Softball team drops two games at Fiesta Bowl Tournament
BY VAN JENSEN
The Huskers traveled to
Tempe, Ariz., looking for a fast
start to the season this weekend
NU emerged with a 2-2
record, including losses to No. 3
Arizona, 11-4, on Saturday and
lB^-ranked South Carolina, 2
1, in its opener on Friday.
Nebraska did get a win over
but were slowed
by tough com
petition at the
Fiesta Bowl
Tournament.
a ranked opponent, beating No.
20 Oregon, 2-1, on Saturday,
and defeated unranked UNLV,
3-0, on Friday.
Nebraska was scheduled to
play five games in the tourna
ment, but the Sunday finale
against Washington started far
later than planned and was can
celed after three innings
because both teams needed to
catch plane flights.
In what turned out to be
NU’s final game of the weekend,
Arizona rudely welcomed for
mer Papillion-Lavista star
Peaches James to college soft
ball.
In her college debut a day
earlier, James had shut down
UNLV with a complete game,
two-hit performance. But the.
third-ranked Wildcats pounded
James for seven rims and 10 hits
before the freshman was pulled
after four and two-third
innings.
A lone bright spot in the 11-4
loss was senior Jamie Fuente’s
two-run home run in the third
inning.
In the early game on
Saturday, another NU freshman
hurler fared far better.
Freshman Katie Decker
started the first game of her col
lege career and allowed only
one run on five hits through six
innings, striking out five.
Nebraska’s offense provided
just enough run support in the
2-1 win. Third baseman
Amanda Buchholz led the
offense with three hits, and
Leigh Ann Walker shut out
Oregon in the seventh inning to
record her first save.
On Friday, James dominat
ed, striking out nine in the 3-0
win. James had a no-hitter
going through five and two
third innings.
In the early game against
South Carolina, NU wasted a
quality outing from Walker in a
2-1, eight inning loss.
Walker gave up only three
hits, one of which was a solo
home run in the first inning.
Nebraska did not score until the
top of the sixth, when Kim Ogee
scored from second on a Nicole
Trimboli single, 'frimboli led the
team from the plate, going 2-3
in the game.
After a scoreless seventh,
the game went into extra
innings. Nebraska was shut out
in the top of the inning, and the
Gamecocks seized the opportu
nity. South Carolina started the
inning out with a base runner at
second, a rule for extra innings
in softball.
Walker intentionally walked
the next two batters to load the
bases. She then gave her sixth
free pass of the game to
Debralee TYoesh, walking in the
winning run for South Carolina.
Going East no problem
for gymnastic team
BY JASON MERRtHEW
Although the NCAA
Championships are still a couple
of months away, the sixth-ranted
Nebraska women’s gymnastics
team is looking like a contender
Just a couple weeks after
breaking the 197-point barrier for
the first time in school history, the
Huskers improved their school
record with a 197.050 point victo
ry, winning the quadrangular held
in Morgantown, WV
West Virginia, ranked 17th in
the country, placed second with a
196.6, while lO^1-ranked Penn
State finished third and James
Madison rounded out the field.
NU freshman Alecia Ingram
captured her fourth all-around
title of the season, posting a 39.6
score. Ingram tallied career highs
on the balance beam (9.925) and
floor exercise (9.925).
Freshman Thmi Harris, NU’s
other all-arounder, finished fifth
with a 393.
Nebraska showed its domi
nance on the uneven bars. The
Huskers placed six gymnasts in
the top eight in the event
Harris and sophomore Bree
Dority O'Callaghan both set
career highs on bars, tying for first
with a 9.95.
Sophomore Julie Houk
(9.925), Ingram (9.90), Jess Wertz
(9.875) and Libby Landgraf (9.825)
were among the six gymnasts to
place in the top eight in bars.
Nebraska was able to hit all 24
routines, scoring 49 points or bet
ter on each event
Kelley said she was forced off team
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dipped slightly to 11 minutes per
game during Big 12 play. She aver
aged 1.4 points, 1.1 rebounds and
23 assists in 22 games this season.
The separation was a shock to
her teammates, senior guard
Amanda Went said.
“I think the whole team was
(surprised).... Wfe are a dose team
and we feel each others' pain.
When we lose one another, it’s
tough," she said.
It’s been a tough season for
Sanderford and NU. The
Comhuskers have a 10-14 record
and have only a handful of games
left, including the Big 12
Conference Ibumament
Kelley questioned die timing
of what she considered a forced
departure.
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games left; it could have waited
considering all that was going on
with the team,” she said.
Kelley said she would transfer
next year and continue to play
basketball, but did not specify
which schools she was looking at
“I have looked at a lot of
schools,” she said “It willbeahard
transition.”
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