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Teammates
‘help’ runner
finish fourth
By Erik Unger
Staff Reporter
Running alone in a pack of four
isn’t easy.
Joe Kirby, Nebraska’s All-Ameri
can senior, has spent the past two Big
Eight Cross Country Championships
competing against three runners from
Iowa Slate.
It is a lot easier to run hard when
teammates slay close, Kirby said.
The four broke away from the rest
of the pack early and Kirby stayed
close through the first6,000 metersof
the 8,(X)0 meter race, when the three
Cyclone runners began to pull away.
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-Nebraska’s Finishers
Men's 8,000 meters Women's 5,000 meters
winning time: 24:31.4 winning time: 17:08.6
Joe Kirby 4th 24:55.6 Fran tenBensel 8th 17:45.9
David Iteffa 11th 25:26.8 Lisa Graham 9th 17:57.6
Kevin Clark 21st 26:01.5 Katie Fletcher 28th 19:00.8
Frank Lee 23rd 26:11.7 Theresa Stelling 29th 19:03.7
Pat Day 25th 26:15.3 Julieanne Campbell 31st 19:14.5
Todd Elwood 36th 26:43.3 Becky Hund 32nd 19:16.46
Steve Coulter 43rd 27:17.6 Sylria Veit 46th 19:56.2
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Big 8 winning streak unbroken
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter_
The Nebraska volleyball team isn’t
one to play favorites.
So on Saturday, the Comhuskcrs
gave Colorado the same treatment
they have given all other Big Eight
opponents this season — a straight
game waxing.
The Huskers survived a third-game
scare in a 15-5,15-4,15-11 win at the
NU Coliseum, and improved their
conference record lo 6-0. Colorado
fell to 5-2 in the Big Eight.
Nebraska jumped out to a 10-2
lead in the first game and never looked
back. Nebraska continued to domi
nate in the second game behind the
hitting of junior outside hitter Janet
Kruse, who hit .76.3 for the match.
In the third game, Nebraska fell
behind 3-0 before rallying for seven
consecutive points. The Huskers pul
the match away on an ace serve by
freshman Nikki Strieker.
“We did some good things over
all," Nebraska coach Terry Pettit said.
"But our ball handling was erratic in
the third game.”
Pettit said the Huskers weren’t
sharp in the third game.
“They did score a lot of points, but
most of them were on our errors," he
said.
Nebraska was plagued by serving
woes for the second straight match.
The Huskers recorded 13 service er
rors against the Lady Buffs, which
followed a 15-error performance last
weekend against Oklahoma.
Pettit said he had no answers for
the Huskers’ serving problems.
"If you know the answer, tell me."
Pettit said.
Junior Cris Hall was an exception
to the serving problem, recording two
aces in the match. Hall also served
five consecutive points near the end
of the second game. Pettit said Hall
has spent time working on her serve.
“Improving her serving is some
thing Cris has really worked on," he
said. “And it’s showing in the matches.”
Pettit also praised Kruse.
Janet has really been locusmg
herself,” Pettit said. ‘‘She really played
well tonight.”
Nebraska has now faced every Big
Eight team, and Pettit said Colorado
is the best of the other conference
teams.
“It’s not that they (Colorado) have
a whole lot better personnel than any
other team,” Pettit said. “They just do
a better job of competing when they’re
down.”
Pettit said the Lady Buffs had
trouble running their offense.
“They never got into a rhythm,”
Pettit said. “I think their offense is a
lot better than what they showed to
night.”
Nebraska plays Kansas, a team
that played the Huskcrs well earlier
this season in Lawrence, Kan.
Pettit said Kansas is similar to
Colorado in terms of offense, and that
should make preparation easy.
“Kansas is a well-coached team,”
Pettit said. “But we should be famil
iar with their type of offense.”
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ISU coach smiles
with satisfaction
despite NU victory
By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
AMES, Iowa—The were no veins
bulging out of Iowa State coach Jim
Walden’s neck after the Cyclones45
13 loss to Nebraska Saturday in Ames.
The last two years Walden, had
stormed away from reporters with a
red, sweaty face after giving an angry
monologue on how the game was
unfair. He complained again this year.
But this time he was smiling.
“I don’t like to lose, but we’re the
55th best team in the nation—they’re
No. 2, so I shouldn’t be frustrated
today,” he said. “We’re 55th. They’re
No. 2. Who would you bet on?”
All things considered — turnovers,
penalties and a iesscr effort than the
upset of Oklahoma a week ago —
Walden said he was satisfied because
Nebraska was obviously the belter
team.
“I thought we played pretty good,
under the circumstances of one step
forward, 10 steps back,” he said, blast
ing at officiating he labeled “crappy”
and comparable to high school games.
He said in two years his team has
been flagged for five consecutive
holding calls inside Nebraska’s 20
yard line.
“You can call it accidental. You
can call it anything you want,” he
said. “But I call it pretty yucky.”
Walden went on to explain that he
booted a football in frustration onto
the field.
“Did it go through?” he joked after
the game, because he said the offi
cials stood looking blankly at each
other after a controversial Jon Bos
tick catch the “whole world” saw
bounce.
“I get so tired of officials saying, ‘1
was standing there but I didn’t see
it,’” he said. “Can you hear? There’s
a distinct sound when a football hits
AstroTurf.”
Penalties aside, the Cyclones still
would have lost, Walden said.
“I was just frustrated because people
were interfering with the game,”
Walden said. “It wasn’t enough to
change how it ended. We probably
would have got beat 38 to 24 or
something.”
The coach said he also was sick
ened over the loss of starters Larry
Ratigan, Jim Doran and Marcus
Robertson for the season.
Walden said he dreads playing
Nebraska annually more than any other
team because the Huskers “play be
low the waist.”
While he followed up by admit
ting it’s perfectly legal to block low
on the body, he said his players aren’t
quick enough to avoid what happened
to Robertson.
The senior All-Big Eight comer
back had a foot caught in the turf
while bc«ng cut-blocked by a Huskcr
receiver downfield. His leg was bro
ken, ending his season.
“Our training room is usually pretty
full after this game,” Walden said.
With three games remaining,
Walden said his roster is becoming
increasingly thin.
In addition to two fumbles and an
interception, Walden said his team
was tired from playing what he called
“murderer’s row”—Colorado, Okla
homa and the Huskers — in three
straight weeks. Nebraska, he said,
may be the lop team among them, and
ow ns one of the lop defenses in the
country.
Iowa State, mostly a passing team,
had to fight 37 mph winds at times.
Nebraska with its run oriented of
fense passed just four times.
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rormer teammates race ott
in NU-CU volleyball game
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
and Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Reporter
II could have been d6ja vu.
With Nebraska leading Colorado
10-8 in the third game of Saturday’s
match at the NU Coliseum, Lady Buff
Michele Kohler smashed a spike off
of the hands of Nebraska’s Val Novak
for a side out.
It could have been H.L. Richards
High School all over again.
Four years ago Novak and Kohler
were teammates in Oak Lawn, III.,
when their volleyball team won the
slate championship.
Saturday night they were rivals.
“To tell you the truth 1 didn’t even
register it was Val,” Kohler said after
the Comhuskers won in straight games,
15-5, 15-4, 15-11. “I was just happy
to get a hit.”
Despite being rivals on the court,
the two said they arc friends away
from the game.
“We get along really well,” Novak
said. “It’s a lot of fun playing against
someone you know.”
Novak said playing against a for
mer teammate gives her an edge.
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Coach: Swimmers, divers strong
By Benji Greenberg
Staff Reporter
Nebraska men’s swimming coach
Cal Bcntz said his returning swim
mers started out this season better
than they started last season.
The men’s swimming and diving
team, and the women’s diving team
began their season last weekend with
an intrasquad meet — the Pumpkin
Classic — at the Bob Devancy Sports
Center pool.
“We were pleased to get the year
started and we were glad that our
swimmers got to compete in many
different events,” Bent/ said. “This
weekend gave us (the coaches) an
indication of what we need to do to
compete better.”
Bentz said that the two men’s learns
for the intrasquad meet were divided
evenly, show-n by the close team scores,
with the while team beating the red
team, 937-916. The meet was up for
grabs until the white team won the
last relay event.
“This meet showed the coaches
how much depth we have and it showed
we have a lot of talent to pick from,”
said Rick Paine, men’s assistant coach,.
“The question we must answer this
season is where we stand on the na
tional level.”
Paine thought that the distance
swimmers dragged, but that was a
result of some exhaustion from extra
hard training, but overall he was
impressed with the swimmers efforts.
The women’sdiving portion of the
meet was dominated by team captain
Amy Aarsen. She won both the 1
and 3-mctcr boards.
Although competing against their
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Pumpkin time
Halloween is two days away and basketball season is
near. Transfer Jose Hamos looks to pass in Saturday ’s
Red-White game at Pius X High School.
in u quarterDacK
anxious to face
Colorado Buffs
By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
and Paul Domeier
Senior Reporter
AMES, Iowa — Nebraska quar
terback Mickey Joseph didn’t sec
anything wrong with commenting.
‘‘I guess it’s OK to talk about them,”
Joseph said.
“Them” is the Colorado Buffa
loes. Nebraska finally gets to play the
Buffaloes, the last Big Eight team to
beat the Comhuskcrs, Saturday at 3
p.m. at Memorial Stadium.
Colorado beat Oklahoma Satur
day to improve ils record to 7-1-1
overall and 4-0 in the conference.
Nebraska is 8-0.
Or, as Joseph said, “The two big
teams in the Big Eight arc about to
bump heads.”
Joseph admitted he had been wail
ing for the game.
“It doesn’t mean the rest of the
games weren’t big to us,” he said.
“You wait on a team like that, deep
down inside.”
When asked, Iowa State coach Jim
Walden shook his head and grinned
but refused to predict a winner.
The Buffaloes came back to beat
Walden’s team 28-12 in Boulder,
Colo., while the Huskcrs ran away
from the Cyclones, 45-13, Saturday.
Iowa State and Missouri arc the
only Big Eight teams to have played
both teams.
“They’re (Nebraska) good, boy.
Bon’i give me that ‘They ain’t played
nobody’ crap. They’re gix>d,” Walden
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