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defense dooms Mttaiiy Lion hopes
By Shelley Smith
The Nebraska Cornhusker football team decisively
handed Perm State Coach Joe Paterno his 30th career loss
Saturday by defeating the Nittany Lions 21-7. In doing
so, the I linkers just might have proved a lot of things to
thcmselves-and to the rest of the nation.
In front of the largest crowd ever (84,585) at Beaver
Stadium in University Park, Pa. and a national television
audience, the Huskers, third-ranked in the nation, racked
up 445 yards total offense, while allowing Penn State only
156 of the same.
Nebraska I-back Jarvis Redwine, who has led the
nation in rushing averages for two straight weeks, carried
the ball 34 times for 189 yards to keep alive his Heisman
Trophy hopes.
Redwine, who cut through a Lion defense thought
by many to be one of the nation's best, also caught
two of Jeff Quinn's passes for 49 yards, scored two touch
downs and received Nebraska's half of Chevrolet's Most
Valuable Player Award.
Quinn, in his best performance as Nebraska's starting
quarterback, completed 12 of 17 passes for 158 yards
and scored the Husker'i opening touchdown-a one-yard
dive over the goal line.
Split End Todd Brown, who caught five passes for -60
yards, and tight end Jeff Finn, who caught three for 32
yards, were an integral and explosive part of Nebraska!
offense.
.However, Nebraska's seemingly dominant offense
had its share of problems as well.
The Huskers were penalized 10 times for 141 yards,
compared with Penn State's two penalties for 10 yards,
dusker Head Coach Tom Osborne said he felt at least
a couple of the pcnaltics-an intentional grounding call
on Quinn, and a pass interference call on safety Russell
Gary-were unjust.
Osborne said, however, that kind of problem is ex
pected when playing on another team's home ground.
Another sore point was Nebraska's field goal attempts.
Three times the Huskers had a chance to score on field
goals, but two kicks by Eddie Neil and one by Kevin
Seibcl were no good.
Defensively, the Huskers-especialiy defensive ends
Derric Nelson and Jimmy Williams-accounted for an
explosive afternoon.
In all, the defense was credited with causing the Lions
to lose 117 yards rushing. Penn State finished with 33
yards rushing on 40 carries. Of the Lions' six fumbles,
the Huskers recovered four of them and picked off three
interceptions.
Monster Sammy Sims caught two interceptions, with
combined returns of 43 yards. Safety Russell Gary also
intercepted a pass. But most agreed it was the inside
defensive pressure that paved the road for those turnovers.
Nelson, an All-America candidate, had two sacks for
minus 22 yards and recovered a fumble early in the first
quarter to set up Nebraska's first touchdown. Jimmy
Williams also had two sacks for minus 1 1 yards and re
covered a fumble.
Saturday the Huskers take on Florida State, previously
ranked No. 9 in both the Associated Press and the United
Press International polls. However, the Seminoles were
upset Saturday by Miami of Florida.
Creighton gains Husker softball championship
By Tad Stryker
Excellent pitching propelled Creighton to the Husker
Fall Softball Invitational championship over the weekend.
The UNL softball team finished second. They were
beaten twice by Creighton Sunday, 3-0 and 2-0. Between
those games, the Huskers eliminated Kansas 2-1 in 11 inn
ings. Creighton pitcher Marcia Jacobsen threw a four-hitter
to defeat the Huskers in the first game, while Candy Letz
stopped UNL on four hits to clinch the championship.
Letz-and Husker freshman pitcher Sandy Wolterman
were named the outstanding players of the tournament.
Wolterman won three times, including the Kansas game in
which she hurled all 1 1 innings.
The freshman pitched 13 consecutive hitless innings
Saturday. She no-hit Tarkio 8-0 and shut out Iowa State
1-0, not allowing a Cyclone a single hit until the 7th inn
ing. UNL Head Softball Coach Judy Plantz said she was
mostly pleased with her team's performance.
"We gave a good effort," she said. "We played some
tough teams. Those two wins Saturday were good ones for
us. We'd always like to finish first, but we gave a fine
effort today." -
The Huskers won the 11 -inning marathon against
Kansas with two unearned runs.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, Nebraska catcher
Rocky Candelario led off the inning with a walk, and
pinch runner Deann Carr was then sacrificed to second by
Shelly Scott. Carr advanced to third on a ground ball, and
with two out, Laura Lowe stepped to the plate.
Lowe hit a sharp grounder right back to the box that
KU pitcher LuAnn Stanwix. knocked down. Stanwix
pounced on the ball immediately but threw low and wide
to first as Lowe slid headfirst into the bag. Carr scored to
send the game into extra innings.
In the 1 1th, the Huskers loaded the bases on a single
by Scott and walks by Dree McCabe and Lowe. Hoffman
hit a ground ball to the Kansas shortstop, who threw to
the plate. The catcher missed the ball as Scott, came
barreling h ome with the winning inn .
In both losses to Creighton, the Huskers hsd the
winning" run at the plate in the 7th inning. Laura Lowe
grounded out with the bases loaded to end the first game,
and Nancy Wicks flied to left, stranding two runners with
her third out in the final.
The Huskers' record is now 9-6.
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Women's Volleyball team
f mish fourth in tourney
By Pat Beech am.
Nebraska's Women's Volleyball team
finished fourth in the Husker Invitational
Tournament, which, according to Head
Coach Terry Pettit, fielded "strong teams."
Nebraska beat Iowa State Saturday
morning 15-1, 164, to set a Nebraska
Southeast Missouri State match to see
which team would advance to the finals.
Nebraska lost the match to SWMSU 16
14, 15-9, 15-11. Even with the loss, Pettit
said he could see some good things in the
match.
1'm optimistic," he said. "In our match
.against Southwest Missouri State, we saw
some technical weaknesses that we will
have to make adjustments on which should
make us a better team ."
After their match with SWMSU, the
Huskers advanced to a consolation match
against Minnesota which they lost 15-2, 15-
9. Pettit said he wasn't particularly pleased
with the team's performance in the match.
"We didn't play well in the consolation
match," Pettit said. "Mentally we didn't do
a good job. I wasn't pleased with the way
we played, but I'm relatively certain some
thing like this won't happen again."
SWMSU won the tournament, defeating
Oklahoma in three straight sets, 15-9' 15-7,
154.
For the Huskers, leading spikers were
Terri Kanouse and Maria Uchty. Senior
Lori Melcher, who sprained her ankle and
didn't play against Minnesota, was the
Huskers' top setter.
UNL will travel to Springfield, Mo.
Thursday for another tournament that will
also field some very strong -teams,' Pettit
said.
"SWMSU, Houston, Minnesota, Okla
homa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Nebraska will
compete in the tournament.
Pettit said for the Huskers to do well at
the tournament, the team will have to "try
to improve in areas where we didn't do
well this week."
Tennis team wins dual meets
Photo by Mitch Hrdlicka
Husker Volleyball team member Maria Lichty (22) spikes a set from Lori Melcher
(1 1) during Nebraska's game with Western Michigan Friday. Nebraska finished fourth
In the Husker InvitatJonaL
The Husker Women's Tennis Team
raised its record to 7-1 following wins
against Wichita State (6-3) Friday and
Iowa State (54) Saturday at the East
Campus Courts.
Huskers Cindi Reiman and Sue Moore
won singles matches both days and teamed
with Tracy Schmucker and Ann Swanson
to win both doubles matches each day.
Schmucker and Swanson won singles
matches against Wichita State Friday and
Husker Mimi Magiera won the other
singles match against Iowa State Saturday.