NU bowlers at it again
The defending national champs take first in Texas
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I don’t think anyone is disappointed how
they played last weekend ”
Christie Couvillon
NU bowler
By Sean Callahan
Staff Writer
When you are the defending
national champion in any team sport,
things seem to come pretty easily the
following year. For University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Bowling Coach
Bill Straub, it looks like this state
ment applies to his women’s team.
The Comhuskers continued their
winning ways from last year by
recently finishing the 10-team Texas
Invitational in first place. The
Huskers blew the tournament field
away by beating their next closest
opponent, Texas Southern, 16,034
14,752.
In the tournament, NU had four
top 10 individual finishes, led by
sophomore Diandra Hyman’s second
place overall finish. Also placing in
the top ten were sophomores
Amanda O’Harye and Christie
Couvillon along with junior Kim
Klaus.
Straub said that this year’s team,
which features eight freshman, needs
a little time to get where last year’s
team was.
“Last year’s squad had a ton of
experience,” Straub said. “Give us a
couple of months, and let us see if we
can get things going in an experien
tial way.”
Straub said after losing four-time
All American Jennifer Daugherty
that the Huskers are still right about
where he wants them to be at this
time.
“We have a new mix with some
veterans from the last year, and a
couple of new players, and it worked
out that the first tournament went
just fine,” Straub said. “There is cer
tainly room for improvement, but
we’re off to a pretty good start.”
Couvillion, who finished seventh
in Houston, said she thinks the team
is in much better shape than it was
last year.
“I don’t think anyone is disap
pointed with how they played last
weekend,” Couvillion said. “I don’t
think we are any weaker without
Jennifer.” /v
Couvillion^aid for the newcom
ers to the team this year, it has been
hard for most to make the adjustment
to the college level.
“Those of us who have been in
the program already know what the
coaches want from us,” Couvillion
said. “I think it is a big adjustment for
the incoming freshmen, so they’re
unlikely to be playing.”
Also in Houston last weekend,
the Husker men’s bowling team took
fourth in the 11-team field. NU was
led individually by Adam Cardwell’s
third place overall finish.
The Nebraska men’s and
women’s bowling teams will next be
in action this weekend when they
travel to Indianapolis for the Hoosier
Classic.
Despite MU
violation, no
eligibility lost
(U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, Mo.
- Less than a week after the
Missouri Athletic Department
filed a report to the NCAA taking
the blame for a minor recruiting
violation, MU received word that
its recruits would remain eligible.
The NCAA ruled that Detroit
prep standouts Rickey Paulding
and Arthur Johnson, whose eligi
bility was being questioned after
MU illegally flew their parents to
campus for a recruiting trip on a
chartered flight, will be eligible to
play basketball next year.
However, MU is appealing as
the NCAA requires the recruits
mothers to pay for using the char
tered plane rather than paying the
price of a commercial flight.
“We’re happy that the issue has
been resolved, but we intend to
appeal,” said Mary Ann Austin,
MU director of compliance.
“We don’t want to have the stu
dents ’ parents punished for our
mistake.”
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Even without a
kill, day not lost
■ Though he didn’t go
home with dinner, hunter
Reid Kennedy is still able
to enjoy the outdoors.
By David Diehl
Staffwriter
It is 7:45 on Sunday morning. A
swift northerly breeze makes the mid
50s temperature seem just a bit chilli
er, and Reid Kennedy hasn’t seen a
bird that he can shoot in almost an
hour.
But there’s still no place he’d
rather be.
“That’s one of the things about out
here or anywhere else,” Kennedy says.
“It’s all the other stuff.”
The other stuff. Like the eagle he
sees swoop over the bean field to the
south to look for food at the same time
every morning. Like the sudden
splash of a carp feasting on the few
bugs that remain on the pond’s sur
face.
Kennedy, a member of the Lower
40 Duck and Gun Club of Western
Iowa, has been out since 6:30 a.m.
waiting for sunrise and a flock of
geese to fly over at just the right time.
His anticipation is obvious just
walking to the duck blind.
“This is going to be a beautiful
sunrise. It comes up right over there,”
he says, pointing off to the east at the
silhouette of western Iowa’s bluffs,
“and hits on the water, and it’s just
beautiful.”
Just minutes before 7 a.m. and 75
yards from the blind, Kennedy’s sharp
ear catches the hint of some geese just
before they become visible to the
north.
He drops to a knee and begins
working his goose call, persuading
them into the lake for a shot at them.
The flock of 10 Canadian geese flies
low, well within range.
“We’re gonna take these.”
The geese finally fly overhead,
and Kennedy lets his 20-gauge over
under go to work. He fires two shots at
the geese, and one goose on the left
side of the V-formation gets knocked
off course just a little bit. None fall.
The 10 geese fly off to the south -
one slightly wounded - and Kennedy
watches them, helpless, his dissatis
faction is clear.
“Man, I thought for sure we were
going to drop one,” he says. “That’s
the earliest they’ve been out here.”
“Out here” is a small pond about
the size of a baseball field smack dab
u
First time I ever
pulled up, I shot two...
mallards. Fve been
hooked ever since.”
Reid Kennedy
hunter
in the middle of a large field of dried
soybeans. The Missouri River lies just
more than a mile to the west, and
Interstate-29 is visible to the south.
Cars and semis can easily be heard
whizzing by, and even airplanes break
up the scenery, coming in and out of
Omaha’s Eppley Airfield nearby.
Kennedy is now inside the duck
blind waiting for more geese to ven
ture his way. He is still disgusted with
himself and his shot.
“Man, that was New Year’s din
ner.”
Kennedy is in his mid-6Us and
retired. He grew up near Long Island,
N.Y., and has been hunting since he
was 10.
“First time I ever pulled up, I shot
two black mallards. I’ve been hooked
ever since.”
Kennedy’s experience of more
than 50 years of hunting is evident
while waiting for more geese to come
by. He tells dozens of stories about
life: hunting, football - and during
each one, he interrupts himself to
point out all the wildlife around him.
“Oh, look at that snipe.” or “Wait,
those aren’t teal, those are coot.” t
Duck populations this season are
huge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
department has estimated it at 105
million, and it is apparent. Every few
minutes small groups of two or three
ducks fly by or land on the lake. Duck
season does not start in Iowa until Oct.
16, otherwise Kennedy would have
had plenty of shots. In Nebraska, duck
season has already begun.
The two-hour hunt ends at five till
9 a.m., with lots of action from the
ducks but not much at all from the
geese, except for the initial flock - and
no kills.
Kennedy, although disappointed
in the day, says that it wasn’t a total
loss.
As. he walks back toward his
Nissan pickup, he jokingly creates
excuses for his performance.
“It was too early, or I was too tired.
Can’t say that I’m too old, though.”
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