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| Nebra&an SpOllS n’ Wednesday, November 14,1990 ^ NU cancels Czechs’ bid for exhibition win By Kaui uomeier Senior Reporter_ Choking defense lei the Nebraska men’s basketball team go on a 19 poinl run near the start of the second half to smash the Czechoslovakian National Team Tuesday, 92-71. Nebraska coach Danny Nee de scribed the victory, Nebraska’s final exhibition, as a step from the Com huskers’ first exhibition, a 128-89 win over High Five American on Friday. “I was especially pleased with the second-half defensive effort,” Nee said. ”Wc went out and went after them.” The Huskers needed to come out strong alter a sluggish start, which can be attributed to recent practices. Nebraska, playing before 7,149 spectators at the Bob Devaney Sports Center, trailed 15-9 after seven min utes into the game, and led by one at halftime, despite shinning only 34 percent from the field. “We had a very heavy practice yesterday,” Nee said. The workout included a method of conditioning torture known as the 1 11-1. Rich King described it as a i “kind of death.” In the first part, the players arc to run the length of the court in live seconds. Altera 10-second break, they run down, back and down in 15 sec onds. After a 15-sccond break, the run down, back, down, back and dow n in 25 seconds and rest 50 seconds, and so on, with a few seconds added for the longer stretches. When they hit 11, they startcounl ing back to one. Except the coaches added another 11 in the middle, King said. “At first we didn’t understand what he wanted, but then they explained it to us,” King said. Nee said he wanted to get the Huskers in shape for the San Juan Shootout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 23-25, which will include three games in three days. And Nee wanted to equalize Tuesday’s game by mak ing Nebraska as tired as the Czechs, who have played seven games this fall. For 20 minutes, the teams were too equal for Husker tastes. A tip-in by Tony Farmer at the first-half buzzer gave Nebraska a 45-44 lead. Ales Kocvara scored the first bas ket of the second half to give the Czechs their last lead and their last points for the next eight minutes. The Huskers, meanwhile, scored 19 points to go up 64-46. The run came from cot sistent defense, though, not from fast break points like most long runs. Ten of the gam ;s 52 fouls were called during the streak. Nebraska forward Tony Farmer, who fouled out with 12 points, said the officiating broke up the How. “Alter a while wc tried to pul them away, but with the traveling calls and the foul calls, wc had trouble,” Farmer said. It causal enough trouble that Farmer pulled his head back when told about the 19-point run. “I didn’t realize that at all,” he said. Nebraska extended the lead to as many as 29 points before faltering. “Wc stalled at the end,” Nee said. We were stuck at 84 and 88 for what seemed like an hour.” The drought at 88 lasted almost four minutes and kept the Huskers from reaching 1(X) points. King, who led Nebraska with 29 points, said the true Nebraska team played in both the first and second halves. “Put them both together,” the sen ior center said. “Wc can adjust, go in al hall, make some adjustments, and come out strong.” In each exhibition the Huskers have flourished in the second period. “I don’t think it’s ever been a ten dency for this team to have a strong second half,” Kind said. The Nebraska defense held a ca pable Czech team to 24 percent shoot ing in the second half. The Czechs were able to mash Marquette Satur day, 79-62, drive to Chicago and give DcPaul a stiff challenge yet that night, losing 88-65. King said the defense is needed. Last year, Nebraska set team records for points.scored per game, 80.7, and points allowed per game, 86.1. “Our problem last year was not a lack of offense,” King said. “You can score 90 points a game. It doesn’t matter if it’s a record if the other team scores more.” Czechoslovakians .44 27 — 71 At Nebraska.45 47 — 92 Czechoslovakians -- Michalik 5-11 4-6 14. Sibal 2 8 4 6 8 Novak 2 4 2-3 6, Kame mk 3-54 5 11, Michalko 2-7 2 2 7, Becka 2 5 3-3 7, Kovar 1-3 0-0 2, Hruby 0-2 2-2 2, Jelinek 2-7 2-2 8, Vyoral 1 3 2-2 4, Koevara 1- 1 0-0 2 Totals 21 56 25 31 71 Nebraska — Owens 4 8 4 4 12, Hayes 3-120-06, King 9 1610-1329, Scales 3- 7 3 4 9, Reid 3 6 2-2 9, Chubick 1-2 1-2 3, Farmer 4 11 3 4 12, Piatkowski 2 3 5 5 10, Moody 0 20 00, Lively 0 1 2 2 2, Cresswell 0-2 0 0 0, Hoffman 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 29 70 30 36 92 3-point goals — Czechs 4 12 (Jelinek 2- 3, Michalko 1-2 Kamemk 1-1, Hruby 0 2, Vyoral 0-2, Michalik 0-1, Kovar 0 1), Ne braska 4 8 (Piatkowski 1-2, King 11, Reid 1 -1, Farmer 11 Cresswell 0-2, Scales 0 1) Rebounds — Czechs 33 (Novak 7), Ne braska 52 (Reid 8). Assists — Czechs 15 (Kamemk 4). Nebraska 22 (Moody 7) Turn overs — Czechs 24 (Michalik 5), Nebraska 21 (Farmer 5) Total Fouls — Czechs 26, Nebraska 26 Fouled Out— Novak, Becka, Farmer A — 7,149 Cornhuskers beat Buffs, secure conference title iFrom Staff Reports The Nebraska volleyball team blew out Colorado in the final three games to slave off an upset bid Tuesday at Boulder, Colo., win : ning 5-15,11-15,15-3,15-7,15-5. In doing so, die Comhuskers (26-2, 11-0 in the Big Eight) se cured their 15th straight confer ence title. The home team, playing before a crowd of 723 at the Coors Events Center, hit well in the first two games to pul the second-ranked Huskers in a hole. I In the first game, the Buffaloes (15-12,7-3) had 14 kills and only one error with a .406 hilling per centage. Colorado hit .333 in the second game, w hile Nebraska posted .171 and. 135 marks in the first two games. Once the Huskers were a game away from being upset, though, everything changed dramatically. In the third and fourth games, Ne braska hit .419 and .541 and held ihc Buffaloes lo hilling .097 and .098. Nebraska had a .316-.174 ad vantage in the decisive game. Cris Hall bore the brunt of Nebraska’s attacking load and led the team with 21 kills, but Janet Kruse and Stephanie Thaler got their most out of their attempts. Kruse had 17 kills and a .378 hit ting percentage, while Thaler had 18 kills and a .654 hitting percent age. The Huskers also had a 24-14 advantage in blocks, led by Thaler with three solo blocks and seven assists. Michele Kohler led Colorado with 20 kills, while Tiffany Jcstadl had 15 and Wendy Van Wyhc had 10. Setter Nicole Vranesh added eight kills. KaticZabransky caused problems with seven service aces. Linda Barsness was Nebraska’s fourth player in double-figures in kills with 12, picking up for Eileen Shannon, who had two kills and hit -. 188 while playing in three games. NCAA Volleyball Top 20 1 UCLA EEH 1 2 Nebraska WtE 2 3 Stanford yyScl 3 4 Pacific WSJ 4 5 Texas WS] 5 6 Hawaii ESa 6 7 UC-Santa tpl Barbara yaffil 7 8 Penn St. 8 9 Long Beach jjj§Jj State wyi 12 10 Wisconsin HH 10 11 San Jose St. W»Bd 9 12 BYU BEIi14 13 Texas Tech pjyl 13 14 New Mexico llrid 11 15 Ohio State Cm 15 16 Pepperdine ylBg 16 17 Louisiana St. WjSJ 17 18 Pittsburgh RB118 19 San Diego St. yftH - 20 Florida St. WSJ 19 tie Purdue WBJ - _Previous l I NU swimmers, divers defeat S. Dakota By Vicki Burge Statt Reporter Nebraska men’s swimming coach C'al Beni/, said Saturday’s dual vic tory over South Dakota showed that the Cornhuskers have a lot ol work to do. The men’s swimming and diving teams defeated South Dakota 153-56 in Nebraska’s first dual. “The meet was a good indication of our training and concentration on the team,” Bcnu said. “All in all, they have made good progress and the other coaches and 1 hope to sec even greater progress alter the meet at Arkansas." No individual scoring was done al the meet. Distance coach Rick Paine said the Huskers had planned on using experience and depth to beat South Dakota, an up-and-coming program. Me complimented a pair of Corn huskers — William Campbell and Kyle Secback — for their perform ances. Before the meet. Paine had pre dicted fast time" for the men, but limes were slower than expected since the swimmers had a workout an hour and a half before the meet. “Maybe they worked a iilllc too hard, and lhai s my fault, Paine said. “I don't think it affected our overall scoring, bul the guys were really tired.” Nebraska, with lour divers, also dominated the diving competition against South Dakota’s one freshman diver. Nebraska’s Tluid Foiled and Mad Fastin were back full speed. With Diving Coach Jim Hocking in Colo rado with the women’s diving team, graduate assistant Becki Clark coached the men. “For this time of the year, they were not scoring too low,”C'lark said. Nebraska divers captured first, second and third place on both the 1 - and 3-metcr boards. David Fahleson/Daily Nebraskan Nebraska’s Rich King and Carl Hayes attempt to block the shot of Czechoslovakia's Martin Sibal in an exhibition game Tuesday at the Bob Oevaney Sports Center. Baldwin crosses line in game’s key plays By Todd Cooper Staff Reporter Nebraska I-back Scolt Baldwin has been “loe-ing” the line all season, ready lo explode. In Nebraska’s 41-9 victory over Kansas on Saturday, Baldwin crossed that line with 170 yards on 21 carries. And he did it despite a persisting turf toe injury suffered against Baylor on Sept. 1. “The loc is still giving me prob lems,” Baldwin said. "Right now it’s a mental thing. I’ve been doing a good job blocking it out.” Baldwin did an exceptional job knocking Kansas defenders out of his path Saturday. The 6-fcxX-1,200-pound sophomore from Roselle, N.J., broke several tackles cn route lo runs of 67, 19, 12 and 22 yards. The 22-yard run broke Nebraska out of a third-and-10 hole at its ow n 22-yard line late in the first half. More importantly, it led to Mickey Joseph’s touchdown pass to tight end Johnny Mitchell with II seconds remaining in the hall. But if it was up lo Baldwin, Ne braska shou Id not have had lo go to all the trouble alter his run. "I tripped up,” Baldwin said. "I thought I had a touchdown there, but the old toe gota little weak and I blew it.” It didn’t lake long for Baldwin lo atone for the stumble. On Nebraska’s first play from scrimmage in the sec ond half, Baldwin look a pilch right, faked a reverse and al ter bouncing off a Kansas defender, ran b-7 yards to the end /one. "He’s such a long stridcr,” Corn husker running back coach Frjink Solich said. “Once he’s moving, he covers an awful lot of ground.” Baldwin proved he can cover short distances, loo. After runs of 5,19 and 9 yards during a fourth-quarter drive, Baldwin bowled over a Kansas dc lender al the 3-yard line, kepi his balance and scored. Those three yards were not only indicative of Saturday’s game, but of Baldwin’s preferred style of play. “I don’t like anybody coming and tackling at the ankles,” he said. “They were more of a power team com ing to hit you up lop. It gives me a much better chance to show my ability and what kind of running back 1 am.” And Baldwin says he’s more comfortable al back-up I-back, de spite his performance Saturday. “Right now, I think I’m a better No. 2 man than No. Ihe said. “Leodis has been starting all year, and just to come out of now here and come in the game being No. I i-back is pretty rough. “Leodis usually wears them out a little bit. Then when I come in, it’s a little bit easier to run my men over.” Although he hasn’t played as much, Baldwin’s statistics rival Flowers’. Both 1 -backs average 6.6 yards per carry. Baldwin has 575 yards on K5 carries w hile Flowers has 04K yards on 140 attempts. Baldwin's longest run of the year came Saturday on his 67-yard run, while Flowers’ longest run w as 70 yards against Iowa Stale. But Nebraska assistant coach George Darlington said Baldwin is comparable to a former Husker run ning back w ho also played much of his career as a back-up to Mike Roz icr. “He tends to be a Roger Craig type of back,” Darlington said. “And he probably will see a lot of playing lime against Oklahoma.” Baldwin can’t wait for the oppor tunity. “This is my first time going against Oklahoma,” Baldwin said. “Oklahoma and Nebraska is one of the biggest games in the Big Bight, so I’m look ing forward to this game and doing some great things.”