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Volleyball player pleased with year
By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
The cover of this year’s Nebraska
volleyball press guide shows seniors
Virginia Stahr and Carla Baker stand
ing by the columns next to the NU
Coliseum.
And, like the the column she’s
leaning on in the photograph, Baker
has been a solid pillar of consistency
in the Comhuskers’ lineup.
While six of Nebraska’s top play
ers have been out at one time or
another because of injuries or ill
nesses and have gone in and out of
slumps, Baker has cruised along by
posting a .333 hitting percentage
from her middle blocker position.
Baker added to her totals in Ne
braska’s 17-15, 15-5, 15-8 sweep of
Illinois in the NCAA Mideast re
gional championship match at the
coliseum Saturday. She totaled nine
kills on 18 attacks for a .389 hitting
percentage, while adding seven digs
and four blocking assists.
That performance helped Ne
braska earn a berth in the Final Four,
and also helped Baker move up in the
Husker record books.
Baker’s 108 blocking assists tie
her for the fifth-best season total in
Nebraska history, while her solo
block total of 24 puts her at ninth.
Baker’s output against the Illini
did not shock Nebraska volleyball
coach Terry Pettit. He said Baker
always seems to rise to the occasion.
“Carla has a history of playing
some of her best volleyball in big
matches,” Pettit said. “She did it
against Hawaii, against Texas last
year. She did it against Kentucky and
Houston earlier in the year.
“I don’t know whether the stars
are right or what it is, but she per
formed real well.”
Baker said after the match that she
did her best just to fulfill her role.
“I think I played my part well,”
she said. “Being a senior, I think I did
what needed to be done. I played like
a senior. I didn’t play like an All
American, I played like a senior.
“That’s what the team needed, so
that’s what I did.”
Baker said her role is different
than fellow senior middle blocker
Stahr, the All-America team captain.
“It’s not really like Virginia’s. It’s
just more ‘do your job’,” she said.
‘ ‘You’re not going to be a captain but
you have to hold the team together
‘cause you’ve been here a while. You
keep them going.”
Baker Ifcads by example with her
work ethic, Pettit said.
“She was our lifter of the year,”
he said. “She works very hard in the
weight room. I think Carla leads by
working hard. She’s one of the hard
est workers we’ve ever had in Ne
braska volleyball.
“Every day, no matter what the
situation, she works very hard.”
Baker’s work ethic carries over
into the class room, as she owns a
3.81 grade point average in elemen
tary education. That mark has earned
her spots on the Big Eight All-Aca
demic and GTE District VII All
Academic teams.
Pettit said Baker also is unselfish.
He said Baker proved her unselfish
ness when she was the lone Husker
left off the all-tournament team that
was announced following the Big
Eight competition in Omaha.
“I think she might like to be
named All-this or that, Pettit said.
“But she’s a very unselfish player.’’
It’s not always easy being left out,
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“It hurts sometimes,” she said,
“but I’m not the kind of person that
plays for awards. I play for the team
and play to do my job and fulfill my
own expectations.”
Baker said all the awards her
teammates have gathered reflect on
her.
“Sometimes I don’t have good
nights. I’m not a superstar,” Baker
said. “But if that many people on my
team get those awards that’s, in itself,
an honor that I’m on that team and
starting.
“The whole team can’t be... so if
they’re going to choose somebody to
not get an award, it may as well be
me. I can handle it.”
Baker said she has been pleased
with her performance this season.
“I think this year has been my best
year,” she said. “I’m finishing it the
way I wart to finish it. The Final Four
my senior year... it’s a dream come
true.
“I’m really happy.”
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the score says.”
Huppert praised the perform
ance of diver Amy Aarsen and
distance specialist Michelle
Butcher. Aarsen claimed the
meet’s 1- and 3-meter diving
titles, while Butcher won the 500
and 1,000-yard freestyles in
5:00.81 and 10:24.90.
In addition to the wins by
Butcher and Aarsen, Nebraska
also received first-place finishes
from Kansas native Carole
Johnson in the 200-yard back
stroke and Kristen Neuenfcldt in
the 200-yard breaststroke.
Huppert said Nebraska now
will begin preparing for its “sec
ond season,” which begins in
January. He said the Huskers will
close out their first season by
lightening their training load
while the athletes are taking final
exams.
“We want to relieve some of
the pressure,” Huppert said.
Geter says he’s happy with start,
even though it hasn’t been stellar
By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s basketball
team’s 4-3 start hasn’t been stunning,
but sophomore forward Lewis Geter
couldn’t be happier.
Geter, along with teammate Carl
Hayes, sat out last season as a Propo
si lion 48 casually. But this year, the
6-foot-7 Geter has been a starter all
season and is averaging 10.6 points
and 4.9 rebounds per game.
“It feels great. I’m really enjoying
this so far,” Geter said. “Last year
was kind of hard because I knew I
could’ve came out and helped the
team off the bench or something.”
Geter will get his eighth career
start tonight when the Comhuskcrs
take on the Idaho Vandals at 7:35 in
the Bob Dcvancy Sports Center.
Geter said Nebraska is glad the
game is at home. He said the home
court advantage gave the Huskers a
big lift during their 76-69 win Satur
day against Texas Tech.
“One reason wc won is that wc
came back home,” he said. ‘‘That
gives us more confidence.”
The Huskers have won their last
nine games at home and lost their last
13 road games.
Nebraska will try to extend its
home winning streak tonight.
Idaho, 4-2, returns eight lettermen
from a team that trounced the Husk
ers 83-68 and has won the last three
meetings between the teams.
The Vandals arc led by 6-8 center
Riley Smith, who averages 24.7
points and 9.2 rebounds per game.
Also in double figures are 6-5 Ri
cardo Boyd at 12.5 points and 5.5
rebounds and 6-8 Clifford Martin
who averages 10.2 points and 6.6
boards.
Idaho is quarterbacked by point
guard Otis Livingston, a 6-1 senior
who was a reserve member of the
Kansas Jay hawks’ 1986-87 national
championship team.
The Vandals have posted wins
against Simon Fraser, Gon/aga and
Whitworth this season. One of
Idaho’s losses was an 87-58 setback
lo Kansas.
Idaho hosted the Palousc Classic
Friday and Saturday, losing its first
round matchup against Texas South
ern 78-77 in overtime. The Vandals
then rebounded to pound Cctcnary
94-63.
Getcr said he doesn’t know much
about the Vandals, a Big Sky Confer
ence team that participated in the
NCAA tournament last year. He said
the key to winning is concentrating
on his own team.
“I don’t really know anything
about them,” Gcter said. ‘‘I know
they were picked to win their confer
ence. We just have to come out ready
to play, execute, and do what’s right
to win.”
Geter said Nebraska will not dwell
on its start even though it has not been
stellar.
SPRINT from Page 7
by Fitzpatrick, Nebraska also re
ceived lop performances from Jan
Birdman and Scan Frampton. Framp
lon won the 50 breaststroke in 25.71,
while Birdman won the 50 back
stroke in 23.32, tbc 1 (K) individual
medley in 51.49 and teamed with
Frampton, Rhelt Talbert and Scddon
Keyler to form Nebraska’s winning
200 medley relay team.
Bcntz said he was not surprised by
Birdman’s performance even though
the Sweden native is a freshman.
4‘Hecertainly docs well,” he said.
”1 think his talent isgood - we recog
nized that when we recruited him”
ADVANCE from Page 7
the score 15-15, the game’s eighth
tie, before Huskcr setter Val Novak
served the final two points.
“She basically won that first game
for us,’’ Pettit said about Belli. “She
brought us back and the first game
was the key game.”
Nebraska advanced to the title
match by defeating Minnesota in
Friday’s semifinals 15-10,11-15,15
13, 15-12. Illinois made it by stop
ping Ohio State 13-15, 15-7 15-10,
17-15.
Minnesota’s Chris Schaefer was
named the tournament’s Most Valu
able Player. The other members of
the team were Ohio State’s Holly
O’Leary and Nebraska’s Novak,
Hall, Kruse and Virginia Stahr.
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