| Another test faces NU women
j BYU beat Washington by 23 earlier this season
By Sean Callahan
Staff writer
One thing that sticks out about the
Nebraska women’s basketball sched
ule is that the team hasn’t had any
easy noft-conference games.
With two home losses tcr
Wisconsin and Drake, things won’t
get much easier for the 3-2
Comhuskers.
Tonight, when the Huskers take
on 5-2 Brigham Young, they will be
trying to win their second game in a
row after Monday night’s 89-86 vic
tory over Washington. Tonight’s
game against the Cougars is sched
uled for a 7:05 tip-off at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
The lone common opponent
between NU and BYU is the Huskies.
When the Cougars played UW in
Seattle on Nov. 23, they won by a
score of 85-62.
Nebraska Coach Paul Sanderford
said Brigham Young is a very legiti
mate basketball team.
“They’re an experienced basket
ball team, and they shoot the ball very
well,” Sanderford said. “They beat
Washington by 23 points at Seattle.”
Sanderford said that on offense,
66-—-—
“We re going to play Nebraska basketball.
That puts pressure on people trying to get
—easy baskets. We hope to get our running
game going.”
Paul Sanderford
NU coach
the Cougars run a lot of four out, one
in. With this kind of look, Sanderford
thinks it will create some tough
matchups for NU. But he doesn’t
want Nebraska to change its style of
play.
“We’re not going to change our
style for anybody,” Sanderford said.
“We’re going to play Nebraska bas
ketball. That puts pressure on people
trying to get easy baskets. We hope to
get our running game going, and
that’s how we’re going to play.”
The one thing Sanderford would
like to see in tonight’s game is a lead
at halftime.
Sanderford wants his team to play
a complete game instead of playing
10 to 15 minutes of good basketball.
Even with the two losses,
Sanderford still feels the Huskers are
right where they want to be for this
point of the season.
“We’ve played good competi
tion,” Sanderford said. “I think any
time you play good competition, you
have to be ready to play every night.
“We lost two ball games that we
could have very easily got a break and
made a shot here and there, and we
could have won both of those games.
We just need to finish better and
make better decisions with the bas
ketball.”
Brown, Vanden Bosch win awards
8 Brian Shaw, an NU
linebacker, is second team
academic All-American for
the second year in a row.
From staff reports
Some work will need to be done
on the east balcony of Memorial
Stadium. The facade proclaims the
number of Academic All-Americans
Nebraska sports have produced, and it
will have to be altered.
The number of football Academic
All-Aifiericans grew by three to a
total of 74 on Wednesday when senior
rover Mike Brown and junior rush
end Kyle Vanden Bosch were named
to the GTE Academic All-American
first team for Division I and I-AA
schools. Senior linebacker Brian
Shaw earned second-team honors.
Brown has earned a 3.24 GPA in
business administration and Vanden
Bosch has a 3.78 GPA, also in busi
ness administration.
Shaw earned a perfect 4.0 GPA as
a double major in animal science and
agricultural economics in his four
years at NU.
He joins former Comhuskers Rob
Zatechka and Mike Stigge as the only
football starters to earn a perfect
GPA.
Shaw was named the Burger King
Scholar Athlete of the Week for the
week of the Oklahoma State football
game, and he was named the Division
- I Scholar Athlete of the Year. Shaw is
in Orlando for an ESPN awards show
where he is a finalist for the Scholar
Athlete of the Year in all divisions.
With the three players named to
the team, NU raised its number of
Academic All-Americans in all
sports to 167, the highest in the
nation.
Notre D§me ranks second with
114 and placed none on the first or
second football teams.
This is the 14th year in a row in
which Nebraska has placed at least
one player on either of the two teams.
Two other Big 12 schools had
players earn All-American honors.
Dave Brcka, an Iowa State line
backer, and Keith Cockrum, a Texas
Tech linebacker with a 4.0, both
earned first-team honors.
Huskers have no fear
in regional semifinals
HUSKERS from page 9
second seed. The Gauchos (28-5) bat
tled through some tough competition
of their own in the Big West
Conference, finishing third place
behind fifth-ranked Pacific (who they
went 1-1 against) and sixth-ranked
Long Beach State (who beat them
twice).
Big West Co-Player of the Year
Roberta Gehlke leads UCSB’s danger
ous offensive attack, which ranks 14*
nationally at 16.92 kills-per-game.
Gehlke leads the team in both kills
(5.39 pfer game) and digs (4.08 per
game). ~ — "
“She’s the best all-around player
ever to play here at Santa Barbara,”
Gregory said. “She’s 5-10, but she
plays much higher and she knows how
to win - that’s the bottom line.
Nebraska will probably try to stop her,
and I’m sur, they’ll be able to block
her a little bit”
The Huskers enter the game with
the second-best blocking attack in the
.country, averaging 3.75 blocks-per
game and led by freshman Amber
Holmquist (1.72 per game).
Nebraska junior co-captain Jill
McWilliams said NU’s strong middle
and-right-side block will match up
well against Gehlke’s left-side attack
and that she feels NU actually has an
advantage with their unusually low
«
Heck, no, we ’re not
frightened. That in
a-row stuffdoesn’t
mean anything.”
Mandy Monson
NU volleyball player
third seed.
“I don’t think they know what’s
coming,” McWilliams said. “I know
that they respect Nebraska volleyball,
but I think we can go over there and
take them by surprise - just with our
varied offense. It’s going to be hard to
stop.”
If the Huskers get by the Gauchos,
they’ll most likely play home-team
Stanford, who has won four of the last
seven NCAA Championships and
would be riding a 43-match win streak
on their home floor. Monson said NU
isn’t intimidated by that, either.
“Heck, no, we’re not frightened,”
Monson said. “That in-a-row stuff
doesn’t mean anything. We saw some
one come into the Coliseum and break
our great streak this year, so why can’t
we do it, too?”
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Olerud to Mariners
in three-year deal
NEW YORK (AP) - While first
baseman John Olerud left the New
York Mets for Seattle, teams offered
salary arbitration to 21 players and cut
off talks with 74 others.
Olerud agreed Tuesday to a $20
million, three-year contract with the
Mariners, clearing a logjam that held
up the free-agent market.
The passing of a Dec. 7 deadline
should also spur signings now that
draft-pick compensation isn’t an issue
for three-quarters of the free agents.
The group offered arbitration
included outfielder Wil Cordero and
left-hander Chris Haney (Cleveland)
and three players who left the NL
champion Atlanta Braves to become
free agents: shortstop Jose Hernandez,
right-hander Rudy Seanez and out
fielder Gerald Williams.
Players offered arbitration may
accept die offers through Dec. 19 and
negotiate with their former teams
through Jan. 8.
The World Series champion New
York Yankees said goodbye to catcher
Joe Girardi and infielder Luis Sojo,
Anaheim let go of left-hander Chuck
Finley and Cincinnati said so long to
outfielder Greg Vaughn and pitchers
Steve Avery and Mark Wohlers.
Players not offered arbitration
can’t re-sign with their former teams
until May 1. Also, teams can sign these
players without losing amateur draft
picks as compensation.
Among those were right-handers
Andy Benes, John Burkett, Orel
Hershiser and Bobby Witt; left-hander
Kenny Rogers; catcher Benito
Santiago; infielders Jeff Blauser, Tony
Fernandez, Mickey Morandini and Ed
Sprague; outfielder Paul Sorrento;
and designated hitter Harold Baines.
While the Mets said Tuesday they
were offering Rogers arbitration, they
were prevented from doing so by a
clause in the pitcher’s contract.
Right-hander Jeff Brantley, facing
the midnight deadline, re-signed with
Philadelphia, agreeing to a $250,000,
one-year contract that gives him the
chance to earn an additional $2.5 mil
«
This was a real
difficult decision for
me. There were times
where I was leaning
toward the Mets'.’
John Olerud
Seattle first baseman
lion in roster and performance bonus
es.
Shortstop Rey Sanchez agreed to a
$4.6 million, two-year contract with
Kansas City, and Texas signed two
players just before the deadline, left
hander Mike Munoz ($850,000) and
second baseman Luis Alicea
($750,000).
Atlanta agreed to a minor league
deal with first baseman Brian Hunter,
who would get a $350,000, one-year
contract if he makes the team.
Cleveland agreed to a minor league
deal with left-hander Mark Langston,
who would get a $300,000, one-year
contract if he’s added to the major
league roster.
Rogers’ agent, Scott Boras, disput
ed the Mets’ right to offer arbitration to
his client, saying he conveyed that ear
lier in the day to New York general
manager Steve Phillips.
The Mets also offered arbitration
to Olerud in case there’s a problem
with his Seattle deal. Olerud, one of
the top players in a weak free-agent
class, opted to return to his hometown
rather than stay with New York.
“This was a real difficult decision
for me,” Olerud said. “There were
times where I was leaning toward the
Mets, definitely. I came close, but
never to the point where I said, ‘Let’s
go for it’”
Mets made a “very comparable”
offer, he said.
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