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4DE 3 FOOTBALLTRACK SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1993 LINCOLN J0URNAL-8TAR is Oimm, Steer still focused for shot at records i McBride has praise for Dumas 4, record time of 5:15.2, the fastest time in the state this spring. Shepherd has been out with a broken toe. The performance surprised Shepherd, the two-time defending Class 600 champion. "I really didn't know what I could do. I just wanted to see how it felt," Shepherd said.

"I know I can break 5 minutes now." Seward edged Crete for the boys' title by one point, 127-126. The Blue-jays' Eric Whitmarsh tied the meet record in the 200 (:22.9) and teammates Jason Burhoop (high jump) and Ed McLaughlin (discus) also won gold medals. Colby Hood of Crete, last year's Class state pole vault champion, cleared a personal best 14-7 in windy conditions to break the meet record. That's also the best mark in the state this spring. Hood sprained both ankles during practice almost two weeks ago.

"The right one is still messed up and tt slows me down (on the approach)," Hood said. "I can break 15 (feet), no problem. I was over 15 today. I just came down on the bar." Results Boys TEAM Seward 127, Crete 126, York 102, Waverty 62, Pius 46, Fairbury 44, Bkhom II, Norris9. EVENT WINNERS: 100 Scott Meinke, Crete, :11 200 Eric Whitmarsh, Seward, :22.9 (ties meet record, Rick Uerman, Fairbury, 1988); 400 Dan Kugler, York, :52.2; 800 tommy Grabow-ski, York, 1:59.5 (meet record; old record 2:00.3, Ron Moran, York, 1981); 1,600 Grabowski, York, 3,200 Mike Homan, Crete, 110 hurdles Jeremy Kent.

Crete. :15.1; 300 hurdles Kent, Crete, :40.0 (meet record; old record :40.4, RiccS Westiand. Waverty. 1987, and Matt Bomschlegl, Fairbury, 1992); 400 relay Crete (Colby Hood, Kent, Daniel Pomajzl, Meinke), :45.1; 1,600 relay York (John Linn, Grabowski, Karl Hying, Kugler), 3,200 relay York (Linn. Kugler, Hying, Grabowski), pole vault Hood, Crete, 14-7 (meet record; ok) record 144, Travis Soukup, Seward, 1991): long kmp Meinke, Crete, 21-8; high lump Jason Burhoop, Seward, 6-4; triple Jump Meinke, Crete, 45-5V hot put Craig Bertowltz, Waverty, 52-3; discue Ed McLaughlin, Seward, 150-6.

Girls TEAM SCORING: York 121. Crete 97. Lincoln Plus 76Vi, Seward 69, Fairbury 59, Waverty 24Vt, Elkhorn 14, Norris 4. EVENT WINNERS: 100 Melissa Welch, York, :12 200 Welch, York, :25.9 (meet record; old record :26.0, Deb Goodman, Waverty); 400 Anne Jones, Seward, :59.6: 800 Brandy Schwenk, Crete, 2:25.0 (ties meet record, Tammy Smejdlr, Crete, 1980); 1,600 Nora Shepherd, York 5:15.2 (meet record; ok) record 5:18.8, Shepherd, 1991); 3,200 Megann Walker, Plus 12:19.0: 100 hurdles Marlene Kod, Seward, :16.4; 300 hurdles Brooke Blatny, Fairbury, :49.0; 400 relay York (Kim Klone, Denies Heid-en. Dense Suts, Welch), :51.2; 1,600 relay Seward (Heidi Hermig, Melissa Schotman, Tonya Ladety.

Jones). 3,200 relay York (Lisa Russell, Laura Collins, Shepherd, Lesa Hoffman), long himp Karen Fink, Crete, 16-10: high lump Fink, Crete, 5-6 (ties meet record, Brenda Baumann, York, 1987); shot put Tert Steer, Crete, 50-10 (meet record; old record 47-3Vt, Steer, 1992); discus Steer, Crete, 144-4 (meet record; old record 138-2, Tina Hergott, Hebron, 1988). BY RON POWELL Lincoln Journal-Star YORK Another meet, another state record for Teri Steer. The Crete senior broke the girls' shot put mark for the fourth time this season, throwing 50 feet, 10H inches at the Yowell Track Classic Saturday at York High School. Steer's effort wipes out the 50-6ttA she threw April 16 at the Big Red Relays at Elkhorn.

Steer began rewriting Tert Steer the all-time charts with a 48-3 indoors at the Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational March 25. She extended it to 48-8 April 3 at the Central City Relays. "Everytime I throw now, everyone tells me they expect me to break the record," said Steer, who was chosen the meet's outstanding female performer. "It's all in fun, but it helps motivate me to try to improve every meet" Steer's worst throw in six attempts Saturday was 48-6Vi. She had one other throw of more than 50 feet (50-5V) and a total of five throws better than 49-5.

"This is my favorite place to throw," Steer said. "I've always thrown my best here, and I get to come back here for districts. Hopefully, I'll be looking at a good throw then too." She defined a good throw as being "around 53-8." The national record is 53-7H by Natalie Kaaiawahia of Full-erton, Calif, in 1983. Steer has made a wager with her father. "He told me he'd stop smoking if I broke that record," Teri said.

"I'm toying." The Southern Methodist-bound Steer also won the discus with a meet record fling of 144-4, the best effort in the state this season. "I was happy with it That's the best I've thrown since I was a sophomore," Steer said. Her top discus throw was 147-9 as a freshman "and I would like to beat that before I leave." York, led by sprinter Melissa Welch and distance runner Nora Shepherd, won the team title by a 121-97 margin over Crete. Welch won the 100 and broke the meet record in the 200 with a :25.9. She also ran on York's victorious 400 relay.

Shepherd ran for the first time in a month and won the 1,600 in a meet- DrakeNU teams i TED KIRKUNCOLN JOURNAL-STAH Troy Dumas (left) and Toby Wright celebrate Dumas' score on a blocked extra point. SpringScrimmage raises doubts among Husker coaches i i i a jjg, jbjf'jd' 'wwwwiWM iif WW I SB'S. m. JSi I I. I BY KEN HAMBLETON Lincoln Journal-Star Nebraska defensive coordinator Charlie McBride pushed his glasses up and winced.

"I'm not so sure the changes in the defense worked," he said. "We're up and down. One day, OK and the next down. We're in between right now and we're not emotional "The only guy I can think of right now who played very good was Troy Dumas." Dumas, a 6-foot-3, 217-pound sophomore free safety, scored on a blocked 'extra point, intercepted a pass, broke up two others headed for the end zone and had six tackles to lead the White team in the annual intrasquad scrimmage Saturday. 'The one guy who has come a long and matured is Dumas," said -McBride, who then added that outside -linebackers Trev AlbeYts and Donta Jones, as well as defensive backs Toby Wright and Kareem Moss, showed improvement over the spring.

"We were not dominating because we didn't play well in our base defense in stopping the run," McBride said. "But we did show speed on the outside and in closing on people and covering people." Dumas was one the keys to that defensive success, NU head coach Tom Osborne said. "I felt I played some of my best football today," said Dumas, a native of Cheyenne, Wyo. "This is the defense that was the dime defense last year, only now it's our basic defense. It was put in to take advantage of speed and our ability to close up on thebalL "With my 10-yard dash of 1.57 seconds, that means I'm one of the guys who should get to the ball in a hurry even if I'm covering a receiver." Dumas stepped in front of a pass from Tommie Frazier to Reggie Baul to end a drive at the start of the third quarter.

He stopped I-back Damon Benning on a breakaway around the left end in the fourth quarter and three plays later batted down a pass intended for Abdul Muhammad. "I'm so much more comfortable now that I've played a fall and a spring. Last year, I started two games and I was so nervous, I think it took away from what I can do. "This defense is a lot more aggressive and once we all get comfortable with it, well have a lot of big plays all of us." Notes Former Nebraska All-American offensive guard Will Shields, the 1992 Outland Trophy winner, was named the receipient of the Guy Chamberlin Trophy, presented each year to the "senior player who has shown by the play and contributions to the betterment of the Nebraska football squad that he has the qualities and dedication of Guy Chamberlin to the great Cornhusker tradition." Former fullback Lance Lewis was presented with the Novak Trophy, awarded to "the Husker senior who best exemplifies courage and determination despite all odds in the manner of Nebraska all-America center Tom Novak." Osborne, Gov. Ben Nelson and I-back Calvin Jones led more than 7,000 youngsters in the sixth annual "Say No to Drugs" pledge at halftime.

Osborne said Frazier played well until the end of the first half, when the freshman quarterback rushed the pass that was picked off by Dumas. The spring experiments of moving Rob Zatechka from tackle to guard and Lance Gray from outside linebacker to fullback appear to have benefited the team, Osborne said. "With Zatechka, Lance Lundberg, Aaron Graham, Zach Wiegert and Steve Ott or Brendan Stai in there, we can average about 295 in the offensive line," he said. "We can zone block, and with Calvin (Jones) at 212, we have pretty good strength to run. We're able to run the ball, but we want to throw better." NFL finds BY KEN DENUNGER Washington Post the NFL has returned to familiar turf: the college draft To trading up.

To trading down. To trading insults, though always off the record. To tweeners. To never-mind-about-that-dorm-incident. To 4.32 seconds for the 40.

To, in other words, the sort of monopolistic arrogance that lately has gotten slapped aside in other phases of a rapidly changing sport. the league and players reached a labor agreement, the college draft became overshadowed. In the limelight instead were the new free agents, those players with five years of experience in the league and no contracts who, as of Feb. 26, could negotiate with any team. agreement was crafted to award higher salaries to veterans; teams could spend only $2 million on their rookies, and this year the college draft has been reduced from 12 rounds to eight From this morning at 11 a.m.

(ESPN, cable channel 23) through Monday whenever, pro football returns to its most basic leather-helmet rule: Play for us or find a real job. ir sit i TED KIRKUNCOLN JOURNAL-STAR and give the Reds the lead for good. Reds' holder then bobbled the snap on the PAT, the ball bounced loose, and White defensive lineman Kevin Ramaekers scooped it to teammate Barron Miles, who pitched to Troy Dumas for a two-point defensive return. After the wild start, the two squads settled into a quieter game and managed one touchdown and a field goal combined in the second half. of draft Rick Mirer Drew Bledsoe Two types of salary caps are also part of the labor agreement one present and one future.

The quickest to kick in is the $2 million, give or take a few hundred thousand, that each team can use for its rookie payroll. This $2 million is a league-wide average. Those drafting highest New England and Seattle, are allowed to spend the most above $2 millioa Those drafting lowest, Buffalo and Dallas, have the least amount under $2 million. So many rookies this season will command a handsome wage. Trouble is, that other cap likely will be a factor after next season.

That's the salary cap that will kick in once players' salaries reach 67 percent of league revenues. isiiPsiwipto; ifc Continued (ram page 1 of 16 attempts for 57 yards and a touchdown for the Red team, and Brook Berringer hit 8 of 14 passes for 91 yards for the White squad. The top offense on the Red team scored two touchdowns and a field goal against the Whites' No. 1 defense. Tight end Gerald Armstrong caught a 5-yard pass from Frazier to cap an 11-play, 64-yard drive for the Red team.

The other touchdown came on a 15-yard run by Jeff Mako-vicka on a three-play, 31-yard drive. After those scores against the No. 1 defense, the top offense was limited to drives of five plays for 9 yards, three plays and an interception, nine plays for 34 yards, two plays and a fumble, seven plays for 28 yards, and six plays for 14 yards and a field goal. "The oneson-ones was a mixed thing," Osborne said. "At times the offense moved well, but we've got guys on defense who can close.

People like (strong safety) Toby Wright and (free safety) Troy Dumas can make some plays." But the top offense showed it could drive the ball, too. "If we want to score, we put Calvin (Jones) in there with the big offensive line and ram it," Osborne said. "Today, there were some more efficient ways to score, but we are trying to get our passing game up to 55 to 60 percent completions." Frazier, the first NU quarterback in three years to start and end the spring No. 1, explained: "We know we can run. But all spring, we knew that if we want to win a national championship, we have to pass.

Look at Florida State in the Orange Bowl (a 27-14 victor against NU), and they pass all season and run on us to balance the pass. We have to pass to go with the run." Statistically, the Red team finished with 93 yards rushing, including 79 yards in losses, and threw for 131 yards. The Whites ran for 179 yards and threw for 151 more. "I was disappointed with the execution on offense," Osborne said. "Part of it was from scattering the ball around too much and some strange combinations of No.

1 quarterbacks with No. 3 and No. 4 centers. Part of it Reggie Baul (7) eludes Brett Popplewell on a first-quarter kickoff return. Baul also had an 86-yard return for a touchdown.

Benning leams pads are hip I-back Damon Benning, a redshirt freshman from Omaha Northwest, carried the ball 24 times for 90 yards playing for both teams in Nebraska's Red-White football scrimmage Saturday. But he missed one series when he was sent to the locker room for hip pads. "Damon went out there without hip pads, and I asked about it, and he said he never wore them," Coach Tom Osborne said. "I said, 'This is football dadgummit. Get hip pads barely edged out The loss ended Mitchell's successful shot put run at the Drake track.

She won four Iowa state high school meet titles, and she also won the Drake Relays high school title a year ago. Connie Price-Smith of Nike North also threw the shot with the collegians. Had she been eligible, she would have won with a toss of 58-4H. "I'll tell you what I call this a learning experience," Mitchell said about watching Price-Smith. "You cant be first all of the time.

Sometimes you just thank God for what you have." Husker freshman Steve Gordon placed fifth in the men's triple jump with a personal-best leap of 50-2tt. Doane's sprint medley relay team of Brian Elliott Chad Denker, Jeremy Buckner and Dave Symons-bergen placed second in 3:24.85. The Tigers also placed fifth in the 400 relay. Results Men EVENT WINNERS-LOCAL FINISHERS: 100 Kareem Streete-Thompson, Rice, :10.3O; invitational 200 Michael Johnson, Nike, :20.39; Invitational 400 Anthuan Maybank, Iowa, :44.99; 800 Shaun Benefield, Drake, Invitational 800 Marko Koers, Winds, 1,500 Paul McMullen, Eastern Michigan, 3,000 steeplechase Dmitry Drozdov, towa State, Invitational 5,000 Jim Spivey, Asics, 13.58 81; 110 hurdles Tiber Patterson, East-em Michigan, :13.91; 4. Isaac Carson, Nebraska.

:14 07; 6. WHlie Hibler, Nebraska, :14.19; university 400 relay Oklahoma (Nathan Banks, Tod Long, Willie Kelly, David Oaks) :39.59; 2. Nebraska, :39 71; college 400 Mankato State (Charles Zheng, Eric Johnson, Ryan Scott, DuWayna Wright), :41 69. 5. Doane, :41.94; 6.

Wayne State, :42.18; unlversHy 1,600 relay Baylor (Daniel Fredncks, Erhnoge Green, Tony MMer, Reoul Howard), cortege 1,600 relay St Qoud State (Scot Joynt, Rand Roeske, Greg Kknbrough, Lawrence Means), university sprint medley relay Eastern Michigan (Patterson, Kevin Lawson, Agustln Teo, Tommy Asinga), college sprint medley relay CaJ Poly-Pomona (Brian Manning, Darian LeBianc, DeVon Edwards, Jon-Eric Thalman), 2. Doane, university distance medley relay Iowa State (Steve Green, David Knight, Joseph Oiepsror, Jonah Koech), S. Nebraska, college distance medley relay Augustana, O. (Chris Suva, Thabani Gonye, Tom Dow, Randy McVean), 10:00.85: shuttle hurdle May Nebraska (Carson, Mike Bailey, Gene Paulsen, Hbler), :56.92; hammer Marko WaWman, Texas-El Paso, 234-6 (meet record, ok) mark 213-7, Jacques Accambray. Kent State, 1972); triple kmp Gogo Peters, Iowa State, 52-6M; Steve Gordon, Nebraska, 50-2Vt; shot put Courtney Ireland, Southern Methodist, 63-1 Vi; pole vault Brit Pursley, Texas Tech, 17-8V4; high Jump Eric Higgins, Miami, Ohio, 7-3; marathon Keith Fe-vckJ, Dee Moines.

Invitational high rump 1. Hois Conway, CampbeH-WeUs. 7-6V (meet record, old mark 7-3, Mike Fleer, Oregon State, 1974L Women EVENT WINNERS-LOCAL FINISHERS: 200 Hoi Hyche. mciana State. :22.88; 400 Natasha Kaiser-Brown, Southern Cat Cheetahs.

:61 60; 100 Amy Wickus. Wisconsin. 1,600 Clare Eichner, Wisconsin. 5. Fran ten Ben.

eel, Nebraska, 4 25 10; 6,000 Andrea Johnson, Nike South, 100 hurdkw Gudren Af nardott. Georgia, :13.44; 2. Kwani Stewart, Nebraska, :1345. 400 relay Alabama (Stacy Bowen, Faith Idehen, Fertacla Chapman, Andria Lloyd), :44.23; 1,600 reley Texas Southern (Shstondia SrnHh, Vvette Cole, Trade Harris, Char-totte Green). 2.

Nebraska, 3:35.45: 3,200 relay Wisconsin (Jen Met, Juke Cote, Kim Sher-. man, Wickus), 8:36.23: sprint modtoy rskty -Missouri (Antomette Gobs, Heme Andersen, Niool Hodges, Nicki Webber), discus Stella Taikouna, Texas-El Paso, 179-10; meiethon Jane Moeer, Madison, 10. Beth Schuttze, Seward, king pump Chantal Brumer, Washington State, 20-6; shot put JoAnn Hacker, Southern Methodist, S1-4M; 2. Pau tette MHchel. Nebraska, 61-41; S.

Krista Mader, Continued from page 10 "I didnt know we had won until I saw Mike Bailey jumping up and down," said Carson, a freshman from San Francisco. Carson was out to prove to Husker coaches that he is capable of running fast times. He said he has been in sort of a slump, with :14.6 clockings in the 110 open hurdles, but he broke out of it Saturday. He ran 14.06 in the 110 hurdles, his best time of the season. He also anchored the Huskers' 400 relay team that finished in 39.71, just six-hun-dredths of a second off a school record.

Hibler, Travis Grant and Rod Marshall joined Carson on the squad. And right now, Carson is fighting for his life on that team. He replaced Robert Thomas on the team when Thomas bypassed Drake because of a sore hamstring. The competition will get even stiffer when Riley Washington rejoins the team after spending the spring concentrating on football. "I was taking Robert's place today, but I hope I proved myself today," Carson said.

"The coaches kept telling me I had to prove myself, and I think I did. "I tell you what, I predict the final 4-by-100 relay team will be Travis to me to Robert to Riley." The coaches noticed. "We were really worried about Isaac because he's been struggling, and we think he has a lot of talent," Pepin said. "It was really good to see him running well again." Carson and Hibler were part of the Huskers' 400 relay team that finished second to Oklahoma. Carson was also fighting for the lead in the open 110 hurdles before he hit a hurdle halfway through the race and wound up fifth.

Women's hurdler Kwani Stewart was one-hundredth of a second from a Drake title. She finished second to Georgia freshman Gudren Arnardot-tir with a time of 13.45, a provisional national qualifying time. Stewart also ran a leg on the Huskers' 1,600 relay team, along with Tranquil Wilson, Jenny Johnson and Sha-nelle Porter, that finished second in 3:35.45. Texas Southern won in 3:35.16. Fran ten Bensel also was close to victory.

She led throughout the first 2H laps of the 1,500 but finished fifth in 4:25.10. Clare Ekhner of Wisconsin won the event in 4 :21.6L Husker junior Theresa Sterling was seventh in the 1,500 in 4:26.89. Nebraska freshman Paulette Mitchell experienced her first loss at Drake, but she can take some consolation: It took a Mitchell-like throw to beat her. Mitchell and JoAnn Hacker tied for the longest toss in the shot put at 51 feet, ltt inches. But Hacker won because her second-best toss went farther than Mitchell's second-best NlTs Krista Mader was fifth with a toss of 46-11.

1 itself facing new era was the fact we didn't get the field watered properly and we had to wear dry weather shoes on a partially watered field and there was a lot of slipping." Both teams had their slip-ups early. The Whites scored on a 29-yard field goal by Tom Seiler to cap a nine-play drive against the No. 3 defense. On the ensuing kickoff, freshman redshirt Reggie Baul sprinted 86 yards through the defense to score within the league about the significance of the shortened draft Is it still as vital as ever? "I think the draft is even more important now," said Houston Coach Jack Pardee. "Granted, you're going to plug some holes with free agency each year, but you're also going to lose some players.

That means you'd better be finding good young talent each year." Charley Casserly, the Redskins' general manager, disagreed. "It's not as big a cornerstone, because free agency is immense. Where this one's important is the better the draft you have, the better free agent you can sign." Say what? Take a position, any position. Say a team gets a seventh-round draftee linebacker and pay him $125,000. Say that rookie is as good as a veteran linebacker making $725,000.

The team cuts the veteran and saves $600,000. It then uses that $600,000 toward a free agent. Enough of those rookie-beats-out-veteran deals, and the team has enough money even under salary-cap restrictions to get the next Reggie White who comes available. NFL DRAFT First round I New England; 2. Seattle; 3.

New York Jets; 4. Phoenix: 5. Cincinnati; 6. Tampa Bay: 7. Chicago; 8.

Detroit. 9. Atlanta; 10. Los Angeles Rams. II.

Cleveland, 12. Los Angeles Raiders: 13. x-Philadelphia; 14. Denver; IS. Green Bay; 16.

Indianapolis; 17. Washington; 18. San Francisco (from Kansas City); 19. Houston; 20. x-Phoenix.

21. Minnesota; 22. San Diego; 23. Pittsburgh; 24. Philadelphia; 25.

Miami: 26. New Orleans; 27. San Francisco: 28 Buffalo; 29. Dallas. compensatory selection for losing franchise player.

NOTE: New York Giants would have had ninth pick but used rights to that pick to select Dave Brown, OB, Duke, in supplemental draft And yet no team will win this old-fashioned exercise unless it has paid close attention to the free-agency turmoil Barring late deals, New England and Seattle are expected to pick quarterbacks Rick Mirer of Notre Dame and Drew Bledsoe of Washington State in which order is unsure with the first two picks. In previous years, the draft has been the cornerstone of every NFL team even ones coached by maverick George Allen, who was re-knowned for trading away rights to first-round picks when running the Washington Redskins. There now is considerable debate.