Epley names Husker
Power Athlete Finalists
From staff reports
Boyd Epley, Nebraska’s director of
athletic performance, announced the
14 Husker Power Athletes of die Year
for each sport Tuesday.
The winners, who become final
ists for the athletic department’s male
and female Husker Power Athlete of
the Year, were selected based on effort
and performances in the weight room.
“To be named the Husker Power
Athlete of die Year means you repre
sent all the Nebraska athletes from
each sport,” Epley said. “It will be very
difficult to determine one overall win
ner from this group of candidates.”
The women’s winners were Cori
McDill, basketball; Samantha Ashley,
diving; Amy Walsh, soccer; Jennifer
Williams, softball; Sasha Van
Hamburg, swimming; Erin Wibbels,
track and field; and Nancy
Meendering, volleyball.
The male winners are Kyle
Vanden Bosch, football; Larry
Florence, basketball; Bert Locklin,
diving; Adam Pine, swimming; Joe
Erdkamp, track and field; Jose
DeAnda, wrestling; and Fungai
Tongoona, tennis.
The male and female Husker
Power Athletes of the Year will be
named at a banquet Friday.
Lottery fails to sell allotted tickets
From staff reports
After selling 3,146 student football
tickets last week, the Nebraska athletic
ticket office is looking to find student
buyers for the more than 5,300 tickets
that remain.
Following-a decreasing trend over
the last decade, first-week student
ticket sales fell to their lowest mark in
the 1990s.
But NU ticket -office manager
John Anderson said he expects that the
students will buy the remaining tick
ets, and fee allotment will tie filled for
fee 1999 season.
“It’s just human nature; people
procrastinate,” Anderson said. “I
believe we’ll sell our allotment, now or
later.”
In 1998, after 3,977 student tickets
were sold in the opening week, the
ticket office still managed to sell about
8,400 tickets total, just 100 under the
allocated amount The remaining tick
ets were sold to donors.
Anderson said that for the 1998
season, he took orders up until three
weeks before the first game before dis
pensing the rest to the donors.
He said he didn’t know if he would
do that again, but said that he will try to
keep the door opened to students at
least until August 1.
Anderson said the ticket office will
still pursue its advertising campaign
and will continue to lobby students to
buy the $110 tickets before opening
the sales up to the donors.
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NU prepares for Jays
Huskers get wins over Lopers, Mavericks in tuneup
ByAdamKlinker
Senior staff writer
Rounding out two days of
intrastate competition, the Nebraska
baseball team heads to Omaha tonight
for a 7 p.m. contest with Creighton at
Rosenblatt Stadium.
Following back-to-back wins over
Nebraska-Omaha and Nebraska
Keamey, the Comhuskers turn their
sights on the state’s other Division I
squad for the second game of a three
game series played out over this sea
son.
NU won the previous contest over
the Bluejays in Lincoln on April 7 by a
score of 5-4, The game went 10
innings before a Danny Kimura sacri
fice fly brought home the Husker vic
tory.
This time around, NU Coach Dave
Van Horn said he expects another
solid performance in the Nebraska
Creighton rivalry.
“It was a really good ball game last
week,” Van Horn said. “We’re looking
for another good ball game and it’s
great experience for our guys to play
up there.”
After the 8-3 win over UNO and
the 15-3 trouncing of UNK, the
Huskers (25-10 overall, 10-5 in the
Big 12 Conference) are back on a four
game winning streak and have won
five of their last six after being swept
in three by Texas A&M on April 2-3.
NU’s renewed good fortune began
with the win over the Jays and now,
said Husker outfielder Justin Cowan,
Nebraska will look to maintain their
winning ways against CU, though it
may be no easy task.
“No matter what the score says,
it’ll be a dogfight,” said Cowan, who
had seven RBIs on two home runs in
Tuesday’s action against UNK. “We
had to come back and beat them last
time; it’ll be a tough game again.”
Creighton comes into the game
with a 23-10 record, led by six starters
with batting averages above .300.
Ryan Gripp leads the squad with a
Pettit looks to refine team
following spring exhibition
From staff reports
Terry Pettit got a few of his ques
tions answered -at texas last weekend
as his Nebraska volleyball squad won
two of three matches at a spring exhi
bition series.
Still, Pettit said, some things
remain to be seen.
“At times we played real well but
there were other situations that I
thought we could have handled better,”
Pettit said. “Hopefully, we’ll see some
more progress, though.”
Against Texas-San Antonio, NU
took two of two games. Nebraska also
defeated Texas in three and lost to
Florida in three.
“We looked as strong as we should
at this point in the spring,” Pettit said.
“But the players know there’s some
refinements to be made.”
One of the main areas of concern
centered on Jill McWilliams, the new
Comhusker setter who replaces two
time All-American Fiona Nepo.
Pettit said that McWilliams per
formed well for the most part in the
series, but, like the rest of the team,
there is some room to grow into her
new role.
Newcombe takes on rehabilitation
NEWCOMBE from page 9
he’ll be back at full speed, Newcombe
has no doubts that he will be ready
when Nebraska opens its fall season.
In fact, he expects to be stronger phys
ically, as well as mentally, than he was
before the injury.
“It’s kind of an enhancement of
wisdom - a humbling experience, but
it also gave me confidence, too,”
Newcombe said. “Kind of a silent con
fidence that says you can go from hav
ing someone tell you that you probably
won’t be able to play to coming back
and being much better than you were.”
The support of his teammates, he
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by the
said, was also helping him work
through his rehabilitation process.
He’s also received support from
fans, though they’re sometimes more
concerned with his injury status than
his well-being.
“Sometimes it gets irritating
because some people don’t know I’ve
been asked it about 100 times right
before they asked it,” Newcombe said.
“It kind of stinks when someone
comes up to me and asks me how my
knee is instead of saying, ‘Hello,
Bobby.’”
But it’s something he’s become
accustomed to since last fall. More
than anything, Newcombe said, he has
learned to deal with attention and crit
icism - from fans and the media.
1 “At first, I said, ‘Aw crap, this real
ly sucks,” Newcombe said. “Now I
evaluate the situation and the whole
experience and I’m kind of glad I had
to go through it.
“It still sucks, but it definitely
toughened my skin and made me a lot
more realistic. It gave me a lot more
confidence in myself.”
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.415 average, 13 homers and 53 RBIs.
The Jays are third in the Missouri
Valley Conference with an 8-3 marie
and, like the Huskers, are on a four
game winning streak of their own.
As Cowan and Van Horn both said,
all the marks seem to draw themselves
down the mid
die in compar- NcbltlSlO 15
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teams.
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“We need «^^^****"""
to come out and treat this like a league
game,” Cowan said. “We’re pretty
evenly matched with them; both of us
have good records. We just need to
come out and take it to them like we
can.”
In other Nebraska baseball news,
Husker first baseman/designated hit
ter Ken Harvey was named the Big 12
player of the week for a conference
record third time this season.
Last week Harvey hit .615 (8 for
13) with a home run, two doubles, 4
RBI, five runs scored and a 1.000
slugging percentage.
Warren focuses
efforts on javelin
after wrist injury
WARREN from page 9
transfer Cory Lehman, for helping
him progress this season.
“We have four people that should
go to nationals in the javelin,”
Warren said. “It is nice to have good
training partners; Cory is a good
friend and I am glad that he trans
ferred because his competition has
helped tremendously.”
Lehman refers to Warren as a
“tremendous leader who has brought
me along.” He also makes no secret
of his goal to beat Warren’s javelin
record in the near future.
“I would like to beat it this year,”
Lehman said. “I keep telling him
every week that I am going to break
it, but I am sure he will get it out there
even farther again.”
Last week’s Sierra-Providence
Invitational marked the first time that
Lehman beat Warren, who was ham
pered by a back injury. The injury
forced Warren to miss the Clemson
Invitational and perform below
expectations in El Paso, Texas.
The injury may keep Warren
from performing at 100 percent until
the conference championships. His
recovery time should be helped by
his drive and focus, Colligan said.
“He is as stubborn as they come,”
he said. “I don’t mind saying that
because I know that most of the time
it works to his advantage.”
Although he may be sidelined by
injury, that does not diminish his
importance to the team. He is a great
leader whose focus is incomparable.
“He is like another coach out
there,” Kostek said. “He has a
tremendous technical eye for all of
the events.”
Warren’s goals for the season
include a top-three finish at nation
als, a top-five finish at the USA
Outdoor Championships, and to
throw the javelin 250 feet. Right now
his personal best stands at 243 feet, 4
inches, the school record.
Warren’s outdoor personal bests
include a throw of 56-10 V* in the
shot put, a mark of 182-10 in the dis
cus, and a heave of 206-9 in the ham
mer throw.
After this season, Warren plans to
stay in Lincoln and train with the
coaches in preparation for the 2000
Olympic Trials.
“He looks beyond his collegiate
career,” Colligan said. “As far as
where he could make an impact for
himself relative to his life as a post
collegian. He is not only one of the
top collegians but also one of the top
Americans as well.