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Huskers express appreciation
for fans both on, off the road
By Derek Samson
Senior Reporter
When Nebraska plays Arizona
State Saturday, it will be in some
unfamiliar territory—Memorial Sta
dium.
Last year, the Comhuskers opened
with two games on the road.
This year, however, the Huskers
have plenty of time to get reacquainted
with their home stadium, since the
next road game isn’t until Oct. 28 at
Colorado.
Senior I-back Clinton Childs may
get his first career start Saturday, but
said he was just excited to play at
home.
“Nebraska is a great place to play,”
Childs said. “I’m looking forward to
seeing all the red again. We can fi
nally have the whole crowd with us
for a while. But we get a pretty good
crowd on the road, too.”
And Coach Tom Osborne said he
had a pretty good team on the road as
well.
“It’ll be nice to get back to Lin
coln, but this is a good road team,”
Osborne said. “I feel good about their
chemistry and attitude. I wouldn’t
hesitate to take them to any environ
ment and play. I wouldn’t say we’d
always win, but I know we wouldn’t
be intimidated. That’s good to know.”
Outside linebacker Jared Tomich
credited the tremendous support Ne
braska received on the road for its
success.
“It helps a lot when we walk out on
the opponent’s field and see splotches
of red all over the stands,” he said.
“We always have a lot of fans wher
ever we are.”
For Nebraska defensive back Mike
Minter, Saturday is extra special.
The junior from Lawton, Okla.,
tore his anterior cruciate ligament
during the Texas Tech game last sea
son. He missed the rest of the season
— including all the home games —
and hasn’t played in Memorial Sta
dium since Nebraska beat Oklahoma
on Nov. 26, 1993.
“It’ll feel good for me, especially
because it’s been so long since I’ve
played there,” Minter said. “It will be
nice to get in front of the Big Red fans
again. I’m really looking forward to
it.”
Even the most unlikely of players
are missing Nebraska.
“There is no place like Nebraska,”
defensive tackle Christian Peter said.
“I bet people never thought they’d
hear me say that, but it’s true.”
DiggirT defense
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Nebraska outside hitter Maria Hedbeck lunges for the ball during last weekend’s FirsTier
Invite. Because of a shoulder injury, Hedbeck has been confined to the back row.
New season sets Husker in new role
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
Maria Hedbeck hasn’t gotten
upset that her playing time has
been cut by more than half this
season after playing almost all the
time last year.
This year Hedbeck has stepped
in as a back row substitute for
middle blockers Stacie Maser and
Jen McFadden, and is limited to
three substitutions a game.
The 5-foot-10-inch junior said
at times she missed not playing all
the time, but with a chronic right
shoulder problem, she didn’t mind
the move.
“It’s a lot more fun to play all
the time because you want to be on
the court as much as possible,”
Hedbeck said. “But I feel I couldn’t
do as much as 1 could do because of
my sore shoulder.”
Hedbeck said her shoulder in
jury had persisted since her first
year at Nebraska, and she had seen
some improvement recently be
cause of her diminished playing
time.
The native of Sollentuna, Swe
den, said her shoulder had held up
well so far this year.
“It feels much better,” Hedbeck
said. “I don’t know if it is getting
much better, but at least I can sit at
home at night without feeling any
pain.”
Last year, despite the shoulder
problems, Hedbeck averaged 1.52
kills a game and had 150 kills on
443 total attacks. After six matches
this season, Hedbeck does not have
a kill and only has one attack.
To help ease the pain last year,
Hedbeck spent much of her prac
tice time working on her defense.
That work has paid off this season
because Hedbeck is sixth on the
team in digs with 33.
“Last season I would barely hit
in practice, maybe just once a week,
and I did all my hitting during the
games,” Hedbeck said. “That was
not enough practice time to play
well in matches because I never got
to practice.”
Hedbeck said both she and
Coach Terry Pettit agreed that this
move was the best situation for the
team.
The addition of outside hitter
Jaime Krondak and the emergence
of Kate Crnich have helped
Hedbeck adjust to her new role, she
said.
“Last year Kate wasn’t quite
ready to play outside, so we didn’t
have much of a choice last year,”
Hedbeck said. “This year, now that
we have a bunch of good outside
hitters, I think it’s best for the team
that I play back row.”
Cmich has 29 kills on 85 at
tacks and Krondak, a freshman,
has seven kills on 24 attacks. All of
last season, Cmich had 35 kills.
Hedbeck has had to adjust to
serving right away after substitut
ing into a game. Hedbeck said after
six games she hadn’t quite made a
total adjustment to her new role.
“I’m still having trouble because
I’m not used to it,” Hedbeck said.
“You come in from the bench and
start serving right away, and that’s
different.”
This season, Hedbeck has made
eight service errors, which puts her
third on the team behind Allison
Weston and Lisa Reitsma. Hedbeck
also has six service aces this season
after having 33 last year.
Hedbeck said even though she
liked the idea of playing only in the
back row, she wished she could be
out on the court more.
“It’s hard staying on the side
lines because you can’t be in there
all the time, aid you know you can
only go in three times,” Hedbeck
said. “No matter what happens,
you have to stand on the sidelines
and watch the others.”
Zatechka
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Mangurian said even though
Zatechka had many things to learn as
a professional football player, he still
may have the opportunity to play this
year.
“He’s probably going to get an
opportunity to play a little down the
road this year if somebody gets nicked
up,” Mangurian said. “People don’t
jump into starting roles as a rookie in
this league. He’s just preparing, and
he’s coming along fine.”
Mangurian said he had been
pleased with Zatechka’s skills as a
run biocker, but he still needed to
work on skills as a pass blocker.
Zatechka admitted pass blocking
was one area he knew he needed to
improve on, but he said Nebraska
coaches did a good enough job pre
paring the Husker offensive linemen
to pass block.
“They teach them at Nebraska what
they need to know to win at Nebraska,
and they’ve done a great job with
that,” Zatechka said. “If you look at
numbers of linemen in the NFL, we’re
right up there.”
Nebraska offensive line coach Dan
Young said Husker linemen had not
received the respect they deserved in
the NFL. Young said Husker offen
sive linemen spent half of their prac
tices working on pass blocking.
The Huskers work on blocking for
play-action passes, Young said, while
the NFL linemen block for drop-back
passers.
Young said he had not been sur
prised by Zatechka’s success in the
NFL because Zatechka was always a
motivated and smart athlete. He said
he felt Zatechka possessed all the
physical tools to maintain a profes
sional career.
