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Pettit expects the Big
12 to be a grueling test
forNU.
By Shannon Heffelfinger
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska volleyball team has
already competed against five ranked
opponents this season, but according
to NU Coach Terry Pettit, the grueling
part of the schedule has just begun.
“Every match in the Big 12, with
the exception of one or two, is going
to be a grind,” Pettit said. “This is go
ing to be an incredible conference.”
Since 1976, Nebraska won 19 of
20 Big Eight titles, winning 96 percent
of their conference matches.
This year, Pettit said, things will not
be as easy.
“I would be real surprised if who
ever wins the conference doesn’t lose
at least three matches.”
If that’s the case, then Nebraska
(10-2 and 2-0 in the Big 12) appears
to be on the right track. The
Comhuskers, who moved up one spot
to No. 6 in this week’s AVCA Coaches’
Poll, opened their Big 12 schedule by
defeating Kansas and Kansas State last
weekend at the NU Coliseum.
Nebraska’s strong defense contin
ues to shine. NU held 13-2 Kansas
State—a team that is leading the Big
12 in hitting percentage—to a dismal
.080 marie at the net.
‘The defense has allowed as to
compete and have a very good year,”
Pettit said. “If we weren’t very strong
defensively, we would really be strug
gling.”
Pettit praised back-row specialist
Maria Hedbeck as the leader of the
defense. He said the 5-foot-10 senior
has shown initiative in practice, tutor
ing some of theyounger players in their
defensive skills.
Pettit has experimented with his
starting lineup and substitutions pat
terns, attempting to give Hedbeck more
playing time.
“We’re at our best when Hedbeck
is in the match,” Pettit said.
Offensively, Pettit said the Husk
ers are beginning to play more consis
tently. He credited the development of
middle blockers Tonia Tauke, Megan
Korver and Stacie Maser as a key to
Nebraska’s offensive success.
Pettit also recognized the improved
play of sophomore setter Fiona Nepo.
“As she moves from very good and
spectacular to steady and spectacular,”
Pettit said, “then we will really im
prove.
“If Nebraska is going to be a great
team this year, Fiona has to be a great
setter.”
After matches Friday and Sunday
at Iowa State and Missouri, NU trav
voiieybail
AVCA
T«PM
els to Colorado and returns home to
play Oklalioma before beginning a dif
ficult stretch of matches. In an eight
day span from Oct. 18 through 26, the
Huskers play No. 15 Texas A&M, No.
8 Texas and 24th-ranked Texas Tech.
“The Big 12 is not like the Big
Eight,” Pettit said. “It’s going to be a
war every week.”
Unbeaten NU
jumps 4 spots
in coaches’poll
■From Staff Reports
The undefeated Nebraska soccer
team jumped four spots in the USA
Today Coaches’ Poll released Tuesday.
The Comhuskers, 9-0, are now
ranked No.6, one spot behind defend
ing national runner-up Portland. The
Huskers’ jump in the polls came as a
result of shutout victories over Big 12
rivals Texas and Texas A&M last
weekend.
A&M, which was previously
ranked No. 6, fell two spots to eighth.
The Huskers also took over the top spot
in the NSCAA Central Region
rankings, leaping the Aggies.
The top two teams each of the
nation’s six regions will be granted
automatic berths in the NCAA Tbur
nament.
North Carolina (8-0) held on to the
top spot in the coaches’ poll, gaining
10 first-place votes. The other three
USA Today
Top 25 ^
first-place votes went to No. 2 Notre
Dame, which is 10-0.
Connecticut and Maryland are also
ranked ahead of Nebraska, which
jumped Santa Clara, Massachusetts,
Florida and A&M in the poll.
Jjgt Major League Playoffs
Baltimore,
Rangers, N.Y
win on day 1
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Balti
more Orioles struck early Tuesday and
never let up.
Brady Anderson opened the Ori
oles’ first playoff appearance in 13
years with a leadoff homer; B.J.
Surhoff homered twice and Bobby
Bonilla added a grand slam as Balti
more beat the Cleveland Indians 10-4
in the opener of their first-round
American League playoff series at
Camden Yards.
In the other AL series, Texas beat
the New York Yankees 6-2 behind a
three-run homer by Juan Gonzalez.
In the National League, Gary Gaetti
hit a three-run homer in the first inning
to give St. Louis a 3-1 victory over San
Diego.
Atlanta and Los Angeles will be
gin play today.
KMJ holds belief as key to win
K8U from page 7
career, he said, hit it would be a major
step in the right direction for the KSU
program.
“Obviously, it would be a big win
for us,” Snyder said. “There is no de
nying that” „*
Kavahagh, who served as a backup
to Matt Miller last season, saw action
against the Huskers when Miller was
knocked out of the game in the second
half.
“The Nebraska game from last year
isn’t going to help me come 2:30 this
Saturday,” said Kavanagh, a 6-foot-3,
220-pound senior. “I’m just trying not
to focus on last year.”
Center Jason Johnson, who started
against Nebraska last year, said he is
hoping to become a part of something
special for the KSU program.
“Nebraska is a great team,”
Johnson said. “This is our chance to
come out and prove ourselves. Play
ing at our home field is a big advan
tage. This is something special that we
can give our fans.”
Jeremy Martin will start at left
guard in place of Ross Greenwood,
who received a half-game suspension
for fighting with a Rice player in KSU’s
24-7 win on Sept. 21.
He will sit out for the first half of
the game Saturday.
Nebraska will take about 80 play
ers to Manhattan because of the Big
12’s “designated rival” rule. The rule
allows a team to bring every senior to
one road game in addition to the stan
dard 66-man travel roster.
“When we practice, there’s 87 guys
(Mi the field,” Snyder said. “When Ne
braska practices, they have 187. You
look at their depth chart, and it runs
off the page.”
Wistrom: TVash talk provokes NU
WISTROM from page 7
‘They have said some things in the
past that really fired us up to go out
and play well.'* said the junior rush end,
who leads the Hiiskers with four sacks
this season. “We were able to accom
plish what we wanted to do on the
field.”
KSU, 4-0 and ranked No: 16, hasn’t
beaten the seventh-ranked Huskers
since 1968.
Two years ago in Manhattan, the
Wildcats faced a battered Husker team
— missing quarterbacks Tommie
Frazier for die whole game and Brook
Berringer few the first half — but NU
won 17-6.
Last season in Lincoln, KSU en
tered the game ranked No. 8. Nebraska
led 42-6 after three quarters, held the
Wildcats to minus-19 yards rushing
andwonthe game 49-25. V
Nebraska's offense, which com
piled 628 yards of total offense in a
65-9 victory over Colorado State last
week, wiU have the task of matching
up against a tough KSU defense that is
currently ranked fourth in the nation.
The Wildcats have only allowed 24
points in its first four games. They beat
Rice 24-7 in their last game on Sept.
21.
“I would say that Kansas State is a
very* very good defensive football
team,1' NU Coach Ibm Osborne said,
“whereas Colorado State wasn't a real
strong defensive football team. Kan
sas State has no apparent weaknesses.
They're very strong in every phase of
the game.”