. As athletic director, Devaney
helped raise NU’s other athletic pro
grams to new levels before stepping
down in January 1993.
He suffered a stroke in March
1995, and his health prompted him
to resign in June 1996 as athletic
director emeritus.
NU must win six games to be .500
TEXAS irom page 9
Only the top six teams will qualify
for the conference tournament May
15-18 in Oklahoma City. Top-ranked
Texas Tech, No. 16 Oklahoma State,
No. 18 Oklahoma, No. 23 Texas A&M
and Baylor have clinched places in the
postseason.
Last season, the Longhorns fin
ished 39-24 and won the Southwest
Conference championship with a 17
7 record.
Under the direction of first-year
Coach Augie Garrido, Texas is in dan
ger of not qualifying for postseason
play for the first time since 1978.
Garrido, who won three national
championships at Cal-State Fullerton,
was hired to replace 29-year mainstay
Cliff Gustafson.
Sanders said he isn’t fooled by
Texas’ position in the standings.
“On record, they’re not as good as
the other southern schools,” Sanders
said, “but they’re still Texas.”
The Longhorns are led by Brett
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On record, they(fe not as good as the other
southern schools, but they're still Texas,"
John Sanders
NU baseball coach
Loeffler, who has hit a team-high 11
homers and is batting .389. As a team,
Texas is batting .317 — which ranks
fifth-best in Longhorn history.
On the mound tonight, the Long
horns will start true-freshman righty
Scott Dunn (4-0). Dunn owns a team
best 3.92 ERA and has struck out 49
batters in 43 2/3 innings.
Texas will face NU senior left
hander Pat Driscoll (2-7) today.
Driscoll, who posts a 6.57 ERA, has
struck out 59 batters in 74 innings.
Longhorn lefty Kendal Adare (4
3 and 5.04) will face NU lefty Kenny
Duebelbeis (3-4 and 6.85) on Satur
day. On Sunday, Texas righty Rad
Weaver (4-6 and 6.62) will meet
Husker righty Steve Fish (8-5 and
5.09).
Despite being eliminated from
postseason play, not all is lost for Ne
braska, right fielder Gabe Garcia said.
“I guess now it’s more personal,”
Garcia said. “We need to get some
kind of respect and win a couple more
series.”
In their last meeting in 1989 at
Disch-Falk Field in Austin, Texas, the
Longhorns and Huskers split a double
header.
Nebraska will finish its season
with a three-game series in Ames,
Iowa, May 10-11 against Iowa State.
Huskers focus on Oklahoma State
OSU from page 9
Fame Stadium at noon today against
fifth-seed Oklahoma State (34-18 and
10-7).
“I just want us to continue to play
with a lot of heart and a lot of hustle,”
Revelle said. “I want us to play well. I
want us to play to our capabilities ”
Nebraska finished its regular sea
son with a split against the No. 20
Cowgirls last Sunday at the NU Soft
ball Complex.
NU won the first game 9-3, but lost
the second one 4-1. The game-one win
allowed the Huskers to finish a half
game ahead of OSU in the final league
standings. The two teams also met
March 16 in the finals of the Cowgirl
Invitational with OSU claiming a 2-1
win in the 11th inning.
If the Huskers defeat Oklahoma
State, they most likely would face top
seed Missouri at 6 p.m. Friday. If it
loses, NU will play at 4.
Revelle said this is the most com
petitive tournament she has seen in her
five years as Nebraska’s coach.
“I think there’s six teams that can
win it, and Texas A&M (the
tournament’s sixth seed) is playing
really well right now,” Revelle said.
“It’s a real compliment to the confer
ence and shows we have some very
quality softball programs. We have
had as many as six teams ranked this
year.” _
The league tournament is divided
into two brackets with Nebraska, Mis
souri, Oklahoma State, Baylor and
Texas Tech in one bracket and No. 2
seed Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas A&M,
Texas and Iowa State in the other.
The two brackets play a double
elimination format with the winners
from each bracket meeting for a
single-game championship at 2 pm.
on Sunday.
Revelle said the Big 12
Tournament’s format is better than the
Big Eight’s, which was double elimi
nation throughout the entire tourna
ment.
“In order to keep the players in the
game at their best,” Revelle said, “you
can’t play them and play them and
play them. That one-game, winner
take-all means everybody is fresh be
cause everything is on the line.”
u
I know that if we
win it we’re in.”
Rhonda Revelle
NU softball coach
However, NU’s season may be on
the line even before the championship
game.
The winner of the tournament
earns one of the 16 automatic bids to
the 32-team NCAA Tournament. Ne
braska has qualified for regionals the
past two years.
“I know that if we win it we’re in,”
Revelle said. “I know that if we are in
the top two or three they are going to
give us serious consideration.
“1 don’t know if that’s going to get
us in. 1 thought our women’s basket
ball team was going to be in and they
didn’t get a bid. I don’t like to project
like that because you never know what
a selection committee is going to do.”
