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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.
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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.
