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Husky quarterback has dream 2nd half By Todd Cooper Senior Reporter During the first half of Washing ton’s 36-21 victory over Nebraska Saturday, Husky quarterback Billy Joe Hobert felt like he was in a night mare. “At times, I wanted to scream,” Hobert said. But that bad trip turned into a dream, Hobert said. “During the first half, I was hating the trip (to Lincoln),” Hobert said. “But, yeah, it was a hell of a lot of fun.” Plagued by penalties (five for 55 yards) and turnovers (two intercep tions and one fumble), the Huskies trailed Nebraska 21-9 with 5 1/2 minutes left in the third quarter. After Washington tailback Beno Bryant fumbled a punt at the Husky 2-yard line and Nebraska recovered the ball, Comhusker I-back Derek Brown scored with 5:32 left in the third quarter. “I can’t say I wasn’t worried,” Hobert said. “I knew it was a must score situation for us. “I’m not trying to sound cocky but I just kept saying, ‘Don’t worry, guys. It’s in the bag, we’re going to come back.’” And come back they did. The Huskies rattled off 27 points, scoring on four consecutive possessions in the second half. “What I thought was the most impressive thing about the victory was that we had our adversity and we overcame it,” Husky Coach Don James said. “It was a great fourth quarter.” James said that was because they finally scored the points to match their offensive yards. “We were confident out of the fact that we moved the ball quite a bit in the first half,” James said. “We had a “44 - I can’t say I wasn’t worried.... I’m not trying to sound cocky, but I just kept saying, ‘Don’t worry, guys. It’s in the bag, we’re going to come back’. - hRfbert Washington quarterback -99 ~ lot of offensive production that we didn’t get anything on the board for.” The Huskies piled up 269 total yards in the first half, en route to 618 total yards. Hobert completed 23 of 40 passes for 283 yards. His biggest pass may have been after Washington faced third-and-27 from Nebraska’s 49. Hobert first scrambled for 19 yards up the middle. He then hit split end Orlando McKay See HUSKED on 11 UMALELE IS THERE HOPE FOR TROPICAL AFRICA? — LIED CENTER Monday, September 23 1991, 3:30 p.m. . No Admission Charge _ I " • ... ^_« ; : :—*-—: \ Staci McKee/DN David Heffa of Nebraska keeps pace with other runners at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational at Pioneers’ Park Saturday. Iteffa pulled away to win the 8,000-meter race and set a new meet record with a time of 24 minutes. Both men’s and women’s cross country teams were victorious at the invitational. Runners break records Cross country teams sweep meet; men and women take victories By Benji Greenberg Staff Reporter-— David Iteffa and Fran ten Bensei both broke meet records in helping the Nebraska men’s and women’s cross county teams to victory Saturday in the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invita tional at Pioneer’s Park. The Comhusker women placed five runners in the top seven and easily outdistanced runner-up Barton County (Kan.) Community College 19-52. Ten Bensei placed first, breaking her own meet record set in 1990. Her old record was 18 minutes, 5.3 sec onds, and ten Bensei ran the 5,000 meter course in 17:13. “I was really surprised with break ing the record,” ten Bensei said. “This meet was good for us, but we still have a long way to go and this team looks like it’s better than last year’s.” Along with taking first, the Husk ers took second, fourth, fifth and seventh en route to the win. Along with the win by the women, the men made it a clean sweep by outrunning sccond-placc Wichita State 35-90. Iteffa, a sophomore, shattered for mer teammate Joe Kirby’s meet rec ord by almost a minute. Iteffa ran the 8,000-mctcr course in 24:54, better ing Kirby’s time of 25:51.9. After Iteffa, the Huskcrs’ next four runners placed seventh,eighth, 10th and 14th. “I didn’t expect to break the record since I’m only running at 80 percent because of a hip injury,” Iteffa said. “The field wasn’t very strong, but this should help us when we go urMinnc sota in two weeks.” Coach Jay Dirkscn attributed the broken records to the Pioneer’s course being in good shape and the runners being prepared to run. “Our women had some tremen dous times so I was pleased with that,” Dirkscn said. “And our men showed me they have potential to be good if they develop. “This was a meet we were expect ing to win and despite the lack of quality runners, I thought both our teams grew from this race.” s t^pavkj tteffai ^„J*24:541 m Renter HenningiP 26:04 10. Tom Bank* i 26:11* mmmmmmm mgmwm 16 Jeremy Skinner 26:34 26 Erft Skaden 27:08 [31. frank Lee Jf7;28 _—mmn i 1/ Fran ten Bensel *17:13 6 ' tteaQriharm ffM i 4. Theresa Stalling 18:12 mm Michele Schaefer \ M18:4*1 i 7, i Stephanie Quandt 18:57 mmmmmmdrnr - mmm 12. Julleanne Campbell 19:14 16 Sylvia Vel- ••• fc^9:28 } 16 Kirsten Wal2 - 19:32 t 18. Kerry Spire# &£ M19:3fl * new meet record This semester r~C give yourself a break. Now that you're back hitting the books and pushing the pencils, the Lincoln YMCA would like to give your body a Save $35 on NEW MEMBERSHIPS now through October 1 with monthly payments of , *$19 B YMCA Downtown Branch A CAMPUS JX "-—■ *1^475-9622 • ymited (1st, Student ID Required -— of ian oiwimvun Huskers give up two By John Adkisson Staff Reporter The Nebraska volleyball team spent a weekend getting whacked by the WAC. Brigham Young and New Mexico, two Western Athletic Conference teams, each look a match from the fifth-ranked Comhuskers in the BYU/ Mizuno Invitational at Provo, Utah. Nebraska, 7-3, has now lost three straight matches, something that has not happened since 1981. In that year, the Huskers dropped three successive matches to Hawaii, Texas-Arlington and Pacific. On Friday, the Huskers battled ninth-ranked BYU to a statistical standstill in front of the Cougars’ home crowd, but still lost 15-9,5-15, 15-10, \2-\5,15-13. Both teams recorded 55 kills in the match. Senior Cris Hall nailed down a season-high 24 kilts for Nebraska, and freshman Kim Tonniges recorded a career-best seven blocks. BYU’s Shanna Egbert posted 16 kills. The match marked the first time this season that junior middle blocker Stephanie Thaler did not lead the Huskers in kills. Thaler finished with 10 for the match. Saturday against New Mexico, Nebraska welcomed back senior All American Janet Kruse, who had been sidelined for eight matches with an ankle injury. Kruse finished the match with a team-high 13 kills. It was the lOth-rankcd Lobos, however, who stole Kruse’s thunder in the 15-4, 15-12, 15-12 victory. New Mexico became the first team to sweep Nebraska since Stanford straight-gamed the Huskers last Oc tober. Hall, who finished with 36 kills in the two matches, was the only Husker to earn All-Tournament honors. Nebraska will return home to face Colorado, Maryland and Geoma in the FirsTier Invitational next Friday and Saturday at the Bob Devancy Sports Center.
