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Husker swimmers beach Colorado State By Jeff Apel Senior Editor Colorado State women’s swim ming coach John Mattos used a strat egy frequently used by football teams preparing to face the Oklahoma Soon ers, but it didn’t pay off as the Lady Rams dropped a 147-119 decision to Nebraska Saturday in a double dual meet at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Mattos, whose squad also defeated Minnesota 157-109 on Saturday, said Enjoy smooth, creamy Frozen Yogurt that tastes like Ice Cream but with 80% less fat! -FREE SAMPLES I Can’t Believe fts^ VOGURT! Frozen \bgurt Stores y OPEN: 11 a.m.-l 1 p.m. Daily Noon-11 p.m. Sundays 70th A Van Dorn, PH. 489-9116 Holmes Lake Plaza, Lincoln he tried to gain apsychological advan tage in the meet by showing the Lady Rams an article which appeared in Friday’s Daily Nebraskan. The article said Nebraska women’s swimming coach Ray Huppert knew revenge would be on theComhuskers’ minds because of their 149-119 loss to Colorado State in 1986. Mattos said he tried to use the article to Colorado State’s advantage by distributing it to each of the Lady Rams. He said he frequently uses such tactics in hopes of overcoming any advantage opposing teams may pos sess. But Mattos said the strategy didn’t have the type of impact he wanted it to because the Lady Rams still showed signs of their 141-127 victory over Kansas Friday in Lawrence, Kan. He said Colorado State was mentally drained after its victory over the Jay hawks. “We knew' this was going to be a tough weekend,” Mattos said, “so we were looking for anything that would provide us with a lift. “(The article) is a ritual thing. We were trying to stir some type of fire, but it didn’t have a big impact.” Huppert, whose squad also de feated Minnesota 174-93 on Saturday, said he normally doesn’t like to use such tactics because athletes should be able to motivate themselves with out the use of a newspaper article. He said although he used the strategy prior to Nebraska’s 156.5-111.5 vic tory over the Golden Gophers in 1986, he doesn’t recommend it. “1 think athletes enjoy getting pumped up,” Huppert said, “but that kind of article isn’t going to get you any more ready physically.” Huppert said he was pleased with the Husker’s performance because they were able to mix a strong blend of efficacies by veterans and newcomers to raise their record to 2-0. Huppert said he was particularly pleased with the performances of newcomers Allison Barker and Deanna Wilboum. Barker, a freshman from Cambr idge, England, captured individual championships in the 100- and 200 yard butterfly events while Wilbourn won the 100- and 200-yard back strokes and the 200-yard individual medley. Barker and Wilbourn also teamed with senior All-America Erin Hurley and freshman Mindy Mathcny to win the 400-yard medley relay. “We’ve got an outstanding group of freshman,” Huppcrt said. “They’re just really doing the job for us.” Huppert said he was also pleased with the performances of sophomore Lee Pcnnefather and senior Stephanie Clennan. Pcnnefather won both the 200- and 500-yard freestyle events while Clennan captured the 1 - and 3 melcr diving events. H upper! said i t was that type of per formances that eased the tension he was feeling before the meet. He said he was nervous prior to the start be cause of the level of competition Colorado State and Minnesota pro vide. “We gol a good challenge,” Hup pcrt said. “It was a hell of a meet.” Minnesota women’s swimming coach Jean Freeman said she was pleased with the meet’s outcome even though the Golden Gophers lost to Nebraska and Colorado Stale. Freeman said the Golden Gophers entered the meet at a disadvantage because they didn’t start school until Sept. 28. She said that means Minne sota doesn’t start training until early October, which means it is approxi mately three to four weeks behind most schools. “We actually swam well,” Free man said, “and I think you’ll continue to sec us improve as the season goes on.” Freeman said the Golden Gophers could have helped themselves by showing more respect for Colorado Stale. She said although Minnesota respected Nebraska prior to the meet, it didn’t respect the Lady Rams be cause the two teams had never faced one another before. Injuries won't cripple OU By Steve Sipple Staff Reporter Nebraska football coach Toni Osborne said Sunday that the loss of Oklahoma quarterback Jamcllc Holieway and fullback Lydcll Carr could hurl the Sooners’ confidence and consistency, but won’t hurt them i physically, Holieway and Carr both suffered season-ending knee ligament damage Saturday in top-ranked Oklahoma’s 29-10 victory over No. 12-ranked Oklahoma Stale. Holieway, Oklahoma’s leading rusher w ith 919 yards, injured his left knee while making a run in the fourth quarter. Carr, a senior who has rushed for 673 yards, left after the game’s first series w ith ligament damage. The loss of the two players might not hurt the Sooners as much as people thinK, Osborne said. The Sooners w ill face Missouri this Saturday in Nor man, Okla., before traveling to Lin coln for a Nov. 21 game against Ne braska in Memorial Stadium. “I think that Oklahoma is not going to lose much, i( anythmg, physically,” Osborne said. “I think their No. 2 guy (quarterback Charles Thompson) is probably a little faster than Holieway and has played very well.” Osborne said he watched Th ompson play against Iowa State and Kansas State. “I couldn’t tell the difference when Holieway was in there or when he wasn’t,” he said. Osborne said backup fullback Rotnei Anderson is “an awfully good football player” and is probably as good as Carr. Anderson carried 30 times Saturday for 191 yards. “The question would be what they would lose in terms of experience, consistency and confidence in this type of game,” Osborne said. “Those guys may go out and play every bit as well as Holieway (and Carr). Physi cally, I think they arc as gifted as the other players they have.” Osborne said Oklahoma will also be aided by halfback Erie Mitchcl, who played quarterback for the Soon ers last season. Mitchcl will make the switch back to quarterback against the Huskers. “Erie, again, is physically more gifted than Holieway,” Osborne said. “He's faster, he's bigger, he can make plays Holieway can't make.” Osborne said the injuries to the Sooners disappoint him. “I’m sorry they’re hurt,” he semi. “I mean that sincerely. You never like to sec good players get hurl. “I really don’t know how much difference it will make in their loot ball team.” Osborne said the preparations for the clash with the Stxmers will be aided by freshmen Mickey Joseph, Leodis Flowers, George Achola and Nate Turner. He said those players will be part of the scout team’s back ficld that will provide a talented ver sion of the Sooners’ vaunted wish bone during practice. The Husker varsity will scrimmage the scout team Friday. Osborne said the scrimmage’s purpose will to be to “simulate Oklahoma as best we can.” “One of the big problems w ith the wishbone a lot of times is that your scouting teams are 4.9-(sccond), 5 flal people and it takes you a whole quarter or half to adjust to the speed of the ball game,” Osborne said. “(This year) we have kids on the scouting team that give us a good picture.” Osborne said that although redshirt sophomore I-back Terry Rodgers is still bothered by an injured knee, he may sec action on the scout team during the next two weeks. “They’ve scoped his knee and they say there’s nothing wrong in there, but he still can’t pick it up,” Osborne said. “I think he has gotten belter, but it’s been a very, very slow improvement.” Osborne said he won’t hold quar terback Steve Taylor or anyone else without injuriesout of Friday’s scrim mage. “I think we need to do it,” Osborne said. “There’s some question about going two weeks w ithout ever getting hit. But we sure don’t want to do very much of it, and if a guy’s hurting we sure don’t want him out there.” Osborne said left defensive tackle Neil Smith probably will be held out of Friday’s scrimmage. He said Smith is still suffering from a deep thigh bruise suffered during last Wednesday’s practice. Coach expected NU rout By Nick Hodge Stiff Reporter Iowa Slate coach Jim Walden said Nebraska’s 42-7 victory over the Cyclones Saturday in Memorial Sta dium went just about as he thought it would. Walden said it was evident that Nebraska was the superior team Satur day. He said he was proud of his team’s overall effort and perform ance. “ I hey re (the Comhuskersjagrcat team, too good for our little guys,” Walden said. “I’m proud of the way our team played and hung in there. I couldn't ask them to do any more. I was just proud of the way we’re trying to play. “ I hey just beat us up. As a horror movie, it would have to be that one chainsaw massacre of Texas, 1 guess. “I'm satisfied. We played well.” Walden said he was satisfied with how' much the Cyclones have matured since they lost to Oklahoma 56-3 on Oct. 3. “My goal in this ball game today was to sec if we could do more things alter live weeks of practice than we had when we went to Oklahoma,” he said. “Wc were in our fourth game of the year at Oklahoma. We were so alraid of ourselves and we were so limited.” Walden said the fact that the 2-7 Cyclones tried more offensively against the Huskcrs than they did against Oklahoma had nothing to do with thinking Nebraska’s defense was weaker. “If we had flipped them over, we’d have tried the same things today against Oklahoma, based on our knowledge of ourselves,” Walden said. Walden, a former Nebraska assis tant coach, said he could not make a justified prediction on the Nov. 21 showdown between No. 1-ranked Oklahoma and No. 2 Nebraska be cause Iowa Slate played the Sooncrs five weeks earlier in the season. “I think it’s going to be a tremen dous football game. I think they’re (Nebraska and Oklahoma) blessed with great, great talent and great speed," Walden said. “Nebraska has a little belter team speed than I remem ber when 1 was here. “Nebraska’s defense can offset the speed of Oklahoma’s wishbone. I don ’ t know i f there ’ s a c lcar -cu t favor ite- I think it’s going to go down to which one of them does the most things right.” Cyclone running back Joe I lender son agreed. ‘I think Oklahoma’s defense is quicker than Nebraska’s," Henderson said, but Nebraska is more physical, so it kind of weighs out.” Walden said that although it would not have made any difference in the final score, it would have been nice to score a touchdown on the Cyclones’ first drive. Iowa State was able to move the ball from their own 21-yard line to Nebraska’s 3-yard line on its first drive. But on third and goal, quarter back Brett Sadck was forced to scramble out of the pocket and fumbled the football. Huskcr line backer Randall Jobman recovered the loose ball at the Nebraska 1 to end what turned out to be Iowa SLate’s lone offensive scoring threat. Iowa Slate defense end Tom St awmak, an Omaha Central graduate, said he thoughi Nebraska would score more points. “I thought ii was going to be a real whitewash,” Stawniak said. “I thoughi ( the score) was going to be a lot higher than that. “ I here were a couple of times when ilcould’vc. We stopped them by an interception in the end /one, they fumbled once down there, and we stopped them a couple other times.” Walden said good teams arc emerging in the country. "I think it would be nice to see Florida State, these two teams (Ne braska and Oklahoma), and Miami ol Florida matched up somehow,” Walden said. "...They make some of the simplest, most unaffected, purest country music an und." -East Village Eye 1 VST ROUNDUP, a drummerless C & W Quartet, has a lot ot mi iimal charm w ith more than a few good hooks.. 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