Monday, November 17, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
9
Sp
TO-
By Chuck Green
Sports Editor
tackles for lost yardage.
It was just that kind of a day for the Jayhawks.
Kansas' problems actually started before the
game did. After the Jayhawk seniors were
introduced it was Kansas' last home game of
the season the rest of the team ran onto the
field. The Kansas cheerleaders held up a paper
banner for the team to break through as they
took the field. As the first Jayhawk player burst
through the banner, he stumbled and fell to the
ground.
Shortly afterward, the rest of Kansas' team fell
as well. Sports writers in the press box joked
about the game, made predictions on how bad
Kansas would get beaten and paid more attention
to the Oklahoma-Colorado game on their Watch
man televisions.
Nebraska took the opening kickoff and drove
80 yards in 14 plays to take a 7-0 lead on a 2-yard
run by I-back Keith Jones and the extra point by
Dale Klein.
Jones, playing with a cast on his right hand
due to torn ligaments in his thumb, led all
rushers Saturday with 1 17 yards and two touch
downs on 15 carries.
Oh the ensuing kickoff, Jayhawk running back
Scott Shriner took the ball at the 9-yard line,
returned it to the 20 and was hit bv Husker
defensive end Jon Marco. Shriner fumbled and
the ball was recovered by Nebraska's Jeff Jamrog
at the Kansas 20-yard line. One play and 20
seconds later, Jones scored his second touchdown
of the day on a 20-yard pitch around the left end.
Klein added the extra point to give Nebraska a
14-0 lead.
Nebraska scored on their next drive when
Blakeman threw a short pass to wingback Dana
Brinson. Brinson caught the ball and was hit
immediately by a Jayhawk defensive back. Brinson
managed to spin free and run into the end zone
to extend Nebraska's lead to 20-0 with 2:53
remaining in the first quarter. Klein added the
extra point.
LAWRENCE, Kan. For Clete Blakeman,
Nebraska's 70-0 thrashing of Kansas Saturday
was an opportunity he just couldn't "pass" up.
Blakeman, a junior quarterback from Norfolk,
made his first start as a Cornhusker. Steve
Taylor, Nebraska's usual starting signal-caller,
did not play because of bruised ribs and a sore
back.
"This meant a lot to me," Blakeman said of the
game. "I've been waiting a long time for this
chance. It showed that Coach Osborne has the
faith in me to play me like that. I just wanted to
go in and do my best.
"It turned out well."
That could have been one of the biggest
understatements of Nebraska's season so far.
Blakeman completed eight of 12 passes for 94
yards and three touchdowns. When he couldn't
find an open receiver or a good pitch man,
Blakeman carried the ball 1 1 times for 61 yards
and another touchdown. Blakeman accounted
for 155 of Nebraska's yards and 24 of Nebraska's
points.
"Clete played very well today," Nebraska
coach Tom Osborne said. "He was a very steady
performer."
But, Blakeman wasn't the only steady performer
for the Huskers. Nebraska's offense rolled up 587
yards, 490 of which came on the ground. Sixteen
Huskers carried the ball on offense and seven of
them scored. Nebraska's defense held the Jay
hawks to 101 yards of offense Kansas gained
71 yards in the first half and only nine first
downs in the game. Kansas punted 10 times
compared to Nebraska's single punt of the day
late in the first quarter. Kansas quarterback
Kelly Donohoe was sacked five times by Nebras
ka's defense Saturday. The Jayhawks never
caught a Nebraska quarterback behind the line
of scrimmage. Twelve Husker defenders recorded
Tigers stroke past NU
Nebraska was denied a first-place
finish in the meet until the sixth event,
when the Husker's Heidi Hecker posted
an individual victory in the one-meter
diving competition. Hecker finished
with a total of 251.70 to outdistance
both Alison Maisch and defending NCAA
champion Robin Ford of Louisiana
State.
The Huskers' final victory of the
meet came in the next-to-last event of
the day when Ail-American Erin Hurley
captured a first-place finish in the 200
breaststroke. Hurley defeated Nebraska
freshman Terri Long to win the event.
Huppert said the most promising
aspect he was able to derive from the
meet was the fact that, out of 29 indi
vidual swims, the Cornhuskers man
aged to post 17 season-best times.
If Nebraska would have been fully
tapered, Huppert said the meet's out
come would have been changed drastically.
Swimmers beat LSU
Nebraska's men's swimming team
used a first- and third-place finish in
the 400-meter free style relay to upset
No. 1 1 ranked Louisiana State Saturday
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center pool.
Nebraska's relay team of Doug
Hubner, Dan Novinski, Mike Edmond
son and Mike Irvin won the relay, help
ing boost the Cornhuskers to a 1 14-103
victory over the Tigers.
Going into the final event LSU trailed
by four points, so LSU coach Sam Freas
attempted to change the lineup of his
relay team in order to gain the neces
sary points to win. LSU needed to finish
in two of the top three positions in
order to win the meet.
Nebraska coach Cal Bentz protested
this move, saying it was too late to
change the relay team and that Freas
was stalling to do this.
"We felt the relay had to be up
there," Bentz said.
Freas disagreed. He said that he
could change his relay team, and that
Bentz just overreacted.
"He (Bentz) was just impatient,"
Freas said. "It came down to the last
relay and he got excited."
However, referee Kris Rutford agreed
After a delay of game penalty halted Nebraska's
next drive, the Huskers stopped Kansas in four
plays to regain possession of the ball at the
Kansas 33-yard line. Three plays later, Blakeman
completed his second touchdown pass of the
game, this time to tight end Tom Banderas.
Banderas was open in the back corner of the end
zone when Blakeman threw the ball, but because
of heavy pressure from Kansas defenders, the
pass was thrown ahead of Banderas. Banderas
dove and caught the ball one-handed to cap the
three-play drive.
"I didn't see that one," Blakeman said of the
play. "I got hit just as soon as I threw the ball and
I was on the ground when he caught it. 1 heard it
was a good catch."
Banderas said he made a few catches like that
in high school, but called this one his "best
college catch."
"The ball was thrown and I just laid out and
stuck out a hand and pulled it in," he said. "It
felt pretty good."
It was only the second catch of the season for
Banderas, who has been hampered by a hamstring
injury for most of the season.
Nebraska added another touchdown with 2: 17
left in the second quarter when I-back Jeff
Wheeler scored from 1 yard out, capping a nine
play, 57-yard drive. Klein added the extra point
to give Nebraska a 35-0 lead at halftime.
Nebraska's defense allowed the Jayhawk of
fense only 29 yards in the second half. After
stopping Kansas in five plays at the start of the
third quarter, Nebraska needed eight plays to
score again, this time on a 29-yard run by
Blakeman. Nebraska scored twice more in the
third quarter on an 1 1-yard pass to Banderas
from Blakeman and on a 27-yard run by third
team quarterback McCathorn Clayton. I-back
Jon Kelley added touchdown runs of 15 and 32
yards in the fourth quarter to end the scoring.
Kelley, who has not played since the South
Carolina game Oct. 4, carried the ball lour times
for 55 yards and two touchdowns.
Marco and safety Mark Blazek led Nebraska's
defense with five tackles each. Husker line
backer Marc Munford also intercepted a Dono
hoe pass toward the end of the second quarter
and returned it 5 yards.
"It was something we needed," Nebraska
middle guard Danny Noonan said of the shutout.
"We needed to play a complete game and we
didn't give up the big play either."
"That's the second-toughest day I've ever
spent on a football field," Kansas coach Bob
Valesente said. "The toughest was a couple
weeks ago against Oklahoma."
Osborne said he was surprised with the
outcome of the game.
"We really expected a dogfight, a OO-minute
struggle," Osborne said. "I'm really sorry about
the score. We didn't try to humiliate Kansas in
any way.
"It's hard to say much after a game like this."
Most of what was said after the game dealt
with next week's annual shootout with Oklahoma.
"It's for everything," Noonan said. "The coaches
say every week that 'this is the most important
game,' but this one coming up really is. We need
to play four quarters against them."
Defensive end Broderick Thomas wasn't quite
as timid about commenting on next week's
game.
"I think we can beat them pretty bad," he
said.
Another sports writer asked Thomas if he
really thought that.
"Well," Thomas reconsidered, "1 still have a
lot of respect for them. It's going to be a hard
fought game. It could be very close, but I still
think we'll come out on top.
I'm not worried about it."
Thomas said he thinks Oklahoma will be at a
disadvantage playing in Lincoln in front of
Nebraska's fans.
"elser LotiiiahC State's
women's swimming team proved their
decisive victory over Nebraska last sea
son was no fluke.
The Bengal Tigers, who last year won
every event en route to posting a 79-34
victory over the Cornhuskers, nearly
equaled that feat Saturday at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center as they won all
but two events en route to registering a
126-91 victory.
The win raised Louisiana State's
dual-meet record to 2-0, while Nebraska
dropped to 2-1.
"I'd be wrong to say that not winning
didn't mean a lot," Nebraska women's
swimming coach Ray Huppert said.
"I'm disappointed. But with where we
are in our training, I don't know if we
could have beat them."
Huppert said the major advantage
the lOth-ranked Tigers had over the
Huskers was Louisiana State chose to
don its skin suits and fully-tapered
swimmers for the meet.
with Bentz.
"It appeared that the opposing coach
tried to stall the meet," Rutford said.
"He was trying to balance the relay,
and he appeared to try to stall to do
that."
When the controversy ended, Nebras
ka was able to get first- and third-place
finishes to clinch the upset.
LSU won the first event of the day,
the 400-meter Medley Relay, to grab an
early lead in the meet. After Nebraska's
Jaco Kruger won the 1,000 meter free
style, LSU All-American's Neil Harper
and Adam Schmitt won the next two
events, the 200-meter freestyle and the
50-meter freestyle.
Nebraska's Irvin, the defending Big
Eight Champion in the 200-meter inter
mediate, won that event and Husker
Wes Zimmerman placed third.
LSU won the 200-meter butterfly and
the 100-meter freestyle before Ed Jowdy,
Nebraska's defending Big Eight cham
pion in the 200-meter backstroke, won
the backstroke competition.
In the 500-meter freestyle Nebraska
swept the top three places, with Irvin
coming in first, Kruger placing second
and Jim Fellows placing third which
helped to tie the meet, 84-84.
By Jim Bsllcrd
Censor R?-orter ' "
i . . . ..! Coach Dir.")' Ike v,l' i
r, , -. , - r C j vt W 'J " IT T '
.Uw.WvJ in..... ' , '
la f:.ct, t.e far. tJut u?t
i V, o gz...2 j: .0 i '"3 a it: :.:
tvticn vl.en la v. iU, LceJ
ard then watched NVra ka CJezl
a YOilavSan national team 'l2.
"I was surprised," Nee said. "It
v.as nice, real nice. I was worried
about how many people Vvere cin-
to show up because of the football
"game, but ihe fans and students
were great"; - " - -
"I'm harpy becoss ve van,"
Nee said. "Hvcjpns was a little ncr
,vous ploying in frcc.t cf a heme
crowd ar.i' the - kiUi ' worked very
hard.. ,..'
, ""ut we have to get better uA
quick, if we want to get together the
type of boll clu! we wont."
After bcth Joel Sealer and EI!!
Jackraan drilled" three-pointers to
give; Nebraska &n early 7-6 lead,
' F-rrnii came back smoking.
' The Yi'zoslavs Vucevic Borcslav
hit four straight three-point goals to
;ivQ thcm 'a;10-poInt lead with 13 .
r.ir.utc? I:ft in the I.: If. Ncbr;!;a
then rv!3 some cheats.
- "We & itched cf. " cs cri thi.t
MI.-.-," Ji'!.' rv !.
it, n ?' ! . . 1 .
J. 21 iJ t'.w I t
.... v i.. iv 4
' 1 - ... ., .. .. ..
, . -.
- J . j r -1
. ' j
f '4' - rinr U .. 'z t
T !"
,1 .
!2- ' : :
;w . Tt i &irl. , "s v.-re II!'? es::L:;x-
. . Tnrc!'.'I ''e r? I" tf r:s. ' :-
