— MEN’S BASKETBALL —
NU drops another on road
■ Nebraska maintains
dubious record in over
time loss to Texas A&M.
By Matthew Hansen
Staff writer
Nebraska and Texas A&M came
into Saturday’s regular season finale
trying to end dubious streaks before the
Big 12 Conference Tournament.
The Aggies (8-19 overall, 4-12 Big
12) were successful, stopping their five
game losing streak with an 83-76 over
time win against the Huskers.
NU (11-18, 4-12) meanwhile, fin
ished the regular season without a road
victory in nine tries.
After the regulation 40 minutes of
play, neither team’s losing streak had
ended, as the score was knotted at 70.
In overtime, A&M made 11 of 12
free throws to put away the Huskers,
who converted only one of eight field
goals in the extra period.
Until midway through the second
half, it looked as ifNebraska would con
tinue another streak of road futility, this
one featuring double-digit defeats.
The Husker’s first eight road losses
were all by at least 12 points, and, with
16 minutes remaining in the contest,
Texas A&M had stretched a 7-point
halftime margin to a 54-40 lead.
Aggie freshman Bernard King had
a hand in the team’s quick start - he
scored a game-high 30 points, many in
the first half. In the process of lighting
up the Huskers, King set a Big 12
record. The guard became the confer
ence’s all-time leading freshman scorer,
breaking the record previously held by
Iowa State’s Marcus Fizer.
Spurred by the play of Larry
Florence, the Huskers stormed back.
The senior guard, who finished with a
team-high 20 points and added six
rebounds, six assists and four steals, led
the Huskers on an 11-1 run.
By the eight-minute mark,
Nebraska led 63-32. NU still held a one
point lead with only three minutes
remaining before the Aggies held them
scoreless for the remainder of regula
tion.
Louis Truscott scored 14 points and
grabbed 8 rebounds for NU, while
Kimani Ffriend chipped in 11 points
and also had eight rebounds in the loss.
Steffon Bradford added 12 points for
NU.
Yering loses, wrestlers place fourth
WRESTLERS from page 16
age to score and lost 3-1 when the
Husker was taken down.
Both 149-pounder Joe Henson and
133-pounder Todd Beckerman upset
higher-seeded wrestlers in the semifi
nals, but neither could keep the
momentum in their championship
matches. Henson lost 4-2 to OSU’s
Reggie Wright, and Beckerman was
pinned by Iowa State s Cody
Sanderson, the tournament’s most out
standing wrestler.
Neumann said his wrestlers lost
only one match they weren’t supposed
to, and his team notched a couple
upsets.
“Do I wish we had 85 points?’’
Neumann asked the reporter. “Hell yes,
I do. Being fourth in this conference
pisses me off.”
Snyder, ranked No. 3 in the country
with a top seed, won his 19th consecu
tive match and was named champ
when Oklahoma’s David Kjelgaard
forfeited the championship bout.
Snyder, along with Beckerman,
Vering, Henson and Gomez, earned
automatic bids to nationals for finish
ing in the top three.
Charles McTorry earned a wild
card at 184 pounds.
Why is TIAA-CREF the
#1 choice nationwide?'
The TIAA-CREF
♦
Advantage.
Year in and year out, employees at education and
research institutions have turned to TIAA-CREF. And for
good reasons:
• Easy diversification among a range of expertly
managed funds
• Solid performance and exceptional personal service
• Strong commitment to low expenses
• Plus, a full range of flexible retirement income options
With an excellent record of accomplishment for more
than 80 years,TIAA-CREF has helped professors and staff
at over 9,000 campuses across the country invest for—
and enjoy—successful retirements.
i
Choosing your retirement plan provider is simple. Go
with the leader: TIAA-CREF.
Proven Performance
Low Expenses
Highly Rated
Quality Service
Trusted Name
* According to DALBAR, Inc, a financial services research firm. In its most recent study, 1997Defined Contribution Excellence Ratings,TIAA-CREF was voted number one in partici
pant satisfaction. TIAA-CREF Individual and Institutional Services, Inc. distributes CREF certificates and interests in the T1AA Real Estate Account. Teachers Personal Investors
Services, Inc. distributes the variable component of the personal annuities, mutual funds and tuition savings agreements.71AA and TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Co. issue insurance
and annuities. TIAA-CREF Trust'Company, FSB provides trust services. Investment products are not FDtC insured may lose value and are not bank guaranteed
For more complete information on our securities products, including charges and expenses, call 1 800 842-2776, ext. 5509, for the prospectuses. Read them carefully before you
invest or send money. © 2000 TIAA-CREF 1/00.
- - - .
— SOFTBALL —
Softball team loses all
games in Gold division
■ Huskers9 overall
record drops two places
after Georgia tourney.
From Staff Reports
The No. 23-ranked Nebraska soft
ball team has shown it will not shy
away from the nation’s best competi
tion.
After winning its pool with a 2-1
record in the prestigious NFCA
Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga., the
Cornhuskers concluded play in the
Gold division with a record of 0-2.
All three Husker losses came at
the hands of ranked opponents. The
tournament field was made up of 15
teams who were ranked in the top-25.
On Friday, NU opened play with a
loss to No. 15 Louisiana-Lafayette.
Nebraska jumped to a 6-0 lead
before the Cajuns stormed back to
upend the Huskers, 7-6.
NU’s second game against No. 24
Hofstra was postponed due to a down
pour in the top of the third inning with
no score.
Saturday morning, the Huskers
knocked off 39th-ranked Cal State
Northridge 3-0.
When play resumed against UH,
Nebraska started the top of the third
with a triple from senior Jennifer
Lizama. Walk-on freshman Kim
Ogee grounded out to second to score
Lizama, which gave NU the 1 -0 victo
ry
By winning their pool, the
Huskers were put into the tourna
ment’s gold bracket.
Nebraska lost its first-round game
10-2 against top-ranked Washington
before closing out tournament play
with a 7-0 defeat of No. 4 Arizona
State.
The Huskers’ overall record
dropped to 7-9 after their 2-3 showing
in Columbus.
Josh Wolfe/DN
ISU’s Cael Sanderson grapples with OSU’s Daniel Cormeir for the Big 12
Championship in the 184-pound class Sunday at the Devaney Center.
ISUs wrestling brothers
form powerful trio on mat
TRIO from page 16
If Cody Sanderson was going to
move from Utah and go to school in
Ames, the next brother in line, Cole
Sanderson, thought he better sign on
Iowa State’s dotted line a year later.
The two brothers signed for
Douglas. There was one to go.
The last one was the best one, and
he almost got away to the enemy.
“I thought about going to
Oklahoma State,” Cael Sanderson
said. “But it scared me to not go where
my brothers were. My dad said not to
worry and go where I needed to, but I
couldn’t go away from family.”
Said Steve Sanderson: “Caei’s a
maverick, and can be his own person,
but it did make me happy when he went
where his brothers went.
“I think he stayed up two or three
nights, but the family was the deciding
factor, and he said he would have a
hard time cheering against them and
sitting on the other bench.”
bteve banaerson is no tool wnen it
comes to wrestling. The boys’ father
coached them in high school and wres
tled at Brigham Young in college. Their
father has “thousands” of tapes of the
boys wrestling, dating back to when
they were eight years old.
“It’s funny because you watch their
styles at the young age, and it really
doesn’t change,” Steve Sanderson said.
“Cody’s more of a technician, and he
knows what he’s going to do.
“Cole is a fighter, and he always
gives 150 percent, and I’m as proud of
him as the other boys,” Steve
Sanderson said. “And Cael has always
just wrestled with a smile on his face,
and I think their styles just kind of
developed from each other.”
Surprisingly though, it’s not his
sons’ wrestling success that has this
father so jubilant, but the family’s
unity.
“I know after Cole lost in the sec
ond round at NCAAs last year that it
really affected the other kids,” Steve
Sanderson said. “I don’t know how
other people are, but it meant a lot to
me when I was with the other kids to
see a tear in their eyes.”
Cody Sanderson wiped the tears
from his eyes and ended up a national
runner-up at 133 pounds, and Cael
Sanderson dominated, even pinning
Nebraska standout Brad Vering in
1:58.
All the brothers have qualified for
next week’s nationals in St. Louis, with
Cole joining his two brothers at the
NCAAs with a third-place finish
Saturday.
The Sanderson boys are going to
make ISU a tough team to trip at
nationals next week.
“It helps out to wrestle on such a
good team, because everyone here has
the same goals to win, both individual
ly and as a team,” senior captain Cody
Sanderson said.
However, it you dig in young Cael
Sanderson’s past, the youngest brother
had a 127-3 record in high school.
“I don’t like to say the names of the
people I lost to,” Cael Sanderson said,
half-jokingly.
Leave it to Dad to blow his cover.
“The last match he lost in high
school was his junior year to Joe
Heskett (current Cyclone teammate
and 165-pound All-American), but the
ref later admitted that he had made a
wrong call,” Steve said. “But he’d kill
me if he knew who I said he lost to.”
That secret should have stayed
inside the family. All the other ones
have.
