NU prepares for meet
By Antone Oseka__
Start Reporter
The Nebraska cross country team
is gearing up for the Woody Gre.eno/
Nebraska Invitational this weekend
in Lincoln at Pioneers Park.
Both the men and women will run
on Saturday. The women’s 5000
meter-run starts at 10 a.m., and the
men’s 8000 meter-run will begin at
10:45 a.m. Coach Jay Dirksen said he
was looking forward to the meet so he
could see his individual runners.
“We’re in good condition for the
season,” Dirksen said. “We’re long
on endurance.”
Although the meet is in Lincoln,
Dirksen said he didn’t see this meet
as a home course advantage for Ne
braska.
“We don’t run there very often,”
-he said, “and most teams see the
course once during the year. Start on
a tough course. It gives you a good
idea of where your own team is at.
How they do here determines where
they go later.”
The competition scoring is divided
into two categories, college and uni
versity. Of the 19 men’s and 17
women’s teams invited, the only Di
vision-1 squads there are Nebraska
and Creighton. The scoring for the
university level will be divided be
tween those two teams.
“We should do fairly well as a
team,” Dirksen said.
Dirksen said that individually, the
Lincoln Track Club would be tough
to beat in the women’s class. He said
Barton County Community College
also had good runners.
“Overall, this is a good meet. There
will be competition for athletes of all
levels.”
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continually leams things every year.”
This Husker team has the poten
tial, Noth said, to earn a spot among
the best teams in school history.
“This team is focused enough to
eliminate all the interference that
comes along with playing at another
opponent’s gym,” Noth said.
“We are working hard, and we are
trying to challenge each -player to
raise her level. As soon as one player
raises her level, then people around
her raise their level.”
Noth said Georgia appeared to be
Nebraska’s most difficult opponent
in Wyoming. The Bulldogs defeated
Colorado earlier this month, but lost
to Minnesota and Brigham Young.
“I don’t know anything about
Gonzaga,” Noth said, “but we go on
the court and set goals for our side of
the net.”
•Johnson said the Huskers carried
that philosophy into nearly every tour
nament.
“Sometimes the team we are play
ing is weaker, and it’s a waste of time
to work all practice trying to simulate
a team that might not compete. We
need to spend time working on things
that we may not see from that team,
but we may see down the road,” she
said.
As a two-year captain, Johnson
said it was one of her duties to im
prove the play df the entire team. To
this point, everyone has responded.
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Notre Dame coach recovers,
can coach in three weeks
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — It
didn’t take Notre Dame coach Lou
Holtz long to get back on his feet.
Holtz was up and walking
Wednesday, one day after under
going emergency surgery to re
move pressure on his spinal cord, a
statement from Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn., said Thursday.
He Was in less pain Thursday,
and doctors said the weakness
Holtz had experienced in his leg
and arm muscles before surgery
was improving.
Holtz is expected to be hospi
talized through the weekend. He
will wear a neck brace for about
six weeks, and will not coach for at
least three weeks. Defensive coor
dinator Bob Davie will be the in
terim Irish coach.
Holtz has coached at Notre
Dame for 10 years. He has been a
college coach for 26 years, and
never has missed a game until now.
Doctors, discovered a bone
growth was compressing Holtz’s
spinal cord after he omplained of
weakness in his leg and arm
muscles. During a 4 1/2-hour sur
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gery Tuesday, doctorsremoved the
disc in Holtz’s neck that was bulg
ing against his spinal cord and
replaced it with a bone graft.
, Holtz was moved into a regular
room at Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minn., after spending Tuesday
night in intensive care for routine
observation. He is expected to be
hospitalized through the weekend.
Snyder
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The Comhusker offense is aver
aging 668.5 yards a game, while the
Sun Devils are giving up an average
of 343.5 a game. Nebraska leads the
nation in rushing with 533 yards a
game, and the Sun Devils have al
lowed only 341 yards on the ground
in two games this season.
Snyder said Nebraska would be a
step up in competition after defeating
Texas El-Paso 45-20 last Saturday in
Tempe, Arizona.
“We’ve watched them play in their
last two games and they have looked
like a real dominant football pro
gram,” Snyder said. “They were not
playing a team like UTEP and it
seemed like every run was for nine
yards.”
Actually, Nebraska has averaged
9.4 yards a carry.The offensive at
tack hasn’t changedmuch since 1992,
when Snyder first came to Lincoln.
In his first season as the Sun Devil
coach, Nebraska defeated Arizona
State 45-24. Since then, Snyder said
the Huskers are a different team de
fensively.
“They are quicker from the last
time we played them,” Snyder said.
“Their defensive scheme is totally
different and there is a lot more move
ment.”
In 1992, Nebraska ran a 5-2 defen
sive scheme, fiutthe Huskers changed
two years ago to a 4-3 in order to take
advantage of more speed on defense.
In addition to their win over UTEP,
the Sun Devils have lost 23-20 at *
Washington this season.
“The fact that we weren’t in awe
“Ican't imagine too
many teams in America
that play like they do!'
BILL SNYDER
ASU football coach
at Seattle makes me believe that we’ 11
have the same approach in Lincoln,”
Snyder said. “I believe this team has
more maturity by doing what they
did in Seattle.”
Snyder said even if his team did
not win Saturday, he hoped the effort
would be there.
“If we played like we did in Se
attle and lost, we could take some
encouragement from playing so well
against a team like Nebraska,” Snyder
said. “If we play well enough to win,
that would be huge.”
Snyder was quick to point out that
Nebraska was a much better team
than the Washington.
“I can’t imagine too many teams
in America that play like they do,”
Snyder said. “It’s hard for us to have
the same sense of confidence that we
had against Washington.”
Although Nebraska will be with
out Phillips, Snyder expressed con
cern for the indefinitely suspended
Husker I-back.
“I got to know him in the recruit
ing process,” Snyder said. “He comes
from a very difficult background with
no family linkage or any kind of
support system.
“He had so much going for him.
It’s too bad. Some of that is a reflec
tion of our society, and it ended up on
a college team.”
NU softball team returns with talent,
looks toward College World Series
By Andrew Strnad
Staff Reporter
Labor Day has come and gone,
which means that pennant fever is in
the air.
But for the Nebraska softball team,
this marks the beginning of its fall
season.
Thje team began its fall campaign
last weekend at North Platte with an
offensive barrage as the Comhuskers
won six consecutive games to win the
tournament.
The Huskers compete this week
end at the Husker Fall Classic at the
NU Softball Complex. Coach Rhonda
Revelle is eager, hoping to duplicate
last year’s fall performance.
“I am excited to get out there and
see what my players got,” Coach
Revelle said.
This fall’s team returns five se
niors and a collection of talent. Lead
ing the Huskers this year is senior
Tobin Echo-Hawk, a 1995 All-Ameri
can and a three-time All-Big Eight
performer at third base. Echo-Hawk
holds the school’s all-time single
season batting average record with a
.439 average.
Other key returnees for the Husk
ers include pitcher Stacie Stafford,
center fielder Karla Knicely, pitcher
Cody Dusenberry, and Gloria Von
Rentzell on .first base.
Base-stealing specialist Sherry
Allcom also returns.
Revelle also welcomes outfielder/
utility infielder Kelly Pinkepank from
Lenexa, Kan., as the lone freshman
on the team.
Revelle, coaching her fourth sea
son, wants to set the tone for next
spring with a strong fall outing.
“It is really critical that we do well.
this fall, so we can build on that into
the spring,” she said. “We estab
lished a new attitude last fall, and
now we expect to win.”
Revelle said she wanted to give all
the players opportunities to show their
stuff this fall, so she can field the best
possible team next spring.
The Huskers finished 43-20 after
the 1995 spring season and have
improved dramatically under Revelle
and hope to get back to the College
World Series, a place they haven’t
been since 1988.
This year is the inaugural year of
the Big 12 Conference, but only Texas
A&M and Texas Tech are going to
field softball teams this fall. Texas
and Baylor will join the- rest of the
conference on the field next year to
complete the expansion of the Big
Eight Conference.
Oklahoma State is once again die
favorite to capture the first Big 12
title, but Revelle does not think so.
“Oklahoma State is the favorite,
but no team is untouchable, and l am
sure that we will be in the thick of
things come spring,” Revelle said.
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NU soccer
takes on
Portland
ByTjxM Walkenhorst
Staff Reporter
A trip to the West Coast will prove
to be anything but a Vacation for the
Nebraska soccer team this weekend.
The Comhuskers will take on their
toughest challenge so far this season
as they travel to Portland, Ore., to
face No. 3 Portland.
Nebraska coach John Walker said
he was preparing his team for a major
challenge.
“They’re ranked No. 3 in the coun
try, and they’re thumping everyone
they’re playing,” Walker said.
“They’re beating good teams by a
large margin.”
Portland comes into the weekend
4-0-1, and was a semifinalist in last
year’s final four before losing to Notre
Dame.
The Huskers will put their 1-2
record on the line, but their second
win probably will not come easy.
After Portland on Saturday, Nebraska
will take on Washington on Sunday
in the second round of the Adidas
Invitational.
Walker said that he was not con
cerned about his team’s record, but
more concerned about playing the
best teams and learning from it.
“I’m looking forward to it,”
Walker said. “We only get better by
playing higher caliber teams.”
Nebraska is looking to mature this
season, as it starts a team made up
mostly of freshmen and sophomores.
Walker said he already had seen im
provement from one year ago.
“We’re definitely a better team
than a year ago,” Walker said, “but
there’re still some growing pains.
We are very, very young, one of the
youngest teams in the nation.”
Last year the Huskers played No.
3 Stanford to a 4-2 loss, but this
year’s team already may be more
confident than that.
“The team feels much more confi
dent playing this week than Stanford
last year,” Walker said. “We’re posi
tive and excited about it.”
Harry A. Merlo Field will be the
site of the Adidas Invitational and
should provide a unique environment
for the Huskers. '
“There should be 3,000 fans on
Saturday,” Walker saia, “and Port
land has six or seven players on the
U.S. under-20 team and one on the
U.S. national team. With the speed of
play and the atmosphere, we will
have to handle it.”
NOTES:
•Junior co-captain Tanya Franck,
who is out for the season with a tom
anterior cruciate ligament, will
redshirt this year.
• Saturday’s projected attendance
will be the largest crowd the Huskers
have ever played in front of.
• Last weekend, the Huskers
snapped a two-game losing streak,
their longest ever.
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