Huskers take swings
to second place finish
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
In the land of Elvis, the Nebraska
men’s golf team played its toughest
tournament to date, and didn’t check
into the Heartbreak Hotel, coming
back with its strongest performance
of the season.
NU finished second in the Kroger
Intercollegiate Invitational in
Memphis, Tenn., after shooting a 595
over 36 holes. No. 10 Arkansas won
the tournament with a score of 592.
The Huskers also proved they
could play with teams ranked among
the top 25 in the nation. Auburn fin
ished in fourth place, while other
ranked teams, LSU and Florida State,
finished fifth and sixth respectively.
Nebraska coach Larry Romjue
said it was the best performance by
the Huskers this year considering the
competition.
“We played up with the better
teams in the nation,” Romjue said,
“and we beat most of them. The guys
played extremely well over the two
days.”
The play was especially good
considering the conditions and the
course. The tournament was held on
the TPC at Southwind, home to a stop
on the PGA Tour. The 14th hole, a
231-yard par three, ranks as one of
the 20 hardest holes on the tour.
Romjue said not only was
Southwind one of the hardest courses
NU will play all year, but that the
players did their best job of the sea
son of staying out of trouble.
“There is a lot of water on this
course,” Romjue said. “For the most
part we stayed away from it and
stayed from big scores. The 18th hole
hurt a couple guys, but overall it was
a good effort.”
Nebraska junior Josh Madden
finished with a tie for second in the
tournament with a score of 144, two
strokes behind Michigan’s Michael
Harris, who shot a 142. Junior Jamie
Rogers shot a 147, good for sixth
place, while juniors Steve Friesen
and Scott Gutschewski tied for 24th
with 152. Junior Ryan Nietfelt fin
ished 64th in the tournament.
“Josh played a great tournament,
and so did the rest of the guys, really,”
Romjue said. “He didn’t make a lot of
mistakes and shot a 70 on the first
day, which was solid considering the
conditions.”
Players lose in 3rd round
By Darren Ivy
Staff Reporter
Although 16 of the 256 players
who started the ITA All-American
Championships in Austin, Texas,
advanced to the qualifying rounds,
none of the three NU players who
participated in the tournament
advanced past the third round.
“This was the toughest meet out
side of NCCA’s,” said Kerry
McDermott, NU men’s tennis coach*
The first two days of the tourna
ment were rained out so the first two
rounds were changed to an eight
game pro-set format.
NU’s highest finisher was
Magnus Grahn, who lost in the third
round to Trace Fielding of Texas
Christian University 6-3,6-7, 6-4.
Before losing to Fielding, Grahn
defeated Bill McGugin of Vanderbilt
8-1 in the first round and won against
Felipe McCluskey of Arkansas-Little
Rock 8-5 in the second round.
Grahn, NU’s No. 1 player,
dropped to 7-2 for the year with the
defeat.
But still, his performance was
probably good enough to earn him a
ranking in the top 100 when the next
rankings come out.
Dinko Verzi, NU’s No. 2 player,
lost in the first round 8-6 to Juan
Arramburo of Texas A & M. In the
match, Verzi was ahead 3-0, but he
lost his concentration, McDermott
said.
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dangerous pass completions at times,
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His running buys time for him to
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