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Friday, October 13 7 p.m.
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By Todd Walkenhorst
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska soccer team hopes
to continue streaking this weekend.
After starting the season with a 1
4 record, the Comhuskers have posted
six consecutive wins to improve to 7
4. In that streak, the Huskers have
outscored their opponents 32-1.
Nebraska coach John Walker said
increased commitments from all of
his players had allowed the Huskers
to dominate their recent foes.
“We’re just getting commitments
from everybody,” Walker said. “We
need to continue to get that pressure
up in front.”
The Huskers play a pair of matches
this weekend, playing host to 6-4-1
Northwestern today at 7 p.m. and
then 12-0-1, No. 4 ranked Southern
Methodist on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Walker said he was not overlook
ing cither opponent.
“Northwestern has had a strange
season,” Walker said. “They’ve
played some good teams close, but
they’ve had some injuries. When
they’re healthy, they’re a really good
team.”
SMU is ranked No. 1 in the central
conference and ninth nationally in
scoring, averaging 3.85 goals a game.
Both teams. Walker said, should
be a challenge for freshman goal
keeper Michelle Denommc, who is
only allowing 0.83 goals a game in
10 matches. Walker said he was im
pressed with his freshman’s perfor
mance.
“She’s doing a great job,” he said.
“We’ve been very impressed with
her and all of the new freshmen this
season.” !
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Cross country teams
prepare for two invites
Tacha
Continued from Page 7
Early recruiting made the dif
ference for Tacha in her college
decision.
“Nebraska is the first recruiting
letter I got, and when I came up
here on my recruiting trip, I really
liked the girls,” she said.
“Our team is so close,” she said.
“They’re real dependable girls, and
those were the first people I met
when I got here. We’re all alike,
interested in the same things, and
no one is different. We’re all so
much alike. I had no problem fit
ting in.”
Tacha said the closeness would
be a hard issue for her to deal with
in the future. Seniors Heidi Wall,
Michelle Patterson and Molly
Mull in will leave the team after
this season.
“I don’t know if anyone could
take the place of the three seniors
that will be leaving,” she said.
“I don’t know if people really
know how good we are. We have
more talent on our team than the
top-10 ranked schools. It’s just a
matter of all of us putting it to
gether at one time, which we will
do this year.”
By Vince D’Adamo
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska cross country
teams resume action this weekend
in two different places.
The top seven Comhusker men
and women runners will compete
in the Texas A&M Invitational
Saturday in College Station, Texas.
The race begins at 10:20 a.m., and
features 11 other schools.
The rest of the Huskers will
participate in the Tiger Invitational
in Fort Hays, Kan. That race be
gins at 10 a.m., featuring seven
other schools, including Nebraska
Wesleyan and the University of
Nebraska at Kearney.
The Husker squads had an ex
cellent outing in last weekend’s
Sundogger Invitational in Seattle,
coach Jay Dirksen said. The women
placed third, while the men fin
ished fourth.
“We ran by far our best race of
the season,” Dirksen said. “I was
impressed with both teams. We
ran harder and faster. Overall we
competed better.”
On the men’s side, Brady
Bonsall led the way with a 10th
place finish. Dirksen also said he
was pleased with the season debut
of junior Balazs Tolgyesi, who
placed 16th.
“He ran real well,” he said.
“He’s a talented runner. Just hav
ing him back gives the rest of the
team a lot of confidence.”
On the women’s side, Dirksen
said he hoped for another solid
effort Saturday from Nora Shep
herd, who placed 14th last week
end and Lindsey Miller, who fin
ished 18th in Seattle.
“I thought the women held their
own last week,” Dirksen said. “The
competition won’t be quite as tough
this week.”
The Huskers will have two
weeks off before the Big Eight
Championships in Lawrence, Kan.,
on Oct. 27.
NU
Continued from Page 7
running game.
“They’ve run a little more two
back offense than what they tradi
tionally run,” Osborne said. “They
are normally a one-back team that
emphasizes the passing game. Larry
Smith is trying to get diem back to a
hard-nosed approach when they run
the ball a little bit more.”
In the last two games, the Tigers
have only had one offensive play go
longer than 20 yards. Their passing
game ranks 94th in the country, with
an average of 133.4 yards a game.
They are averaging 183 yards rush
ing a game.
Smith, who said he hadn’t ruled
out switching to a run-and-shoot of
fense, said he hoped the Tigers would
rise to the occasion Saturday.
“I think whenever you run on the
field and face a challenge, you should
be fired up,” Smith said. “Our goal is
to play the best football game we can
possibly play.”
But Osborne said Missouri’s big
gest problems have been on the of
fensive side of the ball.
“I think defensively, they’ve
played with a lot of intensity,” he
said. “Kansas State had about 350
yards in the game, and Missouri had
to punt about nine or 10 times. So the
defense really played pretty well.
They gave up 30 points, but they
were on the field an awful long time.”
Nebraska quarterback Tommie
Frazier said the Huskers knew they
would have a difficult game, no mat
ter what offense Smith puts on the
field.
“We can’t overlook Missouri,” he
said. “We know it will be a tough
game. If you don’t go out there and
prepare well, and play well, you’re
capable of getting beat by anyone.
We have to go in there and stay
focused on Missouri.”
NOTE:
•MIKE linebacker Phil Ellis (bro
ken foot), split end Kenny Cheatham
(shoulder) and quarterback Brook
Berringer (knee) will not play Satur
day, Osborne said. He said true fresh
man quarterback Frankie London,
who is redshirting, could be used in
case of an emergency.
VB
Continued from Page 7
This year. Maser has 65 kills —
fifth best on the team — on 141 total
attacks. That equals a hitting per
centage of .326, also fifth on the
team. Maser and Allison Weston are
tied for first on the team with 12 solo
blocks, and Maser has contributed 22
block assists.
The redshirt freshman said she
learned much from Nebraska’s middle
blockers while watching from the
sidelines last season.
At one point this season, Pettit had
Maser playing with 6-4 Lisa Reitsma
and 6-foot McFadden in the front
row. Maser said the tall front row
would benefit Nebraska later in the
season.
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Picks from the
Daily Nebraskan staffers pick the winners
of 10 major college football games this
weekend, with winners in bold:
Iowa St. at Kansas
Kansas St. at Oklahoma St.
Northwestern at Minnesota
Oklahoma at Texas
Ohio St. at Wisconsin
Florida at Auburn
Washington St. at USC
Tennessee at Alabama
Washington at Stanford
Pick the score
Missouri 8 at Nebraska 56