Chandler, Ingram score big at Invite
Junior college
transfer scorches
60-meterfield
By Samuel McKewon
Senior editor
Chris Chandler thought there was
something wrong with him.
Not even one*year removed from
the junior college national champi
onship in the 55-meter dash, the
Comhusker junior sprinter had been,
by his standards, downright slow in
the 60-meter races during opening
meets of the season.
But Chandler found a recipe for
success at Saturday’s Frank Sevigne
Husker Invitational at Bob Devaney
Sports Center: nothing.
After taking last week off from
training, Chandler scorched the field
in the 60-meter finals, running an
NCAA-automatic qualifying time of
6.61 seconds, 0.01 off the meet and
building record, set by Texas-El Paso’s
Odabele Thompson in 1990.
Chandler was one of two Husker
men to win individual titles in the two
day meet, which drew an overall atten
dance of7,260. The other winner was
freshman shot-putter Carl
Myerscough, who beat six of the
nation’s top 10 shot-putters with a 64
foot, 8-inch toss, the best of his career.
The field for the 60-meter dash
wasn’t near as elite. Buf Chandler, a
transfer from Wallace State College in
Alabama, won’t give back the victo
ries or the time, considering the previ
ous best this season was 6.75.
“Sooner or later, I saw this com
ing,” said Chandler, who was named
the Outstanding Male Athlete of the
meet after capturing the 200-meter
title 45 minutes after his 60-meter vic
tory. “I couldn’t figure out what was
wrong with me. I’m the junior college
national champion, and I come here
and nothing.
“I thought maybe it was the
adjustment to a bigger school. I had
been waiting to perform at this level.
But I think I’m good now.”
Certainly. With his time, Chandler
puts himself right in the thick of the
national championship race and firm
ly places himself as the favorite going
. into the Big 12 Championships in two
weeks in Ames, Iowa. The fastest col
legiate 60-meter time this season is
6.58.
Chandler said he can go faster.
And has gone faster. NU Sprints
Coach Billy Maxwell said he wasn’t
so sure of the latter statement.
Maxwell does not doubt the junior
will go faster.
“We worked him hard before last
week,” Maxwell said. “So he needed
the week off. He’ll be ready to go
lower if we put him through only one
tough workout a week.”
The 6-foot-10 Myerscough does
n’t doubt that he can throw further.
While his final throw of the competi
tion is just 2 Va inches short of the
nation’s best, and he beat the field -
which included No. 1 Jim Roberts
from Brigham Young — by 10 inches,
Myerscough didn’t “feel his best”
Saturday.
“I’m still recovering from being
sick last week,” he said.
One look at the field cured the
freshman right up. After some long
throws in warm-ups from Georgia’s
Reece Hoffa, who finished second,
Myerscough understood what he was
up against. He took the lead with a
throw of 64-5 in the preliminaries,
then threw 64-8 on his final throw,
when it was already decided he had
won.
“I put the pressure on myself
there,” Myerscough said. “I knew I
could go further.”
Another freshman, pole-vaulter
Eric Eshbach, wanted a title of his
own, but finished second behind
Louisiana State’s Russ Buller, who
took the nation’s lead in the event after
clearing 18-2 Va Saturday. Eshbach
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Mike Warren/DN
ABOVE: IN THE third heat of the men*
800 meters, as Mark Owens el
Nebraska runs past, Trayvis Lowery
of Barton County College gets tripped
and falls on the track. In avoiding
Lowery, Ronnie Unberhagen stepped
off the track. Neither Unberhagen nor
Lowery finished the heat.
✓
LEFT: GARRETT SCHRAMN of South
Dakota lays on the infield of the track
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center cm
Saturday during the finals in the pole
vault, but when he failed to clear
the opening height he decided te
get some rest.
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Ingram finally nabs Sevigne crown
By Jamie Suhr
Staff writer
In the final home indoor meet of
her career, Nebraska’s Dalhia
Ingram finally got what she was
waiting for - first place in the long
jump at the Frank Sevigne Husker
Invitational.
And only a record-breaking per
formance from Louisiana State’s
Keisha Spencer in the triple jump
kept Ingram from winning her sec
ond event at the Invitational, held at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center
Track on Friday and Saturday.
Ingram leapt 20 feet, 6 V2 inches
to claim the title over second place
Spencer, who leaped 20 feet, 5 inch
es.
“I finally got it,” Ingram said. “I
didn’t get the jump I wanted, but a
win is a win.”
Also falling to Ingram was
Georgia’s Tasha Mahone, ranked the
No. 1 long-jumper in the country.
She finished third with a jump of 20
feet, 2 V* inches.
“I got a boost'of confidence,”
Ingram said, “but last year I was
ranked No. 1 and finished seventh at
nationals, so I don’t put much stock
into that.”
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ISU’s 2nd half run throttles NU
U / thought
they turned up
the defensive
pressure.They
shot a higher
percentage.
They beat us
down the
floor."
Danny Nee
NU basketball coach
By Brian Christopherson
Staff writer
AMES, Iowa — Perhaps, at die very
least, the Nebraska basketball team sal
vaged a glimmer of hope, however small,
from die lesson they received in an 87-65
knockout from No. 17 Iowa State.
It now knows it can play with die big
boys for spells, but a 40-minute wire-to
wire game with the Cyclones on the road
is still a long way from home.
The Cyclones (21 -3 overall and 9-1 in
the Big 12 Conference) drove die point
home to any doubters that they are realis
tically the heavyweight of die conference,
but those pesky Comhuskers buzzed
around them for a half on Saturday night
The fact that Nebraska did outscore
Iowa State 23-5 for a stretch in the first
half is the only positive the Huskers can
grasp at after dropping to 10-13, and 3-7
in the conference.
Then came the second half. A fan
who overstayed a half-time trip to the
bathroom would find to the surprise and
delight of most of the 14,017 in atten
dance that die 38-34 ISU lead had blos
somed into a 70-45 rout 8:12 into the sec
ond half.
“I thought they turned up die defen
sive pressure,” Nebraska Coach Danny
Nee said. “They shot a higher percentage.
They beat us down the floor.”
Big 12 player of the year candidate
Marcus Fizer tallied a game-high 23
points knocking down nine of 10 shots,
enjoying the last 11 minutes of the show
from the comfort of the bench.
“It’s runs. I thought Nebraska was
competitive in the first half, and I was
pleased how we came back when we were
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Nebraska holds on
late against No. 21 KU
By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
The scene had become all too
familiar for the Nebraska women’s bas
ketball team.
hi two of their last three games, all
losses, the Comhnskers held tenuous
leads late in the game only to see them
evaporate, in part because of question
able calls at the end of the game.
Against No. 23 Kansas on Sunday,
it appeared as though NU might get
snake bitten again. Nebraska seemed to
be in control, ahead 68-61 with 2:45
left in the game, only to see the
Jayhawks go on an 11-4 run the next
two minutes to tie the game at 72.
But this time, the Huskers got a few*
breaks of their own as they defeated
Kansas 75-72 in front of a season-high?
crowd of 7,901 at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center.
Senior guard Nicole Kubik, who
reached her season high in points wife;
29 and rebounds with nine, said it was
nice to get a few breaks for a change.
“The past few games it seemed like
we’ve been getting the bad side of a few
calls,” said Kubik, who also led NtJ
with five steals and four assists. “You
can look at it as Kansas getting a couple
of tough calls this game. Ws’re the type
of team that commits to that it happens^
both ways.
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