NU nabs Big 12 title
Team falls short in Ohio,
losing to Bulldogs twice
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By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
The Big 12 Conference may be
one of the top baseball conferences in
the country, with perennial Big 12
south powerhouses Texas and
Oklahoma State.
Throw in Texas Tech, Texas A&M,
Baylor and Oklahoma and you have a
pretty good conference.
The Big 12 North teams, on the
other hand, might be seen as lesser
class citizens in a heavily southern
sport.
Enter Nebraska on the scene —
they hadn’t been to the NCAA tourna
ment since 1985 and had never won a
league title.
Both changed en route to NU’s
magical 1999 season. NU went 42-18,
won the Big 12 championship and par
ticipated in an NCAA Regional.
Nebraska used effective pitching
to advance to the final where it
downed ninth-ranked Baylor 4-3.
Scott Fries went seven innings to gar
ner the win and Chad Wiles closed out
the game.
With the win, NU received an
automatic berth to the NCAA tourna
ment.
In Columbus, Ohio, Nebraska
banged out 17 hits and 14 runs in the
opener against Mississippi State.
Unfortunately, the NU pitching staff
didn’t repeat its Big 12 Tournament
brilliance as the Bulldogs ran off 18
runs of their own to send the Huskers
to the losers bracket.
The consolation round proved
slightly more fruitful for Nebraska as
they defeated Bowling Green 10-5 in
the morning game, setting up a night
rematch with Mississippi State.
The Bulldogs were too much again
and ended NU’s dreams of a College
World Series Berth with a 13-7 win.
Junior First basemen Ken Harvey
was pleased with the teams fourth best
record in 111 years of existence.
“1 am disappointed the season is
over, but I told my teammates we had a
great year,” Harvey said. “We win and
lose as a team. Our entire team, not
just the pitchers, has to take credit for
the loss.”
Harvey also had a memorable sea
son for the Huskers. He was named as
an All-American and is a finalist for
the Rotary R. E. “Bob” Smith award
which is given to the nations top colle
giate baseball player.
For the year he hit .478, launched
23 homers and knocked in 86 runs in
the process of setting school records in
hitting and home-runs. He was the
fifth round pick of the Kansas City
Royals in the Amateur Baseball draft
as well.
Freshman pitcher Shane Komine
recorded a 6-2 seasonal mark with a
3.58 ERA. He was selected as a
Freshman All-American and Big 12
Freshman of the Year.
Ingram paces NU
at nationals with
2 top-five finishes
■ Huskers finish strong
at NCAAs while Pepin
picks up coach of the year
award for efforts during
the 1999 season.
By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
In a sport where numbers define
excellence, several numbers were key
for the 1999 Men’s and Women’s
track and field teams.
The most important number was
12 as six men and six women quali
fied for the NCAA Outdoor
Championships in Boise, Idaho.
Those 12 athletes were able to
come home with six All-America
honors led by Dahlia Ingram, who
earned two of them.
She finished fifth in both the long
and triple jumps to help pace the NU
women’s 16 point effort.
Stella Klaussen received the
highest place of any NU performer
with a third-place finish in the 400
meter sprint.
Shane Lavy posted all three of the
men’s points with a sixth-place finish
in the high jump.
Nebraska Coach Gary Pepin did
not come away empty handed in his
16th season in charge as he was
named the Regional Coach of the
Year.
Going into the NCAA
Championships Nebraska had posted
22 of the top 50 qualifying marks in
both the men’s and women’s national
events.
At the Big 12 Conference meet,
the men and women finished second
and fourth-place respectively. The
men were unable to defend their title
from a year ago as Texas took the top
spot, while the women’s fourth-place
finish was its lowest conference mark
since 1979.
Perhaps the most respected num
ber of the year was 39.
The teams combined to have 39
athletes selected as Academic All
Big 12 selections.
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