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Travis Heying/DN Outside hitter Billie Winsett and the top-ranked Nebraska volleyball team hope to extend their 18-match and 54-game winning streaks tonight against Kansas State. Wildcats Continued from Page 7 day night. Pettit said all three teams will benefit from rescheduling the matches. “You really have to compromise to get it done,” Pettit said. “You’d like to have more than a half day to prepare for a team that’s ranked as high as Florida. It’s worth playing them to do it.” Pettit said he had noticed that the Huskers were looking forward to playing difficult competition. Nebraska hasn’t played a ranked foe since beating then-No. 15 Colo rado on Sept. 27. “Our team is eager for this,” Pettit said. “I’ve sensed in the last couple of days of practice, there is a joy and enthusiasm that maybe hasn’t been there the last five or six weeks. “We all are looking forward to playing with some teams that have a real possibility of beating us.” That probably won’t happen to night, though. The Huskers carry a 51 -0 all-time record into the match against Kansas State. In Manhat tan, Kan., earlier this season, Ne braska won 15^1, 15-6, 15-8. But the Wildcats have shown improvement this year, causing Pettit to shower Kansas State coach Jim Moore with praise. Osborne Continued from Page 7 Kate McEwen. Police alleged that Phillips dragged McEwen down a flight of stairs. Phillips missed six games. Goldberg, who has been in Lincoln al 1 week working on a story for Friday night’s CBS Evening News, said the question was legitimate. “1 certainly don’t think it was the wrong place or the wrong time,” Goldberg said. “This was a news con ference with the coach. When should I ask the question, during halftime?” Goldberg said he did not intend to insult Osborne by asking the question. The Friday night story, he said, fo cused on the importance of winning in America. He said the story was unrelated to a 48 Hours piece CBS has been pre paring to run this fall on athletes ami violence. 48 Hours was taping in Lin coln shortly after Phillips was kicked off the team on Sept. 10. “It’s an obsession, winning,” Goldberg said, “and what a decent guy, one of the most honest coaches in America, if not the most honest coach in America, is prepared to do to in crease his chances of winning. I’m not suggestingthere’sanythingwrongwith it. I just think it’s interesting. It’s note worthy.” Winter a time to ready for new softball season By Antone Oseka Staff Reporter Nebraska softball coach Rhonda Revelle is looking forward to winter —not to the snow and the cold, but to the time it gives her team. Winter gives her team a chance to review the fall season and work out the weaknesses before the important spring season begins. “We were adequate; we didn’t play completely to our potential,” Revelle said. “Over the course of the winter, we will be better.” Also, it lets the team get back to fundamentals. “We struggled hitting as a team, we hit about .311, that doesn’t sound like struggling,” Revelle said. “But, in or der to have a great fall, we should have hit .325.” Defensively, Revelle said, the Huskers played soundly in the fall season, and got some good pitching and catching. The Huskers, who went 15-7 in the fall, also need to work on the mental part of the game, Revelle said. Leadoffhitter Heather Hanselmann was impressive duringthe fall, hitting .386. Hanselmann, who started at sec ond base for the first time, was Revelle’s pick for most improved player on the team. Revelle said that the least she’d ac cept for the spring would be a bid to the regional tournament, and the most is playing in the College World Series. Her goals are higher that just bids, though. Revelle said she expected more from this team, especially in the postseason. kx-Huskers get good reports rrom aian nepons Former Nebraska baseball players Darin Erstad and Alvie Shepherd re ceived glowing reports in Baseball America’s draft report card. In the Nov. 13-26 issue of Baseball America, Erstad, the California An gels’ top pick in the draft, is projected to be closest to the majors out of all the Angels’ draft picks. Erstad is in the Arizona Fall League now and is hit ting .348. Former Comhusker pitcher Alvie Shepherd was picked as the hardest thrower in the Baltimore Orioles’ draft. Shepherd didn’t play this summer, but his fastball has been clocked at 97 mph. Phillips Continued from Page 7 guys, and man, he just looks too sweet when he’s running through those holes. “I’m glad to see he’s getting a sec ond chance. He deserves it, because he did the crime, and he did the time. That’s basically all you can do.” Solich said Phillips returned to the practice field last week at 221 pounds, three pounds heavier than he was Aug. 8, when the Huskers reported for two a-days. Phillips, who weighed approxi mately 215 pounds at the beginning of the season, has gained 20 pounds since hi s freshman year, and his body fat has remained consistent at 7 percent. “With that weight, he did not lose a hint of quickness,” Solich said. Quarterback Tommie Frazier said the Phillips’ return had not been a distraction to the team. “It’s nice to have him back around,” Frazier said. “Everyone on this team has been waiting for him to come back. We missed him. We were prob ably a better team with him. By him being here, it’s only going to make us a better team.” Frazier said Phillips showed no signs of being a different player than he was last year and at the beginning of the 1995 season. “He’s out there running each play like he’s in a game,” Frazier said, “because he wants to get back to where he was.” NOTE: • Phillips sprained his ankle Tues day night at practice, and defensive tackle Christian Peter strained his knee. Osborne said the injuries did not ap pear to be serious. 1