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Nebraska's Amy Love hurdles Southwest Missouri's Linda Gordon after a
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undefeated win at UNL invitational
By Jsi!l$ Bauer
lINL's soltball team went 5-0 and took
first place in their own Husker Invita
tional this weekend.
The Huskers started out by defeating
lliinob State and Northern Iowa Friday
afternoon, 4-1 and 1-0. Freshman JLori
Sippel pitched the entire game against
Illinois State and allowed just four hits
and one run.
Stacy Sunny hit the first home run of
her career to put the Huskers on the
scoreboard in the bottom of the first
inning. Three runs in the sixth innktg,
spcrked by Amy Love's two-run singla,
clinched the victory f$r Nebraska,
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quickly, as Denise Eckert douMed in the
first innirtg to score Sunny. In the third
inning Ann Schroeder drew a walk to get
on first Leanna Miles came in the gams to
run for Schroeder and stole second. Sunny
then advanced to first on a fielder's cho
ice. Sunny and Miles proceeded to exe
cute a double steal to put two runners in
scoring position. Eckert singled in I.Iiles,
Love singled in Sunny and Eckert scored
on Wendy Turner's squeeze bunt to put
the Husker up 4-0.
Sunday Nebraska defeated both Iova
State and Kansas. Emmons picked up the
win and Sippel the saw in the 5-1 win
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SYRACUSE Surrounded by more
than 20 reporters and half dozen televi
sion cameras, Tom Osborne found him
self in an unfamiliar situation Saturday
afternoon.
For the first time in 23 regular season
games, the coach of the Nebraska Corn
huskcrs had to cxpb in why his team had
lost. Not since the Cornhuskers dropped
a 27-24 decision to Penn State in 1032 was
Osborne forced to do that.
But the nation's third-winningest active
coach had an explanation for his team's
17-9 loss to Syracuse before 47,280 peo
ple at the Carrier Dome.
"They were just more physical than we
were," he said. "We got banged around
today and their defense probably played
as good a game of football as anybody has
played against us in three or four years.
"I said before the season that Syracuse
would be one of the two toughest teams
we played this year," Osborne said. "They
certainly showed that today. We made
too many mistakes and they didnt make
any at ail Syracuse just outplayed us."
One week ago, that didnt seem possi
ble. After a 10-0 loss to Rutgers in its
home opener, Syracuse entered the game
a 25-point underdog. But the Orangemen
used stingy defense and ball-control of
fense to hand the Cornhuskers their
worst defeat since a 20-7 loss to Alabama
in 1978.
"We went from the doghouse to the
penthouse in one week," Syracuse coach
Dick MacPherson said. "We played out
standing defense. Anytime you hold the
nation's premier offense to just seven
points you have to be happy. You also
have to give our offense some credit. They
moved the ball well, and if they hadnt
held onto the bail for so long, (the posses
sion margin was 37 minutes to 23), our
defense may not have had the game it
did."
Syracuse held the Huskers to just 214
total yards and the lone first quarter
touchdown. It was Nebraska's lowest out
put since the 6-0 victory over Missouri in
1931, and marked the eighth consecutive
time the Orangemen held an opponent to
one touchdown.
"We said to ourselves that they had 1 1
men on the field just like we did," said
Orange defensive tackle Tim Green. Green
had three sacks to bring his season total
to 10.
Nebraska's injury list included I-backs
Paul Miles and Jeff Smith, who did not
suit up. Osborne said the loss of Smith
was no excuse.
The Orange offensive line began to take
charge late in the second quarter as Syra
cuse went from its own 1 7-yard line to the
Nebraska 6-yard line with 16 plays in
eight mLnutes. Though ths Orangemen
had to settle for a 24-yard Tom MacCau
ley field goal, it gave them confidence
they could move the ball against the
nation's No. 2 ranked defense.
"We got killed by them last year (53-7 in
Lincoln) and they just best UCLA. That
drive and being down only 7-3 really got
our confidence up," said Syracuse half
back Jaime Convington, who rushed for
99 yards on 39 carries.
"At that point, we knew we could sus
tain a drive. We were just mad we, didnt
punch it into the end zone."
SU did find the end zone with 4:50 left
in the third quarter. On a second and 21,
quarterback Todd Norley connected on a
40-yard pass to Mike Siano between Denis
Watkins and Bret Clark.
That would be the only score Syracuse
would need to win. But fullback Harold
Gaydan assured the win by capping a 60
yard 13-play drive with a 1-yard touch
down run, the first rushing touchdown
against the Huskers this season, with 1:29
left in the game. That score sparked the
celebration in the stands that continued
onto the field for more than an hour after
punter Jim Fox ran out of the Orange end
zone to finish the game.
For Syracuse, the victory marked the
school's biggest win since the 1959 national
championship team defeated Texas in
the Cotton BowL Never before in its 95
years of football had the Orange beaten a
team ranked first in the nation.
Ironically, 30 members ofthe 1059 title
squad were in Syracuse for Saturday's
game to celebrate the 25th anniversary of
their triumph.
"It's so great to give those guys a thrill "
MacPherson said They were in the locker
room with us before the game. They
wanted so much for us to get back to
where they put SU "
Though the Orangemen are not think
ing about national titles, they can sit back
and enjoy the fact that this victory may
put them back in the bowl picture.
"This wasn't a Cuke," MacPherson said.
"They (Nebraska) will say that too. We
played hard."
Husker center MarkTraynowicz added
"we ire not embarrassed. Like Osborne
said, ve didn't fail on our face. Down
deep, I dont quite understand what hap
pened to us...except that theyjust played
better than us."
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Nebraska crew wins three titles
Nebraska crew team won three of
four events, defeating the University
of Iowa and the Waterloo Rowing
Club of Waterloo, Iowa, in its first
competition ofthe season Saturday
afternoon in Iowa City.
The men's novice four of Mike
Stuchlik, Mike Olsen, Wat Price and
Bob Taylor, the varsity four of Tim
Petersen Kent Van Ooty, Jim Arthur
and Steve Morin and the women's
open of Dawn Copertino Lynn Gil
laspic, Denise Varner and Marilea
Hull won first places. The varsity
pair of Kelly Orgres End Paul Larson
lost to Waterloo.
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By Gecr3 Davis
The Nebraska volleyball team
continued on its finest start ever
by sweeping the three game Hus
ker Invitational over the weekend
to run their record to 11-0 on the
season.
"It's hard to compare this team
to teams weVe had in the past,"
coach Terry Pettit said. "Every
other Husker team has won the
Big Eight championship and many
have went on to nationals. This
team still has to prove itself but I
think they have a good sense of
what they can accomplish."
The Huskers defeated Colorado
State 15-3, 14-2, 12-15, 15-6 Fri
day night and then beat South
west Missouri State 7-15, 15-11,
15-5, 15-5 and De Sherbrooke of
Ontario Canada 15-8, 15-5, 15-8
to win the tournament. Colorado
State ranked 11th, finished se
cond. Coach Rich Feller had not
hing but praise for a Nebraska
tmnhetiiirtisrctes&morh
al volleyball leaders.
"WeVe played Pacific, Cal Poly
and San Jose State and Nebraska
definitely has the fastest offense
weVe seen," Feller said. "They blew
us off the court with their speed.
We played well but they were an
as spikers'unbeaten string
excellent team."
Pettit agreed with Feller's assess
ment of the Nebraska team but
said his team still has a lot to
work on.
"We need to improve on our
individual defense, but overall we
are playing very well," Pettit said.
"I don't really get excited about
our number of wins. What really
excites me as a coach is to see the
team play welL"
Michelle Smith came off the
bench to give the Huskers a big
boost.
After losing the first set of their
match to Southwest Missouri,
Smith came in to record 11 kills
and eight blocks the rest of the
match.
"Michelle Smith was probably
the biggest story for our team in
the tournament," said assistant
coach Jay Potter. "She came in
and gave our team a lift when
ever we needed it. She probably
played as well as she has played
all year."
Besides the strong performance
from Smith, other Nebraska star
ters also played welL Cathy Noth
led Nebraska in the Colorado State
win with 19 kills and Annie
Adamczak had 14.
In the final game against De
Sherbrooke, Nebraska had a very
D-aanced team performance with
Julie Hermann and Adamczak
registering seven kills each. Karen
Dahigren and Noth added six
kills each against a De Sherbrooke
team that played excellent team
defense by digging 52 Nebraska
spikes. Mary Buysse also had an
excellent tournament at the net
with her setting.
The Nebraska team has now
won 33 sets and lost only three
this year. The Huskers will play at
Kansas State Wednesday before
the Tennessee invitational next
weekend.
