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Michelle Paulman/DN '•r Wyoming on Saturday. Bonrlngor, who was hospitalized Sunday with a partially collapsod ! passing. Jay CaMaron/DN '• dam* bacauM of a Mood clot the team today. Ho la expected ‘ You have to throw the hall underneath against them and catch it and run with it. 'They have a very athletic secondary, and if you throw it deep, they'll get to it. You have to throw in front of them." JOE TILLER Wyoming football coach !• s 1 By D«rak Samson Wyoming was trailing No. 2 Ne braska 35-32 in Memorial Stadium on Saturday and had just forced the Comhuskers to punt with 5:32 re maining in the game. But when Je’Ney Jackson fumbled the punt, Wyoming coach Joe Tiller saw his chances for upsetting the Huskers roll away. The ball bounced away from Jackson and into the arms of Nebraska’s Damon Benning. Nebraska scored on the next play, extending its lead to 42-32 and end ing Wyoming’s chance to make his tory. “On the sideline, our guys were thinking we had a chance if we got a stop,” Tiller said. “Of course, we did, and then we had the mishandled punt. I think that’s what drove the nail home. “Before that I thought we had an opportunity to be in it and win the football game. It was a good football game for a while anyway.” The absence of Tommie Frazier may have helped Wyoming, Tiller said. “I think that Nebraska was flat to start the game,” Tiller said. “I thought our guys executed well, and it was a combination of those two things. I think the Nebraska team had to deal with a tremendous amount of distrac tions this week with the Frazier situ ation, and to our credit, we came and executed well.” Tiller said his team didn’t change its defensive philosophy because Frazier was on the sidelines. “I don’t think it really mattered to our guys about the Frazier situation,” he said. “Our players never talked about it; they just talked about what they had to do to play a good football game.” Wyoming jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter and didn’t allow Nebraska a first down on its first three possessions. Tiller said the quick start was the key for the Cowboys in staying with the Huskers. “It’s like I told our kids going in— ‘Nobody has a monopoly on playing hard,”’ Tiller said. “I think playing well that first series helped us. I think I would be lying if I said our players were cool, calm and collected walk ing in here. “I think the success we had in the first series dispelled any thoughts our team had that they couldn't play with these guys.” Wyoming showed it could play with Nebraska’s secondary by throw ing the ball. Quarterbacks Jeremy Dombek and John Gustin combined to complete 25 of 46 passes for 344 yards. Tiller said he knew the only way to pass against Nebraska was to throw short passes. “We put in a couple of things that we thought we could take advantage of, and we do that every week,” he said. “We like to put in something that they haven’t practiced against. “You have to throw the ball under neath against them and catch it and run with it. They have a very athletic secondary, and if you throw it deep, they’ll get to it. You have to throw in front of them.” Dombek, a redshirt freshman, threw for 264 yards on a 17-of-35 performance before being injured and leaving the game two minutes into the fourth quarter. The 6-foot-3,220-pound Dombek said the Cowboys did the most with what Nebraska gave them. “We made a lot of mistakes, and the three interceptions hurt us,” he said. “But there are not too many soft spots with Nebraska. They play a lot of loose coverage, and we thought we could get it underneath them." • 4 # * • • * #•# • • ' • * ■ t > . - ' - . • • • . .. • , , , • •• • ; • . , • ‘ •. . * . , • * * —.—iS • • . , . • * - ' . r * ' * • • : • - . .. : • ■ ■ . •r; . • • iT. f * • i ‘Kyi ... - a';:- ■ i-- 7 - ?. .^7. . - *t±- *• ■ ^ = ' * V I sfe ■* §g| S fe,‘ :-al jberAwil' ,-U- v-S^ ' «&&■■ fa- 2fc'* i. ? .. V-. ..* * ? ’ Ij fc’ ^ , .J1' *• t1 W •^-Trll- fS t* ^4*;4g Scoring 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Wyoming 32 Nebraska 0 14 21 7 Wyoming 14 7 3 8 ********* -*•«.•.w. ... " * .. ... Wyom- Marcus Harris 39 yd. pass from Jeremy Dombek (Taylor Sorenson kick) * Wyom- Jeremy Gilstrap 6 yd. pass from Dombek (Sorenson kick) Neb- Lawrence Phillips 1 yd. run (Tom Sieler kick) Wyom- Terry Hendricks 1 yd. run (Sorenson kick) Neb- Brook Berringer 5 yd. run (Sieler kick) Neb- Berringer 24 yd. run (Sieler kick) Neb- Phillips 40 yd. run (Sieler kick) Neb- Berringer 11 yd. run (Sieler kick) Wyom- Sorenson 40 yd. Field Goal Wyom- Gilstrap 2 yd. pass from John Gustin Neb- Phillips 8 yd. run (Sieler kick) * ff Rushing Phillips 9 Int. Yds. II 264 80 Gilman MuhamnwP Phillips v Johnson 2 14 Breakdown .Neb..Wyoming First Downs 24 18 Rushes-yards 56-322 21-36 Passing 131 344 Return Yards 53 5 Comp-Att-Int 15-22-1 25-46-3 Punts-avg. 8-42.5 7-41.6 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 2-1 Penalties-Yards 9-91 6-30 Time of Possession 34:20 25:40 ON graphic Michelle Poulman/DN Nebraska’s Terry Connealy pursues Wyoming quarterback Jeremy Dombek. Dombek tors apart the Husker secondary, throwing for 264 yards. But he also threw three key Interceptions on which the Buskers capitalized. -y. \ * A t i ’*