Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, December 15, 1933
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Late rally allows eager s
to defeat Missouri, 85-77
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By Julie Bauer
The UNL women's basketball team
had to rally in the last minutes of the
game Wednesday night at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center to defeat
Central Missouri State, 85-77.
The Huskers jumped out early in the
game taking a 1 0-2 lead in the first five
minutes of the half, but Central
Missouri State stormed back behind
the shooting of Carla Eades, who
scored 12 points in the first half, and
lead all scorers for the night with 20
points. With 4:48 left in the half,
Missouri tied the score with a field goal
by Tammy Noah. Despite their efforts,
Nebraska couldn't regain the lead
before the half and went to the locker
room behind, 43-37.
"After they broke our press we sort
of fell apart in the first half," said
Coach Kelly Hill. "So at the half I told
them we had to start playing defense
and stopping their big shooters, like
Eades."
In the second half the Jennies of
Central Missouri looked like they
might run away with the game as they
pulled ahead 47-39.
Missouri called a time out with 1 6:40
left in the game, and Nebraska took
advantage of it by starting to take
charge.
With 12:39 showing on the clock
freshman Angie Miller hit a field goal
to tie the game at 53. The rest of the
game the score see-sawed back and
forth between the Jennies and the
Huskers. Noah got a offensive rebound
on a Central Missouri missed free
throw and put it back up for two, to
give Central Missouri a 61-57 lead but
that was to be their biggest lead before
Nebraska tied and eventually went
ahead 67-65, sparked by three back-to-back
field goals by Miller.
North Missouri fought back one
more time and tied the score at 75, but
a Crystal Coleman field goal from 15
feet out gave the Huskers a 77-75
advantage. Debra Powell increased
their lead by four with a basket and
then Kelli Benson completed a three
point play to ice the game. The Jennies
were forced to foul and the Huskers
wrapped up the game winning 85-77.
Coach Hill said she felt good about
the win despite the close match.
"Central Missouri is a good team,
they were division II finalists last year.
I think that we really played smart in
the second half and tht helped. Our
guards showed maturity tonight as
players, they knew when to run the
fast break and when to slow it down."
Miller and Coleman both chipped in
18 points for the winning cause fol
lowed by Benson who had 15. Miller
also led in rebounding with 9.
The 5-1 Huskers take on New Mexico
State next on December 22 at the
Sports Center.
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Nebraska's Terri Perroitt (left) end Etacy Iinmir,3 pressure Central
Missouri State's Csrola Eades during Wednesday night's ce.
Legends spur Schnellenberger's success
By Jeff Browne
Howard Schnellenberger had almost
no choice but to become a successful
college football coach. After all, he was
trained at the knee of such legends as
Bear Bryant, George Allen, Don Simla
and Blanton Collier.
Schnellenberger, who is in his fifth
year at The University of Miami as
coach of the Hurricanes, ranks those
experiences, though, as a step below
his current assignment at Coral Gables.
"It's hard to say if this is the most fun
I've ever had coaching," he said, "From
the head coaching standpoint, it's the
most challenging thing I've ever done."
The challenge was to take a team
that had lost more than two-thirds of
its games in the past four years and
turn it into a winner. Prior to ac
cepting the job at Miami in 1979,
Schnellenberger had only been a head
coach once, with the Baltimore Colts.
He hadn't been around college football
since 1965, when Bryant and Alabama
had to play Nebraska in the Orange
Bowl that year to claim the national
Iwimmers
By Jim Easiaasscn
After breaking 14 school records at the Southern
Illinois Invitational two weeks ago, the Nebraska
women's swim team will be going to sunny Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla., for its' winter workouts during
semester break.
Coach Ray Huppert said team members will meet
in Ft. Lauderdale Dec. 27 after spending Christmas
with their families. The swimmers will undergo 10 to
12 days of training in Florida before returning to
Lincoln Jan. 9.
Huppert said his swimmers are eagerly antici
pating the trip.
"They're getting excited" Huppert said. "But first,
crown. The Crimson Tide beat the
Huskers 39-28.
"Working with Coach Bryant was
such a great learning experience," Schnel
lenberger said. "I was very fortunate to
be able to coach for him. I worked
under a lot of great coaches."
As an assistant coach for Don Shula
and his Miami Dolphins from 1970-72
and from 1975-78, Schnellenberger said
he learned that a team can't be suc
cessful if it doesn't have an effective
defense.
That may be why the Hurricane
defense has been one of the nation's
statistical leaders throughout the sea
son. It's lack of national attention also
has drawn comparison to the Dolphins
fearsome "No-name Defense" of the
early 1970s.
That term's been thrown around
some," Schnellenberger said, "but that
Miami squad was a great defensive
football team. We're just a bunch of
scrappy players. The sum is better
than the individual parts."
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winter workouts
they ve goi to get excited about their final exams."
The Cornhuskers will be training at Pine Crest
High School in Ft. Lauderdale during the trip.
Huppert said the school has excellent facilities, and
will allow the Huskers to spnd all the time they
need in the water.
Huppert said most college teams that train in Ft.
Lauderdale use the Hall of Fame pool, but Nebraska
won't because It's very crowded there, and you
don't get the amount of pool time we want."
The Pine Crest facilities were made available to
the Huskers because Kenya Kelly, one of the team
members, is a Pine Crest alumnas, Huppert said. .
Huppert said the workouts in Florida will be
much more intensive than the team's usual workouts.
"We can train the kids harder in terms of yards
and intensity, because between workouts they can
relax and go to the beach. They don't have to worry
about going to class or studying for tests."
The trip won't be all practice, however, as the
Huskers will meet North Carolina State in dual meet
Jan. 5 at Pine Crest.
That will be a great challenge for us," Huppert
said. "N.C. State finished in the top 15 in the nation
last year, and they've got an excellent team."
Many of the team members were able to, get
tickets to the Orange Bowl, Huppert said, and will
attend the Nebraska-Miami matchup Jan. 2, in
Miami J
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