Forceful DeForge turns heads
in crusade to improve game
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
Following an outstanding freshman
season for the Nebraska women ’ s bas
ketball team, Anna DeForge wants to
take her game to another level.
So far this season, the 5-foot-11
sophomore forward ffomNiagra,Wis.,
has done just that. After five games
DeForge leads the Huskers in scoring,
averaging 19 points a game.
Last year, DeForge turned heads
by starting in 23 of 27 games for coach
Angela Beck’s Huskers and averag
ing 12.6 points a game.
That average, second only to se
nior center Pyra Aarden’s 14 points a
game, helped earn her Phillips 66 hon
orable mention All-Big Eight honors.
Aarden knows how important
DeForge is to the team’s success.
“Anna’s a force,” Aarden said.
“She’s already started in her freshman
year. I think, just from what you’ve
seen last year, what she has the poten
tial to do is amazing. I mean, really, to
think that she got MVP for our team as
a freshman, and she has three more
years left.”
DeForge said her success last year
surprised her.
“I knew I wanted to come in and
make an impact in some way,”
DeForge said. “But I didn’t know it
would turn out like it did.”
.The experience that DeForge
gained last season has helped her to
improve her focus in games as well as
in practice.
“At practices, I’m not lost like I
was last year,” DeForge said. “I think
since I’ve been through a year, I’ve
gained a lot of experience from it.”
This year, however, the Huskers
plan to rely less on outside shooting
and concentrate more on pounding the
ball in to the 6-4 Aarden.
“Last year our philosophy was get
the ball down the floor and get a good
shot and then get a second shot, and
we led the league in rebounding,” Beck
said. “Now what we have to do is take
some better quality shots.”
With a new focus on the inside
game, DeForge said that she realized
her role for the team would change,
but her scoring opportunities would
still be there.
“If we establish a post game,”
DeForge said, “then all the attention is
going to be there when we play other
teams.
“It’s going to create things for the
outside game, too. We’re going to be
able to penetrate, give and go, things
like that, and if they do put so much
pressure on our post, then they can kick
it out to us and we’ll be able to shoot.”
In the first three games of this sea
son, DeForge has improved her shot
selection and proved Aarden right by
emerging as a force. She was named
MVP of last weekend’s CableVision
Classic, and she made the Gazette
Times Classic all-toumament team.
In addition to leading the team in
scoring, she is averaging 6.8 rebounds
and 3.4 assists a game.
But DeForge has mixed emotions
about being the go-to player for the
team.
“Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes
I don’t,” DeForge said. “I’m the type
of person that likes close situations
in a game, and I’d like to take the last
shot if I could get it, and I don’t mind
if people look to me if they need
help or if they need to give the ball
up.
Fiesta win could seal Gator dynasty
ATLANTA (AP) — A national
championship could put Florida in the
same league as Alabama’s dynasty in
the 1970s.
But first the Gators must get by No.
1 Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2.
“ We have one more bridge to cross,
one more obstacle,” defensive back
Lawrence Wright said. “We can ei
ther go around it or through it.”
The No. 2 Gators (12-0) won their
third strai ght league title Saturday night
with a 34-3 beating of No. 24 Arkan
sas (8-4). All indications are that Steve
Spurrier may be putting together an
SEC dynasty as fearsome as Bear
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Bryant’s Alabama teams of the 1970s.
A national championship would
be a must. Alabama has won that
honor six times, including consecu
tive titles in 1978-79. The Gators
finally get their shot against the
Cornhuskers.
But the Gators’ celebration on the
carpet of the Georgia Dome was sym
bolic of the changing of the guard in
the SEC.
This is the era of the “Fun-n-Gun,”
seemingly perfected by Spurrier and
imitated to one degree or another
throughout a conference that suddenly
finds itself chasing him. Though
slowed by Arkansas’ blitz, Florida
still lit up the Razorbacks for 396
yards — what can be termed an off
day.
“This one’s just as special as any of
‘em,” Spurrier said. “We put ‘em all
right up there together: SEC champi
onships. We’ll try to go win four in a
row next year. We’ll have a team
that’s capable of it.”
Spurrier is not ashamed to extol the
virtues of his beloved Gators, though
he ’ s careful not to talk too much. Or so
it seems.
“We don’t talk quite as boldly as
some teams do,” Spurrier said.
Two Huskers
leave practice
with injuries
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska football team practiced
for about an hour on Monday.
Defensive tackle Jason Peter left prac
tice early because of a sprained ankle.
Backup quarterback Brook Berringer did
not participate in Monday’s workout be
cause he is nursing a sore back.
The Huskers will not practice today.
The team’s practice schedule for the re
mainder of this week is Wednesday, Fri
day and Saturday.
Samson
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state, not a direction.” (Autry is carried off.)
Winner: Frazier.
Now, consider the limbo contest.
Wuerffel has about as much flexibility as
me. Maybe not that bad, but he still falls on his
first attempt.
Davis, despite numerous instructions, still
thinks the limbo bar is a hurdle and does j ust that
to it.
George looks to be the most limber, but as his
body successfully clears the bar, his head is
much too big (not naturally); he strikes the bar
and falls to the ground (much like the Michigan
game).
Now, it’s all up to Frazier. Just before the
attempt, defensive coordinator Charlie McBride
tells the quarterback that if he falls, his locker .
for the Fiesta Bowl will be located between the
Peter brothers’ locker stalls.
Amazingly, Frazier’s body becomes actu
ally parallel with the ground and clears the
limbo bar with ease.
Winner: Frazier.
Samson Is a senior news-editorial major and a
Dally Nebraskan senior sports reporter and columnist.
Mason
Continued from Page 10
Joy Kingsley-Ibeh.
“I think by the time the third game rolled
around, we really started to believe that we
could play at their level consistently,” Kendrick
said. “When you play against a team like Ne
braska, you can’t just have spurts ofgreat plays;
you have to have a number of great plays strung
together.”
Domokos, this year’s Colonial Athletic As
sociation player of the year who was leading the
nation in hitting percentage at .459, recovered
from a dismal -. 143 effort in the first two games
to hit .462 in the third. Domokos finished the
match with seven kills on 20 attacks.
In the third game, the Patriots threatened to
take only the sixth game of the season from the
Huskers, but the Nebraska front line, led by
Billie Winsett and Allison Weston, helped erase
a 14-12 deficit to capture the match.
I think part of the reason why they are so
tough is that they have a very solid block,”
Kendrick said. “It’s very easy to read behind a
couple of brick walls, so there’s not too many
other places for the ball to go. I think for the
most part, because of their size, it makes it
easier for them to play defense in the back row
because they are solid at the net.”
Basket!
Continued from Page 10
NOTE:
• Nebraska’s Jaron Boone was named Big
Eight player of the week—much to the displea
sure of Colorado coach Joe Harrington, who
thought the award should have gone to Buffalo
freshman Chauncey Billups.
“I don’t know what it takes for a Colorado
player to be Big Eight player of the week,” he
said. “I can’t say enough about it.”
In three games last week, Billups averaged
24.7 points a game, 9.3 rebounds a game and 9.3
assists a game. He also recorded the first triple
double in Colorado histoiy and the sixth in Big
Eight history. He added eight steals in the three
games—all Buffalo wins.
Boone scored 41 points (20.5 points a game) *
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