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Cyclones stay hot at home
with 35-10 second-half mn
By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
Myths can be hard to shatter.
Just ask the Nebraska women’s
basketball team and the other six
opponents that have ventured into
Iowa State’s Hilton Coliseum this sea
son.
For three-quarters of the game
Saturday, the Comhuskers seemed to
turn the legend of Hilton magic upside
down.
But then out of nowhere the
eighth-ranked Cyclones released
Hilton Coliseum’s magic in a ten
minute 35-10 flurry. And before
Nebraska could batten down the
hatches, Iowa State turned a close con
test into a runaway victory.
ISU coach Bill pennelly said he
hadn’t seen such a barrage from his
team this season.
“I thought the last 10 minutes of
the game we played as hard and as well
as we have all season,” Fennelly said.
“I think you combine our effort, our
execution and the crowd. It was a great
atmosphere at the end.”
The Iowa State crowd of 12,134
made the third-biggest in school histo
ry. The Cyclone fans, ones who are
used to seeing their team score points
and deliver knockout blows, spent the
early part of the game jeering NU
rather than cheering ISU.
This was in part because of 12
first-half ISU turnovers and 12 com
bined points from leading scorers
Angie Welle and Stacy Frese.
But the magic seeped back into
Welle at halftime as she scored 20 sec
ond-half points on her way to a career
high 24-point afternoon. Her scoring
spree picked up after NU center Casey
Leonhardt picked up her fourth foul
with 12 minutes, 40 seconds left in the
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son.
But for three-fourths of the
game, NU gave ISU - a team which
had beaten home opponents by an
average of 31.3 points this season -
its first real challenge at home.
Unflustered by the crowd and the
fact Iowa State hit seven of its first
10 shots and four 3-pointers in the
first nine minutes, the Huskers
trailed just 33-32 at halftime.
Nicole Kubik answered ISU’s 3s
with three of her own in the first 6
minutes, 20 seconds of the game.
She finished with a team-high 17
points on five-t)f-eight 3-point
shooting. NU’s nine 3-pointers made
was a season high, its 28 attempts an
all-time high.
“Nicole Kubik hit one from the
concession stand, I think,” ISU
Coach Bill Fennelly said.
Sanderford said Nebraska
played some of its best basketball of
the season in the first half, which is
exactly what he said it would take to
even keep NU close. His prophecy
of the Huskers getting blown out if
they played sub-par came true in the
game’s last 12 minutes, when they
missed 16 of 18 shots and were
outscored 35-10.
“We played with so much poise
in the first 30 minutes,” Sanderford
said. “Then we let them hit a couple
of easy shots and couldn’t get a
break on some calls. We panicked -
both offensively and defensively.”
Although Sanderford was dis
gruntled with the second-half surge,
he saw plenty of reasons to be opti
mistic about his team’s capabilities
now that its toughest road challenge
is out of the way.
“We’re excited about having the
opportunity to play them again later
in the season,” Sanderford said. “I
don’t think anyone is going to want
to play us in March.”
Nebraska will try to bounce
back with a three-game homestand
that starts tonight at 7:05 against
Missouri at the Devaney Center.
game and had to go to the sidelines.
Welle said that she had to adjust
her game when Leonhardt was in the
picture.
“Normally I can usually muscle
people, but I couldn’t move her,” Welle
said. “On offense in the second half
she was in foul trouble, and that’s when
we tried to take advantage of her.”
With Leonhardt out of the game,
NU not only lost a physical presence
inside on defense, but also its inside
presence on offense. NU’s game plan
of going inside-out turned into a
perimeter-oriented attack.
ISU feasted on the one-dimension
al attack as it scored 21 points off of 16
second-half turnovers by Nebraska.
By the end of the game, it was
obvious that ISU’s second-half success
was not because of magic but
turnovers. Fennelly agreed.
“The difference is you turn it over
12 times, and Angie doesn’t get it
much inside in the first half,” Fennelly
said. “And the second half we don’t
turn it over, and she get 20 points and
we get some shots at the basket.”
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Shot-putter debut a
success at first meet
By Jamie Suhr
Staff writer
The Nebraska indoor track team
opened the season Saturday against
Tulsa and Kansas at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center.
Freshman shot-putter Carl
Myerseough finished in first place and
qualified for nationals with a throw of
64 feet, 4 Vi inches. The marie was sec
ond best in Nebraska indoor history.
Myerseough said qualifying for
nationals wasn’t as big a concern as the
high expectations surrounding him.
“I was very nervous. The nerves
might have helped, so I used them to
my advantage,” he said. “I was very
pleased. I like to make a good impres
sion.”
Coach Gary Pepin echoed
Myerseough’s sentiments.
“That was really exceptional,”
Pepin said. “When you’re in a scenario
like that, you really want to try to
" impress everybody and do real well in
your first meet.
“Any time a collegiate steps into
the ring and the first time they throw
it’s over 60 feet, that’s a pretty big step,”
Pepin said.
He was also pleased with the per
formance by freshman pole-vaulter
Eric Eshbach, he said.
Eshbach placed first in the event
by vaulting 17 feet, 4 !4 inches. Tied
for second place was freshman
Johnathan Henley with a mark of 16
feet, 6 Va inches.
“The pole-vault mark was a real
^ I was very
nervous. The
nerves might have
helped, so I used
them to my
advantage.”
Carl Myerscough
NU shot putter
good mark,” Pepin said. “(Eshbach)
was real close to the next mark of 17
feet, 9 inches. That’s a really big early
season performance.”
Senior Dahlia Ingram, a six-time
All American, competed in her first
event since a car accident took away a
month of training in October.
Ingram won first place in the
women’s long jump and the triple
jump.
“I was thinking about redshirting
the indoor season, so I used the first
meet to see where I was at personally,”
Ingram said. “I’m doing well for hav
ing a month off.”
Ingram ran the 60-meter dash for
the first time and placed third.
“I wanted to do it to help my speed
in the long jump,” Ingram said.
Pepin said that he was pleased to
see her jump well, considering all of
her time off.
Pine scores three victories
By Brian Christopherson
Sta ff writer
Nebraska’s and Southern
Methodist’s men’s swimming and div
ing teams ripped the competition and
then ripped into each other in the final
event on Saturday night to decide the
Dallas Morning News Classic.
Meanwhile, the ninth-ranked
Southern Methodist women just plain
ripped the Husker women in a dual
meet.
The Mustang men broke a 313-313
deadlock with a 1:21.52 time in the
200-yard freestyle. NU’s four-man
team touched the wall less than a sec
ond later with a 1:22.29 mark and lost a
meet in the last race for the second time
this season.
That less-than-one-second gap in
the final race gave Southern Methodist
a 337-331 edge over the Huskers in the
final standings.
NU may bolster its No. 17 ranking
however, as the Huskers placed well
ahead of 15th ranked Texas A&M,
which finished third with 276 points.
The Aggies were followed by 22nd
ranked Florida State (260), No. 19LSU
(256) and 12th-ranked Arizona State
(213).
Nebraska Coach Cal Bentz said he
left the meet with positive feelings
about where the team is heading as the
season turns toward the homestretch.
“This was our best meet of the year,
with many individual improvements,
and I saw a good level of intensity and
desire in the team,” Bentz said. “This
weekend the team really came togeth
er.”
Adam Pine put on his usual show,
playing a hand in three victories. Pine
won the 100-yard butterfly (47.81.) and
200-yard butterfly (1:48.08) and was a
member of the 400-yard medley race.
Michael Windisch took home two
victories in the 400-yard Individual
Medley (3:51.64) and the 500-yard
freestyle (4:28.78).
Erik Cook placed first and second
in the 3-meter and 1-meter springboard
events, respectively. Cook continued to
shine in only his second meet back
from back injury.
Pine earned outstanding swimmer
of the meet, with Cook taking home
outstanding diver honors.
Also in town were the NU women,
who lost a dual meet to Southern
Methodist 176-114, dropping the
Huskers’ dual record to 1-6.
“Not to make excuses, but I think
the road trip on Friday took a little
something out of them,” Bentz said.
However, a few Husker women did
perform notably. Shandra Johnson took
first in the 400-meter freestyle
(4:16.97) and was on the winning 400
meter freestyle team.
Helene Muller also continues to
excel, winning the 100-meter freestyle
with a 57.43 time.
Bentz is not overly concerned with
the 16th-ranked women’s poor dual
record.
“The dual record only means some
thing in the press guides,” Bentz said.
“How we do at the Big 12 Conference
and nationals is how this season is
going to be judged.”
Gomez clinches Husker win
From staff reports
Seeing his first dual action of the
season, 125-pounder Paul Gomez pro
vided No. 7 Nebraska’s wrestling team
with the boost it needed in the
Cornhuskers’ 23-15 victory over
Wyoming. The Huskers improved their
dual record to 3-1.
Gomez earned a four-point major
decision, 12-4 over Wyoming’s Cisco
Gonzalez, and extended NU’s 13-12
team lead to 17-12. The Huskers didn’t
look back after that, capturing the next
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two matches to down the Cowboys.
Before Gomez’s match, NU had a
slim 7-6 lead. But Brad Vering
improved his season record to 18-1
when he pinned Craig Rumsey. Vering
provided Nebraska with a six-point
spark, increasing the Huskers’ lead to
13-6. Wyoming’s Dave Schenk then
pinned Matt Zutavern in the heavy
weight match, making the score 13-12
going into Gomez’s match.
