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Huskier golfers
ready to make
Krapfl proud
Nebraska Women’s Golf Coach
Robin Krapfl said she would be dis
appointed if her team didn’t win its
first two tournaments of the fall
season.
Well, the Huskers are halfway
there.
Nebraska won the Penn State
Invite in State College, Penn., last
weekend, and they are hoping to
ride their momentum right down
Van Dorn Street to Firethom Golf
Club when they tee off Monday
morning for the Chip-N Club Inter
conegiaie.
The Intercollegiate is the only
golf tournament to which Nebraska
plays host this season. The first two
rounds of the Intercollegiate will be
played Monday and the final round
will be played Tuesday. Firethom
is a par-72 course and measures
6,069 yards.
With NU’s next closest tourna
ment in Kansas, this is a rare op
portunity for students to go and sup
port the Husker hackers.
Students who trek out past 84th
Street will see some of the best col
legiate golfers in the nation. Texas
Tech, last year’s team champion,
returns to Firethom this year look
ing to repeat its title run.
Nebraska has other ideas.
Krapfl said that even though the
Huskers are playing on their home
course, Nebraska hasn’t played
Firethom as many times as she
would have liked.
Without a lot of practice and a
little luck, that can be a long 6,069
yarns.
“This team can handle the pres
sure,” Krapfl said.
The highest returning finisher
from the 1995 Intercollegiate is
Nebraska’s Rachelle Tacha. She
tied for eighth a year ago.
Tacha may be the best collegiate
golfer out there, winning the final
Big Eigjht championship last year
^nd starting out as the individual
champion at the Penn State Invite.
Tacha will lead a Husker squad
that had no playerfinish lowo- than '
15th in Pennsylvania.
Shirin Hornecker, a transfer
from Lamar Community College in
Colorado, finished fifth; Gretchen |
Doerr tied for ninth. Hanne
Nyquist, a freshman from Norway,
tied Denise Woodard for 12th.
Woodard is a Husker transfer from
San Ffancisco.
The lowest Nebraska finisher
made it to the second round of the
U,S. Women’s Amateur Tourna
ment played at Fiiethom earlier this
can really go low,”
golf, low is good.
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Top-ranked Huskers
eager to hit field after
long off-season.
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
The time has finally come.
After months of hype and much
criticism* die two-time defending na
tional chacnpion JNebraska football
team begins its date with destiny Sat
urday, trying to become the first col
lege football team to win three straight
national titles.
The quest starts at Memorial Sta
dium when the No. l M?rnmiskers lack
off the season agaihst Micbigan State
at 11:10 a.mtinn legion^ty'televtSBd
game by ABC. ~
All-American Jared Tomich said
the Nebraska defense has been Wait
ing for this game for a long time.
“The only thing wehaven’t had so
far is a. game, and that’s what every
body is looking forjvard to,” Tomich
said. “We ate kind of tired of getting
beat on by the same 300-pounders ev
ery day.” “ - .
After 23 days of fall practice, the
Huskers bring a 25-game winning
streaky a 30-game home winning streak
and a 36-game regular season winning
streak into Saturday’s game.
But Nebraska’s first opponent, the
1-0 Spartans, is not a pushover.
Last year in East Lansing, Mich.,
NU slaughtered the team that eventu
ally finished the 1995 campaign 6-5
1, by the score of 50-10. Nick Saban,
who coached his first game for the
Spartans that afternoon, said after the
game that his team quit playing in the
fourth quarter. The Spartans, he said,
have used that experience to their ad
vantage.
Michigan State opened its season
last week with a complete opposite
performance from last year. The Spar
tans beat Purdue 52-14.
In the wm over Purdue, Michigan
State did not allow a turnover, did not
allow a sack and held the Boilermak
ers to a dismal 2-of-14 performance
on third downs, including a stretch in
which Purdue failed to convert seven
straight third-down attempts.
“I was kind of surprised at their
dominance,” Coach Tom Osborne
said. “I thought Michigan State would
be pretty good, but I didn’t think they
would be that dominant.
“We’re playing an awfully good
football team.”
Freshman Sedrick Irvin, cousin of
the Dallas Cowboys’ Michael Irvin,
made a big impression playing in his
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NU Coach John Wajker^oke
highly of both weekend opponents.
“I can't really say that one will be
tougher than the other,” Walker said.
‘-North Carolina State has two excel
lent strikers. Duke is always a qual
ity team. Wfc know they will bom be
very, very tough.”
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to invade coliseum
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
; In a rematch of a 1995 national
semifinal match, the Nebraska volley
ball team will play host to Michigan
State tonight and
Saturday night
in the Arby’s
Challenge.
Spartan
Coach Chuck
Erbe said he is
excited about the
two matches,
both set for 7:30
p.m. at the NU
Coliseum.
Erbe ' Michigan
r.'t. State (1-2) lost to
the Huskers in
the semifinals of the NCAA Touma
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ment last season in five games, but the
Spartans finished the 1995 season with
a 34-3 record. Nebraska went on to win
the national title two days later against
Texas. -
Nebraska Coach Teny Pettit said
Michigan State has the potential to win
the national championship this season.
“I think they’re just as good as last
year but a year older,’* Pettit said.
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