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It's Springtimefor Nebraska Sports Football Practice Starts Although baseball team occasionally found itself on dirt, the Huskers managed to sweep both ends of their home-opening doubleheader Wednesday. Above, STAFF PHOTOS BY WEB RAY Husker Terry Dopp dives back safely into first base. Below, Larry Winum is forced out at second base. By DAVE SUTLER Like the postal service, baseball team proved Wednesday it can get the job done no matter what the weather. Battling high winds, low temperatures and darkness, Coach Tony Comhuskers opened their home season by sweeping a doubleheader from St.

Cloud- Minnesota University, 4-2 and 20 just happy we got to play anl were able to get both games the veteran Sharpe said. Nebraska just barely got the win at the wire in the second game With darkness rapidly approaching the umpires called the game after 4 Mi innings which made the scheduled seven- inoing affair official. think under the conditions we played pretty well overall," said Sharpe, who is working on his 30th season as the Husker skipper tough on everyone, the players and the fans, when cold. This is a warm wather game." Pleasing Sharpe the most was some clutch hitting. Lack of key hits during a Southern swing had left Nebraska with a 2-10 overall mark before sweep Second baseman Gary Healey, a senior from Lincoin, came through with the key blow in the opener.

St. Cloud pitcher Mike Bialka was sailing along with a two- hitter through four innings and the Huskies were clinging to a 10 lead before Healey's blast. In the bottom of the fifth, Biakla opened by walking Nebraska catcher Jon Henne and Husker shortstop Doug Healey Triples Healey, who played his high school ball at Lincoln Southeast, then cracked a triple to right centerfield to put Nebraska up, 2 1 finally did come through with some key hits," Sharpe said. we still left a lot of men on base." The Comhuskers scored two more runs in the fifth, then held on to win behind the relief pitching of Boyd Batenhorst Batenhorst, a senior from Tilden, took over for starter Kirk Eymann in the fifth inning to post his first win of the young season. wasn't as sharp as like," Sharpe said of his veteran lefthander.

"But I think pitching at home for the first time this year might have had something to do with In the nightcap, Nebraska punched across its two runs in the second inning. Again it was a triple, this time by Henne, which proved to be the winning blow. After Norm Glismann was hit by a pitch to open the inning, and Healey reached base on a fielders choice, Henne sent a fastball by St. Cloud pitcher Dave Mingo to the centerfield wall. Win To Buehrer Senior righthander Dave Buehrer picked up the victory for Nebraska in the second contest as the Huskers improved their mark to 4-10 overall while St.

Dloud fell to 1-3 on the season. The Comhuskers will gun for their second doubleheader sweep in as many days Thursday afternoon when they host Seward Concordia College in a twinbill starting at 2:30 p.m. Sharpe, who hastily organized the games against Concordia Wednesday, said, "I woke up this morning and heard the weather was suppose to be great Thursday. Since we had one doubleheader (Buena Vista) rained out Tuesday I decided to find someone to play. will be a great chance for some of our younger pitchers to show us what they can do." Sharpe indicated he would go with freshman Jeff Costello and sophomore Steve Nagel against the Bulldogs.

FIRST GAME St. Cloud St. (7) Nebraska (4) ab bi ab bi Wessman.ss 2 110 3 0 0 0 Scfiisgel.rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Crewe, It 3 0 11 Miller.ss 2 110 KnapD.dti.c 4 0 0 0 3 112 4 0 10 Glamnn.rf 4 110 2 12 0 Winum, lb 0 0 0 0 Hoeischer 2bl 0 0 0 Dopp.lf 2 0 10 Strating, lb 2 0 0 0 Andsn.ph.lf 10 0 0 Jcbsn.ph, lb 1 0 0 0 Haas cf 2 0 0 1 HaniMk.c 10 0 0 0 1 0 Regouski.pr 0 0 0 0 Henne.c 2 10 0 Bialka.p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 Batnhrst.p 0 0 0 0 Tptals 25 2 5 1 Totals 22 4 3 St. Cloud St 100 001 0-2 Nebraska 000 040 Thomas, Healey, OP Nebraska, LOB Nebraska 11, St Cloud St 2B Wessman, 38 Healey. SB Miller (2), Thomas, Erickson IP ER BB SO Bialka ...4 3 2 3 4 Stubbs 1 2 2 1 4 1 Eymann 4 4 1 1 4 2 Batenhorst (w, 1-0) 3 110 4 2 HBP Haas (by Stubbs); WP Bialka.

PB Hemiik, 2 30, Alt. 100 SECOND GAME St. Cloud St. (0) Nebraska (2) ab bi ab bi Wessman.ss 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 Stenstad.cf 2 0 0 0 Miller ss 2 0 0 0 Grewe.lt 2 0 0 0 Benmsh, lb 10 10 2 0 0 0 Haas ct 2 0 0 0 Hoelcbr dh 2 0 2 0 McMnmn.ft 2 0 0 0 Ercksn.lb 2 0 10 Glsmnn.rf 110 0 Frerichs.rf 2 0 0 0 Healey 2b 2 10 0 Vierzba.Tb 2 0 0 0 10 10 2 0 0 0 Henne.c 10 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 II 0 3 Buenrer.p 0 0 0 0 Totals 14 2 4 2 St Cloud St 000 00-0 Nebraska ...........................,.020 Knapp, Vterzoa. LOB Nebraska 6 St Cloud St 5 2B Hoeischer 3B Henne, SB Anderson, Bennish, Haas, Miller, King Jacbson, lb Mingo, Totals IP Mingo 4 Yingling 2 Buehrer 3 ER BB SO 2 2 3 1 0 0 12 0 0 13 HBP Glismann (by Mingo), PB Henne.

T-l 20, 100 St. Petersburg, Fla. (UPI) The New York Yankees claimed Wednesday that free agent Andy Messersmith reneged on a four- year, $1 million contract with them and appealed to Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to step in and settle the matter. A hearing in the New York office has been scheduled for 2 p.m. EST Thursday.

Kuhn gave some indication of what his ruling might be when he called attention to provision in baseball's rules which states that an agreement between a player and a club before a contract is signed can bind that player to the club. Messersmith agent, Herb Osmond, and Yankees President Gabe Paul both signed a written agreement Tuesday providing for Messersmith to pitch for the Yankees in 1976, 1977,1978 and 1979 for $1 million and it is that agreement which is at the seat of the dispute Part of the salary to Messersmith was to be made in the form of deferred payments over a 20-year period and it is believed that the interest on the deferred money was at the root of the breakdown in negotiations. At six per cent, the interest on deferred payments would come to approximately $450,000 over 20 years Paul said he had bargained in good faith with Osmond and had been told that Osmond had the power of attorney for Messersmith. my dealings have been with said Paul. "Osmond represents the power of attorney We had an agreement to put it in legal verbiage.

Anything ty? like he could change the wording In New York, Miller insisted Osmond and Paul had not come to any binding agreement. By BOH OWENS Star Sports Editor Comhuskers opened spring football practice Wednesday, two days late because of Monday's rain, and Coach Tom Osborne called the two and a half hour workout a "typical opening There was no full-scale contact work so it was possible only to gain impressions on how the players were executing their assignments and how quickly they were learning. was some confusion among the freshmen and players who were redshirts last season because we gave them a lot of new things to learn, such as Osborne said. The Husker coach said there would be some individual one-on-one hitting in the next two workouts on Friday and Saturday and that a scrimmage is planned for Sunday afternoon in Memorial Stadium. That date will make up for the lost practice on Monday.

Osborne guessed that 145 to 150 players suited up, but he said there are some marginal walkons who had gone through the winter conditioning program. probably have to trim the squad to a more workable he said. of the walkons have the physical equipment to compete here. For example, a defensive back with 5.2 speed in the 40 doesn't have a chance to play here We won't cut, though, until we get a look at everyone We don't want to miss anyone who can play." Osborne posted a depth chart before practice, but he said it was meaningless because players were ranked by experience. A more meaningful list will be available after the first scrimmage, which as usual will be filmed.

The usual goal in swing work is to evaluate players and to experiment with minor changes on offense and defense. Osborne said his staff would follow a proven formula used at Nebraska for the past few years in the spring. That includes Monday and Friday practices which stress techniques, footwork, agility and timing; Wednesday practices with a combination of some scrimmaging and work on techniques; and Saturday the full-scale scrimmages, all of which are filmed and graded. Quarterbacks threw quite a few passes Wednesday, but Osborne look for any sore arms since most of them have been throwing on their own, either indoors or in the stadium throughout the winter The quarterback list includes last starter Vince Ferragamo, redshirt Tom Sorley, juniors Randy Garcia and Eddie Bums and freshmen Tim Hager and Mike Kennedy guard is a highly priority item for us this spring," Osborne said. as important to the defense as quarterback is to the offense.

If we have a great one there probably have a good defense We hope to find one who can make tackles from sideline to sideline." Jeff Pullen and Dan Brock are the only two candidates for the spot who have any experience there although John Pluncknett played a little bit two seasons ago. Others being given a look at middle guard are Mitch Webb, a 6-3, 232-pound sophomore from Redding, Calif, and three players up from last freshman team Oudius Lee, 6-2, 230, from Omaha. Kelvin Roehrs, 6-1, 222, from Lincoln, and John Havekost, 6-4, 215, from Scribner. NU Batmen Win AT PRACTICE STAFF PHOTO BY WEB RAY first bear hug of spring. At W-Club Meet Kearney Trackmen Prevail Havekost was an offensive tackle last season, but played defense in high school.

Tight end, a spot where the top three players were lost, has a group of six players trying out, but only Ken Spaeth, a 6-5, 228 junior from Mahnomen, Minn has played a down at Nebraska. The others being worked there are John Seiko, 6-4, 200, sophomore and John Magsamen, sophomore, both from Lincoln; Scott Trofholz, 6-1, 193, sophomore from Columbus, Brian Horn. 64, 195, sophomore, from Omaha; and Mark DeFresne, 6-4, 235, junior college transfer from Ventura, Calif. Mike McWhorter, a senior wingbaek from Omaha, suffered a dislocated kneecap in what Osborne said appeared to be a freak injury since it popped out on him while running The only other injury was minor a sprained ankle by linebacker James Wightman Some other players with prior injuries and surgery over the winter were reported close to 100 per cent Some others will miss much or all of spring practice. Here's a rundown: Fullback Gary Higgs, ankle surgery, and wingbaek Curtis Craig, calcium removed from knee, both were full speed Defensive tackles Mike Fultz, pulled hamstring, and Ron Pruitt, broken ankle, both running OK Probably out for spring offensive tackle Bob Hayes, ankle surgery; linebacker Lee Kunz, shoulder surgery; Rob Link, knee surgery, Mike Burton.

I-back who had knee is running close to 100 per cent, but has not yet been cleared by doctors. Osborne said he probably will be out later this week Gymnasts Get Goal: Nationals Nebraska gymnastics coach Francis Allen didn't think his team would even go to the nationals last year much less that it would place fifth. But Allen said at the beginning of this season that he had sights set on this year's NCAA national meet. we hit our routines and perform to our capabilities we should win this meet even if everybody else hits well," said Allen hope we can carry the momentum from the Big Eight championship two weeks ago into this meet The Huskers open the competition Thursday in the 34th annual NCAA Gymnastics Championships at Temple University in Philadelphia. The Huskers will be facing about the same competition as last year with University of Calif orma-Berkeley.

Cal-State- Culierton. Penn State, LSU, Arizona State. Temple and Michigan But one aspect in the Husker favor this year is that the team arrived on time for the meet Last year the NU squad was stranded by a snow storm in Chicago's O'Hare airport for 27 hours before arriving at the site in Indiana and having one hour to warm up before starting their routines in the compuisones Paced By All Arounders always, our team will be paced by all arounders, Larry Gerard, Gene Mackie and Duane West," he said "But since we also have so much depth, that has to be another positive factor in our favor An example of Nebraska's depth is that the Huskers won the Big 8 team Utle with 419.00 points, compared to Iowa State's second place finish of 41120. However, the Comhuskers won two individual event ehampion- sihps, compared to the Cyclones three Gerard, a sophomore from Lincoln, won both of Nebraska's individual titles STAFF PHOTO FRANK VARGA DAVE FOLKERTS flips discus for NWU. By KEN HAMBLETON State College Writer Kearney captured nine of the 18 events and coasted to a win Wednesday at the annual Nebraska Wesleyan W-Club meet at Magee Stadium.

The Antelopes scored 139 points followed by Nebraska Wesleyan with 73, Midland 57, Dana 13 and Platte Junior College with seven points The winds and cool temperatures kept all of the meet records intact, but NWU jumor Jim Glen snapped his own school mark in the triple jump with a mark. Only Double Winner Carl Stromsberg of Kearney was the only double winner in the meet, capturing both the mile and three-mile events. A strong showing in the field events helped the Antelopes take an early lead over Midland and Wesleyan. "We had kind of a letdown after the indoor season finished because we had anything to do for the past three weeks," said Kearney coach Bob Hauver "But our showing in the vault is an example of how an outdoor meet can snap you right of a slump weather kept the times down but with our showing in the field and some good breaks, we performed Hauver said Kearney took the top three places in the pole vault, which was won by Rex Carter at 14 feet Kirk Frickel and Monte Peirce of Kearney each cleared 14 feet but had more misses Bill Ourada and Dick Allison finished first and second in the long jump for the Antelopes and Jerry Otte won the javelin Tim Mohanna won the high jump with a mark and Dwight Peterson finished second with a 6-5 personal best Folkerts Wins Shot Dave Folkerts won the shot with a 51-9heave into the wind, and Dave Meyer of Midland won the discus with a 151-7 mark Midland held a slim lead over the Plainsmen for second place going mto the final four events, but wins by Craig Mundt in the 440-intermediate hurdles in a time of 55.4, and Don Ross bach the 220-yard dash in 22 1 and a victory the two-mile relay helped NWU gam the rnnerup spot Other event winners included Kearney Larry Gulleen in the 880, Ken Snell in the 400, Midland Ken Wilson in the 100 in 09 9, and Ken Meter in the 120- high hurdles had a good showing considering how young our team is," NWU coach Woody Greeno said. have just one senoir so we re just going to have to have some patience," Nebraska Wesleyan winning two-rrule relay team of two sophomores Larry Bell and Mark Kuzma and freshmen Bob Quick and Scott McKraght and wins by sophomores Mundt and Ross bach an indication of how well we re coming along," Greeno said.

just great to get our team said Greeno "We been able to work outside too much and this was a good showing considering how Utile been outside The Plainsmen travel to Kearney for the Kearney Relays Saturday afternoon Individual Results, Page 24 "Another thing that wiU help us ils year at the nationals is that most of our team was here last year and that experience will help, Allen said. Mackie, a senior from Omaha, finished fourth in the ail around during last year's NCAA meet, earning him All American status Other Huskers returning for their second trip who performed well at last nationals are seniors, Steve Dickey and Gary Duff. "This year team is the best squad ever had, and last year outfit finished second in the Big 8 and fifth Alien said. Probabft NU Lineup All Around Lorry Gone Machie, Duane Was! Floor Exercise Newstrom, Gary jourlnk, Richard Hetneman (Altornate) Pommel Mike Cosgrove Steve Dickey, Stephen Todd (Alter Parallel Bert Gary Dutt, Jourink High Bar kirk Fridrich, Jturink Vaulting Jturtnk, Htmemon Rings Mockte, Donn Schmohr.

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