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A Gift that remembers... Memorial Gift* help to ! prevent and care for Long Dieeaae. t AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION* af Nebraska Sandhills Publishing wants to wish all their interns good luck on their finals! We also wish the best to our graduating seniors! • Missy Fletcher • Amy Cunningham • Jerod David • Doug Jones • Dana Rasmussen • Barbara Klein • Brent Wegele • Nate Harris • Amy Melcher • Jessikah Gilmore • Ryan Lindsay • Jill Mathis * Ryan Greenhalgh • Ryan Johnson * Rachel Mueting • Derrick Peterson • Quang Nguyen • Nguyen Dinh • Jeremy Nielsen • Chad McGhee • Jay Priefert • LorUlGfeisofT ^'' • Katie Peterson •Jason John • Ryan McMeekin • Joe Kettner • Shane McCarthy • Jason Christensen • Megan Cunningham • Stacey Hurley • Chris Sundquist • Ursula Pickering • David Vapenik Sandhills" PUBLISHING - , —-a— . __ I■ ■ I I ■■■■ I ■■■■■■ ■■ _ *?*• i -;-■—• I g-I-l-- I ------- " |4 Attention Graduates Cap and Gown Rental Measurement and Distribution *• Tuesday, April 28 Wednesday, April 29 Second Floor Nebraska Union UNIVERSITY nebraska baseball <■* \ ... ranked #7 in the nation! NU VS. WICHITA STATE Monday, April 27 at 5 pm (DH) NU Softball Complex, 14th A W . • - V ’ ; ■ , Track team adds Drake Relays titles By Jay Saunders Assignment Reporter DES MOINES, Iowa - Last weekend wasn’t just another day at the races for the Nebraska men’s and women’s track and field teams; it was the 89th annual Drake Relays. The Drake Relays is the second largest outdoor track and field meet in the country. The relays attract some of the best high school, college and professional athletes from across the country. Eighteen thousand people attend ed the second day of the two-day competition. It was the 33rd year in a row that Drake’s Jim Duncan Track was sold out. Traditionally, the Comhuskers are well represented at the Drake Relays. That was the case again this year. Some Husker athletes went to the Penn Relays, but NU sent more than 30 athletes to Drake. The Husker men have won a total of 60 events since 1910 at the relays, and the women have won 42. No other school has as many combined wins at the relays. “Nebraska has always been one of the major schools to come up here,” NU assistant coach Jay Dirksen said. “This week is more of a fun week for us.” NU added to its win total this weekend. On Friday, sophomore Dalhia Ingram gave the Huskers their first win of the meet in the triple jump. Ingram, from Liberal, Kansas, won the triple jump with a leap of 41 8. Ingram beat second place Cecilia Noel, from Southwest Louisiana, by more than 6 inches. “My focus is first to get on the board,” Ingram said. “When the jump is over, I just hope it’s a good one. I wanted to jump well here today.” At last year’s Drake Relays, sophomore Cleophus Boor finished third in the 5,000-meter run. This year, Boor came back to win the event and claim his first Drake Relays title. Senior Tressa Thompson swept both the discus and the shot put at last year’s relays. Thompson didn’t repeat as a two-event champion, but she did win the shot put for the second straight year. Freshman Amy Wiseman was edged out by 0.29 seconds in the 3,000-meter run. Magdalena Pastza of Lewis College outlasted Wiseman in the last 20 meters. The women’s 4x100 meter shuttle hurdle relay team also finished sec ond, less than one second behind the team from Iowa. “We wanted to see what we could do and still be competitive,” Dirksen said. “This meet is usually the high light of the season for us.” Huskers drop two games to No. 18 Oklahoma State From Staff Reports After winning five of six games from ranked opponents at home, the Nebraska baseball team dropped two games to 18th ranked Oklahoma State this weekend in Stillwater, Okla. Sunday’s game was canceled in the fourth inning because of rain. The Cowboys downed the Comhuskers 12-0 in a seven-inning game on Friday. NU’s lone hit came from Ken Harvey in the top of the seventh. The Huskers (21-17 overall and 7-10 in the Big 12 Conference) were able to bounce back Saturday but failed to record a win as the Cowboys (34-13 and 13-8) took the game 13 11. NU entered the eighth inning with an 11-10 lead before allowing three OSU runs on one hit, three walks and a hit batsman. Junior Jay Sirianni walked OSU’s Jay McCullough to lead off the inning. Sirianni was then replaced by NU saves leader Tevis Arnold, who hit pinch-hitter Trent Kitsch in the arm to put runners on first and sec ond. After an unsuccessful OSU bunt, Kevin Lucas doubled to score McCullough and tie the game. Arnold took the loss, dropping to 1-2. NU will return home to play Creighton on Tuesday at Buck Beltzer Field. Nebraska golfers finish 6th at Big 12 Championships Huskers shoot tournament-low 299 Sunday From Staff Reports The Nebraska women’s golf team saved its best round of the spring for last. The Comhuskers shot a touma ment-low 299 Sunday at the Big 12 Championships at the University of Oklahoma Golf Course in Norman, Okla. Despite the low round, NU fin ished with a final score of 936, good for sixth in the tournament, 17 strokes behind Big 12 Champion Texas A&M, which won with a score of919. Nebraska battled windy and rainy conditions Sunday, as the Huskers jumped past Missouri, a team it trailed through the first two rounds. Coach Robin Krapfl said the Huskers played with poise in the lat ter stages of the tournament. “I think we played very steady toward the end of the tournament,” Krapfl said. “Although we moved up only one spot today, we fought back and never quit. I’m very proud of my team.” Individually, sophomore Hanne Nyquist led Nebraska with a fifth place finish with a score of 228. She was three strokes back of champion Isabelle Rosberg, who shot 225. Nyquist recovered form an opening round 80, shooting 148 over the last two rounds. Freshman Amy Roux shot a career-low 73 Sunday to help her to a 17th place finish at 234. Sophomore Elizabeth Bahensky tied for 26th with a scope of 237, Rachelle Tacha tied for 28th at 238, and senior Shirin Homecker tied for 44th with a 246. Nebraska must wait for a possible bid to the NCAA West Regional, held in Stanford, Calif., May 7-9, which the Huskers have attended for the last four seasons. The announcement will be made sometime this week. If NU does go the regional tour nament, it could finish high enough to gain a bid to the NCAA Championships, held in Madison, Wis.) on May 20-23.
