Huskers seal big win
From staff reports
Nebraska wrestlers used wins in
seven of nine weight classes and a for
feit in another to blow past Missouri
32-6 inrthe annual “home away from
home” dual with Missouri
Four of the Comhuskers’ seven
wins were major dec is ions or technical
falls, and Missouri failed foplace a‘
wrestler at 125-pounds opposite Joe
Malia, earning NU six points.
The dual’s highlight match was in
the 174-pound division, where MU’s
No. 15 John Kopinksy outlasted Ati
Conner, 4-3, earning the Tigers three of
their six points for die dual.
Conner took an early 2-0 lead in the
match when he took Kopinsky down
with 1:55 left in the first period. The
third period started with the wrestlers
tied at three, but after a Kopinsky
escape, Conner didn’t score any more
points, and Kopinsky won the match.
Nebraska’s Joe Henson won the
only match featuring two rated oppo
nents. The 15th-ranked Henson earned
a 8-3 decision over Missouri’s Jeff
Urban, No. 19 at 149 pounds.
Urban was within one point at the
end of the second period, 4-3. But after
a Henson escape and another take
Nebraska 32
Missouri 6
down of Urban, Henson won the match
8-3 after being awarded a bonus point
for riding time.
Todd Beckerman (133), Bryan
Snyder (157) and Charles McTorry
(184) all won by major decisions. Team
captain Brad Vering earned a five point
technical fall, defeating MU’s Kevin
Herron 19-4.
The Huskers are now 2-0 in duals
this year. They beat Lock Haven 20-16
at home to open the season.
Osborne named coach of the decade
■ Man who led the
Huskers to three national
championships honored.
From staff reports
Former Nebraska Football Coach
Tom Osborne was honored last
Thursday at the ESPN College
Football Awards Show as die coach of
the decide.
^ Osborne retired after The h99T
season, after he saw his Comhuskers
win a share of the national title with a
42-17 victory over Tennessee. It was
the third national championship that
Osborne won in the 1990s. No other
head coach won more than one
national title in the ’90s.
In his first two national title runs
in ’94 and ’95, Osbomels teams went
25-0.
After defeating Miami 24-17 in
the 1995 Orange Bowl and Florida
62-24 in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, the
Huskers were the first repeat national
“Champions since Alabama repeated
in 1978 and 1979.
Osborne was points shy of a
national title in 1993 when an 11-0
NU team lost, 18-16, to Bobby
Bowden’s Florida State Seminoles.
Osborne, 62, was inducted into
the College Football Hall of Fame in
1998 and had a 87-11-1 record in this
decade, winning conference titles six
times. In his last five years, Osborne
won 60 of 63 games.
In 25 years at NU, Osborne com
piled a 255-49-3 overall record, good
enough for fifth all-time among
Division I-A coaches with at least 10
years of service.
Former Husker impressed bv NU
■ Basketball team would
be ‘really good’ if Belcher
were well, Johnson says.
“They basically have a whole differ
ent team then we had here last year,” he
said. “It’s unfortunate for them that
Cookie is hurt, because if he was
healthy, I think this would be a really
good basketball team. The new guys
like Danny Walker and Steffon
Bradford are good basketball players.”
By Matthew Hansen
Staff writer
The most interested observer during
Saturday’s Devaney Center matchup
between Nebraska and Pitt may have
been a college junior with connections
to both schools.
Chad Johnson, who started 15
games For the Huskers one year ago,
transferred to the University of
Pittsbufgh for the 1999 school year.
Saturday, Johnson, unableJo j>lay_
because of NCAA transfer rules that
require a year off, watched his old and
new teams square off.
Johnson was one of three Huskers to
transfer following last season, and one
of six lettermen lost from the 1998-99
team that finished 20-13. The mass exo
dus due to graduation and transfer
resulted in an unusually laige Nebraska
recruiting class
Following die 69-57 Nebraska win,
Johnson said he was impressed with
NU’s new feces.
Cubs trade
for 2 players
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -
Convinced they need more than
Sammy Sosa, the Chicago Cubs kept
reshaping their roster, getting pitcher
IsmaeLYaldes and second -baseman—
Eric Young in a five-player trade
Sunday with the Los Angeles
Dodgers.
While the New York Mets talked
about mega-deals for Ken Griffey Jr.
and Manny Ramirez, and other teams
discussed Chuck Finley and Tony
Fernandez, the Cubs made a move for
the third-straight day at the winter
meetings.
Chicago sent reliever Terry
Adams, minor league pitcher Chad
Ricketts and a player to be named to
the cost-conscious Dodgers. Earlier,
the last-place Cubs reached tentative
agreement with free agent catcher Joe
Girardi and got center fielder Damon
Buford in a trade with Boston.
i know we’re a heck of a lot bet
ter than when I got on die plane in
Chicago,” general manager Ed Lynch
said. -
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Huskers topple Panthers
BELCHER from page 10
has been glaring so far early in the
season - turnovers. NU committed
23 to Pitt’s 11, with every Husker
turning it over at least once.
“Our problem is turnovers,” Nee
said. “We just have to learn how to
take care of the basketball, and we
~ will be fine. If we take care of the
turnovers, it is a totally domineering
game for Nebraska.”
NU Notes: Up next for NU is
Arizona on Saturday in the Las
Vegas Showdown. Belcher is ques
tionable for the Wildcats, and he said
his playing status will depend on his
wrist after Nee said he will not play
in the game. Kimani Ffriend has 26
Nocks in eight games, an average of
■■ ^
We just have to
learn how to take
care of the
basketball...”
Danny Nee
NU men’s basketball coach
3.25 per game. Danny Walker was 4
for 7 on 3-pointers for the game. On
the season he is shooting 19of46,a
41 percent clip from beyond the arc.
Steffon Bradford, playing with an
injured hand, was one rebound shy
of his third double-double this sea
son.
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