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KKlS^ &vm staff reports
Swimmers split with ISU ■
The seventh-ranked Nebraska
women’s swimming team claimed ! 1 of
13 events en route to a 158-64 win over
Iowa State on Saturday at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center / > ■
, The Cornhuskers, 3-0, set the tone
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Beth Karaica, junior Shannon Wright,
and sophomore Stacey Sedlacek fin
ished with a time of 3:5525 seconds. fi
The M^-ranked Husker men were
upset by the 24th-ranked Cyclones 124
120, as ISU won the 400-yard freestyle
to overcome a six-point deficit going
into tiie final event
NU, 4-2, was led by junior Josh"
Mathias and sophomore Michael
Windisch.
Mathias won the 100- and 200tyard
freestyles and Windisch won the 500
and 1,000-yard freestyles.
Other winners for NU included:
Alex Shlefiman in the 50-yard
freestyle, Keith Ebbert in the 200-yaid
individual medley, and divers Bert
Lockliaand Danny Bergman.
Brink leads NU to gym win
A strong effort from All-American
Heather Brink and steady team
improvement helped the seventh
naked Nebraska women’s gymnastics
team end the University of Denver’s
two-year home winning streak on
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Friday night
NU won the dual 191.1 to 190.3.
“Overall, I thought we did a much
better job, scoring almost two points
better than we did last weekend,” NU
Coach Dan Kendig said “There are still _
some filings we need to work on, and
th&wmcoraasthe season goes on^
ter than she did last week as she cap
tured fiie all-around title. She won three
the vault (9.825), uneven bars (9.775)
and floor exercise (9.80).
on all four routines,” Kendig said.
Track teams win 14 events
The Nebraska men’s and women’s
track teams racked up 14 first-place
Invitational in Manhattan, Kan.
Three NU men won two individual
events, incbidiiig sophomore Vinoent
Brown, who clamed file 55-meter dash
and the 200-meter dash.
Senior Scott Warren won the shot
put and the 35-pound weight throw.
Leading the charge fortheHSker
women was senior Meka Rembert.
Rembert won the 200 meters and the
55-meter hurdles.
All-American Carrie Braness
notched her first win of the year in the
high jump and finished sixth in the pen
tafnirin. ‘ 1 ^ ,
Inexperience
hurts Sooners
in 53-43 loss
By Darren Ivy
Assignment Reporter “||
In the last three games of the
Nebraska-Oklahoma series, OU has
found a way to win down the stretch.
This year, it didn’t happen.
With their third leading scorer
and senior leader, Evan Wiley, out
with the flu, OU made only three
field goals in die final 14 minutes
of the game. OU fell to 13-5 over
all and 4-1 in the Big 12
Conference with a 53-43 loss to
NU Sunday.
OU Coach Kelvin Sampson
said Wiley’8 absence was a key
factor in die loss. ; .f
“I thought our inexperience
showed down the stretch in terms
of who goes where offensively,”
Sampson said. “Missing Hootie
(Wiley), I wasn’t worried about it
defensively, because I knew that
Renzi (Stone) and Eduardo
(Najera) and Ryan (Humphrey)
would scrap and hustle defensively.
“Where we missed him most
was as an offensive presence
inside. It% hard to throw it inside.
You’ve got to make them honor
you inside. Ryan had a lot of good
opportunities inside, he just didn’t
finish a lot of plays.”
Humphrey wasn t the only
Sooner who didn’t finish shots, as
OU shot a season-low 30.2 per
cent and scored a season-low 43
points. They also turned the ball
over 23 times.
But Sampson sud even though
the Sooners played poorly on
offense, they still had a chance to
win their ninth straight.
“You shoot 30 percent on the
road, turn it over 23 times and then
yoti look with 3189 to go in the !
game and the score is 43-41 - you
got a chance to win,” Sampson
said. “Obviously your effort is
good, rebounding is good and
defense is good. Offensively today
we ware just out of sync.”
One reason OU was out of
sync was beeahse its inside players
scored onfy 14 points - 24 points
below their combined averages.
Wiley, a 6-foot-11 starting
center, sat out with the flu and
102-degree fever.
After the game, OU’s leading
scorer and fellow senior, Cory
Brewer, said he was disappointed
that Wiley didn’t tough it out
“I expect him to play,” Brewer
said. “If you’re a senior, I expect
you to be out there no matter what
And he wasn’t out there. That is
going to make
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