Huskers defeat OU
despite poor stats
By Trevor Parks <
Senior Reporter
Forgive the Nebraska volleyball'
team for being a little upset after sweep
ing Oklahoma Saturday night.
The top-ranked Comhuskers, 12-1
and 2-0 m the Big Eight, defeated
Oklahoma 15-9,15-2,15-2 in front of
a season-high crowd of4,239 people
at the NU Coliseum, but Nebraska
still knows there is a lot of room for
improvement.
Senior Billie Winsett, who had 10
kills, said she was disappointed the
team didn’t dominate the Sooners as
they should have.
“If we made'all the adjustments
that we made from the Colorado match,
we should have won 15-0 all three
games,” Winsett said. “If we control
our side ofthe net and execute like we
know that we can, teams shouldn’t
touch us in.the Big Eight.”
That was the case most of Saturday
night against Oklahoma, which fell to
11-5. '
In the first game, Nebraskaj umped
out toa 12-0 lead. The Huskers scored
four points to start out the game, with
two of those coming on kills by
Winsett.
Nebraska went on another run in
the first game, scoring five straight
points with Kate Crnich serving.
Sooner coach Miles Pabst said
when his team came to the sidelines,
trailing 7-0, he saw fear in his players’
eyes.
Trailing 12-0, Oklahoma rallied to
score nine of the next 10 points, pull
ing to within four points at 13-9. Ne
braska held on and won the game
when All ison Weston blocked a Patrice
“We have the ability to
go out and not play well
and win.,,
TERRY PETTIT
NU volleyball coach
Arrington hit. Weston led Nebraska
with a match-high 17 kills.
Pettit said the Huskers played well,
except for the stretch where the Soon
ers outscored Nebraska 9-3 at the end
of the first game.
“We have the ability to go out and
not play well and win,” Pettit said.
“'Hie challenge for the team is not just
winning. But when you beat teams.
fairly handily, you have to take every
opportunity to try to get better.”
Statistically, the Huskers may have
much to improve.
Nebraska had a hitting percentage
of .267, the Huskers’ second lowest
percentage of the season. The 261
percentage was well below the season
average of .351. The lowest was a
.219 performance against Stanford.
Redshirt freshman Stacie Maser
struggled, hitting:-. 143. Cmich had
only three kills on 11 total attacks for
a percentage of .091. The Huskers had
nine service errors after coming off a
match at Colorado when they had three.
The Huskers weren’t the only ones
with hitting problems. Oklahoma had
a hitting percentage of -.009, making
30 errors and having only 29 kills.
But in the second game and third
games, Pettit said Nebraska did show
improvement. The Huskers rolled,
winning both games by the score of
15-2.
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Nebraska’s Allison Weston prepares to dig a ball in the
Huskers three-game sweep of Oklahoma Saturday night.
Weston had a match-high 17 kills.
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Cross country
places at invite
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s cross coun
try team finished eighth and the men’s
team finished 14th at the Minnesota
Invitational at Minneapolis Saturday.
The top finishers for the women
were freshmen Gina Ivory andHeather
McMahon. Ivory finished 38th with a
time of 18 minutes, 27 seconds, while
McMahon placed right behind her in
39th place with a score of 18:28.
Brady Bronsall, the captain of the
men’s team, finished in fifth place
with atimeof24:59to lead the Husker
men.
Wall leads team
in Albuquerque
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s golf team
shot a final round 311 to finish in 11 th
place at the Dick McGuire Invita
tional in Albuquerque, N.M.
Leading the Huskers was senior
Heidi Wall, who finished in a tie for
32nd place. Sophomore Rachelle
Tacha finished right behind Wall in a
tie for 34th place.
Senior Michelle Patterson finished
in a tie for 51 st, junior Maureen Regan
finished in a tie for 60th, and senior
Molly Mullin finished in a tie for 66th.
The 18-teahi tournament field fea
tured the top 12 teams in the nation,
with UCLA winning the team title by
four strokes over Texas. The indi
vidual champion was Amandine
Vincent, also from UCLA, who won
with a score of 142 over three rounds.
Nebraska’s next competition wili
be at the Diet Coke Invitational at Las
Cruces, N.M. The first round of the
three-day tournament is Sunday.
Mitch Sherman
Green earning
his place as
football hero
The state of Nebraska found a
new hero Saturday.
He stands 5 feet 111/2 inches
tall. Weighs about 208 pounds. 18
years old. Plays I-back for the foot
ball team.
The red masses of Memorial
Stadium first saw Ahman Green
two weeks ago against Arizona
State. Saturday against Washing
ton State, they embraced him.
When the true freshman from
Omaha Central High School, who
ran for a career high 176 yards,
took a handoff from Brook
Berringer near the end of the fourth
quarter and dragged the entire
Washington State defense 12 yards
for a first down, the crowd sounded
its approval.
On the next play, when Green
took a hard helmet in the shoulder
and laid on the turf near the Cougar
sidelines, 75,000 Husker fans held
their breath.
But in a few seconds, Green —
who earlier in the game suffered a
slight concussion — was on his
feet. And this time, he signalled his
approval and thanks to the crowd,
pumping his fist in the air, announc
ing that he was OK.
In many ways, Green was better
than OK on Saturday.
“Ahman showed a lot today,”
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said.
“He’s got that step. Three or four
weeks ago, he couldn’t have done
this.”
Comhusker coaches have known
for a while that Green was going to
be special. When he was a junior in
high school, Green attended Ne
braska football camp. He ran the
40-yard dash in 4.36 seconds, a
time that would rank as the third
fastest in Husker history.
When he tested on Aug. 4, Green
didn’t do quite as well. He ran a
4.47. His vertical jump was only
38.5 inches, at the time the best
ever by a Nebraska I-back. His 10
yard dash was 1.49 seconds, the
fourth-fastest time ever.
Even more impressive was
Green’s performance index, which
calculates a player’s times and
scores based on a formula that takes
into account his weight. Green’s
index, 2,997 points, was the sec
ond-best score ever recorded by a
Nebraska football player.
Let’s remember, this guy is only
a freshman. What is he going to do
to defenses in a couple of years?
Washington State coach Mike Price
doesn’t want to know.
“I had a couple of friends from
Nebraska,” Price said, “and they
said, ‘Hey, you don’t want that guy
playing.’ He is really going to be
something.”
Through five games, none of
which Green has started, he has run
for 525 yards and seven touch
downs.
Against Washington State, he
ran for more yards on three first
half carries than most teams gain
against the Cougars. Also on Satur
day, Green, who is averaging more
than 10 yards a carry, passed
Lawrence Phillips on the freshman
rushing charts.
Another 63 yards and he will be
No. 2 on the freshman rushing
charts. Calvin Jones, also a former
Central Eagle, holds the all-time
record with 900 yards in 1991.
“I am in college football,” Green
said, “getting the big hits, the big
runs. It feels great.”
It’s not too bad to watch either.
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