Sports
OUends Husker volleyball streak at 61
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
SALINA, Kan. — Oklahoma
handed Nebraska its second upset of
the weekend Sunday when the Sooner
volleyball team knocked off the Corn
huskers in four games in the finals of
the Big Eight Championships.
In doing so, the Sooners earned
their first volleyball championship in
school history and ended Nebraska’s
61 -game winning streak in the confer
ence. The Sooners defeated the Husk
ers 3-15, 15-13, 15-4, 15-6 at the
Bicentennial Center to end
Nebraska’s streak of 11 straight con
ference crowns. The Sooners had not
defeated Nebraska since Oct. 3,1980.
Oklahoma coach Miles Pabst said
he knew the Huskers’ streak wouldn’t
continue.
“Their streak had to end some
time,” Pabst said. “They couldn’t
continue to win and win. I knew we
could play with them — this win will
give the Big Eight a great deal more
credibility.”
The volleyball title was i
Oklahoma’s second championship of ;
the weekend. The Oklahoma football :
team upset top-ranked Nebraska 17-7 1
Saturday at Memorial Stadium to (
clinch its fourth straight conference i
title.
And Sooner fans didn’t let the I
Nebraska volleyball team forget it. I
They chanted “Just like yesterday” at
the Huskcrs throughout the match.
Nebraska coach Terry Pettit said he
thought the Huskcrs lacked aggres
siveness in the match.
“We played hard and aggressive
the first game and part of the second,
but we weren’t real aggressive after
that,” Pettit said. “We were very ten
tative on our passing and setting.”
Pettit said Nebraska already had a
bid to the NCAA regionals and Okla
homa needed to win the Big Eight
championship to get one. Oklahoma
raised its overall record to 26-7 while
Nebraska dropped to 27-4.
“We were already assured on an
NCAA bid and Oklahoma, if they
didn’t win, (was) done for the year,”
Pettit said. “Sometimes that factor
provides a motivational role.
“Oklahoma played real well.”
Pabst said he wanted to win and not
leave the decision of going to the
regional up to the selection commit
tee.
“We knew we had to win,” Pabst
said. “We didn’t want to leave the
choice of going to the regionals to
people voting out cast who had never
teen us play before. It would be great
or the Big Eight if Nebraska and
Dklahoma met for the regional cham
)ionship.”
Oklahoma senior Margaret Page
tad never beaten Nebraska. She said
icrfirst win against the Huskersdidn’t
feel any different than other victories.
Page led the Sooners with 17 kills.
“We were just ready to play ball,”
Page said. “There was nothing to it.
We just needed to play our game and
Nebraska look rattled.”
Nebraska senior Kathi DeBoer,
who led the Huskers with 19 kills and
was named the tournament’s most
valuable player, suffered her first loss
to a Big Eight opponent.
“My first Big Eight loss had to
come on my last Big Eight game,”
DeBoer said. “We didn’t play well
and we weren’t organized. We didn’t
get in a rhythm all afternoon.”
Nebraska setter Lori Endicott,
named the Big Eight player of the
year, contributed 46 set assists.
“Oklahoma just outplayed us,”
Endicott said. “We were sporadic at
times and they played more consis
tent. We were running into people on
the court, which shows disorganiza
tion.”
In the first game, a block by middle
blocker Carla Baker gave the Huskers
a 4-0 lead. A kill by Trcnell Carter and
a Nebraska error made the score 4-2,
but three kills by DeBoer gave the
Huskers an 8-2 lead. The Huskers then
oulscorcd Oklahoma 7-1 to end the
game.
In the second game, Oklahoma
took a 1-0 lead on a missed set by
Nebraska, but a kill by sophomore
Virginia Stahr tied the score. No team
could build more than a thrcc-poinl
advantage after that. Two ace serves
by Virginia Stahr gave Nebraska an 8
7 lead, but the Sooners used two kills
by Page and two Husker errors to gain
a 14-11 lead.
Nebraska cut the lead to 14-13, but
an ace block by Debbie Carlson gave
the Sooners a 15-13 win and tied the
match at one game apiece.
“I thought we would win the sec
ond game,” Pettit said. “I thought at
some point in the game we would just
come back and win it.”
In the third game, Oklahoma built
an 11-2 lead, but Nebraska used kills
by Baker and Stahr to cut the lead to
11-4. Two blocks and a kill by the
Sooners and a Nebraska net violation
gave the Sooners a 15-4 win.
In the fourth game, the Sooners
jumped out to a 5-0 lead, but Nebraska
came back to cut the lead to 5-3. The
Sooners increased their lead to 8-3,
but two kills by Stahr and a block by
Baker and DeBoer pulled the Huskcrs
to9-6. The Sooners scored the next six
points — paced on three kills by
Carlson and Page — for a 15-6 win.
Pabst said he was “numb” after the
win.
“It was more satisfying to me to
win this as a coach than as a player, “
Pabst aid. “Page played one of her best
matches, as well as Carlson and Susan
Jones.
“We had Nebraska running. Wc
put pressure on them and they didn’t
know how to react. They seemed dis
organized.”
“We played great intensity-wise.
The serving was a major let up in the
match, and we passed well.”
Page said Nebraska’s streak of
conference wins didn’t matter.
“History doesn’t account for much
when you’re playing,” Page said.
“There arc only two teams on the
court, and if we kept our concentra
tion, we knew we would win.
“Nebraska is an excellent team, but
we just played better.”
Pettit said he thought his team’s
intensity slipped during the match.
“We are a very inexperienced
team, and we’ve had to work hard all
year,” Pettit said. “When you’ve had
to operate on all cylinders all year, it’s
very tough to keep that up.
“Tonight we were not operating on
all cylinders, and they took advantage
of it.
“We did nothing to control the
tempo of the match,” he said. “Okla
homa was a better team, but we should
bounce back. Oklahoma did a nice
job, and Miles has a good team.”
DeBoer said Nebraska “got a little
disorganized, and then the little things
that usually don’t show up starting
showing up.”
Husker named meet s ’outstanding wrestler
By Steve Sipple
Staff Reporter
Nebraska junior Terry Cook won
the 126-pound championship and six
other Cornhuskers placed Saturday at
the UNO Open in Omaha.
Team scoring wasn’t kept at the
tournament, which attracted 420
wrestlers.
Nebraska wrestling coach Tim
Neumann said he was pleased w ith the
Huskcrs’ performance.
“I really was,” Neumann said. “I
was pleased with the effort given. It
was a tournament we didn’t taper for
alall. Wc used this tournament strictly
as a practice meet, and the kids did
really well.”
Cook, named the meet’s outstand
ing wrestler, defeated Iowa State’s
Stcvc Knight 5-4 in the finals to raise
his record to 12-1. Cook heat Okla
homa starter Perry Summit 12-6 in the
semifinals.
Neumann said Cook’s champion
ship victory over Knight was “a hell of
a match.”
“(Cook) took second last year in
the tournament,” Neumann said. “In
the past he’s done really well in the
first semester and seems to slump in
the second. We’re working hard on
making him a consistent wrestler.
“He wrestling better now than he
ever has in college.”
Two Huskers reached the finals but
lost. Junior Jeff Coltvct was defeated
6-5 by Northern Iowa’s Chris Lem
bcck in the 158-pound division, and
senior Mike Radnov lost 17-2 in the
220-pound competition to Mark
Cody, who was wrestling “unat
tached” — not representing a college
team.
Coltvct, 10-1, pinned Oklahoma’s
Kenny Fisher in the semifinals. Fisher
is rated eighth by Amateur Wrestling
News.
Neumann said Coltvet’s match
with Lembeck was difficult.
“It wasa pretty damn close match,”
Neumann said. “Jeff got dropped on
his head in the first period. He got in a
upper-lxxly tie-up and (Lcmbcck)
dropped him on his head off the mat,
and he was seeing stars after that.”
Coltvcl won four of five matches
Saturday to raise his record to 10-1.
Radnov defeated Iowa Slate’s Eric
Voclker in the semifinals and finished
the tournament 3-1. Voclker won the
190-pound national championship
last year. But he moved up to the 220
pound weight class for the UNOOpen.
Neumann said Radnov and Voclker
were tied 5-5 at the end of the match,
but Radnov got the victory on a crite
ria decision because he scored two
takedowns in the match to Voclkcr’s
one.
Junior Keenan Turner, ranked
11 th m the nation, finished fourth after
defaulting because of an injured
ankle. He’s now 12-1.
Sophomore Mark Passer, 126;
redshirt freshman Dave Rowe, 134;
and sophomore John Cory, 177; each
finished sixth.
NU swimmers fight back'
and win Husker Invite
By Jeff Apel
Senior Editor__
Nebraska women’s swimming
coach Ray Huppcrt completed his
final preparations for the Huskcr
f Invitational by defeating Brigham
Young 136-132 Friday at the Bob
Dcvancy Sports Center.
Huppcrt said he was pleased
with the dual meet’s outcome
because Nebraska trailed by 31
points after seven events. He said
Brigham Young “ambushed” the
Huskers by fractionsof a second in
every race.
“Everybody had their jaw to the
ground," Huppcrt said. “We were
flat.”
But after a team meeting in the
locker ••oom, Huppcrt said, the
Huskers recovered as divers Sherri
Birmingham, Bccki Clark and
Stephanie Clcnnan swept both the
1- and 3-mctcr diving competi
tions to raise Nebraska’s record to
3-0.
“It was the best come-from
behind win I’ve ever been associ
ated with,” Huppcrl said. “We
were able to fight back, and we
showed for a young team we were
able to fight back.”
Huppcrl said he isnTconcemcd
about Nebraska’s early troubles in
the meet because the Huskers will
spend the next two weeks tapering
and working on technical things in
preparation for the Husker Invita
tional. Tapering is a process in
which swimmers rest and shave in
an attempt to reduce their limes.
The Husker Invitational, which
includes such teams as Arizona
State, Missouri, Kansas, North
Dakota, Wyoming, Air Force and
Colorado State, will be Dec. 4-6at
the Bob Dcvancy Sports Center.
Huppert said Nebraska is look- •
ing forward to the meet.
“This is what the athletes have
been working for,” Huppert said.
“They’re definitely looking for
ward to it.”
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