Shooting woes doom Buffs
By Joshua Camenzind
Staff writer
With every three-point attempt
that clanked ofFNebraska’s home rims
Saturday, Colorado might have kissed
away its NCAA hopes.
The Buffaloes entered the game
still in the hunt for a postseason bid
with a 16-10 overall record and 6-7
Big 12 Conference mark. But CU shot
36.5 percent from the field, including
one of 20 from beyond the arc on
Senior Day at Nebraska.
Those three statistics are not exact
ly recipes for success.
“It’s just one of those days,” said
CU guard Nick Mohr, who finished
with six points with a 0-8 effort on
three-pointers. “It was probably in my
head. It was probably in all our heads.
We just have to step up and shoot.”
The Buffaloes entered the locker
room at halftime with a five-point lead
at 31 -26 but were outscored 20-0 in the
paint after the break. Jaquay Walls,
CU’s leading scorer, was held to 10
points and had six turnovers.
Colorado Coach Ricardo Patton
said Walls’ bad game was not to blame
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Seniors finish in style,
keep NCAA hopes alive
■ Nicole Kubik rescues
Huskers, scoring eight of
NU’s last 12 points.
^ By John Gaskins
Staff writer
Before his 1999-2000 seniors took
to the Bob Devaney Sports Center court
for the last time Saturday night,
Nebraska women’s basketball Coach
Paul Sanderford said the home fans
— would remem
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they finished.
Appropriately, in their curtain call
in front of a school-record 13,226 fans,
Nicole Kubik, Charlie Rogers, Brooke
Schwartz and Cisco Gilmore gave a
lasting impression that reflected their
final season.
The Comhuskers didn’t make win
ning easy, but they sure made it memo
rable.
Nebraska pulled out a dramatic 65
56 victory over Kansas State after fail
ing to put the game away midway
through the second half. KSU cut a 13
point lead to two with four minutes left
before Kubik stole the show one last
time. .
The All-American guard scored
eight of NU’s last 12 points, pulled
down four offensive rebounds and
grabbed a pivotal steal in the last four
minutes. The steal led to a Shahidrah
Roberts layup that put NU up 63-56
with 36 seconds left.
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eral times throughout Kubik’s career. It
followed a similar path to Wednesday
night’s 75-71 overtime win over
Oklahoma State at home and her 26
point display that shut down KSU 68
61 in Manhattan last month.
“Nicole is a crunch-time player,”
Rogers said, sitting next to Kubik in
NU’s post-game press conference.
“She’s someone you want on your
team in a close game. I couldn’t feel any
more comfortable in those situations
than with Nicole having the ball. She’s
been huge at the end of the game. She
played like a senior.”
Kubik - who had her second career
double-double with 19 points and 10
rebounds - also saved NU’s NCAA
Tournament hopes. The win kept the
Huskers (15-11 overall) tied with Texas
for the Big 12 Conference’s fifth-place
position at 9-6. KSU fell to 12-16 and 5
10.
The one memory that might stick
Dut in Husker fans’ minds will be this
scene during a dead ball with 13.6 sec
onds left: Kubik, heading toward the
sidelines after Sanderford pulled her
out, flailing her arms dnd acknowledg
ing a standing crowd that included near
ly half her hometown of Cambridge
[pop. 1,107).
“The thing I’ll remember most is
when we pretty much had the game won
with 13 second left,” Kubik said. “I
looked up and could see people all the
way to the top. And, when I think back
to the first game we had here, when we
maybe had the bleachers filled on the
bottom, and with what we’ve done with
this program, you couldn’t ask for any
thing more.”
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NU goes 2-1
in weekend
UTSA series
From staff reports
The Nebraska baseball team
improved its overall record to 6-3 with
a 2-1 performance this weekend
against Texas-San Antonio. .
The Huskers lost 4-3 Friday after
UTSA mounted a three-run rally in
the eighth inning.
Senior pitcher Chad Wiles
breezed through the first seven
innings, allowing just three hits and
one run before walking the first batter
he faced in the eighth.
Junior Brian Rodaway gave up a
single, and sophomore R.D. Spiehs
(0-1) came in, allowed a base-loaded
double and was tagged with the loss.
The top five Husker hitters com
bined to go one for 19, but left fielder
Adam Stem went three for four and
first baseman Dan Wright went two
for three.
The Huskers rebounded Saturday
by pounding out 14 hits to beat UTSA
10-1.
Second baseman John Cole went
four for five, stole four bases and
scored two runs to pace the offense.
Freshman pitcher Jamie Rodrigue
(1-0) picked up the win by allowing
just five hits and one run over seven
innings.
Sunday, the Huskers won 3-2
behind the strong pitching of sopho
more Shane Komine, who pitched the
Huskers’ first complete game of the
season.
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Romjue: NU
needs time '
to develop
By Brian Christopherson
Staff writer
Larry Romjue realizes his kids
just have to grow up.
The Nebraska men’s golf
.coach is putting this season into
the hands of four freshmen and
one sophomore, and coaches know
that growing pains will follow
such inexperience.
Today and tomorrow, the
Cornhuskers will compete at the
University of Texas-San Antonio
Invitational featuring 18 teams,
including the likes of conference
brethren Baylor and Texas A&M.
Many of those same teams
took Nebraska to the woodshed, as
NU finished in 15th place at the
Southwest Classic last week.
Romjue is learning to have
patience with an inexperienced
team.
“You want the time to be now,
but we’re just lacking experience,”
Romjue said.
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the spring season as many of the
schools we’re competing against
because of the winter here,”
Romjue said. “But we need to
learn how to pick it up and play the
same as we were at the end of last
season.”
Freshman Rob Arthur is com
ing off a solid performance, fin- *
ishing tied for sixth at last week’s
tournament.
A potential boost could come
from two new arrivals from
England, freshmen Marty Smith
and Himesh Patel.
Both transferred to Nebraska
at the semester.
“A month from now, I expect
us to be a lot better,” Romjue said.
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weight throw by tossing an NCAA
automatic qualifying mark of 66
IVi, out-distancing the next-best
score by more than three feet. In
addition to winning the title, the
throw moved Price from No. 12 in
the country to No. 3 weight thrower.
“I’ve never thrown that in prac
tice,” Price said. “It raises my
expectations. Now I expect to place
high at nationals.”
Price said it was important for
her to rebound from what she called
a “nightmarish” conference meet
last year.
“This was a lot about revenging
last year,” Price said.
Throws Coach Mark Colligan
said he thought Price was ready to
make a splash at the conference
championships. Colligan and Price
both credit her distance to how hard
she worked on a new throwing tech
nique.
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her presence felt by placing second
in the 60-meter hurdles, scoring a
personal-best 8.28.
“I was pretty nervous coming in
because there was so much pres
sure to do well,” Waibel said. “I
really wanted to do well for every
one who has worked so hard this
season.”
Leann Boerema, another fresh
man, stepped up for the Huskers.
She posted a personal-best 51-5 V*
in the shot put.
NU withstood a late run by
Texas, which trailed the Huskers
61-10 after the first day of scoring.
Texas rallied with 27 points scored
in the 200-meter dash by sweeping
the first three places in addition to
sixth.
However, the Huskers put Texas
away by placing second in the final
event of the day - the 4-by-400
meter relay. The Longhorn relay
squad finished first but was later
disqualified for stepping outside
the track, ending any hope it had of
completing the comeback.
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be the best of all of them.”
In the long jump, Hutchinson
jumped 25 feet, 2Vi inches Friday
night to claim the title, but then
topped that feat with his leap of 53
feet, 9!4 inches on Saturday.
Coming into the triple-jump
field, Hutchinson was ranked third in
the Big 12. His performance on
Saturday was a personal best and an
NCAA automatic-qualifying mark.
All together in the triple jump,
the Huskers dominated the field by
sending all four of their jumpers to
the finals. NU racked up a total of 19
points in the triple jump.
Hutchinson Said with the loss of
Myerscough he and the rest of the
triple-jumpers knew they had to pick
up the slack if NU wanted to win the
team title.
“It makes us all feel so good to
win the team title, a lot better than it
feels to win an individual title,”
Hutchinson said.
Another top pertormance tor
Nebraska came from Shaun
Kologinczak in the high jump.
Kologinczak, a sophomore from
Spring, Texas, jumped a mark of 7
feet, 214 inches to claim second place
in the high jump for the Huskers.
Kologinczak lost to defending
national champion Mark Boswell of
Texas, who jumped 7 feet, 614 inch
es.
“I felt great to get second,”
Kologinczak said. “My goal was to
get second. Pretty much the whole
field was battling for second place.”
Other top finishers for NU in
Ames included freshman Eric
Eshbach, who took fourth in the pole
vault, senior Dwayne McClary, who
took fourth in the 200 and sopho
more John Shovlain, who finished
fourth in the shot put.
The Big 12 title was Nebraska’s
first since the 1998 season and third
indoor title overall. Next year, the
Big 12 Championships will be held
in Lincoln.
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