Trevor Parks
Pettit predicts
coaching success
for ex-NU setter
The latest from the sports desk:
Former Nebraska volleyball
player Christy Johnson returned to
the court Tuesday night.
Johnson, a two-time All
America setter and two-year
Comhusker captain, began life af
ter Nebraska volleyball, making her
coaching debut as her Millard North
squad played at Lincoln High.
“Whatever she does, she’ll be
exceptional,” NU Coach Terry
Pettit said. “She’s passionate. I
think she’ll do a great job.”
... Nebraska Football Coach
Tom Osborne has joined the likes
of John Grisham and L. Ron
Hubbard.
Osborne’s book, “On Solid
Ground” will soon be featured on
the New York Times best-seller list.
The book is a hot item on the non
fiction charts with more than 48,000
copies sold in three weeks.
... Second-string NU rush end
Mike Rucker was trying to make his
best impression for an entry in
Osborne’s next book, picking up 3
1/2 sacks against MSU. He more
than tripled his career total.
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football fame is a bone-crushing
block that sent the helmet of Kan
sas State’s Joe Gordon flying 10
yards during a 79-yard Mike
Fullman punt return — told his
mother, La Veil, on Friday night he
would get a sack for her Saturday.
Not only did he get a sack for
his mother but for his father, grand
mother and a half a sack for his
aunt. All four were in attendance
Saturday. Michigan State was lucky
Rucker didn’t get a sack for his
mother’s uncle’s cousin.
... Other Husker good news:
Cody Dusenberry, a former Ne
braska softball player, was recently
selected as one of 12 members of
die U.S. women’s deaf basketball
team that will compete in Denmark
in the summer of 1997.
The 22-year-old Dusenberry is
the second youngest player of the
team, and it makes one wonder why
Angela Beck didn’t use her two
years ago when a rash of injuries
swamped her team.
... Here’s a little news to con
jure up ugly thoughts — memories
we all hope will just go away soon.
Robey Williams, Tennessee
Spate’s quarterback, has been
charged with assaulting his girl
friend, a member of the TSU
women’s basketball team. Tequila
Holloway said she suffered a cut lip
in an argument with Williams.
. I wonder if CBS news hound
Bernie Goldberg is on the next
plane to Nashville to invade the
weekly press conference of Tiger
Coach L.C. Cole.
Probably not.
Parks is a senior news-edito
rial major and a Daily Nebraskan
senior reporter.
NU looks to quicken tempo
Offensive rhythm
disappoints Green and
Frost.
By Mike Kluck
Senior Reporter
Nebraska’s two expected offensive
leaders said they were not pleased with
the tempo established in Saturday’s 55
14 win over Michigan State.
Husker I-back Ahman Green, who
ran for 71 yards, and quarterback Scott
Frost, who ran 58 yards and passed for
74, said the offense needs to develop a
rhythm early in its game Arizona State
next week.
Although Nebraska totaled only
298 yards against the Spartans, Frost
and Green said there is no need to be
concerned about
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plays ASU Sept.
21 at Sun Devil
Stadium in
Tempe, Ariz., the
site at which NU
defeated Florida
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Last fall, Nebraska scored 63 first
half points against ASU, en route to a
77-28 win in Lincoln.
“We need to just execute quicker
and establish a tempo where we are
able to keep the defense on their
tieels,” said Green, a sophomore from
Omaha Central High School.
Green — who is featured on the
:over of this week’s Sports Illustrated
with the headline “Red Alert,” — said
Nebraska’s offense has the potential to
become lethal.
“Once one play is done,” he said,
“we want to be rolling right away with
the next play.”
Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne
would like to see 12 to 14 seconds re
maining on the play clock when the
quarterback receives the ball.
But Osborne said Frost, who was
making his first career start for the
Huskers, wasn’t to blame for the Husk
ers’ slow rhythm.
Frost and Green said it was diffi
cult to establish a tempo, in part be
cause the NU defense was too efficient.
The Blackshirts scored two of the
Huskers’ seven touchdowns and NU’s
special teams added a third, leaving the
offense with few chances to capture
momentum, Frost said.
Two of Nebraska’s scoring drives
covered fewer than 25 yards, and the
Spartans held the football for 34 min
utes and 28 seconds of the game’s 60
minutes.
“It’s a fact that an offense is not
going to be as sharp as it will be the
last game of the season,” Frost said.
“Against Michigan State, we wanted
to score 40 points.
“But with the way the defense
played, it didn’t happen. This game
was a good stepping stone game for
us.”
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RACHELLE TACHA, a Nebraska junior, lines up a put Tuesday afternoon at the Chip-N Club
Invitational. The Huskers finished second to Ifexas Tfech at Firethom Golf Club.
Second-place finish to Tfech
disappoints Husker coach
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s golf
team fell short in its quest to win
two straight tournaments, finishing
second to Texas Tech at the Chip
N Club Invitational Tuesday at
Firethom Golf Club.
‘Texas Tech is a good team,”
Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said.
“You can’t take anything away from
them, but I’m still disappointed
because we could have played a lot
better.”
The Red Raiders — who also
won the tournament last year —
recorded with a three-round total of
944, four shots better than Ne
braska. The Huskers finished 24
strokes ahead of third-place Baylor
in the 14-team field.
NU, which was three shots be
hind Tech entering the final round,
started strong but fell apart on the
back nine, especially at holes No.
11 and 12.
“We had a built a substantial
lead after 10 holes,” Krapfl said,
“but the team struggled with 11 and
12. After that, we just couldn’t get
the strokes back.”
The Huskers played in the final
five groups, which meant they had
to put up with strong wind on the
back nine.
‘Texas Tech played with virtu
ally no wind at all this morning,”
Krapfl said, “so they had an advan
tage. We played well under the
windy conditions for awhile, but it
finally wore us down.”
Slow play and course conditions
at Firethom factored into the sub
par performance, Krapfl said.
“The course put the puis in some
ridiculously hard places on the first
day,” she said. “The conditions
didn’t reflect the talent on the
course. Play slowed down because
everyone was looking for balls.”
Individually, NU was led by jun
ior Rachelle Tacha, who shot a 78
and finished in a tie for fourth place
with a 234. Freshman Hanna
Nyquist shot a team-best 75 on
Tuesday, finishing in a tie for sixth.
Lotte Moeller of Lamar won the
individual title with a 16-over par
229. Nebraska’s Shirin Homecker
placed eighth; Elizabeth Bahensky
finished 17th; Melissa Becker was
22nd; Gretchen Doerr finished
25th; Maureen Regan was 45th and
Denise Woodard placed 62nd.
Firethom, designed by well
known architect Pete Dye — who
is famous for his small greens ami
numerous hazards — prepares the v
team well for the courses they are
set to play this fall season, Krapfl
said.
“Firethom is as hard as any
course we’ll play all year, so we
know we can play good golf any
where,” she said. NU next plays in
the North Carolina Tournament,
Sept. 26-29 in Chapel Hill, N.C.,
where Krapfl said she expects to
face several top 30 teams and a few
top 10 teams. .
“That tournament will tell us
how good we are/’ she said. “If we
do well there, we know we’re go
ing to be a good golf team. We’ll
be prepared, and this team has a lot
of character, so I’ll know we’ll re
bound.”
NU vaults
13 spots
to No. 12
By Vince D’Adamo
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska soccer team’s 3-1
victory over previously sixth-ranked
Duke Sunday earned the Cornbuskers
a No. 12 ranking in the USA Today/
Coaches Poll released Tuesday.
Sophomore striker Kristen Gay
said the win over Duke—now ranked
18th — is a stepping stone for the rest
of the season.
“We needed that game,” Gay said.
“It’s going to help us throughout the
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Secondary’s
inexperience
hurts Aggies
By Mike Kluck
Senior Reporter
Three weeks before Texas A&M
opened its season in the Pigskin Clas
sic against Brigham Young, Aggie
coach R.C. Slocum already knew his
team’s biggest weakness.
“The biggest question mark on our
team is our secondary,” Slocum said
before the season. “We have major
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