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Sports Weekend Friday, November 3, 1993 Page 7 Heisman hype looms in game with ISU By Derek Samson Senior Reporter Unless something extremely unex pected happens, the final score won’t be the national media’s main concern when 3-5 Iowa State travels to Lin coln for a 1 p.m. game with No. 1 Nebraska Saturday. Rather, it will be the statistics of two players — Nebraska’s Tommie Frazier and Iowa State’s Troy Davis — that attract the most attention. Frazier and Davis are both leading candi dates for the Heisman Trophy. But Frazier said the only thing he was concerned about was a Nebraska win. “People on this team just talk about me as a teammate,” he said. “I don’t know what they have on their team, but we know if we’re going to win, it’s going to be as a team and not because I’m a Heisman candidate or he is. It’s a total team effort.” Frazier has completed 60 of 108 passes for 1,030 yards and 13 touch downs, and rushed for 456 yards and 10 touchdowns. He is also 29-3 as a Virginia beats Florida State CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — In a stunning upset Thursday night, Virginia may have ended No. 2 Florida State’s bid for a national championship. Tiki Barber had 297 all-pur pose yards and scored two touchdowns, and the No. 24 Cavaliers stopped Florida State’s Warrick Dunn inches from the goal line on the final play for a 33-28 victory. The Florida State loss scrambled the major bowl pic ture. Had the Seminoles beaten Virginia and gone undefeated, they probably would have played No. 1 Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl for the national title. starter, with his only regular-season loss coming against Iowa State in 1992. Davis is trying to become only the fifth back in NCAA history to surpass the 2,000-yard rushing mark. Over his first eight games, Davis has racked up 1,526 yards and 14 touchdowns. See NEBRASKA on 8 Volleyball team ready for tests By Andrew Strnad Staff Reporter Finally. After streaking through an easy Big Eight schedule, the Nebraska volleyball team is ready for some competition. The top-ranked Cornhuskers hit the road this weekend to take on the first of three ranked teams in a span of just nine days. Nebraska travels to Austin, Texas, to take on No. 7 Texas, 17-5, at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Husker coach Terry Pettit said he was eager to take his team on the road to face a Longhorn team that beat then-No. 1 Stanford and took No. 3 Florida to five games. “Texas has played some real good teams this year,” he said, “and I am sure that Texas is a very good team.” Nebraska beat Texas last year in three games at the NU Coliseum and has taken three of the last four matches against the Longhorns. Pettit said these late-season tests against Texas, Notre Dame and Florida would better prepare the Huskers for the postseason. “These next 10 days are going to be very interesting for us,” Pettit said. “It’s going to give us the opportunity to find out what we do well and what we don’t do well.” The Huskers improved their record to 20-1 and 10-0 in the conference on Wednesday night with a win over Kansas State. In addition to winning their 19th-straight match, the Husk ers extended their school record of 57 straight games without a loss. The Huskers certainly don’t expect to roll over the likes of Texas, Notre Dame and Florida, but by the same token, Pettit said he expected his team to respond to the rise in competition in the upcoming week. “We haven’t gotten the competi tion that we’ve needed yet this year,” Pettit said. Wins and losses are not important right now, Pettit said. Instead he is more concerned with finding out what kind of team he had. “I’m glad that this part of the sea son is over,” Pettit said. “We’ve needed some kind of challenge the last five weeks, and either people haven’t competed with us or we’ve been very good. I’m not sure which.” After Saturday’s match against Texas, the Huskers return to the Coli seum to take on No. 14 Notre Dame on Tuesday night. JayCaideron/UN Nebraska softball pitcher Cody Dusenberry, who is deaf, has been nominated for the Honda Inspiration Award.which is given to female student-athletes who have overcome adversity while serving as an inspiration to others. Cyclone quarterback hopes injury won’t prevent play By Derek Samson Senior Reporter Iowa State quarterback Todd Doxzon said no time was a good time for an injury. But especially not Nebraska week. Doxzon, a Millard North gradu ate, said if the ankle injury he suf fered two weeks ago against Colo rado would keep him out of Saturday’s contest with Nebraska, he’d have a lot of disappointed friends and family. “You always look forward all season to going home and playing in front of your friends and fam ily,” he said. “And they look for ward to seeing you. But if I can’t play, 1 can’t play. It is kind of frus trating, considering all the people I know that I would have been play ing in front of.” The 6-foot-l, 185-poundjunior, who has started since his freshman season, said there was still a slight possibility he might see action. “I want to be in there, but not just because it’s Nebraska,” Doxzon said. “You work so hard in the off-season. Then, to have to sit on the sidelines and watch is pretty frustrating. You think back at all the time you put in preparing for the season. Needless to say, it’s See DOXZON on 8 Dusenberry’s inspiration spreads to team, children By Antone useKa Staff Reporter Cody Dusenberry likes being an inspiration to other people. And even if she wasn’t deaf, the Nebraska softball pitcher would con tinue to be an inspiration. Because of her work, she’s up for the Honda Inspiration Award. Honda recognizes the outstanding female student-athletes who have overcome adversity while serving as an inspi ration to others. Dusenberry, who lost her hearing from spinal meningitis, has been deaf since she was 11 months old. “I never give up; I want to become a role model,” she said. When Dusenberry was one of the two athletes who received the Na tional Association of Academic Ad visors for Athletes (N4A) Academic Achievement Award last June in Or lando, Fla., it proved that shG could do anything she wanted to do. Dusenberry’s real focus isn’t awards, though, it’s children. “1 want to teach, to help kids make healthy choices for themselves,” she said. And Dusenberry is on the right track to do just that. She is a senior physical education major with a 3.5 grade-point average. She wants to go to graduate school in deaf education, and she said she wanted to teach chil dren in grades kindergarten through 12, and also coach. Dusenberry prides herself in work ing hard, and it shows on the field, teammates and coaches said. “She goes all out and works as hard as everyone else,” said Gloria Von Rentzell, Dusenberry’s roommate and teammate for four years. “She is al ways encouraging, positive, and lifts everyone on the team.” Von Rentzell said Dusenberry’s work ethic had helped her overcome her deafness. “She’s a hard worker out of her nature. She has overcome her disabil ity,” Von Rentzell said. “She's here and just as much a part of the team as anyone else. She does just fine. “She proved herself to the team, and to everyone.” Nebraska assistant coach Misti Guenther said Dusenberry was a team See DUSENBERRY on 8