Huskers battle Jays
■ Creighton looks to
avenge its 5-4 loss from
earlier in the season.
By Darren Ivy
Senior staff writer
Coming off two weekend losses to
Missouri, the Nebraska baseball team
finds itself in a precarious position.
The Comhuskers face the possibil
ity of losing three games in a row for
the first time all season as they prepare
for in-state rival Creighton tonight at 7
p.m. at Buck Beltzer Field.
“We are going to have to play a lot
better than we did last weekend,” said
second baseman Will Bolt “If we keep
piaying UKe we
have, it’s going to
be a long road
ahead of us.”
Bolt said it’s
going to be up to
each NU player to
step up and play
with more inten
sity.
-*—-j™" NU will need
that high level of
intensity because the last time the Blue
Jays (28-14) and Huskers (30-13 ) met
April 7 it was a one-run game. NU won
that game 5-4 in 10 innings.
“Creighton is not apushover team,”
Van Horn said “They are going to give
us everything they have.”
Bolt said playing against good
teams, such as Creighton, during the
week helps keep NU sharp.
Despite losing two games in a row
the Blue Jays still are a threat, Bolt said
“We are going to go after this game
with the same intensity as a conference
opponent,” Bolt said.
Shane Komine, is expected to start
at pitcher and Van Horn said Chad
Wiles and R.D. Spiehs also could see
action.
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Allen is
optimistic
about new
Huskers
GYM from page 11
lower.
“Our goals are very similar,”
Kendig said. “To go back to the
Super Six, win the Big 12 and
everything we did this year. We’ll
build on our success.”
Allen and 1999 all-around
national champion Jason
Hardabura
will have
plenty to
build on as
well. The
H u s k e r s ,
who were
extremely
thin on avail
able gym
nasts - six to
be exact and
five in some
events, lose
only one
senior to
graduation
from 1999.
But it’s a
big loss in
five-year,
two-time All
American
Jim Koziol,
Koziol was a
finalist for
the Nissen
«—
Our goals
are very
similar
To go back
to the
Super Six,
win the Big
12 and
everything
we did this
year.”
Dan Kendig
NU coach
Award for the nation’s outstanding
senior gymnast.
Koziol’s gap should be filled
immediately by who was supposed
to be his fellow senior co-captain
this season, Marshall Nelson,^
- three-time NCAA Champion who
took a medical redshirt in 1999
after tearing the Achilles tendon in
his left foot in the fall. Of course,
having Hardabura back for two
more seasons shouldn’t hurt
Allen’s hopes either.
“Jason’s definitely in that stud
category,” Allen said of the sopho
more. “He should do better next
year and the year after that. That’s
what we expect of him.”
Combine that with the talent of
junior All-American Derek Leiter,
freshman all-arounder Martin
Fournier and freshman Grant
Clinton, and the Huskers think
they have something higher to
shoot for in 2000.
Leiter was the nation’s top
vaulter throughout the season
before nationals. Fournier cracked
the Top 20 all-arounders as a fresh
man, and Clinton raised many eye
brows in Friday’s team champi
onship when he stuck a 9.725 on
the horizontal bar.
“That third place trophy is going
to be sitting in my room all year,”
Hardabura said. “And I’m going to
do everything I can to replace it.
“Nebraska is back.”
Separate plans for
scoring lay on table
for NCAA to decide
NCAA from page 11
The alternative to the 21-point
rally-scoring format is the 11-minute
timed format. Erbe is a major propo
nent of this format, which would use
rally scoring for two 11-minute
stopped-clock games. If the teams split
the first two games, a three-minute
tiebreaker set is played.
In stopped-clock play, time runs off
the clock only after the ball is served
and while it is in play, Erbe said. At the
5:30 marie, the two teams switch sides
and have a two-minute break. Erbe said
the 11-minute spring exhibition games
typically lasted 45 minutes, with scores
being in the 50s and 60s. The tiebreak
ers are usually similar to the current
system’s scores, except that they are
won by one rather than won by two
points, Erbe said.
“You play it like that, and the match
will last about two hours,” Erbe said.
“If the match starts at 7 p.m., you know
you are going home at 9 p.m. That stan
dardization allows television to come
in. But there are more reasons than just
money.”
Erbe said it makes it easier to com
pare statistics and places more of a pre
mium on every play. But Erbe said
coaches aren’t quick to change.
Nebraska junior All-American hit
ter Nancy Meendering said she was
happy the scoring system wasn’t going
to change for the fall season and hoped
the NCAA would hold off until she
graduated in 2001.
Meendering knows what it is like
to change scoring systems. When she
was a freshman at Western Christian
High School in Hull, Iowa, she played
best out of three sets. But in her sopho
more season, her state switched to a
best-out-of-five-set format.
The 6-foot-2 Meendering said
playing with the experimental systems
this spring was a weird feeling because
it quickened the pace of the game. But
she said a new scoring system wouldn’t
cause her or her teammates too many
problems.
Earlier this year, two other major
volleyball organizations, the
Federation Internationale de Volleyball
and USA Volleyball, both switched to
new scoring systems.
Meendering said it was only a mat
ter of time before the NCAA follows
suit.
“It’s a sign of the times,” she said.
“Whatever they do, the lower levels
will adjust It’s eventually going to hap
pen and then trickle down to the high
school level.”
Erbe agreed with Meendenng that
change is eminent.
“It’s not a matter of if,” Erbe said.
“It’s a matter of when. People are
scared to death of change.”
The NCAA committee voted to do
more research to determine the best
possible system for women’s collegiate
volleyball, Saneholtz said.
“We try to do what is best for
NCAA women’s volleyball, which
isn’t necessarily what is best for inter
national or national volleyball,”
Saneholtz said.
University of California Santa
Barbara Coach Kathy Gregory said she
and many of the West Coast coaches
she had talked to don’t like either of the
new experimental systems.
“I think (the current system )is
fine,” said Gregory, a 25-year coaching
veteran. “There is no problem with the
game. I’m not as concerned with tele
vision exposure. Don’t get me wrong,
I’d like more television exposure, but I
don’t think changing the format is the
right thing to do.”
Gregory said coaches in the Big
West and Pacific 10 conferences don’t
want change. She said it is the Big 10
Conference and East Coast schools
that are lobbying for the change. For
his part, NU Coach Terry Pettit
declined to comment, saying the issue
was not worth a story. He relayed that
comment to his secretary, who then.,
told the Daily Nebraskan.
Erbe didn’t agree with Gregory’s
assessment.
“That’s small-minded thinking,”
Erbe said. “That’s not looking at what
is best for the sport of volleyball. It’s
being a prisoner to the past. Sports that
don’t change to address the needs of a
generation are the ones that fade into
obscurity.” ,7 * . *
Saneholtz is leaving the volleyball
committee this year and so is one other
member of the eight-person commit
tee. With the committee expanding to
10 people next year, Saneholtz didn’t
know what future debate on the scoring
system issue held in store with four
new members.
She does know something needs to
be done to benefit all the Division I
programs.
“At Nebraska where they sell out,
people think (the current system is
great), but it’s not like that every
where,” Saneholtz said. “People need
to look at what’s good for the sport
across the country rather than for their
own teams or conferences.”
By John Gaskins
Staff writer ~
Prove themselves.
That’s what the Nebraska men’s
golf team, not exactly a traditional golf
ing powerhouse, was looking to do on
Monday and Tuesday as it goes for its
first ever conference championship.
So far, so good. -
With two-thirds of the tournament
over, the No. 15 Huskers have an
extremely opportunistic chance to win
* the title. NU used three top five individ
ual scores to put them into second
place, just two shots behind home team
Kansas at the Prairie Dunes Country
Club in Hutchinson, Kan., going into
Tuesday’s final round.
Through 36 holes, NU stands at
572, two shots back of KU’s 570 after
tying the Jayhawks at 284 in Monday’s
afternoon round. Oklahoma State is
eight shots back at 578, with Texas way
out of the pack at 583.
Senior Jamie Rodgers, the 48th
ranked golfer in Division I, put together
two solid rounds of even-par 70 to sit
himself in third place and within strik
ing distance of tournament leaders
Chris Thompson and Ryan Vermeer,
both of Kansas.
Rodgers, a native of Australia, is
going for his fifth victory of the 1998
99 season and his first Big 12
Championship.
He will be chasing Vermeer, a
junior from Omaha’s Millard South
High School who has had plenty of
heated duels with Rodgers in college
and summer Nebraska state men’s tour
naments. Vermeer took the early 18
hole lead with a two-under 68 before
shooting one-over 71 in the afternoon
round.
Meanwhile, two of his teammates,
senior Steve Friesen and fellow
Australian senior Josh Madden are
right on the leaders’ heels, both posting
back-to-back one-over 71s for a 142
total, just three shots back of the leaders
and two back of Rodgers. Madden is
looking for his second career victory
after netting his first earlier this spring.
The Huskers will tee it up tomor
row morning for the final 18 holes of
the 54-toumament.
