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NU baseball
starts year
with youth,
optimism
■ Coach Dave Van Horn
must replace most of the
pitching staff and middle
infield for the Comhusker
team.
By David Wilson
Staff writer
Amid his first Nebraska winter,
Honolulu native Shane Komine
returned to a familiar place Tuesday -
the baseball field. Actually, it was
kind of a makeshift baseball field in
'the Cook Pavilion, but as always, it
will have to do.
The Comhusker baseball team
practiced Tuesday for the first time
this season in,preparation for its
opener Feb. 5 against New Mexico
State in Phoenix.
“It’s a lot different than Hawaii,”
said Komine, a true freshman. “But it
felt good to getting back here after the
break. We were all anxious.”
Twenty new faces from last sea
son’s squad will look to improve on
NU’s 24-20 record in Dave Van
Horn’s second season as the Husker
head coach.
Nebraska returns 11 letter win
ners, only four of which are pitchers.
That could give the right-handed
Komine, along with three other true
freshman,righties, a chance to crack
die starting rotation^ Van Horn said.
Despite the number of freshmen
and junior college transfers, Van
Horn said, team chemistry and atti
tude has not been a problem.
“The attitude has been great,” Van
Horn said, “on the field and off the
field, and it carried over into the
weight room. We broke every (team
strength) record that the baseball
team held except one. We also shat
tered the overalfteam record.
“It just shows we have some good
athletes, but we also have some guys
that are working extremely hard.
These guys really want to win. They
want to do better and earn some
respect this year in the Big 12.”
Junior Ken Harvey, who led
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RIGHT FIELDER Kyle Brunen practices stealing second base during the
baseball team’s first practice. Second baseman and shortstop Will Belt
attempts to tag him out.
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I think this is probably the best team attitude
Ive ever been associated with. We re just
looking for championships. We re trying to
everything that any other team is trying to do.”
Ken Harvey
NU baseball player
Nebraska batting .373 last season
with seven homers, agreed with Van
Horn’s assessment.
“I think this is probably the best
team attitude I’ve ever been associat
ed with,” Harvey said. “We’re just
looking for championships. We’re
trying to do everything that any other
team is trying to do.
“I think around here, we haven’t
had that kind of mentality, and Coach
Van Horn has been giving us that
mentality - as far as getting to that
next level:"
The Huskers also return starting
left-handed pitcher Jay Sirianni (5-4,
5.24), who struck out 44 in a team
high 56 2/3 innings last season.
Righty Jarod Bearinger (4-1,
6.75), righty Chad Wiles (3-3, 6.16)
and lefty Brian Rodaway (0-1,11.94)
also return with experience on the
mound. Seven position players with
significant starting experience last
season also will return.
“There’s a lot of new guys, but it
seepis like we’ve been playing
together for a long time,” said Justin
Cowan, a third-team junior college
All-American at South Mountain
Community College last season.
“It feels good to get out and get
the blood flowing a little bit,” Cowan
said. “We work really hard. Every
practice, every pitch, every swing, I
think this team is in it - everybody.”
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JORDAN from page 9
player and current Los Angeles
Clipper Eric Piatkowski.
“For die league, he was half their
income. Every arena was sold out just
for the fact that he was going to be
there,” Troy Piatkowski said. “His
presence was a big thing for the
NBA.”
NUCoach Danny Nee said he was
- sorry to see Jordan go, but glad that he
has seen Jordan act as a positive role
model for this generation.
“Players tell me they want to be
like Michael Jordan,” Nee said. “I tell
them that he’s a good role model to
have. He’s a class act, on and off the
court.”
In his career, Jordan netted 29,277
points - third highest in NBA history
— 10 scoring titles, including seven in
a row from 1986-1993, and won six
NBA Championships.
Troy Piatkowski said the elder
Piatkowski, who had the unenviable
task of guarding Jordan, told him that
playing defense against the five time
MVP went exactly as the cliche goes -
you can’t stop him, you can only hope
to contain him.
“He said the first time he played
against (Jordan), he was kind of
intimidated,” Troy Piatkowski said.
“He guarded him every gajne and
after awhile, he became a confident
defensive player, but Jordan’s going to
bum everybody. It’s expected, and it
really didn’t bother (Eric) all that
much.”
Though Troy Piatkowski said he
wasn’t a big Jordan fan, he said he will
still be sorry to see Jordan go.
“The games aren’t going to be as
exciting,” he said. “People aren’t
going to turn the TV on that much
anymore because he’s gone.”
So with Jordan gone, the question
arises as to whether anyone can take
his place on the throne of basketball
legend.
“Nobody will ever replace
Michael Jordan,” Florence said.
“That’s out of the question. You’ll
never find someone who’s going to do
what he did for the game of basket
ball”
Piatkowski said he sees others
who have the talent, but few that
might have the drive and knowledge
of ^e game that Jordan had.
“As a player, there’s plenty of
other guys out there that are just as tal
ented,” Piatkowski said. “But they’ll
a—
Nobody will ever
replace Michael
Jordan. That’s out of
the question. You ’ll
never find someone
who s going to do '
what he did for the
game of basketball.”
Larry Florence
NU forward
never have another guy who can think
the game the way he did.”
And while time is up for Jordan’s
career, it marches on. On down the
line in the basketball hierarchy, Nee
said, there is only time to tell if there
will come another.
‘Time will take care of that. Time
will give us another Michael Jordan,”
Nee said. “Because the game will
v always need one.”
