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Huskers confident about Colorado matchup Player says NU to rebound from Saturday’s loss By Tony West Staff Reporter The third time was the charm for the Colorado volleyball team against Nebraska on Saturday in the Big Eight championship match. But the fourth match between the two this week will terminate one team’s season.The Comhuskers will be pitted against Colorado in a first round NCAA Tournament match at 7:00 p.m.'Thursday at the NU Coli seum, and Nebraska outside hitler Allison Weston said playing a famil iar team will be an advantage. “It helps to know all the rotations and strategies that they like to play,” Weston, a freshman outside hitter, said. The Huskcrs were playing without All-American Stephanie Thaler on Saturday night. Thatcr is out with an ankle injury she suffc’rcd before the BigEightToumamcntand isdoubtful to play on Thursday. Now, the Huskcrs find themselves rebounding from a loss and looking for a replacement for Thaler. Weston said the Huskcrs aren’t looking for one person to step up, but rather uWsc a team effort. “We arc playing well and I think everyone is just trying to step their play up a little,” Weston said. “The r^v' msm*._:_- .u »■ i . Kiley Timperley/DN Nebraska outside hitter Laura Luther (center) and Billie Winsett dive for a ball in the Big Eight Championship match against Colorado. The two teams will meet again in a first-round NCAA Tournament match Thursday at the NU Coliseum. loss of Thaler is a big blow, but she is at every practice and being real sup portive for the rest of the team.” •Weston said the Huskers didn’t execute on Saturday, but that the team is trying to correct those mistakes in time for Thursday’s match. “We didn’t pass on a dime and missed serves. Wc didn’t get to hit what we wanted; we had to hit what wc could instead,” Weston said. The Buffaloes may have more con fidence, Weston said, after their win on Saturday. By playing on their own home court and in front of their national leading crowd in attendance, the Husk ers will have some advantages even if Thaler isn’t in ihc lineup. The winner will advance to play the winner of the Ohio State and llli nois game in the semifinals of the Midcast Regional. Weston said she’s confident that the Huskers will play well. “There is no question we can beat them, if we put our minds to it, even without Thaler,” Weston said. At the TOP of its class! Ami Pro 3.0 from Lotus is the Windows word processor that's nailed aces from industry experts and users. AmiPro for Windows It can get you to the top, too — in college, grad school or the business world, because Ami Pro quickly transforms your ideas into professional documents that make a great impression. It's loaded with powerful features like footnoting, • index, spell checker, thesaurus — even built-in charts and other graphics. It's also incredibly easy to learn and use. Lotus Student, faculty or staff ID or institutional P.O. required for purchase. 13th & Q Street Baseball appoints panel to investigate Reds’ Schott NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s executive council, responding to alle gations that Marge Schott made state ments offensive to minorities, ap pointed a four-person committeeTucs day to investigate ihcCincinnati Reds owner. The 11-member council met for about one hour in a telephone confer ence call and decided to appoint the committee “to investigate the alleged racial and ethnic remarks attributed” to Schott. American League president Bobby Brown, National League president Bill White, California Angels execu tive vice president Jackie Autry and Pittsburgh Pirates director Douglas Danforih will be on the panel. Mil waukee Brewers owner Bud Selig, the executive council chairman, said NL lawyer Robert Khcel will be the counsel for the probe. “The committee has been asked to conduct its investigation thoroughly and with all appropriate dispatch,” the commissioner’s office said in a statement. The committee is to report its find ings to the executive council, which assumed the power of the commis sioner when Fay Vincent resigned Sept. 7. The Schott probe will be the third major investigation for major league baseball since 1989. Huskers Continued from Page 7 when Ycdsena injured her ankle. The Huskers started slow in the second half, and the Sun Devils tied the score at 47 on a three-pointer by Ryncldi Bcccnti with 14:50 remain ing. Freshman Kate Galligan gave the Huskers a two-point lead with a driv ing basket with 14:29 left in the game. The lead then seesawed. Galligan hit a three-pointer to give the H uskers a 58-56 lead, and Jennings then hit a four-foot jumper in the lane with 9:46 left to give Nebraska a 60 58 lead. Arizona Slate came back, taking their last lead at 68-67 on a basket by Lisa Salsman. A jump shot in the lane by Galligan, gave Nebraska a 69-68 advantage and the lead for good. Offringa pul Ne braska up 75-69 with a three-pointer with 3:50 left. Yedsena then hit six free throws in the final three minutes to seal the victory. Even with the win, Beck said she is hoping for improvement on defense. Wildcats Continued from Page 7 us,” Barta said. “We’re going to be doing a lot of different things there. “It’ll be a different atmosphere, so both teams arc going to have to pre pare well and concentrate on play ing.”, . Barta said he hoped that the Wild cats could build on last year’s game against the Huskers. In that game, Kansas Stale came close to winning the contest against the Huskers. The Wildcats led 31-24 going into the fourth quarter, but Husker running back Derek Brown look away the hopes for an upset with two touch down runs to give Nebraska a 38-31 win. Barta said that even though they lost that game, it gave the Wildcats confidence that they could play with Nebraska. “Thatgame moved the Kansas State football program to a new level,” he said. After last season’s 7-4 record and . the near upset of the Huskers, cxpcc laiions were high for this year’s Wild cat team. Kansas State has struggled this year to a 5-5 record. Barta said that they could have done better. “This has been a disappointing year,” he said. “This is the first year since I’ve been here where we haven’t lived up to expectations.” Even with the Wildcats’ disap pointing season, Barta said that Iowa Slate’s 19-10 upset of Nebraska had given them added confidence that they could beat the Huskers. “Most people in the nation realize that any team can beat any team,” he said. “But Nebraska is an awfully good team and a national power every year.” Barta said he hadn’t let the team’s disappointing performance affect his play. Barta, who made second-team All Big Eight last year, made honorable mention all-conference this year, de spite being second in the conference and in the top 20 in the nation in tackles with 127. “I have played every bit as well, if not better, as I did last year,” he said.