WOMEN’S TENNIS
The Nebraska women’s tennis team is well on its way to having the best season in school history. Lyd a S Gonzaies DN
NU extended its school-record winning stresk to 14 matches and upped its record to 15-1 on Friday, after defeating Texas Tech. The Huskers are
ranked No. 46 in the country, also the school’s best.
En route to the Huskers’ sweeping ail six singles matches, Sandra Noetzel, the team’s No. 1-ranked player, claimed her 97th win at NU and is just
three wins short of the 100-win plateau. She swept Tech’s No. 1 -ranked player, Amanda Earhart 6-0,6-0.
The Huskers’ only mishap came in doubles play where the Red Raiders No. 1 doubles team defeated NU’s top-ranked doubles team 8-4.
NU* next test will be against Texas A&M on April 2 at the Woods Tennis Center.
Weather stops Sutton’s game
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.
(AP) - Hal Sutton got the challenge
he wanted and played the way' hi
expected. The only thing that
stopped him from winning his
showdown against Tiger Woods in
The Players Championship on
Sunday was the weather.
Sutton was nearly flawless for
11 holes in building a three-stroke
lead over Woods when thunder
storms drenched the TPC at
Sawgrass and suspended the final
round until Monday. Play will
resume at 9 a.m.
“Obviously, I’d have liked to
keep playing,” Sutton said.
No wonder. Sutton didn’t miss
any fairways and only one green,
and that followed a bunker shot that
he ranks among the best of his
career to save par.
Woods failed to birdie three par
5s, twice had to get up-and-down for
bogey and bolted off the course
when the siren sounded.
When play resumes, Woods will
have a 40-foot birdie putt on the
12th, while Sutton has 82 yards left
for his second shot from - where
else? - the fairway.
“Things aren’t going exactly the
way I wanted,” Woods said with a
smile.
But he wasn’t exactly counting
himself out. Remember, his record
is 1-0 in Monday finishes, having
stormed from seven strokes behind
with seven holes to play last month
to win at Pebble Beach.
And no lead is safe as long as the
island-green 17th is still to be
played.
“Three shots back is nothing on
a golf course with the trouble that’s
out there,” Woods said. “If there’s
any golf course you want to play
when you’re behind, it’s one like
this.”
Sutton won The Players
Championship in 1983, the last time
weather forced a Monday finish.
“I was thinking about that up in
the locker room,” he said. “I don’t
know if that has anything to do with
anything, but it was nice to think
about.”
-GOLF
Men struggling with inexperience
By Matthew Hansen
Staff writer
Coach Larry Romjue said before
the season that the men’s golf team
would struggle this spring.
With only one golfer, Seth Porter,
with any college golf experience and
a roster filled with freshman,
Romjue harbored no illusions of an
NCAA Championship.
But he probably didn’t think
things would get this bad. r:
Heading into the Stevinson
Ranch Invitational in Stevinson
Ranch, Calif., on Monday and
Tuesday, the Huskers have finished
dead last in their two tournaments
this spring.
While Romjue foresaw a better
start for his team several months ago,
he’s still optimistic about Nebraska
golf in the future.
And for this week’s meet?
Well, things can only get better.
“You could put it that way,”
Romjue said, laughing. “We’ve
struggled a little this year. But we’re
going to keep plugging along.”
Things won’t get any easier this
week for the Huskers. The Stevinson
Ranch Invitational is one of the
toughest NU will compete in,
according to Romjue.
But where the team finishes isn’t
of utmost importance, according to
their coach.
“We are just looking to improve,”
Romjue said. “With the lack of expe
rience we have, every time we go out
and play helps us get better. This
experience our young guys are get
ting right now, it will pay off down
the road.”
One player who may be a little
more concerned with where he fin
ishes is Porter. The sophomore is the
only golfer who returned from last
season’s squad.
Romjue said that while Porter
was already having a solid spring, he
expected his lone sophomore would
finish the season strong.
“He’s been good for us this year,
but I have a feeling he’s going to do
U With the lack of
experience we
have, every time
we go out and play
helps us get better.
This experience i
are young guys,
are getting right
now, it will pay off
down the road.”
Larry Romjue
NU Golf Head Coach
better,” he said. “He’s already shown
he can compete with anybody, and I
bet by the end of this season he’ll be
at a higher level.”
Swimmers 15th in NCAA
From staff reports
Some work is to be done at the
NCAA Championships if Nebraska’s
men’s swimming and diving team is
to crack its goal of making the top 10.
Right now, NU finds itself in 15th
place with 29 team points.
Texas leads the meet after one
day of three with 173 points, ahead
of Auburn’s 151.
Michael Windisch had the high
est finish for a Cornhusker, with a
sixth-place time of three minutes,
47.28 seconds in the 400-meter
freestyle event.
Ryk Neethling of Arizona won
the race with a U.S. record time of
3:40.47.
NU’s Erik Cook finished 15th,
and Bert Locklin was 19th in the one
meter springboard event with 480.05
and 463.45 points respectively. Troy
Dumais of Texas took home first
with 577.80 points.
In the 400-medley relay,
Nebraska took home 10th place with
Adam Pine, Javier Botello, Erik
Wiken and Carlos Oliva competing.
Right now NU stands 21 points
behind 10th-place Florida, which
would be the position the Huskers
would have to reach to match school
best finishes in 1988 and 1989.
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ter field just out of the reach of
Gemeinhardt’s glove.
“I was a little tentative at the
plate,” Burgess said. “I wanted to get
back to being aggressive.”
NU pulled starting pitcher Jenny
Voss after pitching five-innings, giv
ing up one run on four hits after she
led the inning by walking Swarts.
Leigh Ann Walker came in and sat
the first two Tigers down, but gave up
an infield single to put the go-ahead
run on second. However, utility play
er Lindsey Jacoby grounded out to
second base, putting an end to the
threat.
Williams led off the bottom of the
sixth inning by hammering a double
off the right field wall. Walker failed
to move Williams over by popping out
to third base on a sacrifice bunt
attempt. Then Alice Brewer and Jill
Baker both singled to load the bases
for Amanda Buchholtz.
MU pulled starting pitcher
Stephanie Falk, who gave up one run
on six hits for Ingrid Werner.
Buchholtz battled Werner into a walk,
scoring Williams and putting the
Huskers up for good, 2-1.
“Buchholtz is a fighter,” NU
Coach Rhonda Revelle said.
Walker (9-4) retired the Tigers in
the top of the seventh after one infield
single.
The Huskers beat Falk, who shut
out NU twice last season, without All
American Jennifer Lizama, who is
fighting injuries. The earliest Lizama
is expected back is in two weeks.
“Just for momentum, getting a
sweep is gigantic,” Revelle said.
The Huskers will be at home to
face Colorado State for a two-game
series on March 28-29.
