Bowling team strives
for championship play
By Nate Odgaard
Staff Reporter
If history repeats itself, the
Nebraska women’s bowling team will
be traveling to Atlanta on the third
weekend in April.
Atlanta is the site of the 1998
Bowling National Championship,
which includes the top 16 teams in
the country. Without throwing one
strike this year, the Huskers’ odds of
beihg there already appear favorable.
But before that, the Huskers make
history this weekend when they begin
their first season of intercollegiate
competition at the Greater
Milwaukee Invitational' in
Milwaukee.
Women’s bowling had been a
UNL club sport, but this will be
Nebraska’s first season competing in
an NCAA-sanctioned sport.
As a club team the Huskers have
finished in the top five of the final
ratings since 1990 and won national
titles in 1991, ’95 and ’97.
. The women’s team is solid on
paper and shows tremendous poten
tial, Nebraska coach Bill Straub said.
But “it’s difficult to realize poten
tial until, you get your feet wet,” he
said. “We’ll find out a little bit more
after this weekend.”
Jen Daugherty returns after lead
ing the Huskers last year. The junior
from Bloomington, 111., was named
MVP in last year’s championship
tournament and earned first-team
All-American honors. As a freshman,
she was named All-American and
also made the honorable mention list
for bowler of the year.
Sophomore Kim Claus and senior
Kim Ferris also return. Claus won the
Alberta Crowe award last year, pre
sented to the top junior bowler in the
country.
Newcomers Stacy Rogers and
Tammy Jordan round out die top five.
Straub is confident the women’s
team can repeat last year’s feat
“We’ve got such a core group of
girls that have really been successful
the last couple of years and who
know how to handle pressure in tour
nament situations,” he said.
uaugnerty ieeis inis year s ream
is even stronger than last year’s. She I
said the Huskers possess the keys to
success: team unity and focus.
“If you don’t have a mental game,
you’re not going to succeed,” said
Daugherty, who holds a 215 average.
“A lot of frustration comes about in
tournaments, and you really need to
keep everyone focused (because) one
person can drag the team down.”
NOTE:
Jeremy Sonnenfeld, who bowled
the first sanctioned 900-series in the
United States last year, has left the
UNL men’s bowling team, Straub
said.
Sonnenfeld, who would be a
junior this year, “chose to pursue the
commercial side of what’s going on,”
Straub said.
NU hopes for tournament success
From Staff Reports
Last year, the Nebraska softball
team surprised the other teams in die
Big 12 Conference by winning the;
first-ever Big 12 Fall Classic.
The Huskers (1-3) won’t be able
to surprise anybody this season, but
are hoping for the same type of suc
cess they had last year as they com
pete at the Big 12 Fall Classic today
through Sunday in Independence,
Mo.
NU does get a break this weekend
as All-American senior shortstop Ali
Viola will get to see playing time as a
designated hitter. Viola has been
recovering from anterior-cruciate lig
ament reconstructive surgery she had
last March.
This weekend’s tournament will
include three non-Big 12 teams in
Southwest Missouri, Missouri
Kansas City 4Qd Central Missouri.
Big 12 teams competing in the toitr^
nament include Missouri, Kansas,
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
Nebraska faces Central Missouri
at noon today, and then will immedi
ately play Oklahoma State at 2 p.m.
On Saturday the Huskers will play
Oklahoma at noon and then start
bracket play.
NU will be trying to improve on
the 1-3 record it compiled at the NIC
Tournament on Sept. 19-21. Viola and
sophomore second-baseman Jennifer
Lizama did not play in that tourna
ment ^
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