Pettit pleased by his team’s play in scrimmage
»y rrevor Parks
Senior Reporter ' --
Nebraska volleyball coach Terry Pettit used
Saturday night’s scrimmage to get a look at four
Comhuskers who didn’t play much last year.
And what he saw may have pleased him.
Pettit
rettit said he wanted to
get a better idea of how four
players—Lisa Reitsma, Jen
McFadden, Kate Cmich and
freshman Jaime Krondak—
could play.
Last season, Reitsma saw
limited time in 18 matches,
McFadden started 16
matches before suffering a
knee injury and Cmich saw
action in 24 matches.
Krondak is a freshman from Lincoln East.
Those four players helped the red team beat
the white squad 15-3,15-11,13 -15 and 15-10 in
front of an estimated crowd of 1,000 at the NU
Coliseum.
Pettit said everyone played well.
“We had good effort, and I thought after the
first game we got some competition from the
other side,” Pettit said. “There’s obviously a lot
of things we need to work on, but we’ve got a
good group of people and this gives us some
thing to go on.”
To help give some other players some ac
tion, senior Allison Weston was held back,
Pettit said.
Weston, an All-American, had only nine
kills in the match. Weston had one kill through
the first two games.
Pettit said that probably wasn’t indicative of
what could happen in the regular season.
“We were working on different things other
than getting her the ball,” Pettit said. “We know
what Allison can do, so we were looking at
some other options.”
And there were many options.
McFadden, returning from a knee injury that
ended her season last year and back surgery in
the off-season, had 13 kills and nine blocks to
lead the red team.
Pettit said McFadden played well for only
practicing 40 percent to 50 percent of the time.
“I wanted tosee i fwe ean get close toa match
out of her tonight,’’Pettit said the freshmen did
well playing in the Coliseum for the first time.
McFadden said it was hard to describe the
feeling of returning to the court.
“I know this is nothing compared to what it
7 know this is nothing
compared to what it is going to
be like next weekend, but I was
just really excited to get on the
court in front of the crowd. ”
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JEN MCFADDEN
NU middle blocker
is going to be like next weekend, but I was just
really excited to get on the court in front of the
crowd.”
McFadden said that until she could play a
full match, she would have Maria Hedbcck
rotate in and play in the back row for her.
“It’s just a matter of getting strong again,”
McFadden said. “Now that school starts and
two-a-days are over, I’ll start hitting the weights
more, and it will come back gradually.”
Another player who had success was Cmich.
Crnich played for both teams and recorded
17 kills in 42 total attacks.
Rcitsma had 11 kills and only one hitting
error.
Three Nebraska freshman also saw a lot of
playing time as well.
Krondak, playing for the red team, had five
kills and a match-high 14 digs for the red squad.
Renee Saunders had eight kills for the red
team, and Fiona Nepo, who played for both
teams, had eight assists and 13 digs.
Pettit said the freshman did well playing in
the Coliseum for the first time.
“I think Krondak, Fiona and Renee all could
come in on that first unit and play,” he said.
Stacie Maser had five kills in her first action
as a Husker after redshirting last season.
Nebraska has one week to fine tune every
thing and get ready for the regular season.
The No. 2 Huskers open the season Friday,
playing host to Penn State in the inaugural State
Farm-NACWAA Volleyball Classic at 7:30
p.m. at the NU Coliseum.
NOTE:
— Senior Billie Winsett sat out Saturday’s
scrimmage with a pulled quadricep muscle.
Travis Heying/DN
Allison Weston makes a block attempt during the Nebraska volleyball team's
scrimmage Saturday night at the NU Coliseum.
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