Monday, April 28, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Dave BentzDaily Nebraskan
Nebraska quarterback Blakeman carries the ball in Saturday's Red
White spring game.
Red team breaks record
with 70-14scrimmagewin
35-yard line, cut to his left and sailed
untouched into the end zone.
Miller put his name into the scoring sum
mary seven minutes later, blocking! a punt
and recovering the ball in the end zone. After
a Dale Klein extra point, the Reds led 21-0.
With 5:27 remaining in the 20-minute first
quarter, Taylor and Von Sheppard hooked up
for a 61-yard touchdown strike.
The White team finally lit up the score
board two minutes into the second quarter,
getting more points than they had hoped for,
Chris Drennan lined up for what was to be
a 46-yard field goal attempt, but the snap was
bobbled by Jerry Mlinar. Mlinar raced to the
right sideline under heavy pressure and
threw the ball into the end zone. Tight end
Mark Diaz pulled down the pass for the
touchdown. The extra point by Drennan cut
the Red lead to 21, 28-7.
Later in the second quarter, the Reds
scored again on a 2-yard burst up the middle
by fullback Micah Heibel, then on a 6-yard
pass from Clete Blakeman to Todd Millikan.
On the ensuing kickoff, the fans came to
their feet again as Lorenzo Hicks returned
the kick 85-yards down the sideline for a
touchdown. After a successful onside kick,
the White team had the ball back with 17
seconds remaining in the first half.
Red cornerback Brian Davis intercepted a
pass, though, and returned it 67 yards for a
touchdown which sent the teams to the
locker rooms. The Red team led 49-14 at half
time. Clayton, who had switched jerseys and
moved to the Red team, threw a short pass to
Brinson, who immediately was cut off at mid
field by White defenders. Brinson spun, rev
ersed direction across the field and sprinted
81 yards for the final points of the afternoon.
I-back Jon Kelleyled all rushers, gaining
91 yards on 10 carries for the Red team.
Sometimes you just can't win.
Four months before Nebraska's football
season opener against Florida State, people
already are talking about Coach Tom Osborne
running up the score.
These "accusations" came in a light
hearted manner, however, from fans who were
at the annual Red-White spring game Satur
day in Memorial Stadium,
The Red team, consisting of first and
fourth-team players, mauled the White team,
70-14.
The Red team's 70 points set a spring game
record. The 23,006 fans who attended got
their money's worth of big plays and big
points.
j Osborne said the score was misleading.
"The game was set up in a way that the
scoring might be a little higher than usual,"
Osborne said.
On the first play, White team quarterback
McCathorn Clayton threw an interception to
Brian Siebler, who returned the ball to the
White 7-yard line. The turnover set up a 6-yard
touchdown run two plays later by Red quar
terback Steve Taylor. Taylor finished the day
with 52 yards rushing and three touchdowns
on nine carries and completed three of eight
passes for 81 yards and one touchdown.
Osborne said Taylor performed well, but
still has room for improvement.
"Steve needs to continue to be more con
sistent," Osborne said. "Toward the end of
the game, he could have scrambled for some
big gains, and he elected to throw the ball.
-Hopefully in the fall when he's got 20 yards
around the corner, he'll take the 20 yards."
After the White team failed to gain a first
down on their next posession, Craig Schnitzler
punted the ball to Red return man Dana
Brinson. Brinson fielded the ball at his own
withtie-breakiai
q homer
By Mike Jeffries
Special to the Daily Nebraskan
TULSA, Okla. Sixth-ranked Oral Roberts
needed Keith Lockhart's tie-breaking home run
to overcome Nebraska Saturday, 4-3, and sweep a
two-game weekend series with the Cornhuskers
at Johnson Stadium.
The Titans won the first game Friday, 9-5.
Lockhart's game-winning blast, one of his four
hits, came in the seventh inning after Nebraska
rebounded from a 3-0 deficit by scoring two in
the fifth inning and another in the sixth.
All four Titan runs came as the result of home
runs, including Craig Colbert's three-run shot in
the third inning.
Nebraska pitcher Mike Dobbs agreed that the
homers were the key.
"I thought I pitched pretty well," Dobbs said.
"But, I'd like to have a couple of pitches back."
Dobbs attributed the three-run homer to mis
communication with catcher Mark Kister.
"He wanted a slider and 1 thought he wanted a
fastball in," Dobbs said. "Colbert didn't look
like a home run threat, I'd like to have that one
bad too."
D bbs allowed seven hits and struck out
three.
In Friday's game, Nebraska scored four runs in
the fifth to fight back from a 6-0 disadvantage.
Heflin batted for Burt Beattie and walked. Todd
Bunge singled to load the bases for the Huskers.
Meyers hit a line drive past third for a hit,
advanced to third on an error before scoring on
Franklin's sacrifice fly.
Again in the seventh, Nebraska loaded the
bases but Titan coach Larry Cochell called on
relief pitcher Garry Clark. Franklin sent a sacri
fice shot to center to pull Nebraska within one
but ORU responded with three runs in the bot
tom of the inning.
After the series, ORU is 38-11. Nebraska is
28-17.
Rathman waits for NFL choices,
rated third in draft by USA Today
The Associated Press
Former Nebraska football player Tom Rath
man said he'll be waiting by the telephone and
watching ESPN TV early Tuesday morning when
the National Football League draft gets under
way.
The Grand Island native is among a handful of
former Nebraska players who expect to be
drafted.
Rathman said Tuesday will be a big day for
him and his wife, Holly. Their trailer home will
be filled with family and friends, reporters and
Cornhusker football players.
ESPN has contacted him about a live tele
phone interview after he's drafted, Rathman
said.
USA Today rated Rathman third among ful
lbacks in the draft, and The Sporting News rated
him fifth.
The" ratings are interesting to players and
fans, but "you don't know how accurate they
are," Rathman said.
"A team might be looking for a certain type of
fullback," he said. "Maybe the guy ahead of me is
a better runner, but maybe I'm a better blocker
than he is."
Rathman, who is 6-4 and weighs 238 pounds,
enhanced his position in the draft with a senior
season in which he rushed for 881 yards, a school
record for fullback. He averaged 7.5 yards a carry,
evidence that he can run with the ball as well as
block.
Former Cornhuskers Bill Lewis, Jim Skow,
Todd Frain, Dan Wingard, Paul Miles, Mike Knox
and Brian Blankenship also have been named as
potential draft picks.
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