Huskers win but can’t rely on talent to fuel the fire
By Tim P«ar»ofi
Senior Editor
With a match against Colorado
just around the corner, the Nebraska
volleyball team may have taken a step
back Saturday night.
Even though the Cornhuskers de
feated Iowa State 15-11, 15-3. 9-15,
15-5 before an NU Coliseum crowd
of 4,116, Pettit said his team had been
better.
“We looked tentative,” he said.
“The last couple times out. we looked
stronger.” ,
But the Huskers did manage to
improve their record to 19-0 and 6-0
in the conference.
“They know they didn’t play
well,” Pettit said. “Even though they
didn’t play well, they won. We’re for
tunate that we have the talent to do
that, but we can’t do that for very
long.”
The Cyclones, who won one game
from the Huskers in last weekend’s
match in Ames, Iowa, started out
tough, jumping out to a 9-4 lead.
Nebraska battled back, though.
With outside hitter Kate Crnich
serving, Nebraska rolled off five con
secutive points to tie up the game.
With the score 12-11 Nebraska, the
No. 2 Huskers scored the final three
points to win the first game.
Crnich started in place of sopho
more outside hitter Maria Hedbeck,
and she responded with five kills and
a team-high 16 digs.
“She’s been playing really well in
practice,” Pettit said of Crnich. “She’s
doing things I want others to do.
She’s had good intensity and good
t^e second game, the Huskers
came out on fire. Behind Allison
Weston, Nebraskajumpedouttoa 10
0 lead. In that string, Weston had four
blocks and three kills. Overall, the
6-foot-2 middle blocker had 18 kills
and four service aces.
“One thing we’ve been working on
is blocking and defense, but the de
fense didn’t show up,” Weston said.
The blocking did, though. The
Huskers had four solo blocks — three
by Weston — and 16 assisted blocks.
Iowa State battled back from the
10-0 deficit with three points, but
Nebraska put the match away with
five straight points.
In the third game, the Huskers had
chances to put the match away, but
the Cyclones wouldn’t let them. Iowa
Slate took a 5-1 lead. The Huskers
kept coming back, but Cyclone setter
Kary Law put the game away with a
kill.
Just as they did in the second
game, the Huskers started out fast in
the fourth game, taking an 11-2 lead
on their way to a 15-5 win.
But Pettit said the Huskers must
improve, especially in their defense
and serving, if they want to win at
Illinois on Tuesday and against Colo
rado in Lincoln on Saturday.
“I don’t think we served very
well,” Pettit said. “In general, 14 ser
vice errors is awfully high for us."
Weston said the Huskers had prob
lems Saturday night, and she didn’t
know why.
“It’s kind of disappointing,” she
said. “We should’ve been really pre
pared for them. I don’t know what
the problem was."
Soccer team loses to Stanford
From Staff Wtports
The Nebraska soccer team was tied
with the No. 3 Stanford Cardinal until
the last 10 minutes of Sunday's
match. But the Huskcrs lost 4-2.
The Comhuskers fell behind at the
29-minute mark when Cardinal
sophomore Emily Burt gave Stanford
a 1-0 lead. But 46 seconds into the
second half, Husker sophomore
Stephanie Vacck tied the score off of
an assist by freshman Jamie Riley.
Stanford took a 2-1 lead when jun
ior Carmel Murphy scored at the 76
minute mark of the game. Huskcr
freshman Tanya Wright tied the score
four minutes later.
But the Huskers wouldn’t score
again. The Huskers had only two
shots on goal compared with
Stanford’s 24 shots. Nebraska goal
keeper Alison Dudley had six saves.
The Cardinal, who improved to
12-1 on the season, obtained the vie
Missouri
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he said. “It was all just a part of a
day’s work. You have just got to go
out and get the thing recovered and
get the ball in the hands of our of
fense and let them get going."
The Huskers' ensuing drive stalled
at their own 42-yard line, and Darin
Erstad punted into the end zone for a
touchback. Seven plays later. Miles
intercepted Missouri quarterback JefT
Handy’s pass at the 50-yard line and
returned to the Missouri 23-yard line.
After one rush by fullback Cory
Schlcsinger and five by Phillips,
Berringer threw a 1-yard touchdown
pass to tight end Mark Gilman with
4:56 to go in the third quarter, and
Nebraska took a 21 -0 lead.
A three-and-out series by Missouri
returned the ball to the Huskers, and
Berringer teamed up with split end
Brendan Holbein for a 30-yard touch
down strike to increase Nebraska’s
1
lead to 28-0 with 1:36 left in the third
quarter.
Missouri finally got on the board
when Handy connected with
Rahsetnu Jenkins for a 34-yard touch
down pass.
But the Huskers responded by
scoring on a 43-yard pass from
Berringer to Reggie Baul to make it
35-7 with six minutes to play.
On its next drive, Nebraska suf
fered a blow when No. 2 quarterback
Malt Turman sustained a badly
bruised shoulder on a late hit out of
bounds by Jerome Madison.
“It may be two weeks,” Osborne
said" Sunday. “Maybe three weeks.
Maybe he will return this week.”
True freshman Monte Christo,
whom the Huskers had hoped to
redshirt, was forced to enter the
game.
“We didn’t want to play Christo if
we could help it,” Osborne said. “But
it looks like Matt’s out for a long
enough time that Monte has to play.
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lory with two late goals for a 4-2 fi
nal score.
Nebraska defeated Colorado Col
lege on Saturday afternoon 2-1.
Freshmen Danielle Boswell and
Kristina Rittcrbush both scored goals
for the Huskers
The Huskers* record is 11-3.
Nebraska’s next action will be this
weekend as it travels to Austin,
Texas, to take on Texas and Michi
gan.
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Rank School Pts. Rec.
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2 Colorado (16) 1,482 7-0-0
3 NetoraahtffHr— *461 8-0-0
4 Auburn (3) 1,397 7-0-0
5 Florida 1,246 5-1-0
6 Miami (Fla.) 1,187 5-1-0
7 Texas A&M 1.171 7-04)
8 Alabama 1,165 8-0-0
9 Florida St 1,076 5-1-0
10 Michigan 998 5-2-0
11 Arizona 890 6-14)
12 Utah 831 7-0-0
13 Virginia Tech 709 7-1-0
14 Syracuse 703 6-1-0
15 Washington 591 5-24)
16 Duke 564 7-04)
17 Colorado St. 543 7-1-0
18 Virginia 484 6-14)
19 Texas 409 5-24)
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22 Washington St. 306 5-2-0
23 Kansas St 269 4-2-0
24 North Carolina 204 5-2-0
25 Southern Cal 91 5-24)
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Nebraska’s Kelly Aspegren narrowly misses a (Mg during
Nebraska’s four-game win over Iowa State Saturday night
at the NU Coliseum.
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