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Monday, October 10,1994 Page 8
Husker QB situation still a waiting game
By Mitch Sherman
Senior Reporter
Nebraska football coach Tom
Osbome said Sunday that it might be
Thursday before he announced who
would start at quarterback this week
against Kansas State.
With Tommie Frazier out indefi
nitely and Brook Berringer question
able because of a partially collapsed
left lung suffered in the second quar
ter of Saturday’s 32-3 win over Okla
homa State, Matt Turman is the only
quarterback with any game experi
ence this season.
The 5-foot-9, 165-pound sopho
more walk-on from Wahoo played the
entire second half against Oklahoma
State, leading the Huskers to 23
points.
He passed for 23 yards and ran for
six yards, but more importantly,
Turman handed the ball to Lawrence
Phillips and committed only one turn
over.
“I thought Matt went in and did a
good job under the circumstances,”
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said.
“I think Matt did well the things that
he does. Overall, we were satisfied
with his performance.”
Berringer, who re-injured his lung
on a quarterback keeper with about
six minutes remaining in the first
half, was taken to the University
Health Center for X-rays during half
time.
Berringer said he knew something
was wrong when he was hit on the
play.
“I have had a couple of weeks of
practice at it now, so I could tell some
thing was wrong,” said Berringer,
who completed 10 of 15 passes for
75 yards in the first half.
Berringer originally injured his
lung in the first half of Nebraska’s
win over Wyoming on Oct. 1. Fol
lowing the Wyoming game, he spenl
the night at Bryan Memorial Hospi
tal.
Saturday, he underwent tests at the
hospital but didn’t stay overnight.
Berringer said he felt much better
after Saturday’s game than he did
after the Wyoming game.
Dr. Pat Clare, Nebraska medical
chief of staff, said Berringer’s condi
tion was better than it was last week
at the same time, but his status for
the Kansas State game still was ques
tionable.
“Brook was not symptomatic,”
Clare said, “but as a precautionary,
we made an agreement to X-ray him
at halftime. There was some reoccur
rence, so we re-expanded the lung,
and he feels fine.”
If Berringer is not able to play
against Kansas State, Osborne said
Turman probably would start.
The other possibility is to move
free safety Tony Veland to quarter
back full-time. Veland has been tak
ing snaps in practice at quarterback
for two weeks.
“First thing a quarterback has to
do is get repetition and a certain num
ber of snaps,” Osborne said. “If they
would clear Brook to play but say he
couldn’t practice until Thursday, ob
viously that would mean he would not
start.”
Quarterback coach Turner Gill
said the quarterback situation had
everyone wondering what was going
to happen next.
“It’s a frustrating situation for ev
eryone,” Gill said. “To have Tony as
a starter on defense and to have him
ready to take some snaps on offense
is a frustrating deal.”
Veland, who still is not completely
recovered from knee surgery, which
held him out last season, is probably
the Huskers’ best option quarterback,
Gill said.
“Tony is an excellent option run
ner,” Gill said. “There is no doubt
about it. He is very, very quick, and
he has good speed.”
After Veland, Osborne said, the
Huskers may be pressed into playing
senior comerback Barron Miles, who
hasn’t played quarterback since high
school.
“He has a lot of talent, and he’s
very quick,” Gill said of Miles. “He’s
definitely a guy that could do it, but
it would be really tough. He really
doesn’t know an>lhing about the of
fense. You would really have to tai
lor your offense to be very small if
Barron was in there.”
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Nebraska’s Jamie Riley plays the ball oft her head In front of the Marquette goal Airing
Sunday’s 2-1 win. The Huskers Improved to S-2.
NU soccer team wins two more
By Todd Walkuhoft
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s soccer
team completed a sweep this week
end with victories over Oral Rob
erts and Marquette.
On Friday, the Huskers defeated
Oral Roberts 2-0. Nebraska outshot
the Golden Eagles 23-5.
Freshman Danielle Boswell
capped off the scoring at the 71
minute mark to give the Huskers a
2-0 lead against Oral Roberts. The
goal was Boswell’s sixth in three
games. Freshman goalkeeper
Alison Dudley recorded her second
shutout of the year.
On Sunday afternoon, the Husk
ers took care of Marquette 2-1 at
Whittier Field. The Huskers got on
the scoreboard when fresnman
Tara Herbrik scored 19 minutes
into the match to give Nebraska a
1-0 lead.
Sophomore Stephanie Vacek
put the Huskers up 2-0 12 minutes
into the second half, when she
scored from 10 yards out.
Marquette cut the lead in half
when sophomore Danielle Hen ion
'To be 8-2 is good. We had hoped for that, but we
didn’t know if we could get that."
■
JOHN WALKER
NU soccer coach
scored with IS minutes left in the
game. Marquette put pressure on
the Huskers in the final minutes
of the match but could not score.
The 2-1 win gave the Huskers their
fourth consecutive victory and
raised their record to 8-2.
Marquette dropped to 5-5-2.
Even though this was the fourth
win in a row for the Huskers, Ne
braska coach John Walker said he
was a little disappointed with the
finish. Marquette pulled within
one goal and had opportunities to
tie the score at the end.
“(Marquette) battled hard,”
Walker said. “As soon as they
scored one, then they knew they
were back in it.”
Nebraska has progressed a long
way in its first year, Walker said,
and at the beginning of the year
the Huskers had hoped to be in this
position.
“To be 8-2 is good,” he said.
“We had hoped for that, but we
didn’t know if we could get that.”
Walker said his players needed
to play hard for the full 90 min
utes if they wanted to become a
great team.
“We played in spurts again,” he
said. “That’s something we have
to continue to work on.
Team beats Sooners,
sets school record
From Staff RoporU
The Nebraska volleyball team set
a school record Saturday night in
Norman, Okla., by winning its 15th
consecutive match to open the sea
son.
The second-ranked Huskers swept
the Sooners 15-9, 15-10, 15-9. It was
Nebraska's 13th sweep in 15 matches
this year.
Middle blocker Allison Weston
paced Nebraska with 21 kills. Kelly
Aspegren contributed 11 kills and
three service aces.
Nebraska coach Terry Pettit said
the Sooners, who start four players
who are 6 feet I inch or taller, were
an intimidating team.
“Oklahoma is a scary team,” Pettit
said. “I thought before the game they
would make runs on us when we
made attack errors, and that’s what
happened.
Nebraska middle blocker Jen
McFadden and specialist Stephanie
Clerc, both suffering from back
spasms, played in all three games.
McFadden registered 10 kills.
“I was surprised at how consistent
McFadden played,” Pettit said.
“Peggy (Meyer) has played well
lately, but McFadden’s strength is the
size of her block.”
Nebraska, 2-0 in conference play,
resumes its four-match road trip
Wednesday in Manhattan, Kan., at
7:30 p.m. against Kansas State.
Team takes opportunity
at Wayne, runs with it
■y Tony Wat
Staff Reporter
Nebraska cross country coach Jay
Dirksen said Saturday’s meet at
Wayne State helped build confidence
for his runners.
Dirksen did not field full squads
for the LeRoy Simpson Invite, but he
said the runners who competed did
well.
“For the people we took, we got a
lot accomplished,” Dirksen said.
Nebraska sophomore Christina
Blackmer won the meet for the
women with a time of 19:13.3, which
was a course record.
“This meet was good for her,”
Dirksen said. “She looked good run
ning, and I hope it helped get her
confidence back.”
Senior team captain Kris
Ellenbecker, who is returning from
illness, and JoDee Shufelt finished
second and third, respectively, for the
women.
Senior co-captain Chad Jansen led
the Nebraska men’s finishers with a
fourth-place finish overall.
Dirksen said Jansen, who is com
ing back from a heart problem, was
battling for a chance to break into the
top five on the men’s team.
“Jansen took a definite step in the
right direction,” Dirksen said. “1 saw
some improvement from him. I
thought he ran really well.”
Although the Huskers didn’t field
an entire team, Dirksen said the op
portunity to be in the leading pack
was beneficial to the runners who
competed Saturday.
“This meet gives them a chance
to run in the upper part of the race,
and I think that really helps them,”
Dirksen said. “It really changes the
way they run.
The Huskers’ next meet will be the
Penn State National Invitational in
University Park, Pa.
Win
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launched the ball into the air, and it
ended up in the hands of Erstad, who
was running toward the goal line.
“Maybe (Vedral) is the next quar
terback, I don’t know,” Osborne
joked. “That was kind of an excep
tional play.”
Clinton Childs gave Nebraska
more insurance in the fourth quarter
with his 7-yard touchdown run to put
Nebraska on top 32-3.
But it wasn’t the offense that won
the game; it was the Husker defense.
After giving up an average of 388
yards in its past three contests, Ne
braska held Oklahoma State to 136.
Defensive tackle Christian Peter
said the Husker defense took a dif
ferent attitude into Saturday’s game.
“We just went out there, and we
were hungry,” Peter said.
Nebraska is preparing for its ABC
televised showdown with undefeated
Kansas State on Saturday in Manhat
tan.
“Where we go from here, I don’t
know. I guess to Manhattan,”
Osborne said. “I think we’ll play well.
We have a good football team. Indi
viduals certainly make a difference,
but we’re going to work out a way to
make it work no matter who plays
where. We’ll get things put back to
gether.”