NU soccer team vaults*
13 positions to 12th
SOCCER from page 7
“We beat them in the spring and
people said it was a fluke or whatever.
We just went out there and wanted to
give them a good game.”
Nebraska (3-0) was ranked 25th in
the season’s first poll. Duke (0-2) also
lost to No. 1 North Carolina 2-1 and
fell to 18th in the latest poll.
Don’t mention NU’s place in the
polls to Coach John Walken He said
rankings don’t mean anything.
“I don’t put a lot of stock in it,”
Walker said. “I don’t want the players
to put a lot of stock in it either.”
But Walker recognizes the virtues of
being a highly respected team.
“As far as exposure, it certainly
helps with recruiting,” he said.
Because of the long season ahead,
Walker said, it would be a mistake for
the team members to pat themselves
on the back.'
“Sometimes you get teams that
have big wins, and they start thinking
they’re better than they really are,”
Walker said. “Then the intensity drops
off and they don’t do the right things.”
So much for five-year plans. The
Huskers have achieved their high rank
ing status in just three seasons. How
ever, the team wants to reach even
greater heights.
“We’ve got to remember how we
got there,” Walker said. “We’ve done
it because of hard work.”
The Huskers have been explosive
offensively, scoring 17 goals in their
first three games. Kari Uppinghouse
and Gay have combined for eight of
those goals.
Nebraska has been equally spec
tacular on defense. Goalkeeper Becky
Hombacher has recorded 15 saves and
allowed only one goal.
“Everyone seems real excited,”
Gay said. “We’re just working real hard
in practice and not really concentrat
ing on what the polls say right now.”
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All VIOLA, Nebraska’s All-America shortstop, practices at the NU Softball Complex. Viola, a junior,
is the top returning player for Nebraska, which finished 42-23 last spring.
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NU softball team focuses
on M season improvement
Revelle will stress
fundamentals during
the three-toumament
fall season.
Bt RUSSELL X WlLLBANKS
Staff Reporter
Last week marked the beginning
of the fell season for the Nebraska
softball team.
The fall season may not mean
much to the fens, but for the team,
this is an opportunity to build to
ward the spring.
After a successful 42-23 season
last spring, the team has great ex
pectations for the next year.
“I think we have as good of tal
ent as we ever had,” Coach Rhonda
Revelle said. “With the returners
having two years of postseason play
under their belt, they are wanting to
take that to the next level, which
would be the College World Se
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nes.
But with seven new players,
Revelle said, NU’s goal will take
some work to reach. For the team
to get to that level, she said, it needs
to mature and become a working
unit.
“Honestly, my goals for this sea
son are to get us fundamentally
sound on both an individual and on
a team basis,” Revelle said.
Saturday and Sunday, Nebraska
will open its fall season by playing
host to the Husker fall Classic at
the NU Softball Complex.
Augustana, Northern Iowa, Loyola
Marymount and UNO will join Ne
braska in the tournament.
NU will play in the NIC Tour
nament in Rock Island, 111., Sept.
20-22 and in the Big 12 Fall Gasic,
Oct. 4-6 in Independence, Mo.
Revelle said the Huskers are
using the fall season to develop of
fensive and defensive consistency.
Revelle said the veteran players
must set the tone.
“I want to be a team leader and
set a good example for the new
people,” said Ali Viola, an All
America shortstop. “Basically, I
want to do what I did last year or
better.”
Viola hit .421,15 home runs and
71 RBIs in the spring.
Last spring also marked the be
ginning erf* new era. Softball was
the first Big 12 sport to begin com
petition.
“It was good for the team,” Viola
said. “We have more competition.”
Revelle said the Big 12 will pre
pare Nebraska well for the
postseason.
“It’s a strong softball confer
ence,” Revelle said. “It is really
exciting to be able to compete at that
level.
“Even though we have a lot of
work to do, we aren’t expecting any
drop off in performance,” Revelle
said.
Defensive inexperience
hurts Aggies in opener
AGGIES from page 7
question marks in our secondary. Go
ing out to BYU in the opening
ballgame, I’m sure we’ll know just how
well we have progressed so far.” r
“There’s probably not another team
in the country as capable as checking
the secondary out as BYU.”
Unfortunately, Slocum was right.
The BYU passing attack riddled
A&M's secondary for 536 passing
yards and the Cougars won 41-37.
Now as A&M prepares for its sec
ond game of the season Saturday at
Southwest Louisiana, Slocum is look
ing for answers to the secondary's
problems.
After the BYU game, Slocum said
he was goingto reevaluate A&M’s sec
ondary and possibly make changes
before Saturday’s game.
However, the Aggie performance
against BYU doesn’t mean A&M is
ready to give up on its season, Slocum
said. . 5
The front seven of A&M’s defense
will be strong, he said. Qne of the
standouts is senior nose guard Edward
Jasper, who set a Tfcxas A«M record
last season with 14 tackles for losses.
Also returning for the Wrecking
Crew—the Aggie defense’s nickname
since the late 1980s — is sophomore
inside linebacker Dat Nguyen. Nguyen,
the Southwest Conference’s defensive
newcomer of the year last season, be
came the first freshman ever to lead the
Aggies in tackles with 94.
“Our front seven should be very
strong,” Slocum said. “We should be
solid again on defense, provided we
can fill the holes in our secondary.”
Slocum said the Aggies’ biggest
concern on offense is quarterback
Brandon Stewart, a transfer from Ten
nessee who ran the Aggies scout-team
offense last year. Stewart never started
a college football game before the Pig
skin Classic.
“If Brandon Stewart develops like
I hope he does, we should be an im
proved offensive team,” Slocum said.
Our offensive line is stronger and has
more athletic talent, and the receivers
should be the same and possibly im
proved from last year.”
Stewart, who played in 11 of 12
games for Tbmiessee in 1994 — but
had not taken a soap for A&M until
the game against BYU — was rated
the nation’s ninth best quarterback by
The Sporting News. Against BYU,
Stewart completed 20 of 28 passes for
232yards and two touchdowns with no
interceptions, y
MSU hires
law firm to
investigate
DETROIT (AP) — Michi
gan State’s athletic department
has paid more than $650,000 for
an internal investigation of sev
eral alleged NCAA violations.
That sum represents cash
payments to Bond Schoeneck, a
Kansas City, Mo., law firm hired
by the university to conduct the
internal probe.
The billings cover the 16
months between December
1994, when ex-Spartans player
Roosevelt Wagner’s allegations
of wrongdoing became public,
through March of this year.
Michigan State officials said
they did not know why they
haven’t received any bills from
Bond Schoeneck since then.
Hie NCAA, in a letter of in
quiry, cited claims that an aca
demic adviser pressured faculty
to change players’ grades and
urged a student to feign mental
illness to get an extension for
course work, and that a Florida
man gave gifts to recruits.
