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California signs pact to play NU in 1998-’99; Huskers travel first ' ; _ alfewf • CaRfomia ham' fltea WabSt at Penn St TBU UlabSt . Penn St. it $pibham Maabaltbi ••: | BEARS from page 7 I replacements. f “We wanted to stay away from a low-end Division I team if we could,” Osborne said. “I think California does pretty well for us.” That sets up a strong overall schedule for the Huskers in 19§8. NU has home games against A1 a b a m a - B i r m i n g h a m, Washington,-Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Colorado, with road games against the Golden Bears, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Kansr s State and Iowa State. Byrne said the schedules in the future of Nebraska must be better ' with the polls starting to take strength of schedule into consid eration. “Strength of schedule figures into the Super Alliance in the future,” Byrne said, “so we need to have schedules that are attrac tive and competitive.” Byrne also unveiled Nebraska’s non-conference schedules through the 2003 sea son. Highlights of the schedule include home-and-home series against Notre Dame in 2000 and 2001, Iowa in 1999 and 2000, and Penn State in 2002 and 2003. i . - ' : Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) offers $50,000 to the one individual instrumental in arranging a 90-minute presentation on National Network Television, in primetime, of the “Video of the Centnry,” our drijgjieutary on Auschwitz, David Cole Interviews Dr. Frandszek Piper This authentic documentary, not a Hollywood movie, written and directed by the Jewish scholar David Cole, takes you inside the disputed Auschwitz “gas chamber ” The showing of the documentary is to be introduced and followed with a presentation fay Bradley R. Smith, director of CODQH. This video has gained international recognition: "Mr. Cole has obviously invested a great deal in researching his subject and 1 admire his tenacious curiosity. Again, I thank you for Marcy Kaptur (D), US. Congresswoman, Ohio . “jl was impressed by the objective and logical way David Cole spoke about the Auschwitz gas chandler. Congratulations!” Zott Rabat. Foreign Policy Advisor to the President, Budapest (Hungary) “[The] first-ever broadcast by a Holocaust [revisionist] from within die gates of Auschwitz.” Rabbi Abraham Cooper. Associate Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center “A powerful, dangerous video... ” Yehuda Bauer, professor of Holocaust Studies, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv, Israel • V. Evgy historical controversy can be discussed and . (Wvfrd O" national riwiggn — (WC — the Jewish holocaust story! > Over the past decades therejiave been thmmmdt of horns of unanswenxlHokxaiist allegations broadcast to the American people. Is it not £ur that those of us who do not bdkve tte “gas dtambeT stories should be allowed 90 minutes ottfy 9$ minutes!— to report the other side of the issue? With tkeaefacta in wmd> CODOH makea this $50,000 Offer If you are interested in earning $50,000 by convincing a naticmal television network to air | Dmrid Cote Interviews Dr, Frmnctszek Piper, ^ yon will find the details on the World Wide Web at www.codoh.ccMn Offer good through December 31,1997 Paid Advertisement Tia NU in regional .... . By Darren Ivy Staff Reporter A strong Tulsa tennis team was made even stronger by the rules used at the Region V Rolex Team Tournament last Friday. The indoor dual tournament, which featured the top five teams in the region, followed a format that had the top three double teams play ah eight-game pro set. The top three sin gles players followed and played a best-of-three format. Duals are played until one team scores four points. Each single match counts as one point, and the team that wins two of the doubles matches gets another point. Once a team scores four points, the other matches are stopped. Because two other teams were still playing matches, only three Nebraska-Tulsa matches could be played at one time, which enabled the Golden Hurricane claim a 4-0 dual win. Tulsa benefited because its top three players are the team’s strength, NU Coach Kerry McDermott said. “If we could have put all six of our singles out there, I felt we had a chance,” McDermott said. NU’s No. 1 doubles team of Dinko Verzi and Markus Beigerheim lost 8-6 and the Huskers’ No. 2 dou bles team also lost 8-2. Nebraska’s No. 3 doubles team of Jorge Abos Sanchez and Magnus Grahn claimed an 8-6 victory. NU’s top three singles players, Grahn, Verzi, and Bergerheim,.lpst their matches against three of the best players in the region. , At last week’s Region V kolex Tournament, Tulsa's top three players were in the semifinals, McDermott said. Verzi, who lost to Rilsa’s Gareth Williams 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, and Beigerheim, who lost to Louie Pranic 6-7,6-3,6-3, took their opponents to three sets but couldn’t pull off the wins. McDermott said his top three sin gles players gave a good effort and forced Tulsa players to earn every thing they got “We knew we had to win one of those top matches because the bottom part of their lineup was their weak ness,” McDermott said. Jacobson touts NU women’s tennis By Darren Ivy Staff Reporter ---sr—^ Performances by, two freshmen and one senior highlighted Nebraska’s play at the women’s Region V Rolex Tennis Tournament in Omaha last weekend. NU Coach Scott Jacobson said senior Jennifer Thoste had a great tournament. “She was on fire the whole week,” Jacobson said. Jacobson also was pleased that five of his six players advanced to the qualifying round. lnoste upset No. 3 seed Stephanie Sajbert of Oklahoma 6 4, 1-6, 6-4 in the first round before losing 6-3, 7-5 to Megan Payne of Utah in the second round. Freshmen Danica Hardy and Ndali Ijomah both advanced through the pre-qualifying rounds into the 64-player qualifying round. “Danica and Ndali both played with a high level of confidence for freshmen,” Jacobson said. Ijomah’s confidence enabled her to defeat Andra Wilcox of New Mexico 6-1, 6-0 in the first round of the qualifying bracket. She fell in the second round 6-0, 6-3 to time Chiew, the No. 2 seed. Hardy, didn’t have as much sue-} cess, losing 2-6,6-3,2-6 in the first round to Boise State’s BettinaPimi. Senior Lisa Hart and sopho more Sandra Noetzel both advanced to the second round before losing. Jacobson said all the players competed hard, but he was disap pointed that only six players were able to compete in the tournament. “We have eight players who could play in our top six,” Jacobson said. “Any time security is uncer tain, it makes the players play bet ter.” Taifke continues to feed off NU crowd TAUKK from page 7 She played in all 34 matches and amassed 153 total blocks, ranking fourth in the Big 12. The 1997 season, however, has beer a littfertteky for Ihuke. She hasn’t played nearly as much as a year ago, only 58 of 77 games, and at times she has been frustrated with her play. “This is the biggest roller coaster year of my life, and I just want to get off it,” Tauke said. “I played pretty well early, and then hyper-extended my knee, nothing serious, at Texas. But I have to put my fear aside, trust myself and play.” Tauke has worked hard to be more of a offensive threat. Early in the season, Tauke surprised then-No. 1 Penn State, hammering a career high 11 kills on Sept. 19. Tauke is second on the team with a .295 hitting percentage, and third in solo blocks (1.19 per game). “I want to be out there and I want people to know that I can get the ball from (Nepo) and knock it down,” Tauke said. Nebraska has lost four of its past seven matches, and in the midst of it Tauke said the most important thing for the Huskers to do is get excited. “We have a great opportunity to get to the Final Four,” Tauke said. “All we have to do is trust ourselves, and go out and get ugly. Get nuts.” . Getting nuts, according to Taulce! consists of playing to win instead of trying not to lose, somethin !she believes NU did early in the year. Tauke won’t be disappointed if the Huskers don’t win die national title, but she just wants to see the team return to its original form, which includes a trip to the Final Four. Reitsma finds new feeling in senior season REITSMA from page 7 record for a three-game match. The Huskers, who visit Missouri Friday and Iowa State ■ Saturday, fell two spots to No. 13 in the latest polls The perf mance against OU was one of Ihe strongest this season for Reitsma, who said she hears die 1 ck ticking as aidofherNUci “ re never really *_ tnis year,” Reitsma said. “It's a sense .> of urgency to win. And I think whole team feels it, but I guess I’m the only one that really needs it” NU middle blocker Tonia lau&c, who led Nebraska with four blocks Saturday against OU, said a sense of urgency did not immediately follow injuries to key players Jaime Krondak and Renee Saunders. “When the losses started, there was no immediacy,” Tauke said. “There was no motivation. Losing was not the end of the world, and it should have been. “We weren’t really in any kind of a rhythm. We were starting in a dif ferent rotation all the time, and it was hard not knowing what would hap pen. But now we are staying with something. We’re going with it and we’re believing in it” The Huskers have settled into a new starting lineup, moving Reitsma to the middle, starting freshman Nancy Meendering at the right side and inserting Angie Oxley into the rotation for Krondak. With the new lineup, Tauke said the Huskers are building trust and chemistry, two intangibles they lost after a three-match slide, their first in 20 years. “The Oklahoma match did a lot for us,” Reitsma said. “This whole thing has been frustrating, but I think we’ll surprise people. We haven’t played our best volleyball this year, and I think we’ll be playing our best in a few weeks. No one is going toibd expecting us to do well. Everything could work to our advantage.” i| |i} Note: NU Coach Terry Pettit does not expect outside hitter Jaime Krondak to be 100 percent any time soon. “It will take nothing short of a miracle for Krondak to travel with us this week,” Pettit said. *1 wish I could be optimistic.” Husker men, Nee open with improved attitude HOOPS from page 7 Along with Larry Florence, Lue is living in die residence halls with die “In the past, we were more sepa rated,” Lue said. “This team is more together.” And teaih character will help Nebraska win games down the stretch, Lue said. Nee agreed. “He’s taken them under his wing - kind of adopted them,” Nee said. “He’s taken them to the mall. He’s taken them around. He’s concerned about their well-being and that has carried over into respect.” That leadership and team atti tude, Nee said, is what will carry die Huskers this season. “The key for lyrona Lue is not statistically ” Nee said. “He has to make the players around him better. He’s going to have to be more effi cient in distributing the balL He’s just going to have to be effective in every thing he does to make us a winning basketball team. And that’s a lot of pressure and a lot of responsibility”. ThoughLue, who led Nebraska, averaging 18.8 points per game fanIT season, said he doesn’t feel die pres sure, the newcomers don’t yet know the pressures of the Big 12 Conference, Nee said. “No matter how much you pre pare afreshman, when he ...witness^ es dud or goes down to Missouri and starts getting yelled at - until they go through it, you can’t explain it,” Nee said. “Until they play against the pressure of Iowa State’s defensor Oklahoma State’s physicalness in Stillwater, then they don’t updfr stand what it takes to win. We have a nucleus of people that have done that, so we have a chance.”
