friday, October 9, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 13
Husker volleyball squad rallies to defeat Drake
By Ward W. Triplett III
It took the Nebraska volleyball squad a while to do it,
but Terry Pettit's 14th-ranked team pieced together
enough good points to defeat Drake in four sets before an
estimated 465 fans on Sunkist night.
"That was about as bad as we can play,' said Pettit af
ter the 15-11, 15-13, 10-15, 15-3 win.
"We gave Drake several opportunities to win this
match, but they evidently didn't want it as much as we
didn't, he said.
Those moments occurred early, as the Huskers fell be
hind 7-0 in the first set and 6-0 in the second. Each time.
the Huskers clawed back, tying both at 10-10 before mo
ving ahead. Cwen Pell had four spikes in the first game
comeback, and Cathy Noth had three in the second.
Things seemed to be looking better in the third gam
when the Huskers scored their first point after the Bull
dogs had tallied only three. But that was as close as the
Huskers got as Drake pulled out to a 104 advantage and
held on to win.
That loss seemed to spark the Huskers, as they jumped
out to a 3-0 lead behind the service of Mary Buyesse. Af
ter spotting Drake two points and trading another, the
Huskers used two blocks and an overhit to move ahead 7
3. A Cathy Noth spike provided the eighth point, and
JV quarterback criticizes booing fans
By Ken Havlat
After a high school football career at Lincoln South
east, and backing up Turner Gill on last year's undefeated
UNL junior varisty football team, quarterback Craig Sund
berg finds himself in the unfamiliar spot of being redshirt
ed, but he said he still has the intensity that he would
have had if he had started every game.
Sundberg said he doesn't understand why Nebraska
fans booed at last Saturday's football game against
Auburn.
"I reacted just about like everyone else on the football
team," he said. "I don't know what they were booing
about. That doesn't seem necessary for college footbalL
Pros, yes, I could understand booing them in that
situation because they are getting paid to play football.
But, college, no."
Sundberg said too much publicity has been given to the
Nebraska quarterback situation.
"The local newspapers don't need to publicize every
day on the quarterback situation, making it sound like it
is the only position that matters," he said. "There are 21
other guys that start on offense and defense.
"I felt this year in the beginning if Mark (Mauer) would
have had a good game in the opener against Iowa, none of
this publicity about the quarterback situation would have
ever come out. Coach (Torn) Osborne is trying to get the
best player in there. Maybe one player will start playing
well or this alternating will continue the rest of the
season."
Sundberg said it became apparent early in fall drills
that he would be redshirted for the season. However, he
added that sitting the season out doesn't give him any
extra time.
"You really don't have as much time," Sundberg said.
"You're not required to go to as many meetings as if you
were on varsity, but I have meetings on Monday and Tues
day and watch films of the opposition, and everyday for
half an hour, all the quarterbacks have a meeting with
Coach Osborne.' While he is proceeding through his
freshman year, Sundberg directs the scout squad. He said
the squad tries to give the No. 1 and No. 2 teams as
realistic a picture of the opposition as possible.
Another concern of Sundberg's is helping to get the
Nebraska system down pat and building himself up phy
sically. "With directing the scout squad, I have been lifting
more weights and I know I have to get faster," he- said.
Games Saturday
Colorado at Nebraska
Iowa State at San Diego State
Kansas State at Missouri
Oklahoma . vs. Texas (at Dallas)
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"Another thing is knowing the offense good enough to
audible. Coach Osborne tries to prepare us by running
plays against certain defenses. He wants us to know which
plays are bad and which are good at a particular moment.
"It wasn't very interesting running the Auburn plays
because I really don't care for the wishbone. But Colorado
passes more than Auburn and it makes it interesting for
me."
Buyesse systematically served the next seven straight to
cap the win.
Although Pettit was pleased with the fourth set, he felt
the team looked and played tired throughout the match.
"We're a tired team right now. We're tired from mid
terms, and tired because we.ve been working hard with
out a week off since Aug. 1 1 he said. '
"We had some sporadic moments when we played real
ly well for four or five points, but until the last game we
couldnt keep anything going," Pettit said.
Pettit said the possible ligament injury that kept Stan
di Pettine out of action at the Southwest Missouri State
tournament Saturday didn't affect her play at all. He said
Pell played exceptionally well despite the Drake team
match being her first game action since an ankle injury on
Sept. 22. Pell was slated to play only the front line but
played the entire way from the second set on.
The Huskers will play Kansas State in Manhattan on
Tuesday before the Oral Roberts Invitational next week
end in Tulsa. The Huskers last home game will be against
Kansas State on Oct. 28.
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