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Joseph, You got -ho Ia]A*CE Up I Avant Card 1323 O Street Spartans prepare to face NU By Trevor Parks Senior Reporter ~ Two hours after retuning from win ning the Mountain Regional final in Honolulu, Michigan State volleyball coach Chuck Erbe was already busy preparing for Ne braska. That’s because other than a few names, the Spartan coach said he knew nothing about the No. 1 Cornhuskers, who F™6 swept UCLA Sat urday night to advance to the Final Four. Erbe has less than five days to disect Nebraska. At 4:30 p.m., Thurs day in Amherst, Mass., the two teams meet in a national semifinal match at the Mullins Center on the campus of the University of Massachusetts. Michigan State, 34-2, advanced to the Final Four by handing Hawaii its first loss of the season Friday night. The Spartans rallied to win 6-15, 8 15, 15-10, 15-7, 15-12. Traveling to Hawaii for regionals . may be a disadvantage for Michigan State because of the travel, Erbe said. , Erbe has been to the NCAA Final Four three times, and as the coach of i Southern Cal, he won the inaugural ; NCAA Tournament title in 198 L But ; he said this trip means more to him. I “It’s is more exciting for me be- < cause I’m more emotionally involved 1 with this team than the others in the past,” Erbe said. “This is truly a group i of no-name kids and to see them get to this level is great.” Nebraska coach Terry Pettit said i Erbe had done a great job in only three : years as the Spartans’ coach. “They are a very solid team, and they run a quick, up-tempo offense,” ; Pettit said. “The fact that they had to 1 win at Hawaii in an environment simi- i lar to this (the NU Coliseum) indi- ' cates they are a very strong team.” 1 Courtney DcBolt, Michigan State’s setter, averages 13.52 assists a game. < ■ . i m&tem Scott Bruhn/DN Jen McFadden and Lisa Reitsmateam up for a block Saturday night against UCLA. The Huskers won in three games, advancing to the Final Four. (enna Wrobel, a freshman outside hit er, averages a team-high 4.66 kills a ?amc and 3.2 digs a game. Veronica Morales, an outside hit er, averages four kills and three digs i game. Val Sterk, a middle blocker, iverages 3.38 kills a game and 1.4 docks a game. Middle blocker Dana -ooke averages a team-high 1.59 docks a game and 3.18 kills a game. “My kids may be star struck be cause they will be playing teams that hey read about in Volleyball Maga zine,” Erbe said. “We’ll just have to leal with it and keep our feet on the ground.” In the other semifinal, Thursday at 1 p.m., Texas and Stanford will meet 'or the second time this season. Ear ier this season, Texas beat Stanford n five games, but the Cardinal were vithout their top two players, Kristin rolkl and Cary Wendell. The defending national champion Cardinal beat Nebraska 8-15, 15-11, 15-13, 17-15 in the State Farm/ NACWAA Volleyball Classic on August 26. UCLA Coach Andy Banachowski said a Nebraska Stanford Final would be a great match. The Bruins lost twice this season to Stanford. “We haven’t seen Stanford in awhile and they are an awfully good team,” Banachowski said. “Nebraska doesn’t have any glaring weaknesses and I don’t see any glaring weak nesses in the Stanford team either.” Erbe said the Final Four would be a good chance to gauge hi s team against the elite programs in the nation. “Stanford is the defending national champion, so you have to favor them,” Erbe said. “Nebraska has a quality program and they have to be right there. Texas has to be third and we have to be just an afterthought. “I’m sure people are wondering, ‘Michigan who?’.” Top wrestlers not yet pegged. for first meets By Antone Oseka Staff Reporter Nebraska wrestling coach Tim Neumann still isn’t sure who is going to wrestle for the first half of the season. As the third-ranked Comhusker wrestlers prepare for the holiday break, Neumann said he would take 10 start ers and five potential starters on the road for four dual meets. Nebraska opens its schedule on Dec. 17 with a three-team dual against 20th-ranked Ohio State, and follows immediately with Ohio University. Two days later, the Huskers face No. 25 West Virginia in dual competition and wrestle Pittsburgh on Dec. 21. “You’d think No. 3 should beat them easy,” Neumann said, “but up sets make duals awful close.” The Huskers return to the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Jan. 6 to host the Great Plains Open. This is the trial run for a competition of this kind. It will consist of an open individual tournament running simultaneously with a team invitational. The open tournament gives all wres tlers a chance to see action without representing a specific team. No team points will be kept. It is also an oppor tunity for the redshirt members of a team to see college competition. --J — ■ -— NU defeats Colonels with total team effort By Mike Kiuck Senior Reporter Since all 14 Nebraska women’s basketball players participated in the Comhuskers’ 107-38 victory over Nicholls State, perhaps the ceremonial game ball should go to the scheduler of the contest. “This is a case of good schedul ing,” Nebraska coach Angela Beck said. “We needed to have a rout today.” A rout is what they got, handing the Colonels their 22nd consecu tive loss and setting a new Ne braska record by allowing only 10 points in the second half. The Huskers also set a Bob Devaney Sports Center record for largest margin of victory and few est points allowed in a game. The game enabled Beck to play 11 players for more than 10 min utes, and have 12 different players score. “I think the game was a little confidence builder for a lot of our players,” Beck said. Because of final exams, the Huskers don’t play again until Dec. 19, when they open play in the Carolina Holiday Beach Classic against Southern Alabama. Beck said she was pleased with thcdefensive intensity throughout the game, especially in the second half. After halftime, the Huskers held Nicholls State to 3-of-21 shooting. The Colonels shot 27 percent for the game, committed 36 turnovers and made only 13 total field goals. “I felt like defensively, we obvi ously controlled everything,” Beck said. “I’d rather do that than score.” Nebraska opened the game with a 30-6 run and finished the first quarter with an 8-3 run to lead 54 28 at break. The 28 points scored by Nicholls State in the first quarter surprised Colonel coach Louise Bonin. “I think they (Nebraska) just played tremendous team defense,” Bonin said. “That kind of defensive pressure is something these fresh men have not seen before. We knew coming in Nebraska was a fine ballclub.” Nicholls State scored its first bucket ofthe second halfwith 16:59 left in the game, but did not score again until Amy Restovich scored with 5:26 to play. During that stretch, Nebraska had scored 24 points to make the score 87-32. Final 4 Continued from Page 9 Billie Winsett and a service ace by Weston tied the game. Nebraska took a 14-13 lead on a kill by Weston. UCLA fought off one match point and tied the game at 14 on a kill by Jenny Johnson. Weston, who along with Reitsma led Nebraska with 17 kills, managed a kill for a sideout. A bad set by Kelly Flannigan to Jenny Johnson gave Ne braskaa 15-141ead.TheHuskerswon the game and the match 16-14 when Cmich and Weston blocked Flannigan. “While the first two games were marvelous, the third game showed our mental toughness,” Pettit said. . He said McFadden finally felt com fortable returning from a tom anterior cruciate ligament that she suffered last season against Illinois.The 6 foot-2 junior middle blocker recorded 10 kills and seven blocks. The Huskers held UCLA to a hit ting percentage of .167, and outblocked the Bruins 28-20. NOTES: • Johnson, Weston,‘Reitsma, UCLA’s Milling and Kim'Krull and Penn State’s Terri Zemaitis were named to the Central Regional all Toumament team. • Weston, Florida’s Aycan Gokberkand Stanford’sCary Wendell were named as the three finalists for the “Ricoh Name to Know” player-of the year.