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Thursday, November 8, 1934 Daily Nebraskan Pago 13 I I UNL spikers win championship By Rich Cooper Dally Nebrtakia SUM Reporter With their ninth consecutive Big Eight Championship al ready wrapped up, the women's volleyball team shattered Iowa State's chances of finishing in second place by beating the Cyclones 15-215-9 and 15-9. Coach Terry Pettit said he thought his team looked well rested and ready to play. "I thought the vomn played a good game," Pettit said; The serving was good and they blocked well." The Huskers dominated all three games. It was the last Big Eight home game for seniors Kathy Hermann, Mary Buysse and Cathy Noth. Hermann led the team in fBest ever' labels hung too early; (Huskers just a good football team : It's starting again. Speculation is beginning to fil ter into Nebraska newspapers that 1984 Nebraska football team, specifically the defense, is one of the best, if not the best, in Corn husker history. j every year the Huskers have a shot at the national champion- year. People get excited, and begin to hang "best ever" labels on the team. Well, let me take the role of 1 1 om usDome ior a minute, ana ! just say this: it's too early to start I comparing the Huskers to the j 1971 team, the 1983 team, or, for ?that matter, any other team in the Devaney-Osborne era. The JHuskers are good, but not yet great. I Let the team go out and play They're playing very well right tnow, and if they win three more ballgames, they could become national champions. But as of now, they're just a very .good football team. Let's leave it at that, and enjoy it. 1 "" r""n ' "' Hebrew's Em Weber (87) H 'Jim 1 1 Rasmussen , ii I Hi. tm kills with nine. The Husker had 34 kills to Iowa State's 16. In the first game, the Huskers jumped out to a 12-0 lead before Iowa State finally scored. Pettit said his team looked sharp and they capitalized on ISlTs mistakes during the first game. In the second game the Hus kers Jumped out to a 6-0 lead behind the offense of sopho more Enid Schonewise. She had six kills for the night. With the score 10-3, the Cyclones pulled within three, but mistakes hurt them to much and the game's momen tum went back to Nebraska. Hermann killed any hopes of a Cyclone comeback with two kills late in the game. Iowa State coach Marv The defense is leading the na tion in fewest yards allowed. That's great. The Blackshirts have done themselves proud by com ing back to play well thi3 year after an "off year" in 1983, when they played in one losing baMgame. However, when you start won dering if this defense is the best ever at Nebraska, you're jumping the gun. The Huskers would have to be quite the team to be better than the 71 defense. That defense featured seven All-Big Eigth players: Willie Harper at end, Larry Jacobson at tackle, Rich Glover at middle guard, Bob Terrio at linebacker and Jim An derson, Bill Kosch and Joe Bla hak in the backfield. Only two opponents scored more than seven points on the Huskers Oklahoma (31) and Kansas State (17). The team posted three shutouts and held Alabama's previously awesome wishbone attack to six points in the Orange BowL Glover, Jacobson and Harper were consensus Ail-American choices. That's a tough act to follow. And, I'm not claiming that the 1971 team was definitely the best on defense in Nebraska history. NU has a tradition of excellence i 4 4? If i ' ssd Eob Steekey (75) cssg a Fischl said the only way the Cyclones were going to beat Nebraska was by blocking well and shutting down the aggres sive offense. "We had to many unforced errors," she said. "If we are to beat Nebraska in the Big Eight tournament, we are going to have to play much sharper." The win was the 32nd Big Eight victory. The Huskers fin ished up the Big Eight regular season with a record of 10-0. Since Nebraska has sponsored a volleyball program the Huskers have posted a 118-3 record against Big Eight op ponents. The Huskers will have ten days to prepare for the Big Eight Tournament in Norman, Okla., on Nov. 16th and 17th. on defense, and many teams have been awfully stingy giving up points and yardage. Fred Dawson's 1922 team allowed only 28 points in a 7-1 season. The biggest win came a gainst Notre Dame, 14-6. The only loss? A 9-6 setback against Syra cuse. DX Bible's 1933 Huskers won eight and lost one, giving up a total of 19 points all season. Bob Devaneys 1972 defense, with Glover, Harper and Blahak, posted four straight shutouts in a 9-2-1 season. There have been other great defenses, but space wouldn't per mit to list them all. Let's just say it would be tough to pick the best one among them. Any comparison to the 1983 , team is also premature, and tough to do. The '83 Huskers had such a powerful offense, it's hard to com pare them to this year's team. Nebraska's offense is good this year; and the defense has im proved from a year ago, so the Huskers are better-balanced, not better. If the Huskers win the national title, I'll put them right up there with 1970, 71 and '83. But until they do they're just a good football team with three games left to play. t " - ( Dally Ns&rssfean f l Pffcsfo Jay&awk roner dsrfcS Good district meets could give runners chance at nationals By Rich Cooper Daily Nebraskan Staff Reporter A couple of years ago, the Ne braska men's and women's cross country teams would go to the district Five Cross Country Cham pionships thinking it was the last meet of the season. But, for the second consecutive year, coach Jay Dirksen's teams have a good chance, on paper, to go to the NCAA National Cross Country Championships Nov. 19 at University Park, Pa. . At the Big Eight Championships two weeks ago, the men's team finished third and the women's team finished fifth. "For the men's team to go to the NCAA's they will have to have their best race of the season Dirk sen said. The top two teams will go to the nationals, as well as the top three individuals. Nebraska will have to challenge Oklahoma State, which finished in second place at the Big Eight meet. They finished only 1 7 points ahead of Nebraska. Dirksen said Colorado, Kansas State, and Kansas also have a chance of challenging for second behind Iowa State, the top-rated team in the country. The Cornhuskers are led by Senior Kurt Russell Russell fin ished fourth in the Big Eight meet. Dirksen said he will take fresh man Kyle Foster instead of Gerard O'Caliaghan. Dirksen said he hopes he has not put much pressure on the Help us caver you. Daily Nebraskan's Newsline 472-1763 illasslfied Konica FS-1 two lens, one zoom tri-pod. Self-wind 435-7285. 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