Osborne has
shot at award
From Staff Reports
Football News named Ne
braska’s Tom Osborne as one
of 10 semifinalists for Coach of
the Year.
Cornhusker outside line
backer Trev Alberts was named
to the magazine’s semifinalist
list for Defensive Player of the
Year.
Among other Big Eight
schools, Kansas State’s Bill
Snyder was named to the coach
es’ list. Wildcat free safety
Jaime Mendez was named a
semifinalist for the defensive
award.
Charles Johnson of Colorado
was the only Big Eight player
picked to be a semifinalist for
the magazine’s Offensive Play
er of the Year.
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Team takes ‘Jenningsless’ approach
By Jeff Griesch
Senior Reporter
For the first time in four years,
Nebraska women’s basketball
coach Angela Beck is prepar
ing for a season without Karen
Jennings._
Jennings, a o-z
forward/ccnter, led
the Huskers to a 23
8 record, a tie for
second in the Big
Eight with a 10-4
league mark and an
NCAA Tourna
ment bid last sea
son.
Beck Jennings gradu
ated from Nebraska as the school’s
all-time leading scorer and second
leading rebounder.
She was named Big Eight Player
of-thc-Year for the second time and
was also a Kodak All-American last
season and is now playing profes
sionally in France.
With Jennings gone, Beck said
Nafeesah Brown would carry much
of the offensive load inside.
Brown, a 6-1 senior forward from
Chicago, is a preseason first team
All-Big Eight selection, and Nebras
1 ka’s top returning scorer and
| rebounder, averaging 13.4 points and
■ 7.5 rebounds per game.
“Nafeesah is a big time player,”
I Beck said. “I think she is ready to
| show everyone what she can do.”
Despite Brown’s impressive num
- bers, Beck said she didn’t expect any
• one player to step in and replace
I Jennings’ 20.9 points and 8.0 re
| bounds per game averages.
“I think it is going to be fun trying
■ to succeed with a different type of
| attack,” Beck said. “We may have
■
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I don’t think this team
fears the loss of
Jennings. I think they
are getting a lot of
their motivation from
trying to prove that
they can win without
her.
— Beck
women’s basketball coach
- 99 —
become a little too one-dimensional
the past couple of years because all
we had to do was throw the ball to
Karen and she would do the rest.
Now I think we’ll have to have better
balance and will spread it around a
little more.”
Sophomore center Pyra Aardcn,
6-foot-4, and freshman Emily Th
ompson, 6-3, will also play big roles
in the post if the Huskcrs are going to
challenge for a Big Eight title this
season.
Without Jennings, the Husker of
fense will probably focus more on
perimeter play, with increased em
phasis put on three-point shooting,
Beck said.
“We will definitely be guard ori
ented, so we’ve put in more offen
sive sets for the guards so they can
get more shots,” Beck said.
Meggan Yedsena has the most ex
perience of any of the guards and
was voted preseason second team All
Big E * t.
Ye na, a senior point guard from
Mahoney City, Penn., is Nebraska’s
career leader in assists, but Beck said
Preseason women's
basketball poll
Points awarded on a 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 scale total
Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th points
Kansas 6 1 - - 48
Colorado 15 1 42
Oklahoma State 1 1 3 2 36
Nebraska - 1 3 3 33
Oklahoma 1 2 23
Missouri 1 21
Kansas State 12
Iowa State 9
Player-of-the-Year
Angela Aycock
Preseason first-team All-Big Eight
(votes)
G Shelley Sheetz, Colorado (6)
G Angela Aucock, Kansas (6)
G Stacy Coffey, Oklahoma State (5)
F Nafeesah Brown, Nebraska (5)
F Jamillah Lang, Colorado (4)
ON graphic
she was looking for more scoring
from Yedsena this season.
“Meggan is one of the most un
derrated players in the conference,”
Beck said. “I think she will get more
shots now and will be looking to
score more. She is going to be a
major factor.”
Sophomores Lis Brenden and Kate
Galligan should also get more shots
in the Husker offense.
Brenden averaged 5.4 points per
game last season, while Galligan av
eragcd 6.6 points before a knee inju
ry ended her year after 17 games.
Beck also said freshmen guards
Tina McClain and Kate McEwen
would get chances to help the Husk
ers.
“I don’t think this team fears the
loss of Jennings,” Beck said. “I think
they are getting a lot of their motiva
tion from t«7ing to prove that they
can win without her. It is time to
move on.”
;NU humbles Houston, then tumbles to Texas
| By Tim Pearson
| Senior Reporter
* All of the parts were in working
order for Nebraska’s volleyball team
on Friday night against Houston at
the Texas Challenge.
But the 18-4 Comhuskers didn’t
have everything functioning well the
next night against second-ranked Tex
as, Nebraska assistant coach Cathy
Noth said.
At the Texas Challenge in Austin,
Texas, the Huskers won their match
against the Cougars in four games
and lost their match against the Long-'
horns 15-5, 15-6, 15-4.
Noth said the Longhorns keyed
on their match with Nebraska.
“Coach (Terry) Pettit told the play
ers that Texas played the match like
it was a world series,” she said. “And
that’s why they won.
“Texas was well-prepared for us
like we were well-prepared for Colo
rado.”
Jones
Continued from Page 7
was pretty fatigued. The linemen did
a tremendous job all day.
Jones said last year’s 19-10 loss to
Iowa State added to every players’
efforts.
“1 think last year’s (Iowa State)
loss gave us some extra emotion,” he
said. “We just have to be ready be
cause every team is going to be shoot
ing for the Nebraska Comhuskers.”
After rushing for only 190 yards
rushing last week against Colorado,
Nebraska gained 311 Saturday. The
Huskers gave up 182 yards rushing,
but 150 of that was to Kansas tailback
Charles Hendley.
Jones said the Jayhawks mirrored
Nebraska’s game plan with their suc
cessful running.
“In some sense, they were taking
the ball right at us,” he said. “They
were running it well, running it a lot
and running a lot of time off the
clock.”
While that kept the offense off the
Held, Jones said, he still wanted to
thank the Blackshirts for the win.
“I would like to congratulate the
defense for a tremendous job,” Jones
said. “Once again, the defense pre
vailed for us.”
The Longhorns’ height was a big
advantage. Noth said. Texas started
five players who were more than six
feet tall.
“They’re the biggest team that
we’ve gone up against,” she said.
“That played a factor in the running
of our offense.”
The Huskers had to play without
6-foot middle blocker Jen McFaddcn,
who didn’t make the trip because of
an injured ankle. McFaddcn leads the
Big Eight in blocks and is second in
the nation in blocks. Junior Peggy
Meyer took McFadden’s place in the
lineup.
The loss to Texas was Nebraska’s
first three-game defeat of the season.
And the 15 total points scored by the
Huskers was the lowest output ever
in a three-game match.
Nebraska defeated Houston, which
had been on a six-match winning
streak. After the Cougars took the
first game 15-13, Nebraska battled
back to take the next three by scores
- a
ft (the Texas game) wasarr eye-opener nmarmm • •
There are many things, if we played them (Tex
as) again in two or three weeks, that we’d do
differently.
— Noth
NU assistant volleyball coach
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of 15-7, 15-1 and 15-11.
It was the first time this season
that Nebraska had come back to win
a match after losing the first game.
Noth said she was pleased with
the Huskers’ effort against Houston.
“I thought we came out and played
well,” she said. “Nikki (Strieker) set
really well and Kelly Aspegren had a
good weekend.
“Everybody contributed to the
win.”
Sophomore Allison Weston had a
game-high 23 kills to pace the Husk
w w
ers against Houston. Aspcgren re
corded five service aces.
Noth said the Huskers would learn
from the Texas loss.
“It was an eye-opener to us,” she
said. “There are many things, if we
played them again in two or three
weeks, that we’d do differently.
“We haven’t gone against good
blocking teams like Texas. We need
to adjust to big blocks and improve
our passing game.”
Husker swim teams
sweep season opener
By Tony West
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s and wom
en’s swimming and diving teams
opened their collegiate season with
wins in a double-dual meet Satur
day at the Devaney Sports Center.
The men beat the University of
South Dakota 134-99, while the
women defeated Colorado State
141-98.
Despite the lopsided scores, Ne
braska swimming and diving coach
Cal Bentz said the victories weren’t
easy.
But Bentz said he was glad Ne
braska made them look easy.
“It’s nice to start out our colle
giate competition and do as well
as we did,” Bentz said. “We had
some really nice swims.” ,
For Bentz, one of the most
pleasing performances came from
Nebraska sophomore All-Ameri
can Melanie Dodd. Dodd won the
— II
It s nice to start out
our collegiate com
petition and do as
well as we did.
— Bentz
NU swimming and diving
coacn
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women’s 50 freestyle and 100
freestyle, and she was part of the
winning 400 medley relay.
Nebraska won 10 of the 12
men’s events. The women won 10
out of 12 events.
Even with the fine performanc
es, Bentz said, he thinks there is
room to improve. And to improve,
he said, his team will h?ve to get
in better shape and focus more.
Bentz also said he thought his
team was starting off better than
last year.
K-State hurts bowl
options with loss
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In
the battle between the haves and the
have-nots in the Big Eight over the
weekend, score it 3-1 in favor of the
big boys.
Along with Nebraska’s 21-20 '
squeaker at Kansas, No, 21 Colorado
and No. 17 Oklahoma both survived
tough road games quite handsomely.
Kansas State, the newcomer to the
upper division, was the only loser of
the field.
Holding an 11-point lead, they
were only one quarter away from
probably locking up a bowl bid and
strengthening their case for a major
bowl. But then Iowa State’s option
offense started popping big plays, and
before you could say, ‘Goodbye New
Year’s Day,’ the Cyclones had locked
up a 27-23 victory.
Kansas State (6-2-1 overall, 2-2-1
Big Eight) dropped from No. 18 to
No. 24 and still needs one more vic
tory in its last two games to get the
minimum six for a bowl.
Oklahoma and Colorado both im
proved their bowl pictures. The Soon
ers (7-2, 3-2) beat Missouri for the
10th straight year, 28-23, while Col
orado (5-3-1, 3-1-1) won 31-14 at
Oklahoma State (3-6,0-5).