Vacek paces
NU defense
VACKr from page 7
Because of an injury to
Thnya Wright, Nebraska Coach
John Walker has used Vacek
exclusively as a defender this
season. She also played as a
midfielder earlier in her NU ca
reer. The defensive role suits her
just fine, she said.
“I like it a lot back there,”
Vacek said. “It’s not too much
different, because you still have
to play both offense and de
fense”
Vacek is one of six members
remaining with the Huskers
from Walker’s first recruiting
class in 1994. Walker said
Vacek’s resilience after three
ACL injuries is nothing short of
remarkable.
“It’s almost unheard of for a
player to come back from three
ACL surgeries,” Walker said.
Despite the operations,
Vacek is still one of the fastest
players on the team. She has
great passing ability and plays
excellent defense, Walker said.
“She’s a real inspirational
player,” Walker said.
Vacek is a well-conditioned
athlete, evidenced by her earn
ing an NU Aerobic Award.
In Nebraska’s win Sunday,
Vacek said, the team’s intensity
was not where it should have
been.
“It wasn’t us at all this whole
weekend,” Vacek said.
The Huskers face Texas on
Friday and sixth-ranked Texas
A&M Sunday at the Abbott
Sports Complex. The Aggies are
the only team ranked ahead of
NU in the NSAA Central Re
gional ratings, which are used
to determine NCAA Tourna
ment seedings.
NU runners
claim Woody
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s and women’s
cross country teams won their only
home meet of the season, capturing
the Woody Greeno Invitational at Pio
neers Park Saturday.
Hie 14th-ranked Comhusker men
won the team title in the college divi
sion with a score of 72 points. The
University of Nebraska at Kearney fin
ished second with 102 points. The
Husker men also won the university
division with 15 points.
Junior Cleophas Boor won the
8,000-meter race in a time of 24 min
utes, 5.23 seconds. Senior David
Olson finished 10th (26:23.47); jun
ior Aaron Johnson was 21st (27:00.43)
and junior Jim Vance finished 25th
(27:10.67).
All-Americans Balazs Tolgeysi
and Jonah Kiptarus did not run for the
Huskers, and Barton County Commu
nity College transfer Philip Maiyo was
held out.
On the women’s side, the Huskers
won the university division with 15
points. NU also won the team compe
tition with 31 points.
Senior Nora Shephard won the
university/college division and fin
ished second overall to Mary Amen
of the Lincoln Track Club. Shephard
finished the 5,000-meter race in
18:23.91.
Four other Huskers finished in the
top 10. Senior Christina Blackmer was
fifth (18:33.56); senior Sherri Elwood
Macfee finished seventh (18:45.05);
sophomore Melissa Wilson was eighth
(18:53.57) and freshman Jaime Pauli
was ninth with a time of 19:00.08.
The top seven runners for both
teams will compete next at the Min
nesota Invitational Saturday in Min
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The Nebraska volleyball team,
ranked eighth in the nation, lodes
tough on the court physically, but
according to senior Kate Cmich,
the Comhuskers still aren't play
mg as well as
they should.
“The
game is not all
mental,”
Crnich said
Saturday night
after NU’s
three-game
win over Colo
rado State, “but
what* we
Nepo
haven t handled is the mental
part.”
Nebraska, 8-2, has won four of
five matches against ranked oppo
nents this season. Hie Huskers lost
to No. 1 -ranked Hawaii cm Aug. 24.
Their only other loss came from
unranked North Carolina Sept. 13.
“We were being very immature
in North Carolina,” Cmich said.
“We just went out and walked
through everything. Once (me per
son on the court isn’t playing
tough, it brings everyone else
down. We talked a lot about the
loss.”
Coach Terry Pettit did not make
the trip to North Carolina because
of a leg injury, but Cnych said the
loss should not be blamed on'the
coaching.
“I don’t want to make that as
an excuse,” Cmich said. “If we’re
mature adults, we shouldn’t need
our head coach there. We took ev
<?*5^e^i!isfcers defeated Colorado
State 15-10,15-2 and 15-8 Satur
U
They’re probably
the best K-State
team I’ve ever
seen.”
Tebby Pettit
NU volleyball coach
day, but Pettit said it was not an
easy match.
The Rams came back in the
third game with the help of Husker
setter Fiona Nepo, who committed
three hitting errors in the final
game. Nepo also had four service
errors in the match.
“Lately I’ve been missing my
serves in practice,” Nepo said. “I
don’t usually do that. I think I’m
going through a mental phase with
my serves. But I’m getting past it.
“(Colorado State) started play
ing better in the end when we let
them in the game. We should have
pulled the door on them.”
Pettit said the Huskers will have
their hands full when they open
their Big 12 schedules at home Fri
day against Kansas, followed by a
match with Kansas State on Satur
day.
‘We’ve got a lot to work on,”
Pettit said. “They’re probably the
best K-State team I’ve ever seen.”
Kansas State, which has never
beaten Nebraska in 52 matches,
competed in the First Bank Invita
tional in Lincoln last weekend and
upset Colorado State Friday 15-2,
15-5 and 15-6. Saturday the Wild
cats improved to 12-1 with a win
over Iowa.
Farley to join
recovery bid
FOOTBALL from page 7
and wingback Lance Brown (ankle
• sprain) did not participate.
Wistrom had an MRI done on his
neck Monday, and Osborne said if
everything appears intact, Wistrom
will return to practice Tuesday or
Wednesday.
Also, the kickoff of Nebraska’s
Oct. 5 game against No. 16 Kansas
State in Manhattan, Kan., has been
moved from 1 pm. to 2:30 p.m. The
game will be televised regionally by
ABC.
Huskier loss
shocks league
BIG 12 from page 7_
Nebraska’s a great team and still has
a lot of talent.”
Texas Tech Coach Spike Dykes,
whose Red Raiders were the second
victim of NU’s 26-game winning
streak, said he was also shocked by
news of NU’s loss.
“I heard the score and thought it
was a misquote,” Dykes said. “Ari
zona State proved on Saturday that
you’d better be ready to play. It wakes
you up to the fact that everyone’s hu
man.”
Texas Tech plays host to Nebraska
in Lubbock, Texas, on Oct. 19. Dykes
said he believes there is more parity
than ever in college football right now.
Oklahoma State Coach Bob
Simmons was impressed with Arizona
State’s emotion and ability to limit
Nebraska’s running game. But
Simmons, a former assistant coach at
Colorado who has begun to resurrect
the Cowboy program in less than two
seasons, said he doesn’t expect the
Huskers to stay down.
“They’re going to bounce bade,”
said Simmons, whose OSU team is 3
1 after a 3M7 win over Utah-State
Saturday. “Coach Osborne will have
them ready, but it does open the door
-* for others.”
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