Bruce
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“We did an excellent job on spe
cial teams.”
Bruce said he doesn’t expect his
players to be intimidated by Nebraska.
“I have always admired the qual
ity of kids that we have here,” he said.
“They go in and play hard against a
team like this. I’m interested to see
what we do this week. We’ll play as
hard as we possibly can. That’s the
best we can do.
“But I imagine the whole world
doesn’t give us much of a chance.”
But Bruce is used to not being
given a chance against the Huskers.
He remembers those two upsets over
Nebraska while at Iowa State, and he
has told the Colorado State players
not to forget that anything is possible.
“No one believed in 1976 that we
could have beaten Nebraska at our
place (in Ames, Iowa),” Bruce said.
“No one anticipated in ’77 that we
could beat them (in Lincoln). But
both of those teams played above
themselves. That’s what it takes.”
Bruce said the Rams probably won’t
shift from their usual game play on
Saturday, which includes more than
40 offensive sets and a pro-style pass
ing game.
“We won’t have any tricks,” he
said. “We’re not into tricks. We’re
into playing football — solid, funda
mental football. You go in and try to
play sound defensive football, and
use the approach we always do.
“We’ll show up in Lincoln, look
around at things and play as hard as
we possibly can.” ,
Bruce said he is anxious to see
how his players bounce back from
their season-opening loss.
“I have to see what type of charac
ter we have,” he said. “I don’t think
we have had enough time to see the
character of this team. That’s very
important. We’ll see some Saturday.”
1991 women’s track team ranked
ine Nebraska women s track
and field team beat out North
Carolina, UCLA and Louisiana
State to be named the top colle
giate dual-meet team for 1991 by
Track & Field News.
The Husker women, who won
the Big Eight indoor and outdoor
titles for the 12th-consecutive year,
finished third at the NCAA Out
door meet and fourth at the na
tional indoor championships.
Nebraska’s women also were
rated first in the 1,600-meter re
lay, third in the mX) relay and tourtn
in the 400 relay and 3,200 relay in
the magazine’s national rankings.
The national relay title in the 1,600
relay is the first for the Nebraska
women.
The Comhusker men’s team,
which was fifth in the magazine’s
dual-meet rankings in 1990, fin
ished sixth for 1991.
Nebraska finished third in the
combined rankings behind UCLA
and Oregon.
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By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
Home openers are supposed to be
easy.
Apparently, nobody told that to
the Nebraska volleyball team, which
will face defending national
pion UCLA in the
showcase match of
this weekend’s
Runza Invitational
at the Bob Deva
ney Sports Center.
Kansas State and
Wyoming will Peftti
round out the four-team field, which
will begin round-robin play at 6 p.m.
tonight.
Most of the attention this week has
focused on the Nebraska-UCLA show
down at 8 p.m. Saturday. The 2-1
Bruins, ranked third, are coming off
of their first loss in more than a year,
a five-game setback to No. 2 Hawaii.
Pettit said the UCLA match will
be a barometer as to how far the
Huskers have progressed so far.
“(UCLA) will tell us some things
matches up to this point haven’t,” he
said. “We learn something from ev
ery match, and maybe some things
will show up that haven’t”
Bruin Coach Andy Banachowski
said his team is looking forward to
playing Nebraska in the Bob Deva
ncy Sports Center, in a match which
Nebraska officials hope breaks an all
time single match attendance mark.
“I hope we (break the mark),”
Banachowski said. “It s great because
it’s a matchup of two great teams.”
Last season, Nebraska was the only
team to beat UCLA, which finished
36-1. The two teams were only a
match away from playing for the
national championship, but Nebraska
was beaten by Pacific in the national
semifinals.
Pettit said Nebraska’s 3-1 lifetime
record against UCLA, which includes
a victory in the 1989 Final Four, may
be more coincidence than a reflection
on the two teams.
“It’s happenstance,” Pettit said. “I
really don’t think it’s a matter of
matchups or systems. It just happens
that on those particular occasions, we
played better.”
Nebraska will once again have to
play at a high level, especially when
trying to stop Bruin All-American
Natalie Williams, who has averaged
6.5 kills a game in UCLA’s first three
matches.
Williams will be flanked by Elaine
Youngs, a senior All-American out
side hitter who missed all of last year
because of an injury.
Pettit said it is hard not to be im
pressed by Williams and Youngs, along
with Bruin middle blocker Marissa
Hatchett.
“I don’t know that you can stop
them,” Pettit said. “Natalie Williams
in some circles is considered one of
the best two or three players in the
country.”
Meanwhile, Nebraska will counter
with second-team All-American
Stephanie Thater at middle blocker.
But Janet Kruse, a two-time returning
All-American for the Huskers, will
miss the match with an ankle injury.
Two other Huskers who missed
practice early this week, outside hit
ter Eileen Shannon (ankle) and fresh
man setter Christy Johnson (back
spasms), will both be back.
The team that can best control the
ball will have a good chance at win
ning the match, Pettit said.
‘‘We need to have ball control,” he
said. “I think that’s true for both teams.
Serving, passing, handling the ball..
. that’s the aspect we need to be
consistent in.”
Nebraska’s other two matches,
against Wyoming Friday night and
against Kansas State before the Ne
braska-Colorado State football game
Saturday morning, also are important
for the Huskers, Pettit said.
Last weekend in Manhattan, Kan.,
Nebraska beat Kansas State in con
secutive games, winning 15-5, 15-2,
15-10. The Huskers have won all 43
times the two schools have played.
The game will not count as a Big
Eight match, since Kansas State will
play in Lincoln in late October.
Wyoming, a team which was ranked
in Volleyball Monthly’s Top 25, has
lost two matches early. Last season,
Nebraska beat Wyoming in three
consecutive games in the NU Coli
seum.
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