Soccer games to get intense
By Gregg Madsen
Start Reporter ‘
The Nebraska soccer team has used
a disappointing loss to Creighton in
the season opener as a reason to con
centrate on intensity.
Comhusker coach John Walker
said the team had been working on
finding the good things out of a bad
loss.
Walker said that the lack of energy
at the beginning of last Sunday’s game
had made the players realize how
important intensity was.
Freshman defender Heather Brown
agreed.
“Practice has been pretty intense
this week”, Brown said. “We have
been working harder.”
Brown, who is from Cobourg,
Ontario, chose to play at Nebraska to
improve her soccer abilities and also
improve her chances of making the
Canadian national team in the future.
“She has no glaring weaknesses,”
Walker said. “She is is fast, intelli
gent, and good in the air.”
He said that despite an earlier ankle
injury, Brown had played very well in
the last two games.
Brown said that she didn’t focus on
being consistent, just on doing her
job. That consistency may come from
her experience.
Brown has been playing soccer
since she was 6 years old. She was a
member of the Ontario provincial team
that captured the 1995 Canadian na
tional championship. She also played
volleyball, basketball* ran cross coun
try and threw the javelin.
“I miss the other sports,” Brown
said. “It helps to concentrate on one
Firstier
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Pettit said he could notice a differ
ence already.
“I think we are getting more com
petitive in practice,” he said. “Our
defense is starting to come around.
Our block is improving. I think we are
working hard at it.”
Matches like those this weekend
do have good sides, Pettit said, as long
as the Huskers maintain a positive
attitude.
“We’ll try some different things,”
he said, “but we’re not fooling around.
We have got a good idea who four or
five players are on the court. But I
don’t think there is a player on our
team who could not be in a significant
role by the end of the season.”
Saban
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Nebraska’s defensive style.
“Their defense is very aggressive
and has a lot of speed,” Saban said.
“They are both tough and physical.
“Their defense complements their
team and their offense. Their defense
gets the ball back for the offense, and
then their offense is able to keep the
ball a long time.”
But Saban said the biggest differ
ence between the Huskers and Michi
gan State was depth and the quality of
players. He said the Spartans had good
depth at skilled positions, including
quarterback, running back and re
ceiver, but lacked the depth the Husk
ers had at other positions.
“I always felt the quality of a team
can be measured by the last half of the
players on the team,” Saban said. “If
the second half of players are quality
players who can run the scout team
and give their team a good look at the
opponent, that helps a program.”
Saban, a former NFL coach with
the Cleveland Browns, said he re
spected the Nebraska program, but
despite the differences between the
two teams, he still believed the Spar
tans were capable of an upset.
“I’ve been talking to our seniors,
and we have been looking toward this
r"
game as a real challenge,” Saban said.
“We need to get turnovers, play ag
gressive and play hard for 60 minutes.'
They can only put 11 guys out there,
and they put their britches on the same
way we do.”
Saban said the Huskers had an
other advantage in the game by al
ready having played a game. Nebraska
was scheduled to open its season
against the Spartans until it moved
the Oklahoma State game. The Husk
ers defeated the Cowboys 64-21.
“They have a tremendous advan
tage by already having played a game
because I’ve always felt a team im
proves a lot between the first and
second weeks,” Saban said. “In the
first game you always have mistakes.”
HUSKER NOTES:
• Defensive tackles Christian Pe
ter and Jason Jenkins and fullback Jeff
Makovicka returned to practice Thurs
day, while I-back Damon Benning
was held out. Benning will not make
the trip to Michigan for Saturday’s
game.
• Freshman Kris Brown will be the
Huskers No. 1 place-kicker for both
field goals and kickoffs, while sopho
more Ted Retzlaff will be No. 2. Brown
will back up sophomore Jesse Kosch
in punting.
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sport, though.”
Brown said that the level of inten
sity in the Canadian national champi
onship was not as high as it had bem
at Nebraska.
The Huskers will get the chance to
see if the added intensity has helped
when the Huskers face Arizona to
night at 7 p.m. at the Abbott Soccer
Park Complex.
Walker said the key to the game
would be for his central midfielders to
come out with intensity and set the
pace for the entire game.
Walker said that he expected a
tight game with the Wildcats, whom
the Huskers beat twice last season.
Arizona has many new faces on their
team, Walker said.
“We can’t compare this Arizona
team to last year’s,” he said.
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