Huskie middle guard looks
to press NU quarterback
By Tony West
Staff Reporter
Following a season where he was
hampered by a knee injury, Washing
ton middle guard Mike Lustyk is look
ing to prove himself of old.
Lustyk, a senior, said he’s looking
to anchor the Huskies’ pass rush when
Nebraska visits Seattle on Saturday.
And he’s also eager to pul some
hcatonComhuskerquartcrback Mike
Grant.
“We’re going to get upficld and
wc’rc going to try to get as many hits
on him as possible,” Lustyk said.
Last season, Lustyk was a part of
Washington’s 36-21 win over the
Huskers in Lincoln. But the week
following that game, he injured his
knee in the Huskies’ victory over
Kansas State.
He returned three weeks later and
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We re going to get
upfield and we’re going
to try to get as many hits
on (Grant) as possible.
— Lustyk
Washing
ton middle guard
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helped the Huskies to a 12-0 mark and
a share of the national championship.
But gone from that team is the
NFL’s top draft choice last spring,
defensive tackle Steve Emtman.
Lustyk said that the Washington
defense is still adjusting to the loss of
Emtman.
“Steve’s gone,” Lustyk said. “He’s
going to do very well in the NFL. But
we’re still around here and now it’s
time for us to do our thing.”
The 6-foot-3,270-poundcr said the
key to Saturday’s matchup will be
controlling Nebraska’sground attack.
“Nebraska is an explosive team
with fast backs and a strong offensive
line,” Lustyk said.
Lustyk said that Nebraska may be
the most talented teanr^Washington
will see all year, but he added that the
Comhuskers’ size and speed will force
the Huskies to improve on a lackluster
start to the season.
“I attribute the yards we’ve given
up early to the first couple game jit
ters. ,
“But all this talent on the side of
Nebraska means we may have to turn
Jt up a notch,” Lustyk said. “And I
think we will.”
cross country coach expresses
optimism about first track meet
By Phil Carter
Staff Reporter
With the first meet of the season
only two days away, Com husker cross
country coach Jay Dirksen is optimis
tic.
“Overall we look pretty good for
both men and women,” Dirksen said.
“The girls seem to be in good shape,
and the men arc average as of now, but
later in the season they should be
pretty good.”
Both the men’.sand women’s cross
country teams open their season Sat
urday at Pioneers Park in the Woody
Grccno/Ncbraska Invite, which is
scheduled for a 10 a.m. start.
More than 22 schools and 306 run
ners will take part in the meet, but
Dirksen said the Huskcrs were using
the meet as a luncup for upcoming
weeks.
“It’s our first meet and when it’s
this early in the season I’m never
really concerned,” he said. “It’s not a
high-pressure meet, but we need to
takca look at our own runners. We’ve
got a lot of competition on our own
teams right now.
The men’s top runner — All
American candidate David Iteffa—
will sit out Saturday’s meet. Iteffa,
who missed all of last season with a
hip injury, will run in two weeks at the
University of Minnesota.
“We want him to train harder this
week, and gel more mileage under his
bell before he lakes part in any meet,”
Dirksen said. “Right now, the men
have a lot of good people behind him,
so down the road it looks pretty good.”
Leading the way for the Husker
women arc two standouts returning
from last season.
Senior Fran ten Benscl and junior
Theresa S tel ling both qualified for the
NCAA national meet last season.
According to Dirksen, ten Bcnsel
could be one of the best runners in the
nation this fall.
“She’s outstanding, and I think
she’s one of the best individual run
ners in the United Slates,” he said.
“We have a lot of athletes on the
women’s team who are very good.
Theresa Stclling is very good, and the
>Jjst goes on.”
Missing from the women’s team
this Saturday, however, is third run
ner Michele Schafer. Schafer may
miss most of the season because of a
stress fracture she sustained in prac
tice.
“There’s been a lot of competition
on the women’s side,” Dirksen said.
“And they have a lot of depth, so we
just have to wail and see. Right now
we’re concentrating on volume and
miles because it is the first meet.”
Teams from the U n iversily of South
Dakota, Nebraska Wesleyan, Wichita
Slate, Drake and University of Ne
braska-Kearney will be among those
participating in the meet on Saturday.
The meet is named for Woody
Greeno, a former cross country coach
at Nebraska Wesleyan, and is hosted
by both Nebraska Wesleyan and the
University of Nebraska.
Men's tennis team hopes to play
better than previous opening tries
By Beau Finley
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s tennis team is
hoping this year’s debut won’t be a
repeat performance.
The Comhuskcrs enter the 1992
1993 campaign this weekend in South
Bend, Ind., competing in the Notre
Dame Invitational. Sixteen teams from
across the country will compete.
Last year, the team failed to get a
player into the semifinals and only
Mike Garcia, a freshman at the time,
made the quarterfinals in his bracket.
Garcia said he had not forgotten
the poor team performance.
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We took it in the chin
last year ... we’ve got
something to prove.
—Garcia
Nil men's
tennis player
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“Wc took it in the chin last year..
. we’ve got something to prove,”
Garcia said.
Despite the players’ focus on the
tournament, coach Kerry McDermott
said he warned lo make the event a
steppingstonc.
“Our main goal is lo improve,”
McDermott said. “We want to estab
lish our lop six and the doubles teams
and then build momentum for the Big
Eight season.”
The team momentum will center
on the return of redshirt senior Matthias
Mueller. Mueller, the top NU player
two years ago when he was ranked as
h igh as 26th national ly, also has some
thing to prove.
“(Mueller) had a good year but
didn’t finish strong,” McDermott said.
If experience is any indication, the
NU tennis team should not be at a loss
for depth strength.
Red Sox players settle scoring teud
BOSTON (AP) — Roger Clemens
and Wade Boggs cooled iheir sim
mering feud Wednesday, a rare bit ol
good news in a frustrating season for
ihc last-place Boston Red Sox.
They held peace talks with man
ager Butch Hobson less than 24 hours
alter Clemens said he had lost respect
lor his teammate for influencing an
official scoring change that increased
Clemens’ ERA.
The change didn’t help Clcmpns’
chances for a fourth Cy Young Award.
I’ve got Roger’s respect back,”
Bogus said after the 25-minutc ses
sion before Boston ’ s game against the
Milwaukee Brewets. “Thai’s all I
need.”
“When you get cards out on the
table and talk about it, it’s over and
done with,” Clemens said. “We’ll go
on to try to finish up the season strong,
look forward to next year. It’s been
frustrating on everybody.”
Asked if two of the greatest players
in club history had apologized to each
other, Hobson said, “They shook
hands.”
All three said the controversy was
behind them.
The play that launched it was a
hard fifth-inning grounder by Tony
Phillips in the Detroit Tigers’ 9-5 win
Saturday. It went between Boggs and
third base and was ruled an error.
After talking with Boggs, official
scorer Charles Scoggins changed the
call to a hit. The two runs Detroit
scored in the inning became earned,
raising Clemens’ ERA from 2.24 to
2.31. Clemens (18-9) still leads the
American League in ERA. Kevin
Appier of the Kansas City Royals is
second at 2.46.
Clemens became upset Tuesday
after hearing that the scoring change
was made after Boggs questioned the
decision.
“I hope (the controversy) doesn’t
get in the way of what I’m trying to
accomplish”by winning theCy Young
Award, Clemens had said Tuesday
night, “but I’m going to need my
teammates ’ help.
Singer _ _ _
Continued from Page 19
environment. The Huskers will have
achance to utilize all of their weapons
in dry weather, but if it rains, then the
Washington defense will reign as well.
Bad weather will hamper
Nebraska’s passing game more than
Washington’s, since Hobert and
Brunell could probably each pass for
250 yards in a blizzard. Therefore, the
Huskers will be forced to run the ball.
And when Nebraska is forced to be
one-dimensional without the passing
game, it usually spells the beginning
of the end for the Big Red.
Tickets available
for Tokyo game
From Staff Reports
Fans wishing to purchase tickets to
the Nebraska-Kansas State game at
Tokyo on Dec. 5 may do so through
the UNL ticket office.
The game will be the first ever
outside the United States for the
Comhuskers.
The tickets cost $80 and $230 each
and must be ordered through the ticket
office by Wednesday, Sept. 23. For
more information, call 472-3111.
Visa and MasterCard orders will
be accepted.
i
Rainy weather this weekend would
be like Captain Ahab going into Moby
Dick’s home territory, and instead of ■
using a harpoon, the captain tries to
conquer the whale by throwing rocks
at him.
So if the Huskers are to achieve
these five goals, Nebraska just might
leave Washington with a surprising
victory. If not, another generation of
Husker fans will have to keep track on
their calendars and wait for the next
time Nebraska will be able to pull off
an upset on the road.
—Singer is a senior news-editorial and politi
cal science major and is a Daily Nebraskan
sports senior reporter.
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