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Munoz clips Vering in three rounds;
Cowboys pound Nebraska in 30-7 win
COWBOYS from page 16
the sixth match, the Cowboys turned
it up and never looked back.
OSU’s Daniel Cofmeir, No.7 in
the nation at 184 pounds, pinned
Charles McTorry, No.5 in die coun
try, at 4:38 of the third period.
“I just wrestled hard for seven
minutes,” Cormeir said. “I expected
a tough match. I saw McTorry wres
tle once this year. I know he’s
wrestling well.”
Cormeir’s win set the table for the
marquee match,-between OSU s
Mark Munoz, No.3 in the nation, and
No. 2 Brad Vering.
After three hard-fought rounds,
Munoz hung on to win the most com
petitive match of the afternoon 6-5.
Munoz is the only wrestler this
year to defeat Vering. The two have
wrestled 10 times before and have
developed a healthy rivalry.
“Brad’s always a great competi
tor and a good guy,” Munoz said. “He
comes out ready to go and ready to
wrestle. When things looked like it
was going his way, I had to fight back
and turn around the momentum my
way.”
Munoz put OSU up 18-7. The
Cowboys went on to win then* next
three matches.
Dave Anderson pinned NU’s
Andy Christensen at the 4:08 mark
of die second period. Jeff Ragan, No.
6 in the nation, won a decision over
No. 12 Paul Gomez, 9-4. And in the
last match, PSU’s Charles Waters,
No. 8 in the nation, defeated No. 10
Todd Beckerman, 3-2.
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NU wresders’ effort
displeases Neumann
tiusker guards jade away late m loss
to Tigers at Devaney Sports Center
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62-55.
Then, while Nebraska stalled
offensively, MU finally found the
range from long range.
Steffon Bradford, who had 11
points, all in the first half, and 13
rebounds on the day, and Ffriend,
who had all 20 of his points in the
second half, would combine for only
three more shots.
Keyon Dooling would make that
many three-pointers. The MU sopho
more guard, who had missed eight of
his first 11 shots, hit his first three to
cut the Husker lead to four. His sec
ond tied the game, and his third gave
the Tigers their first lead of the game
with 3:38 left.
Nebraska Coach Danny Nei said
the difference in the final minutes
was the confident play of Dooling
and the Tigers.
“They just broke out with three,
four minutes to go,” Nee said.
“Dooling hit a couple from the top of
the guy. He confidently stepped up
and made the plays. That’s what your
go-to guy does, and he’s their go-to
guy.”
Ffriend, who had been the
Husker’s go-to guy in the second
half, didn’t see the ball much in the
late minutes. After his dunk tied the
game at 66 with 5:31 remaining, his
only shot attempts were a wild
jumper and a desperation lay-up
attempt with only seconds remain
ing.
Meanwhile, point guard Danny
Walker took seven shots, making
only two.
Nee said he would have to watch
the tape before he could decide why
his big man didn’t get the ball in the
final minutes. He did say, though,
that the late Husker offense wasn’t
ideal.
“That’s not really what we want
ed,” he said. “Danny said there was
no one open. The clock was running
down. Until I look at the film, I’d
have to say not exactly, but we do like
Danny shooting it for us.”
Ffriend chalked it up to the
Missouri defense. He said the pres
sure of the Mizzou guards made it
hard to enter the ball into the post in
the final minutes.
Kareem Rush, who kept the
Tigers within striking distance for
much of the game, finished with a
game-high 21 points. Dooling was
close behind with 19, while Gilbert
finished with 13 despite a 3-for-15
shooting night.
Larry Florence contributed 17
points for NU, while Walker had
seven assists. J
Davison said that, overall the
Huskers played well. But he said it
wasn’t quite good enough.
“We didn’t play a bad game at
all,” he said. “In fact, the fans today
saw a good effort. But we just needed
to execute a little better down the
stretch. You can’t let a lead like that
slip away like this. Ones that you let
slip away like this, they’re just devas
tating.” S
Rush keeps Missouri in contest,
then Tigers follow in 82-78 victory
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One reason the Tigers stayed
within clawing distance was Rush.
The freshman decided to assert
himself with about six minutes
remaining before half-time. MU was
down 11, and one fan had just yelled,
“You aren’t as good as Jaron (push’s
brother, who plays at UCLA).”
Rush must have heard him
because he sparked the Tigers with
seven points in the next two minutes
to cut the lead to six with 3:53
remaining.
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to 14 before the half, but Rush suc
ceeded at staving off another Husker
run that might have put the game out
of reach by hitting a 3-pointer with
27 seconds remaining.
“They gave me some offensive
opportunities,” said Rush, who led
all scorers with 21 points. “People do
look for me to score a little, and that
gave us some momentum.”
When the second half began,
Rush continued to haunt NU with his
unassuming presence.
As Gilbert and Dooling started to
iicai up, nusn cumpiememeu mem
well by hitting shots with 9:59 and
6:34 that cut the Husker leads down
to one and two points, respectively.
Rush would not score again, but
it would not matter. The damage had
already been done.
The Tigers, now in second place
in the Big 12, will play Iowa State in
Columbia on Wednesday night for
sole possession of first place.
“People got to realize that
tonight, we found a way to win,”
Gilbert said. “Wednesday night is
going to be a war.”
Men lose Nelson to another ACL tear;
women’s gym team rolls over Oklahoma
■ Big 12 road trip proves
trying for men gymnastics,
but women triumph in
195.40-194.10 win.
By Jason Merrihew
Staff writer
The Nebraska women’s andimen’s
gymnastic teams had mixed results
last Friday against Oklahoma.
The Big 12 road trip proved to be
devastating for the men’s team. The
Huskers lost their first dual of the
season to the fourth-ranked Sooners,
227.750 to 222.975.
The lost became more costly with
the injury to senior All-American
Marshall Nelson. Nelson tore his left
ACL on his parallel dismount. He
was unable to compete in the 1999
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season with the same injury.
Before his injury, Nelson set a
school record with a 9.95 score on the
high bars. He also placed first on the
pommel horse with a score of 9.70.
Senior All-American Derek
Leiter led the Huskers in the all
around with a score of 56.35, placing
second behind OU’s Daniel Fumey.
Leiter won the vault with a 9.75, and
a second-place showing on the steel
rings with a score of 9.55.
Sophomore Martin Fournier fol
lowed behind his teammate Leiter
with a third-place showing in the all
around with a score of 54.40.
The Nebraska women’s gymnas
tic team had a better time in Norman.
The fourth-ranked Huskers beat
the 15th-ranked Sooners 195.40 to
194.10.
Senior All-American Heather
Brink led NU in the all-around with
39.30 showing, good enough for sec
ond. Oklahoma freshman Leticia
Ishii won the all-around, scoring a
39.35. Ishii also won the uneven bars
(9.90) and the floor exercise (9.875).
Senior Nicole Wilkinson tied
with Sooner senior Ginger Russell
for first on the balance beam with a
score of 9.90.
Junior Amy Ringo placed third in
the all-around with a score of 39.10.
Ringo also tallied up a third-place
showing on the balance beam with a
9.80.
Freshman A. J. Lamb was the only
other Husker to place in the top three
in an event. Lamb placed third on the
vault with a score of 9.80.
The men’s team will next be in
action in a couple of weeks, when
they travel to California to face Cal
Santa Barbara. The women’s team
will travel to Kentucky this weekend
to compete in a four-team invitation
al.
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takedown. The two went back and
forth until the third period when
the match was tied at four.
Then, for the second time in
their two matches this year,
Munoz took down Vering in the
last 10 seconds of the match. It
gave Munoz a 6-4 lead, and Vering
couldn’t notch a takedown of his
own after an escape with four sec
onds left. Munoz took his second
match from Vering, 6-5.
“I want to come out and set the
tone,” Vering said. “Last time we
wrestled, it came down to the last
couple seconds again. I just have
^ to finish out the match.”
Vering said he felt comfortable
with the lead he had in the first
period and that the match was
going as planned at that point.
“I want guys to wrestle at my
pace, my style and react to me.
Today he reacted to me well, and
he beat me.”
Neumann said he saw more
fight in his team vs. OSU than he
did Friday against the Sooners.
NU’s wrestlers were doing more
attacking and being more offen
sive on Sunday, Neumann said.
But the Cowboys turned many
of those offensive attacks into
points for themselves, Neumann
said, and they’re the best in the
country in doing that.
“They put a lot of pressure on
you,” he said. “Then, when you
attack, you are not in as good a
position as you’d like to be, and
they take advantage of that.”
157-pounder Bryan Snyder,
ranked No. 3 in the country, was
the only wrestler to win both of his
matches this weekend. The
Cornhuskers had five weight
classes that went winless.
It left Vering, a captain, very
displeased.
“If we wrestle like this at the
Big 12 tournament,” Vering said,
“we’re going to get our butts
kicked. If we change something
before then, we’ll do well.”
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