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The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 17

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r- i Saturday. April 28, 1990 SPOFITS The Lincoln Star Page 47 LSE's Elgert wins Capital City golf title; Knights team champ Senior wins first medal: senior who qualified as Southeast's fifth player by hafided and golf right-handed." average for this year. It's just that Southeast is such a solid team. If you donl medal at the previous meet, tt makes it tough to qualify for the next We have fierce team competition which makes for better play. The more pressure situations, the better youH play in the long run." Eight of the top ten individual finishers were from Lincoln schools.

Northeast's Ben Heideman finished second with a 73, winning the tie-breaker on a scorecard comparison. Grove and Brian Bock finished third and sixth with 73 and 7i respectively. For East, Chad Wise shot a 74 for fifth, Dave Aksamit a 78 for seventh, and Kelly Karmazin 77. Lincoln High's -Geoff Friesen took ltXh with a 78. Resutts, Pag 18 Lincoln schools dominate.

ByTimBrusnahan ot Tha Lincoln Star it's amazing what a little encouragement from your mora ami winning a golf tournament can do for confidence. Cteis Elgert, ranked fifth on the Lincoln Southeast team, fired an even-par 71 Friday at Pioneers Golf Course to claim his first medalist honors of the season and lead Southeast to the Capital City Golf Invitational title. "I played a real solid round," said Elgert, a ouioueiing senior Jake JuhL "I putted real strong and it helped having my mom out there. She's real optimistic although she doesnt know much about golf. But it helps when she follows me.

She keeps me in good spirits and gives me confidence. You know, moms." And with Mother's Day coming up, mom received an early gift Tra real proud of him," Linda Elgert said. "It seems like he was born with a putter in his hand." That prompted a quick reply from dad, Hike Elgert. "But it's not natural to be born kft- Golf has come naturally for Chris, even though he hasn't won many tournaments. He was the only junior player from Nebraska to qualify for two national tournaments last summer: The "Big Independent Insurance Tournament and the U.S.G.A.

Junior Amateur Tournament. "I don't win that often," said Elgert, who signed a letter-of-intent to golf at Nebraska. "My dad and I like to Joke that I'd do better on the pro tour (where finishing high in the rankings pays off in cash). But out here, if you dont win it's hard to get noticed. "I've been playing aS right with about a 75 meet" The Knights, who had placed second in their last two tournaments after winning the first two, finished with a 297, eight shots better than second-place Lincoln East in the lJ-team field.

"Some people may have thought we were struggling," said Southeast Coach Dan Wolf. "But breaking 300 with what I understand was tough pin placement is almost automatic (for victory). I Professional boxing returns to Lincoln in May" Lincoln's first professional boxing Husker coach Neumann honored After guiding Nebraska to its between Lincoln's Isaac Quarells and Omaha's Wayne Grant and Grant recently battled to a draw hr a bout at Omaha. Tickets go on sale at Pickles outlets in early May, Menefee The cost is 8 ringside, $10 at the door, and $8 general admission, $8 at the door; -Tickets for youth age be sold at the door only for ft best wrestling season. Coach Tim Neumann was selected co- coach of the year by the National Wrestling Coaches Association Menefee's 17-year-old son, Tony, also is scheduled to make his professional debut in a four-round bout against Nor folk's Tommy Hoffman, 3-0.

A ruling by Nebraska Athletic ftmmissioner Jerry McGinn cleared the way for Menefee's entry. Professional boxing rules state that no contestant under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to participate in a professional bout unless he gets special permission from the state's athletic commission. Menefee is a veteran of the amateur ranks. Two other middleweight fights also are scheduled: A six-rounder between Omaha's Ray Domege and Grand Island's Dave Lopez and a four-rounder card in more than a year will feature a pair of 12-round Mid-American Boxing Association championship fights on a five-bout card The event is scheduled May 19 in the 4-H Building at State Fair-Park, promoter Ray Menefee said Carlos "The Spanish Fly" Santistevan, of Lincoln, win defend his super middleweight crown against unbeaten Omahan Ken Schaefer, the No. 2 contender in the light heavyweight division.

In the other feature bout, Hallam's FeUx "The Cat" Dubray is set to put his lightweight title on the line against Crete's Ken Moody. Neumann, previously nerned Y1ZA Big Eight coach of the year, shared the national honor with 1 Oklahoma State's Joe 4 A Missouri. The Huskers and Tigers will play a nine-inning, seven-inning doubleheader at 2 p.m. Saturday and the same at 1 p.m. Sunday.

NU women slip in Big Eight tennis OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. The Nebraska women's tennis team slipped further behind Friday in the Big Eight Championships. The Huskers had been chasing second-place Oklahoma after the opening round, trailing the Sooners by only three points. Now the Huskers are still third but seven points behind Oklahoma.

Oklahoma State is firmly in first with 131 points. Auburn's Stelling runs top time CRETE Auburn's Theresa Stelling ran the state's fastest time in the girls' 800-meter run Friday at the Crete Invitational, giving her state-leading times in three different events this year. Stelling, who has signed a national letter-of-intent with Nebraska, also set a meet record in winning the 800 in a time of 2:21 .3. Nebraska bowling teams 2nd, 8th BEAVERTON. Ore.

The Nebraska men's bowling team is in second place, and the women's team is struggling in eighth after two days of the National Collegiate Bowling Championships. The men's team has 1 5,081 points, trailing first-place Wichita State, which has 1 5,420 after 27 games and four of five rounds. Eagle Raceway plans open house Eagle Raceway will have its annual open house Saturday from 1-4 p.m., weather Admission is free. Local sprint car drivers will "test and tune" first, said Eagle owner Marty Beecham. i 4 tt A Neumann's top assistant Mark Neumann Perry, earned assistant coach of the year honors from the Wrestling Coaches Association.

In Neumann's fifth season with the Huskers. i the team was 21-3-1 in duals and ranked fourth most of the season. The Huskers finished fifth at the NCAA Championships with six All-Americans. Next season's team might get a boost from Paul Collier, a three-time state wrestling champion in Delaware who was the outstanding wrestler at the national prep-school tournament this year. He signed a national letter-of-intent to attend Nebraska.

Collier will wrestle at 1 34 pounds and probably will redshirt his first year. Neumann said. Collier finished his high school career 111-4, winning Delaware state titles as a freshman, junior and senior. Redskins sign ex Husker Glaser Doug Glaser. a former All-American offensive tackle for Nebraska, has signed a free-agent contract with the Washington Redskins.

NU-Missouri baseball canceled COLUMBIA, Mo. Rain canceled the Nebraska baseball team's game Friday against Jet. I- Questions on Lawn Garden LAWN GARDEN CLINIC Sat. April 28 Distributor Representative for Ortho and Rapid Gro will be in our store to answer your gardening questions and to give away FREE- SAMPLES of Rapid Gro Bloom Builder. Free Soil Sample Testing SAT.

1 0 A.M.-4 P.M. HWY. 2 SOUTH 33RD CTi Spring From Page 15 Others are out because of injuries: safety John Reece (knee), cornerback Jon Crippen (broken finger), I-back Terry Rodgers (knee soreness), tight end Doug Langemeier (knee), corner-back Eric Anderson (knee) and split end Keith Maxell (separated shoulder). Youngsters will get in free if they pledge to say no to drugs. The Say No to Drugs campaign has sponsored the spring game the last two years.

Those wishing to participate may get into the game free by going through, with their sponsors, gates 2, 11, 14 and 24. Tickets for adults are $3 and for youngsters S2. NU students can get in free with an ID. CroeL Travis llill and David White of the -Red team and Dan Svehla of the White, lare among the best ever at the position, said assistant coach Tony Samuel And the rebuilt defensive line of Walker, Joe Sims and Pat Engelbert has shown it will not be the question mark many predicted it would be. "I know Pat and Joe are good and in time I think well compare with the lines -of past years," Walker said.

"I'm close to Pat because we have played together and Joe is speeding up his play so we I become a good line" Nebraska defensive coordinator Char lie McBride said Walker could be the key to the success of the defensive line. "He is quick enough to make a mistake and make up for it" McBride said "He's quick enough to get away with a lot of things most defensive linemen cant Kenny is strong enough. His size doesnt hamper him, either." NOTES: Osborne said he would likely extend the first and second quarters of Saturday's game to 20 minutes apiece. Tyrance is expected to miss the game while he takes his SAT examination for medical school placement Reg. Price $7.95 114646 Choose From Ortho's Most Popular Titles KLEEN-UP Nebraska Spring Game Rosters ORTHO WEED-B-G0N WEED KILLER Red team KILLS TOUCKSST WEEDS GRASSES FAST team "Pro WtED-B-GOfl LtMmVMMd HF WEED-B-GOtl ORTHO Weed-B-Gon kills dandelions, wild onion, plaintaln and other broadleaf weeds roots and all.

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The team of Frank Graham, Harald Graham, Dieudonne Kwizera and Jacques van Rensburg, was defeated by Iowa State, which finished in 16:15.1. Nebraska's sprint medley relay team (John Gerber, Ken Waller, Mark Jackson and Kwizera) qualified for the finals in 3:19.58, which was the fastest qualifying time. The Huskers 1,600 relay team (Jackson, Waller, Jerry Marsee and Tamas Molnar) qualified for the finals in Result. Pag 16 PLANT FOOD tflowBrCsrt women's team didnt finish because the baton was dropped during the second handoff. The men's team was sixth in their heat in 41 .39 seconds.

"That really shows how bad the weather was," Pepin said "The women didn't get the stick around. The men at least got it around, but they didnt do very good. Both teams just didnt handle the stick. That's one area where we are going to work real hard." NOTES: Concordia's Carol Bailey won the first heat of the women's 100 dash in 1104 seconds, which qualified her for Saturday's final. Nebraska's Kim Walker was second in tha beat in 1106 seconds and also qualified for the final but wont compete because of a hamstring pun.

sophomore Lisa Darley, who finished third in the 800-meter Invitational run in a personal-best time of 2 minutes, 6.4 Nadezda Loboiko of the Soviet Union won in 2:04.18, but she was an exhibition Loboiko was one of 11 Soviets to 'Compete in the Drake Relays. Edith Nakiyingi of Iowa State was credited with the win in 2:0191 "I was real pleased with Lisa," Pepin said. "She just keeps improving and tt showed today." Michele Marthaler finished third in the 10,000 in 25:51.93. Lisa Stone of Baylor won the 10,000 in 35:02.74. Pepin said the 400-meter relay was "the bad" for Nebraska.

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Hubbard improved his season's best in the 300 to 9:52.0 with a victory Friday. charts. He was well off his 1:58.3 time which leads the state in the 800. Southeast Coach Roy Churchill said Trainor held back a little in the 400 because he was running in the 200. This is the first time he's had to run in preliminaries an year," Churchill said about Trainor.

"He wasnt sure what was going to happen so be was a little tentative in the 400. state in the 80S, won that event Friday with a 2:25.6. Tin real pleased with these kids," Henrichs said. "They've worked hard all season and they're slowly bringing their times down. We're trying to peak them for the last three meets and they seem to be ligM on schedule." Trainer tied his season-best the 400 which is second on the state boys'.

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