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Monday, September 19, 1994 Page 8
Nebraska takes Husker Fall Classic in a 5-0 shutout
By Trevor Park*
Staff Reporter
After winning the Husker Fall Classic, Ne
braska women’s softball coach Rhonda Revelle
is extremely pleased to
see her team headed in
the right direction.
Nebraska culminated a
5-0 weekend by defeating
Northern Iowa in the
championship game of
the classic, 7-0.
The win was
Nebraska’s fifth shutout
victory of the weekend.
Revelle said she was
happy with the way
Rev*n« things went during the
weekend. “I’m extremely pleased with the
entire weekend,” Revelle said. “This is the first
time since I’ve been here that we’ve won any
championship.”
Nebraska scored five unearned runs in the
bottom of the second to take the lead.
Sophomore outfielder Sarah Sinclair scored
the first Husker run when Saundra Brown’s
two-out fly ball to center field was lost in the
sun by the Panthers’ Kari McLaughlin.
After the three-base error, Brown scored on
a Shelby Worms wild pitch.
Junior Tobin Echo-Hawk gave Nebraska a
3-0 lead with a double to the base of the left
field wall scoring Sherry Allcorn, who had
singled ahead of her.
Echo-Hawk and teammate Ali Viola would
finish the scoring on a two-run double by An
gela Blackwood.
Revelle said her team has the capability to
score a lot when given the chance.
“I thought offensively we had the potential
to be explosive,” Revelle said. “I was just wait
ing to see if that would happen.”
In the bottom of the fourth, the Huskers
added some insurance with two more runs.
After an Echo-Hawk walk, Viola followed
Soccer team s aggressive
play scores weekend wins
By Todd Walkwihoft
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s soccer team com
pleted a sweep this weekend by defeating N Al A
fourth-ranked Park College (Mo.) 4-1 Sunday
afternoon at Whittier Field.
The Comhuskers started off the weekend
with a 4-0 victory over Baker University (Kan.)
on Friday.
In Sunday’s game, freshman Danielle
Boswell scored two goals 74 seconds apart early
in the first half to $ive the Huskers a 2-0 lead.
Freshman Jamie Riley scored the final goal 89
minutes into the match to give the Huskers a
4-1 victory.
Park College coach Ben Popoola said that
the Huskers played a physical game against
his team, a style of play which would be con
sidered fouls in other games.
“The plays today, I think if they play some
where else they would be fouls,” said Popoola.
“There was too much pushing.
“We’re not into that style of play. We be
lieve in ball-handling skills more than physi
cal play. “We got into it in the second half when
we started playing that style.”
Nebraska coach John Walker said that Sun
day was a good win for the team.
“They (Park College) are a very good team,”
Walker said, “a top-ten NAIA team, so it was
a good win for us.
“There was a spell where they put us under
a little pressure, but we finished it off in the
end.”
Walker said that he was happy with the re
sults of the weekend’s games but his team still
had things to work on.
“We need to work on possession style of the
game, work on our marking and work on our
finishing,” he said.
The Huskers have more than a week off
before a rematch against tenth-ranked
Creighton on Sept. 27 in Omaha.
McFadden earns MVP title
for hard hitting in tournament
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska volleyball team improved to
9-0 this weekend by sweeping the field at the
Tiger Classic in Baton Rouge, La.
The Comhuskers, ranked second and third,
defeated Texas Tech 15-4, 15-4, 15-0 in less
than an hour on Friday night. Nebraska swept
Maryland 15-9, 15-10, 15-6 on Saturday af
ternoon. Saturday evening, the Huskers topped
host Louisiana State 15-0, 15-6, 15-1.
Tournament most valuable player Jen
McFadden said Nebraska improved several
aspects of its game during the three victories.
“I think last week the coaches weren’t real
happy because we didn’t play well in blocking
and transition, which are both strong points
of our game,” she said. “We did a lot better in
those areas this week.”
McFadden was joined on the all-tournament
team by junior setter Christy Johnson, outside
hitter Billie Winsett and middle blocker Allison
Weston.
Nebraska returns home to host New Mexico,
Pittsburgh and Kansas in the Arby’s Classic
Friday and Saturday.
Nebraska First, Second
The top 25 team In tho Associated Press
college football poN, with first-place votes In
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
School
Florida (33)
Nebraska (
Florida St. (3)
Michigan (1)
Penn St. (3)
Mtami (Fla.) (1)
Colorado
Arizona (1)
Notre Dame
Auburn
Alabama
Texas A&M
North Carolina
Virginia Tech
Texas
Wisconsin
Washington
UCLA
Southern Cal
ONo St.
Oklahoma
Washington St.
Tennessee
N. Carolina St.
Indiana
Pts.
1.507
1,490
1,376
1,336
1,317
1,262
1,200
1,115
1,054
947
927
886
781
661
615
555
484
444
396
340
338
261
221
187
107
Rec.
3-0-0
3-0-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
2-0-0
2-0-0
2-1-0
3-0-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
2-0-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
1-1-0
1-1-0
2-1-0
1-1-0
2-1-0
2-1-0
2-0-0
1-2-0
2-0-0
3-0-0
Tho top 25 teams In the USA Today/CNN
college football poll, with f irst-place votes In
parentheses.
Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
School
Nebraska (33)
Florida (20)
Florida St.
Michigan (4)
Pennst. (3)
Miami (Fla.) (2)
Colorado
Arizona
Notre Dame
Alabama
North Carolina
Virginia Tech
Texas
Ohio St.
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Kansas State
Washington St.
Southern Cat
UCLA
Indiana
N. Carolina St.
Tennessee
Baylor
Colorado St.
Pts.
1,501
1,495
1,390
1,351
1,327
1,242
1,201
1,100
1,028
1,007
906
806
768
617
563
551
423
413
361
358
I 331
302
1246
218
125
Rec.
3-0-0
3-0-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
2-0-0
2-0-0
2-1-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
2-1-0
1-1-0
2-1-0
2-0-0
2-0-0
1-1-0
2-1-0
3-0-0
2-0-0
1-2-0
3-0-0
3-0-0
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"I’m extremely pleased with the entire weekend. This is the first
time since I've been here that we've won any championship.
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RHONDA REVELLE
Nebraska softball coach
with a double to center to score Echo-Hawk.
Blackwood drove in the final run on a
double to right, scoring Viola.
In the semifinals the Comhuskers defeated
Creighton for the second time, 11 -0.
The Huskers scored six runs in the first two
innings to jump up to an early lead.
In the sixth Nebraska scored five times, in
cluding two runs on Blackwood's second home
run of the tournament.
On Saturday Nebraska defeated the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha 2-0, Northern Iowa
9-0 and Creighton 1-0.
Revelle said starting the fall season on such
a good note should be a great influence on her
team.
“We’re trying to take this program to a level
it hasn’t been in, in a few years,” Revelle said.
“We’re real excited, we’re going to take a day
to celebrate, but then we have to get right back
at it.”
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UCLA’s quarterback Wayno Cook. Voland had throo solo tecklos and
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first down.
The Bruins drove the rest of the way, and
Sharmon Shah scored on a 3-yard run to
cut Nebraska's lead to 28-14 with 12:30 re
maining in the third quarter.
Things began looking even brighter for
UCLA when linebacker Donnie Edwards re
covered a Frazier fumble later in the quar
ter at the Nebraska 38-yard line.
But the Husker defense held, and Bjorn
Merten’s 42-yard field goal sailed wide
right.
“The third quarter wasn’t very good,”
Osborne said. “We had the turnover, the
long drive they started the second half with.
That made it a little bit more work through
the rest of the day.
. “Defensively, we gave up some yards,
and I was a little disappointed with some of
that. I think UCLA has a very good offen
sive football team. There was a period of
time when we just weren’t stopping very
well.”
Nebraska bounced right back thanks to
Phillips, who burst into the open field for
60 yards to the UCLA 7-yard line. Two plays
later junior l-back Clinton Childs scored on
an 8-yard run to give Nebraska a comfort
able 35-14 lead.
“If the defense is dominating, like the
West Virginia game and at times at Texas
Tech, I didn’t feel uneasy at all,” Osborne
said. “But today I felt uneasy until we got
down to about 10 or 12 minutes to go. They
seemed to be moving the ball with some
regularity, and I knew they had big-play
potential.”
Nebraska added some insurance points
in the fourth quarter with touchdowns by
sophomore split end Brendan Holbein and
backup quarterback Brook Berringer to take
a 49-14 lead, before the Bruins scored the
last touchdown of the game.
Nebraska improved its record to 3-0 and
increased its all-time record to 6-4 against
UCLA, which dropped to 2-1 this season.
“I think we played well,” Osborne said.
“I suspect UCLA has a very decent team. I
don’t know how they’ll fare in the Pac-10,
but they’ve got to be pretty good, I think
they played hard today.”