NU’s match with Missouri
features return of McFadden
By Tim Pearson
Senior Reporter
Nebraska was leading 6*2 in the
second game of its match Saturday
night when Cornhuskcr middle
blocker Jen McFaddcn strode onto
the court.
The NU Coliseum crowd of 3,179
roared its approval as McFaddcn, who
had been out the last five matches
with an ankle sprain, returned to ac
tion in the 15-10, 15-6, 15-3 win
over Missouri.
Although McFaddcn played in
only one of the three games, Nebras
ka coach Terry Pettit said he was
encouraged by the play of the 6-foot
2-inch freshman from Dubuque,
Iowa.
In her brief stint on the court,
McFaddcn had two kills and one
block.
“Our goal was to play her in one
game,” Pettit said. “It’s real impor
tant to get her out there. It’s good to
have her back.
“She’s a great player.”
McFaddcn leads the Huskcrs in
blocks and is third on the team in
kills with 205. Her average of 1.9
blocks per game leads the Big Eight
and is second nationally.
McFaddcn said she came down
on someone’s foot and sprained her
ankle before the Huskers’ Oct. 27
match against Kansas State.
Three weeks later, she’s glad to
be contributing again.
“It feels really good to be out
there,” MeFadden said. “It was hard
sitting out, but by the time the Big
Eight tournament comes, I hope to
be playing a significant amount.”
MeFadden and the No. 14 Husk
ers were glad to be back at home
after completing all of their road
matches this season.
Nebraska, 20-4 and 8-2 in the Big
Eight, is 10-0 at home this season.
All of the Huskers’ losses have been
on the road.
Sophomore middle blocker
Allison Weston said the Huskers
played well in front of the Coliseum
crowd.
“It’s very uplifting to play in our
home environment.” she said.
The Tigers, who fell to 10-16 and
2-7 in the conference, gave the Husk
ers a scare early by scoring the first
four points of the match. But the
Huskers battled back to score the next
six points. .
The score was eventually tied at
10, but Nebraska pulled away, scor
ing the game’s final five points.
Pettit said his team struggled out
of the gate, but he credited tnat in
part to Missouri.
“We were a little flat to start off,”
he said. “But there’s a tendency for
teams that don’t have anything else
to play for but pride to play hard at
the end.”
The Huskers stormed out to a 6-1
lead in the second game on the
strength of three service aces, two by
Kim Tonniges and one by Kelly
Aspegren. Missouri stuck with Ne
braska, cutting the deficit to 8-6. But
the Tigers weren’t able to score am
other point in the second game.
Nebraska jumped out early in the
third game and won 15-3.
Weston, who finished with six kills
and three service aces, said the Husk
ers’ serving was a key to the match.
The Huskers recorded 10 aces, one
short of their season-high set against
Iowa in the first match of the season.
But Pettit said he didn’t notice the
Huskers’ serving dominance. Instead,
he was looking to the future.
“In a match like this, you’re work
ing on different things,” he said.
“We wanted to get faster sets to
Aspegren and (Maria) Hcdbcck and
we experimented with Hcdbcck on
the right side. These are things we
may have to do later on.”
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Missouri middle blocker Kathy Gerken’s spike Saturday.
Extra serving practice
helps Huskers sweep MU
By Tony West
Staff Reporter
At the end of every practice, Ne
braska’s volleyball team works on
serving.
That extra work paid off during
Nebraska’s three-game sweep over
Missouri on Saturday. The
Comhuskcrs managed 10 service aces
— one short oflast year’s three-game
match record of 11 against Iowa.
“Getting down to the end of the
season, serving is probably most im
portant,” said Kelly Aspegren, who
leads the Big Eight in scrvicc-acc
percentage.
Allison Weston led the Huskcrs
on Saturday wuth three service aces.
Aspegren and Kim Tonnigcs had two
apiece.
Nebraska assistant coach Cathy
Noth said the Huskers needed that
kind of quality serving.
“We believe the game is serving
and passing,” she said. “Serving de
termines how the opponent is going
to run their offense.”
And the players seem to be put
ting more effort into their serving.
Noth said.
“All of the players are taking re
sponsibility when they go back to
serve,” she said.
Aspegren agreed.
“Probably within the last four
weeks we have put more focus on
serving,” Aspegren said. “As a team,
we focus on serving tough instead of
just serving the ball in.”
Women qualify for nationals
From Staff Reports
When the Nebraska cross country
team left Lincoln for Carbondalc, III.,
and the NCAA Division V meet last
Friday, they had one goal in mind.
That goal was to get both men and
women teams to the national meet in
Bethlehem, Pa. on Nov. 22.
Only half of that objective was
accomplished.
The Nebraska women qualified
with a second-place overall team fin
ish, while the men fell short with a
third-place finish.
Although the team didn’t achieve
its goal, Nebraska coach Jay Dirksen
said he was pleased with the effort.
Four of the Nebraska men placed
in the top 22 and six of the Nebraska
women placet in the top 34.
“Obviously we wanted both teams
to go, but they ran well,” Dirksen
said. “It wasn’t for lack of perfor
mance. Wc just got beat by two bet
ter teams on the men’s side.”
Iowa State took the men’s title
and Oklahoma State finished second.
Kansas won the meet for the women
by a score of 77-89 over 13th-ranked
favorite Nebraska.
“It was a little discouraging wc
didn’t win (on the women’s side),”
Dirkscn said. “But, the whole idea
was to get to the national meet and
wc did that.”
Dirkscn said he was also pleased
with some individual performances
on both the men’s and women’s side.
Senior Theresa Stclling led the
Huskcr women with a second-place
finish on the 5,000-mclcr course.
On the men’s side, Kevin Miller
led the Huskcr team with a 1 Oth place
overall finish in a time of 32:47.6 on
the 10,000-metcr course.
Husker wrestlers win eight titles
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska wrestling team start
ed where it left off last season by
winning eight individual titles at the
Wyoming Open in Laramie, Wyo.,
Saturday.
The Cornhuskcrs, who finished
third last year at nationals, won five
titles in the open division.
Senior Scott Gonyo, a transfer
from Drake, took first at 118 pounds.
Two All-Americans from last year
— Mike Eierman and Frank
Velazquez — also took titles.
Eicrman, who was fifth last year
at nationals at 142, won at 142 by
defeating teammate Justin Ware 17
6. Eicrman scored 100 points in his
five victories in the tournament.
Velazquez, one of three seniors
on coach Tim Neumann’s squad, won
his division at 134 pounds by defeat
ing fellow teammate Steve Baer.
Sophomore Chad Nelson, at 167,
and freshman Tolly Thompson, at
heavyweight, were the Huskcrs’ fi
nal two titlists.
Nebraska’s next action will be
Saturday at the Omaha Open.
