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Ingram wins lone title for NU TRACK from page 9 Shane Lavy. Lavy, who came the top-ranked high jumper in the conference, fell to rival Mark Boswell of Texas. Boswell cleared 7 feet 414 inches on his third and final jump, and Lavy was unable to clear the height Lavy came closest on his second try, when his foot nipped the bar, sending it crashing to the mat “I wasn’t carrying my speed up to the bar,” Lavy said. “I was kicking the bar off. It was just little things. “It was just technical things. I felt great. I felt like I could have jumped 7 6 lA today.” Pepin said that he knew NU would have problems winning on the men’s side, where the Huskers were consid ered the co-favorite along with Texas. “We enter the second day in a pre carious position,” Pepin said. “Not get ting Brandon in the finals hurt us. “And Vince’s finish hurt, too. We needed him to perform big today, and he didn’t” Pepin did say he was happy with the performance of the NU jumpers, both on the men’s and women’s side. NU’s lone event winner in the entire meet came with Dalhia Ingram in fee long jump. Ingram jumped 2014 feet, ahead of runner-up Trina Radske of Iowa State, who jumped 19-10 V*. “I didn’t know what I was doing wrong for awhile,” Ingram said. “I told my teammates, ‘You’ve got to cheer for me, you’ve got to cheer for me.’ They did that and I made feat jump.” Ingram finished second in fee triple jump to fee No. 1 triple jumper in fee « It was just technical things. I felt great. I felt like I could have jumped 7-6 V2 today.” Shane Lavy NU high jumper ! country, Baylor’s Stacy Bowers. For the men, Sheldon Hutchinson had second place finishes in both the long and triple jump, both behind Chris Hercules of Texas. Tobyn Rucker, Ryan Stairs and Keyuo Craver joined Hutchinson with solid performances in both events. For the women, Jessica Thompson and Carrie Braness tied for second in the high-jump behind Aldrich and Stella Klassen faded in the final lap of the 800 meters to finish second Lesley Owusu was third in the 400 meters. For the men, Joe Erdkamp finished second in the 35-pound weight throw, Jack Melson was third in the shot put and Guy Emry was fourth in the pen tathlon. Overall, Pepin said, the meet was part-success and part-disappointment But one thing was clear: Texas isn’t going anywhere in the Big 12, and NU finally has a rival, one it didn’t have in the Big Eight when consistently rolled over foes. I “We know what Texas could do coming into this meet; we knew what kind of teams they had,” Pepin said. T aw WTrwwn'Fmif/nW DALHIA INGRAM won the long jump competition on her fifth jump of the meet. Ingram was the only Husker to win an individual title in the Big 12 Championships. Hot shooting dooms NU against Tech TECH from page 9 not very good,” Sanderford said. “We forced some shots and missed some and then we started press ing (on offense).” NU was resilient in the second half, and cut Tech’s advantage to 32-31 with 17:41 left. But the Huskers would never take the lead as the Red Raiders went on a 8-0 run. Down the stretch, the defensive emphasis was placed on Hanebutt, and Braziel came alive. The Big 12 player of the year candidate scored 9 straight points for Tech, and finished with 21 points and 12 rebounds. “We didn’t know if we should help on Angie or help on Hanebutt,” NU senior Monet Williams said, l hat is when Angie became more ot a threat.” Junior Nicole Kubik led the Huskers with 17 points. Guard Brooke Schwartz was the only other NU player in double figures with 14. Freshman Candice Blackbird got her second start of the season, but did not score - neither did senior Con McDill or junior Charlie Rogers. “I just don’t know what buttons to push right now,” Sanderford said. “Our veterans need to be effective this time of year.” Note: Kubik was named defensive player of the year by the Women’s Basketball Service. Kubik leads the nation in total steals and is second in steals per game. Kubik was also named to the ser vice’s All-American second team. « We didn’t know if we should help on Angie (Braziel) or help on (Rene) Hanebutt. That is when Angie became more of a threat Monet Williams NU senior Men’s golf season opens today in Texas By Jason Merrihew Staff writer As the snow falls over Lincoln, the 21st ranked Nebraska men’s golf team opens its spring season on Monday and Tuesday at the UTSA Invitational in San Antonio, Texas. Nebraska heads to the UTSA Invitational as the defending tournament champion. In last year’s Invitational, the Huskers shot a 574,15 strokes better than second-place Baylor and „ Southwest Louisiana Coach Larry Romjue has four senior returnees to make up Nebraska’s top four Jamie Rogers, Steve Friesen, Scott Gutschewski, and Josh Madden. Senior Ryan Nietfeldt, freshman Seth Porter and freshman Dean Beste will com pete for the fifth spot on the tournament roster. The golf team hopes to continue the success it had during the 1998 fall season. The Huskers took part in five tournaments and earned a victo ry at the Colorado State Ram Collegiate and three top-three finishes in the Falcon-Cross Creek Invitational, The Nelson, and the Duke Golf Classic. NU’s worst finish was at the Kansas Invitational where the team placed fourth. NU’s men concluded the fall season with a 287.47 stroke average. Leading die Huskers dur ing the fall was senior Steve Friesen with a 70.93 stroke average. Senior Jamie Rogers f nished the fall season a close second with a 71.73 stroke average. The UTSA Invitational is one of five regular season tournaments the Huskers will participate in during the 1999 spring season. Huskers spend weekend piling up 3 straight wins By Jake Bleed Staffwriter The men’s tennis team was vindicated this week end after picking up three victories, including Sunday’s triumph over No. 71 Texas Tech (5-1, Big 12 1-1). “This is a huge victory,” Coach Kerry McDermott said after winning against Texas Tech in Lincoln. “I’m just pumped. I’m going to shave my head.” NU’s victory over The Red Raiders was the Husker’s second of the weekend after taking Drake 6 1 Saturday. NU finished the weekend with a win at Creighton 7-0. McDermott said he hoped the weekend’s victo ries would push No. 70 NU (4-3, Big 12 1-2) into the top 50 when new national rankings were released March 1. NU’s match with Texas Tech (5-1,1-1 Big 12) looked good from the start. The Huskers took the dou ble’s point 3-0 and five singles players won their first set No. 5 Juan Hamdan swept Texas Tech’s Petar Danolic 6-0 in the first set and was up 2-1 in the sec ond when, returning a serve, he suddenly fell to the ground gripping his shoulder. “I felt it and I heard it - crack crack - and then it just popped out” Hamdan said. “I had him.” After a brief attempt to return to the game, Assistant Coach Rick Stempson shook his head and Hamdan retired from the game, giving Texas Tech the point - No. 2 Lance Mills responded for NU, picking up his third singles victory of die season over Ryan Shupe 6-2,6-2. Texas A&M trounces Husker women 9-0 From staff reports The women’s tennis team dropped to 4-2 after a disappointing 9-0 loss in its Big 12 open er at Texas A&M. The Aggies (4-0, Big 12 1-0) broke NU’s winning streak at three games. The match was moved indoors due to bad weather in College Station, Texas. No. 2 Katarina Balan fell in two sets 6-4,6 2, as did No. Gina Pelazini 6-4, 6-2 and No. Amy Frisch 6-3,6-0. No. 1 Sandra Noetzel lost in three sets, 4-6,7-5,6-4. No. 3 Ndali Ijomah fell 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 and No. 5 Danica Hardy also fell in the third set 6-1,3-6,7-6. No. 3 Jorge Abos-Sanchez followed suit, win ning 7-5,6-3 and improving to 5-1 for the season. No. 1 singles player Dinko Verzi had a tough loss to BorutMartincevic 6-1,3-6,6-7. After fighting off 7 match points, Verzi fell in a tie-breaker 8-6. I No. 4 Kai Rieke fell not long after, 7-5,3-6,2-6, leaving No. 6 Andrew Wiese the responsibility of car rying die victory. Wiese, the only Husker to not win his first set, came back to claim die victory forNU 6-7,7-6,6-4. “Andrew really stepped it up when we needed it,” McDermott said. “He was Cool Hand Luke out there.” McDermott said he thought Hamdan’s injury was not serious and that he would be back for next week’s match at Southern Methodist. Hardabura helps Nebraska past Hawkey es GYM from page 9 win the all-around with a score of 58.125. It was his third straight all around victory and his second straight score above 58. His first 58 came Friday night with a 58.15, his career best, in a Huskers romp over winless Minnesota (228 05-213.975). Hardabura became the first NU gymnast to score a 58 or above since Richard Grace did it at the 1995 NCAA Championships, in which he won the all-around. “That’s my goal - to hit 58, but I sure hope I haven’t reached my peak,” Hardabura said. “What was even better than my 58 was that the team scored a 229. We’re here to win as a team. “There was no way we were going to let Iowa come in to our house and beat us. We weren’t going to let them control anything.” Hardabura was neck and neck with Strada the whole way and the two consistently performed back-to back, keeping eagle eyes on each other. But Strada could only watch Hardabura put together the clutch routine of the year, so far, as Hardabura stuck a 9.875 on the high bar, his career best score in the event and the best individual performance in any event of the dual. After the meet with the Gophers Friday night, Hardabura said that the team had been fired up to face Iowa all season. But the run-in of Hardabura’s teammate, junior All-American Derek Leiter, with Strada, who was the fourth-ranked all-arounder in the nation prior to the dual, at last week’s U.S. Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas, heated NU’s torch a notch. ‘Todd just kind of joked to Derek about how he would feel to lose at home,” Hardabura said. “We posted it on a board in the gym so we could be reminded of that all week. Honestly, we were already pumped for Iowa just because they are Iowa, and Todd’s a classy guy -1 don’t think he meant much by saying it - but still, that gave us a spark.” As Hardabura landed his near flawless routine, the crowd rose to its feet, as any question as to who would win the team or indi\ idual title was laid to rest “I’m telling you, Jason’s an awe some gymnast,” Allen said. “We expect him to score 58, but to see him actually do it is great .” As usual, Hardabura had little to say of himself and loads to say about his achieving teammates. This time he singled out junior Blake Bukacek, who scored two career highs against Iowa. Hardabura got help from Bukacek on die parallel bars all sea son, where Hardabura’s best score had been 9.05 going into the week end. He scored two straight career best 9.625’s against UM and Iowa. “I want you to give Blake a lot of credit for the way this team is com peting,” Hardabura said. “He is the first guy in the gym every day and the last guy to leave. He’s always the first guy that stops whatever he’s doing to tell a team mate how they’re doing.” And Bukacek reaped the benefits of his hard work by scoring two of his own career bests Sunday, including a third-place-winning 9.75 on the high bar. He also added a couple of proph esies about the dual and the Nebraska-Iowa rivalry, saying he expects to meet up with the Hawkeyes again this year when the NCAA Championships come to Lincoln in April. “I knew we could beat them, but they weren’t at their best today,” Bukacek said. “They probably don’t care. They’re still one of tlie best teams in the country. They just want to beat us in the end.”