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Experience gives BY DOUGLAS SHEPPERD The Nebraska men's golf team has come to find out it takes time for things to develop. Despite finishing dead last at the Big 12 championship a year ago, a more experienced Nebraska men’s golf team looks to improve their game now that every golfer from the2000 squad is returning. Things looked good during NU's first tournament as the Huskers finished sixth at the Rice Invitational two weeks ago. However, they followed that up with a last-place performance at the USTA Invitational in San Antonio onlbesday. “Everything is a matter of time,* junior Seth Porter said. “We all have to step up and get it done.' Porter, who tied for seventh place in the Huskers’ first tour nament, didn't quite put it all together during the USTA, as he fired a 225, just good enough fix 34 th place. The Huskers shot an overall score of 896 at the Rice Invitational and a 908 at the USTA Invitational, while shoot ing an 875 their last fall tourna ment. Coach Larry Romjue said despite having a more experi enced team, there are still areas that need improvement "Our short game, especially our wedge play, isn’t where it should be,” said Romjue, who is Exceptional Stand Out in Everything You Do The iiresistiMeWHOPHER Value Meal is always made to yoor specifications. You can’t beat flame-broiled perfection! NU golfers hope in 2001 entering his 30th year at Nebraska. The Cornhuskers are also looking to do some work with their mental game, too. Sophomore Jim Itoy said confi dence and focus are the two pri mary aspects die Cornhuskers are trying to develop in their mental game “When someone has a good round,” Troy said, “they gain confidence within themselves, and that is what it takes to be successful* After the completion of the fall season, in which the Huskers finished 11th in their final tour nament, die golf team gets very little outdoor practice Practice rounds have been hard to come by with the stiff Nebraska winter. Once the weather cooperates the Huskers are looking to get out on the V 1When someone has a good round, they gain confidence within themselves, and that is what it takes to be successful” Jim Troy __ ■ " _ NU golfer course and practice consistently, Romjuesaid NU has been relegated to indoor hitting and traveling to Omaha for an indoor driving range, something that doesn't let a game blossom, TYoy said. “Hitting balls in die Devaney Center and traveling to the dome in Omaha once a week really doesn’t compensate for on course playing time,” *&oy said. Romjue said that his players’ scores will become more consis tent once they can get outdoors and practice. “Our golf game will improve from the beginning of spring to the end of spring, as a result of getting out on the course,” Romjue said. By developing their game over the course of the season die Huskers said their goal is to qual ify for an NCAA regional this year. “If we can put everything together and brat the teams that we need to beat,” Porter said, “then our goal can be reached." Van Horn: Big 12 race to be tight SEASON from page 12 to win 40 games this season, and they’re all going to finish around five games above .500. ~I don't think anybody's going to run away with this thing because I don't think any one or two teams are much better than anybody else.” Texas Tech, while a notch below the conference’s top crust, is a perfect example of this increasing Big 12 parity The Red Raiders finished fifth intheBigl2ayearago,and,at 12 6, are off to a fast start this season, v Beating them, especially in Lubbock, will be a task. Stem said. Tech is a speedy, scrappy bunch that relies on good pitching to keep scores tow then tries to man ufacture enough runs with its legs (43 stolen bases in 18 games) to eke out wins. This strategy plays especially weflmfrontofTecfts home crowd, which Stem said was one of the three toughest places to play in the Big 12. “Their fans are on you from the first pitch,” he said. “They show up, they're loudit's not going to be easy. W*T have to play good baseball to win.” Lucidly far NU, Stem said, the Husloeis started to hit on all cylin ders at Louisiana-Lafeyette’s tour nament last weekend. Staff ace Shane Kbmine, dated to start against Tech Friday, and No. 2 starter Jamie Rodrigue, the Saturday starter; both brake out erf eariy-season slumps in Louisiana. Improved pitching combined with timely NU hits propelled the team to a sweep over a slate of opponentsVm Horn compared to the Big 12kbestteams-2000CWS participant Louisiana-Lafayette, Ohio State and Wichita State. “We started to play Nebraska baseball last weekend, and we got the results,” Stem said. “It'll give us a lot of confidence against Ttech." Not confident enough to promise a sweep, though-Van Horn and Stem said winning two 7 don’t think anybodygoing to run away with this thing, because / don’t think any one or two teams are much better than anybody else.” Dave Van Horn NU baseball coach games of die three-game series would be a more than an accept able step on the road to the Big 12 tide. “That’s what we have to do if we want to win the (regular sea son) title,” Van Horn said. “If we start off strong, unlike last year when we dug ourselves a hole, and we concentrate on winning series, we'll be right there at the end.” c vr L,-rs Deferring taxes with TIAA-CREF can be so rewarding, you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it soon* One of the fastest ways to buid a retirement nest egg rs through tax-deferred Supplemental Retirement Annuities (SRAs) from TIAA-CREF. 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Vering avenged the loss two weeks later by handing Munoz a hard-fought 5-4 double overtime defeat Still, any loss is unacceptable to Wring, arid he's suffered mote than enough to Munoz. “It bugs me every night,* Vering said. “There's guys I've lost to once in my career, and I go to bed thinking about it But there isn't anything you can do about it except get up the next day and work hard.* With two more possible shots at Munoz, Vering has an opportunity to square foe series at 6-6. However, if seedings, released Friday afternoon, go as expected at the Big 12 rqeet, Munoz may have to wrestle Thompson before he does Vering. Munoz hasn't beaten Thompson in his last three tries. Whoever he faces, Vering said, it doesn't matter to him. Plus, he still has to win his open ing match before he can begin thin Icing ahmit fop finals, "I’m wrestling whoever is on foe mat* Wring said. “Zach and Munoz have been a one-point match each time so I think that iS a tOSSUp meres guys rve lost to once in my career, and / go to bed thinking about it.” Brad Vering NU wrestler 115111 UlCiC. “I would n't count Munoz out at all. Just because he hasn't beaten (Thompson) yet, that doesn't mean anything.” Inside die Vering Munoz rival ry lies an __________ ironic twist. Marie Cody, a 12-year assistant with Nebraska until this year, was hired at Oklahoma St after a new coaching staff was brought in at Nebraska. Cody specializes in the heavier weights and now stands in Munoz’s comer. It’s an odd situation that would be on die same plane as Billy Martin becoming skipper of the Red Sox or college basket ball legend Dean Smith man ning the sidelines at Duke. Cody admitted it was awk ward the first time he had to coach against his former pupil. There was a sense of anxious ness before that first match at the All-Star dual, he said. "Working with Brad for so many years, I didn't know how it would be,” Cody said. "Really, feelings don't surface until the match really starts.” nre_e_▲_1 r_•_ iuc moi maiv.ii, vuuig daiu, was odd because the voice that had been instructing him over the past three years was now instructing his opponent Cody said the awkward anx ious feeling isn't there anymore. “Now that they've wrestled a couple of times, I'm a little more relaxed with the situation,” he said. (, Nowin opposite comers, the athletic relationship between Cody and Vering has changed, both admitted. At their first meeting, the only communica tion exchanged between the two was a polite “hello” as the two were passing by each other on the mat But both said that is just the nature of wrestling. Buddying up with the opponents at one’s weight isn’t exactly standard operating procedure. “You fed kind of bad - youte forced into the situation," Cody said. “This sport is 99 percent mental, and you want to be at the top of everything, especially mentally. I don’t want Mark Munoz looking over at me and Brad and wondering what we’re talking about” Once the season is over, things will be back to normal, both said. On a personal level, things haven't changed between he and Cody,Vering said. “I’m going out there and I’m wrestling Munoz," Vering said. “I’m not wrestling Cody, I’m not wrestling the Oklahoma State fens, I’m not wrestling the pres sure or any of the other things that go into each match.”
