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Huskers alert for tougher Jayhawk team
By Todd Cooper
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s football team will be
entertaining more than visions of
Oklahoma Sooncrs dressed in crim
son when they travel to Lawrence,
Kan., for a 1 p.m. game against Kan
sas on Saturday.
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They’ve got guys
talking in the papers
that they can beat us.
So they’ll be ready.
We expect them to
play tough.
— Mike Petko
Nebraska linebacker
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With the Jayhawks 5-3 and hungry
for success, and Nebraska in com
mand of the Big Eight race for the
first time in two years, the Com
huskers can’t afford to overlook
Kansas, according to wingback Nate
Turner.
“They’ve got guys talking in the
papers that they can beat us,” he said.
“So they’ll be ready. We expect them
to play tough.”
Linebacker Mike Petko agreed.
“In all sincerity, Kansas is a tough
team,” Petko said. “They’re going to
come out and they’re going to do
what they can to beat us. They don’t
expect to lose to us anymore.”
And that improves both sides’
outlook from a year ago, Petko said.
“It was easy in the past years to
just run a couple of defenses or go 75
percent and win in glorious fashion,”
he said. “But with this year’s Kansas
team, and even last year’s, you can’t
do that.”
Kansas returns 10 starters from an
offensive unit that racked up 420 yards
against Nebraska last year. The Jay
hawks average 7.6 yards per play in
the 41-9 Nebraska win.
“All we have to do to get ready for
this week is look at last year,” Petko
said. “We came out flat and we could
have gotten beat last year, if we didn’t
wake up.”
But, Petko said, the Huskers are
alert this season as they attempt to
win the Big Eight title for the first
time in three years.
“We just have to go out and play
now,” he said. “It’s either win three
games or we don’t go (to the Orange
Bowl).”
Petko said the Huskers feel “a lot
better” about their defense heading
into the final stretch this year. Ne
braska gave up three touchdowns to
Colorado last week, compared to the
four they gave up in the fourth quarter
of last year’s 27-12 loss to the Buffa
loes.
In addition, defensive linemen
Kevin Ramaekers and John Parrella,
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Jeff Haller/DN
Nebraska defensive tackle Bruce Moore smothers Missouri’s Jerome Madison (40) as he re
covers quarterback Phil Johnson’s third-quarter fumble during the Oct. 26 Cornhusker win
over the Tigers.
Kansas (5-3) Nebraska (6-1 -1)
Jim New WR 6-0 188 Sr. Jon Bostick SE 6-2 190 Sr.
Dwayne Chandler TE 6-2 230 So. Lance Lundberg LT 6-4 305 So.
Chris Perez LT 6-5 280 Sr. ns Erik Wiegert LG 6-5 300 Sr.
Hessley Hempstead LG 6-1 290 Fr. Bill Ziegelbein C 6-4 275 Sr.
Dan Schmidt C 6-1 260 So. y Wifi Shields RG 6-1 295 Jr.
Scott Imwalle RG 6-2 265 Jr. Brian Boerboom RT 6-7 310 Sr.
Keith Loneker RT 6-3 305 Jr. fr Wm. Washington TE 6-2 260 Jr.
Kenny Drayton WR 6-0 175 Sr. UL, Keithen McCant QB 6*2 200 Sr.
Roger Robben FB 50 215 Sr. Q Lance Lewis FB 6-0 225 Jr.
Chip Hilleary QB 6-1 185 Jr. Derek Brown IB 5-9 180 So.
Tony Sands TB 5-6 170 Sr. Nate Turner WB 6-2 220 Sr.
Dan Eichloff P 6-1 215 So. MikeStigge P 6-2 190 Jr.
Don Davis OLB 6-2 200 Fr. Travis Hill LOL 6-2 235 Jr.
Kyi© Moore LE 6-3 250 Jr. Jamie Liewer LT 6-4 270 Jr.
Gilbert Brown LT 6-2 305 Jr. t|| Pat Engelbert MG 6-2 265 Sr.
Dana Stubblefield RT 6-4 285 Jr. JohnParrella RT 6-5 290 Jr.
Brian Christian RE 6-4 260 $0. David White BOL 0-2 240 Jr.
Hassan Bailey OLB 5-11 200 Jr. MikePetko SSL 6-3 230 Sr.
Steve Harvey ILB 6-4 230 Fr. M1 Mike Anderson WSL 6-2 230 So.
Robert Vaughn CB 5-11 190 So. Curtis Cotton LC 6-1 210 Sr.
Doug Terry FS 5-11 185 Sr. JSJ Tyrone Legette RC 5-10160 Sr.
Paul Friday SS 6-3 190 Sr. Q Steve Carmer SS 6-2 210 Jr.
Tim Hill CB 5-6 170 Sr. Tyrone Byrd FS 6-0 175 Jr.
DanEichloff PK 6-1 215 So. Byron Bennett PK 6-1 185 So.
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Kansas coach optimistic
about clash with Huskers
By Chuck Green
Senior Editor
Glen Mason likes to dream big.
Mason, in his third year as Kansas’
football coach, is off to a 5-3 start —
his best as a coach — and is trying to
give the Jayhawks’ program its first
winning season in 10 years.
Mason thinks his team has what it
takes.
“We have a team of mature young
men here this year,” he said. “They
know what it takes to be winners, and
they’ve liked the taste of winning
they’ve had so far this season.
“They want to keep it going.”
But Mason will be the first to admit
that this weekend’s game against 11 th
ranked Nebraska doesn’t make it any
easier on the Kansas players or coaches.
Neither will the game next weekend
at Boulder, Colo., against No. 14
Colorado.
“These will be two tough weeks
for us,” Mason said. “But Kansas
State almost beat Nebraska, and we
had them and let them off the ropes.
Anything can happen in this day and
age.”
Most of Mason’s optimism cen
ters on the Jayhawks’ defense, which
has allowed fewer total yards during
its first eight games than any Kansas
team since 1981. That season, Kansas
defenders gave up 282.9 yards per
game.
This year, that average is 284.1.
On the other side of the ball, Kan
sas’ offense is led by tailback Tony
Sands, who has rushed for more than
100 yards in six games this season.
Sands’ 886 yards this season has made
him the Kansas career rusher leader.
In last week’s 31-0 Kansas win
against Oklahoma State, Sands car
ried 30 times for 102 yards and a
touchdown.
“His leadership and dependability
is important for our offensive suc
cess,” Mason said. “His running sets
up our passing, and vice versa.”
Mason said he knows the Huskers
will be ready for the game, especially
given the Jayhawks quick start this
season.
“This is a typical Nebraska team:
big, strong, fast and able to kill you a
dozen different ways,” he said. “We
have to play our best game of the year
to stay with them through four quar
ters.”
But Mason remains optimistic.
“If we can still be in it in the end,
look out,” he said. “Our kids have
grown to like winning.”
Pettit: Cyclone incentive means danger
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By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
When Iowa Slate’s volleyball team comes
to Lincoln Saturday, the Cyclones will be trying
to lake a big step to prolong their season.
For Nebraska, postseason play is not a mat
ter of “if,” but rather “for how long.”
TheComhuskcrs, 19-3 and ranked in the lop
10 of all three major volleyball polls, will try to
win their 13lh consecutive match when they
host 13-9 Iowa State on Saturday in a 7:30 p.m.
match at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
With a conference record of 5-4, Iowa Slate
is battling with Oklahoma and Kansas for the
last two spots in the four-team conference
tournament. Nebraska and Colorado have all
but clinched the top two spots.
Nebraska Coach Terry Pettit said the incen
tive for postseason play makes Iowa State
dangerous.
“They’re a good team,’’ Pettit said. “Since
they’re in a race to get into the Big Eight
tournament, I’m sure that every match, every
game will be important for them.”
Earlier this season, Nebraska beat Iowa Stale
in Ames, Iowa, 15-6,15-6, 15-9. The win was
the Huskers’ 37th straight over the Cyclones in
a scries which dates back to 1975.
Since that matchup, Iowa State is 4-3, in
cluding home wins last weekend over both
Kansas and Kansas Slate.
The Cyclones are led by outside hitter Tracy
Graham, who has 236 kills on the year and a 3
kill-per-gamc average. Senior setter Lisa Burke
is fourth on the team in hitting and is also
averaging nine set assists per game.
Nebraska is in its best groove of the season
following a straight-game shellacking pf eighth
ranked Texas last weekend in Austin. Since a
loss to New Mexico on Sept. 28, the Huskers
have dropped only two games in 12 matches.
Now Peltit and the Huskcrs arc looking
toward the Big Eight Tournament and a two
match scries with national power Pacific in two
weeks.
Pettit said that in the month remaining until
the NCAA Tournament, the Huskcrs will be
looking for a stable effort in every match.
“What we’re working toward is consistency,”
Pettit said. “We’re going to try and not concern
ourselves with the other side of the net as much
as we are making our own adjustments.”
Some of those adjustments, Peltit said, will
include grooming players for specific roles.
“In some situations, we might pul in a player
to prepare her for a similar role in a critical
match,” he said.
And Nebraska’s next three matches — the
Iowa State match and two at home next week
end against 6-18 Missouri and 13-13 Okla
homa — may allow Peltit to experiment with
using particular players in particular roles.
Swim teams
to compete
By Thomas Clouse
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s and women’s
swimming and diving teams will travel
to Lawrence, Kan., today to face Kansas
in dual competition.
Men’s coach Cal Bent/ said Nebraska,
1-1, should match up well against the
Jayhawks, who finished second to the
Comhuskcrs in the Big Eight last season.
“We can’t get a feel for what Kansas
will do. We need to make things hap
pen,” he said. “If we don’t, then we’ll
have to make late adjustments to win the
meet.”
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