Vering notches win
VERING from page 7
“This is the perfect time to be
peaking,” Vering said “I’m picking
it up when I wanted to - and that’s
now.”
With a 3-2 loss to Eggum on Jan.
9, Vering envisioned a close, low
scoring match at Sunday’s dual. The
first period passed without a score
from either opponent. A 1-point
escape in the second for Vering and
another for Eggum in the third tied
the score, sending the match into
overtime.
After a scoreless extra period, the
match went into double overtime.
Eggum won the toss and chose
down. Vering needed to ride Eggum
for 30 seconds to get the win.
“When you’re on the bottom all
you have to do is worry about going
crazy and getting out,” Vering said.
“On top, you’ve got to contain that
and that’s really hard to do.”
Getting the tie-breaker victory
was motivation for Vering, who lost
in two similar overtime situations
this season to Oklahoma State’s
Mark Munoz. Vering improved his
record to 20-6 overall and 13-4 in the
Big 12.
Like Vering, redshirt freshman
Bryan Snyder found himself in an
overtime match at 157 pounds with
Minnesota’s top-ranked Chad Kraft
However, Kraft earned the first
takedown of the extra period and
secured the 4-2 win. While fifth
ranked Snyder showed his disap
pointment with his first loss since
Jan. 3, both he and Neumann agreed
that the defeat may have served a
purpose.
“Snyder and I kind of joked that
he needed one more loss before
nationals,” Neumann said. “He’s a
freshman who got beat by the No. 1
guy. Now, he can train uninhibited,
and he can head into the Big 12
«
This is the perfect
time to be peaking.
I’m picking it up
when I wanted to ...”
BradVering
NU wrestler
Tournament as the freshman who’s
looking to upset everybody again.”
Just three NU wrestlers - Vering,
Paul Gomez and Jose DeAnda -
recorded wins over the Minnesota
grapplers. Fifth-ranked Gomez
earned a 7-5 decision against No. 7
Leroy Vega at 125 pounds, while No.
11 DeAnda defeated No. 14 Chad
Erickson 5-3 at 141 pounds.
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Throwers
pace Huskers
at track meet
From staff reports
Nebraska track and field ath
letes won L8 titles at the Nebraska
Iowa Athletic Conference meet at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
They were led by three throwers
who all posted NCAA provisional
marks.
Jack Melson threw the shot put
59*04.25 for his second provisional
qualifying mark of the season. Joe
Erdkamp’s 35-pound weight throw
of 65*05 was good enough for his
fourth qualifying mark of the year.
Melissa Price posted the last quali
fying mark of the day with a 59*03
throw of tile 20-pound weight
The Huskers will compete next
Iat the Big 12 Indoor Championships
in Manhattan, Kan., this weekend.
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Baylor edges out
Huskers in tennis
By Jake Bleed
Staff writer
The men’s tennis team met 15th
ranked Baylor Saturday at die Woods
tennis complex and lost 5-2.
“We had some chances,” NU Coach
Kerry McDermott said. “We had big
chances.”
Last year’s NU-Baylor match ended
in Baylor^s favor - a point that was dri
venhome,
Baylor 5 having nu
ya|1Me|ra o with a taste
Nebraska Z for revenge.
This year,
Baylor arrived in Lincoln on the heels of
two wins over top-10 opponents. BU
took the doubles point. Three singles
matches ended after two sets: Baylor’s
David Hodge handed No. 2 Jorge Abos
Sanchez his first singles lost of the sea
son, 7-5,6-3, and Baylor’s Michalsky
took No. 6 Andrew Wiese 7-5,6-4. No.
5 Juan Hamdan struck back for NU
with some high-flying, behind the back
acrobatics, taking BU’s Csongor Bibza
64,6-2.
No. 1 DinkoVerzi fell to Johann
Jooste in three sets 64,2-6,64. No. 2
Mills lost the third set after being over
ruled on a line call for die fourth time.
College men’s tennis requires that
the players themselves call when a ball
has been hit out of play. Roving officials
can overrule a player’s call. After a play
er’s third overrule, his opponent is
awarded a point and after the fourth, he
gives up the set. Mills’ fourth came in
die third set, ending the match, 64,1-6,
6-3. No.4KaiRieke won NU’s second
point, taking Jorge Aldrete after three
sets, 4-6,6-3,6-1.
“I thought Juan and Kai really
stepped it up,” McDermott said.
Huskers split games
with Lamar, LaTech
ByAdamKunker
' Senior staff writer
The Nebraska baseball team was
bitten again by the late-inning bug last
weekend in the Bone and Joint Classic
in RuStOn,
Lamar 8
Nebraska * 7
huskers
split the four-game series with two big
wins over Louisiana Tech, NU lost big
to Lamar and also fell just short in a
tough one to the Cardinals late in their
last game of the tournament
Down early to Lamar on Sunday by
a score of 6-1, and looking to avenge
Saturday’s 17-8 thrashing at the hands
of die Cardinals, the Huskers fought
back, scoring two in the fifth and four in
the sixth to pull ahead 7-6.
Lamar answered with a run in their
half of the sixth to tie and added the go
ahead and eventual winning run in the
bottom of tiie seventh.
But tilings weren’t all downhill for
NU. On Friday, the Huskers blasted
Louisiana Tech in both ends of a dou
bleheader, winning 16-3 and 14-8.
In tiie first game, NU first baseman
Ken Harvey and shortstop Brandt
Vlieger hit back-to-back homers in the
second and fifth innings.
Harvey and Vlieger were a com
bined 7 for 9 with eight runs scored and
four RBI. NU designated hitter Jeff
Hedman also added four RBI on a
grand slam home run.
On the other end of the twin bill,
Harvey again stole the show for NU,
going 4 for 5 and slugging a grand slam
in an eight-run Husker fifth inning.
Voss powers Nebraska to
three wins in tournament
By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
The Nebraska softball team began
its drive to return to the College World
Series this weekend at the Fiesta Bowl
Tournament in Phoenix.
NU picked up four wins against one
setback at the tournament. Nebraska
defeated Maryland 3-1, UNLV 9-5, No.
21 Florida State 4-1, and Utah State 9-0.
Nebraska’s lone defeat came at the
hands of the host, No. 18 Arizona State,
8-1.
Nebraska used a four-hitter by All
American pitcher Jenny Voss to defeat
Maryland in game one of the round
robin tournament
In game two, the Comhuskers used
a nine-run outbreak on eight hits to top
the Running Rebels in a laborious three
hour and 20 minute affair. The teams
combined for four home runs.
Saturday against the Seminoles, die
Huskers once again rode Voss to the
win. NU did their damage early with all
four runs coming in die first
In the nightcap, the No. 18 Sun
Devils had the Huskers’ number. ASU
opened the game with five runs in the
first four innings while NU could only
muster one run off of the bat of junior
Jennifer Lizama in die same time span.
In the last game, to no one’s sur
prise, Voss picked up her third win on
die young season with a four-hit shutout
of Utah State.
Huskers survive ISU surge
ISU from page 7
this one would help in the long run.
“I think you’ve got to win games
through adversity,” Nee said. “I thought
we did die things necessary to win the
game. No. 1, we took care of the basket
ball. We rebounded with what I think is
one of the best rebounding teams
around. We just battled than.”
Nebraska almost didn’t get the win.
It led 51-41 with 6:19 remaining in the
game before ISU clawed and fought its
way back into die game. After a Clay
Edwards basket cut the lead to 53-49
with 1:43 left, Michael Nurse stole the
inbound pass only to miss the layup.
Cochran gave NU a 6-point lead on
a layup with 37 seconds left. Nurse
answered with his third 3-point shot of
the game, cutting the lead to 55-52. Two
free throws by Chad Johnson and a bas
ket by ISU’s Paris Comer made it 57-54
with 12 seconds left
Larry Florence was at the line. He
missed the front end of the free throw,
but Markowski tapped the ball back to
Belcher, who was fouled.
Belcher made both free throws to
make it a 5-point game. It made Nursefc
3-pointer at die buzzer for naught
“Hand of winked at Chad (Johnson)
and said if I had die opportunity, I was
going to try keep it alive and tip it out
there Since they didn’t put anybody
back,” Markowski said. “With that three
going in at the buzzer, it was a bigger
play than 1 thought it was.”