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roundup
Cross Country - The Nebraska
cross country teams had an easy
practices Thursday and will prac
tice easy today as well going into
Saturday’s invitational . . . “We
practice in 14-day cycles where
the last couple days we take it easy
and our practices are reduced in
quantity and quality,” Coach Jay
Dirksen said. The teams ran a total
of six miles by the end of practice
... Dirksen announced the redshirt
runners for this year will be fresh
men Kevin Miiller, Erik Skaden,
Jeremy Skinner, Kiersten Lockie,
Stephanie Quandt and Jon Krieg
isch from Kansas . . . The Corn
huskers will be reduced in man
power with four possible runners
sitting out. Junior Tom Banks is
behind in training from low condi
tioning this summer. David Iteffa
has a groin strain and has a pretty
good chance of sitting out this
weekend. Katie Fletcher has had a
bacterial infection of the nasal
passage for the past three or four
days and won’t be running Satur
day, and Kelly O’Donnell still has
a sore hip... Dirksen said with 13
men’s teams and 12 women’s teams
at the invitational, there will be
competition on every level.
Volleyball — The Nebraska
volleyball team will be meeting
Texas A&M, Purdue and Wyo
ming at the Baden-Mizuno Invita
tional today through Saturday ...
Assistant Coach John Cook said
practice has been big the last two
days. “Everyone is rested up after
Hawaii and back on track.
(Janet) Kruse has really been turn
ing up the heat in practice,” Cook
said ... ‘ ‘We have been narrowing
in on our defensive blocking and
small technical things,” Kruse said
. .. Kruse said she is looking for
ward to the weekend matchups. “I
know we haven ’t played big names
yet but that will change. We know
we want to play our best ball at all
times and never let up,” Kruse
said.
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NU sophomore Eileen Shannon hits a ball over the reach of two UNO players. Wyoming coach
Mike English said he feels stopping Shannon is the key to winning the match.
Coach: Balance is Cowgirls’ strength
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
Wyoming volleyball coach Mike
English will be bringing his team to
Lincoln this weekend to show off~
and hopefully upset top-rated Nebraska
in the process. The Cowgirls, 4-1 and
ranked 20th by Volleyball Monthly
Magazine, will be in town tonight and
Saturday for the Baden-Mizuno Invi
tational, which also includes Nebraska,
Texas A&M and Purdue.
Wyoming has three Nebraska high
school graduates on its roster, and
English said that his team is looking
forward to playing the Huskcrs in the
final game of the tournament Satur
day night.
“We’re going to come and show
off our girls in front of their family
and friends. They’re really excited
about coming down there,’’ English
said.
Kim Smith from Lincoln East,
Stacey Cudaback from Exeter, and
Krista Bashaw from Kimball all have
seen playing umc for Wyoming this
season, and English said his “Ne
braska contingent" has played a major
role in Wyoming’s carly-season sue
cess.
“All of our Nebraska girls are
playing really well, especially Stacey
(Cudaback). She’s twice as good as
she was this time last year,’ ’ English
said.
Senior outside hitter Erin Conta
cessi and sopLnnore outside hitter
Tyree Lcuthauser have been pleasant
surprises for English thus far.
4 4 Both of those girls have come on
strong for us early in the season,’’
English said.
Wyoming won their own Baden
Invitational this season, and its lone
loss came to 16-ranked Louisiana State
at home in five sets.
English said the strength of his
team is balance.
“We’re not soft at any spot on the
court, and we’re really deep,’’ Eng
lish said. “But on the same token,
we’re not world-beaters anywhere
cither.’’
Wyoming finished last year with a
24-7 record, won the High Country
Athletic Conference championship and
advanced to the final eight in the
NCAA tournament. English said it
will be hard for this year’s team to
match the success of last year.
Playing top teams is a task Wyo
ming is used to. Last season, the
Cowgirls were 9-4 against top 20
opponents. English said his team seems
to rise up against top-notch competi
tion.
“We’ve traditionally seemed to
play our best games of the season
when we’ve needed to,” English said.
English said he is impressed with
Nebraska, especially the size and
athletic ability the Huskers possess.
“I think Terry’s (Nebraska Coach
Pettit) had a number of good teams
there over the years, but he’s cer
tainly got a dominant one this year,”
English said.
English said stopping Nebraska
outside hitter Eileen Shannon will be
the key to the match on Saturday.
Upsetting the Huskers would be a
tremendous boost for Wyoming vol
leyball, according to English. When
it comes to rankings, English said he
doesn’t really care.
“It doesn’t really matter much
who’srated where,” he said. “We’ve
just got to go out and play our brand
of volley bail.”
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Team to open exhibition season
i ne Nebraska baseball team opens
its fall exhibition season Sunday at
Buck Beltzer Field against Neosho
County Community College for a pair
of nine inning games starting at 1:30
p.m.
The games are free to University
of Nebraska-Lincoln students who
show their student IDs.
On Saturday, the team will hold a
free red-white scrimmage at Bill Wood
Field in North Platte.
Before the double-header scrim
mage, Coach John Sanders, his coach
ing staff and players will conduct a
free clinic from 10 a.m. to noon,
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NU rugby club takes on
Lincoln City in opener
The Nebraska men’s rugby
club will open the season by
squaring olTagainst the Lincoln
City club Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
on the East Campus softball
fields.
This year the club, which has
about b5 members, boasts a mix
of old and new: 30 to 35 of the
members arc new, yet 11 of the
15 starters from the top team
return.
The team probably will field
three teams at three different
levels this year.