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. 1 • .. l|l ■i Trevor Parks Green’s show leaves Tigers gasping for air Ahman Green had Missouri singing the blues Saturday. Green rushed for a season-best 161 yards on 12 attempts. T\vice he rumbled for more than 50 yards. The biggest run, but not the long est, was a 56-yard scamper around the right side of the Nebraska line. On that run, Green showed no ef fects of a turf toe injury that has plagued him since Oct. 5. He broke through the grasp of two would-be tacklers and once he turned the comer—looking like the Green people have waited to see all season—he glided 56 yards to the end zone. With that run, the real Ahman Green is now back, and that’s scary news for Nebraska’s final two regu lar-season opponents. “I’ve only played a full five or six games as opposed to most play ers, who at this point have played in nine or 10,” Green said. “I will have a little bit more energy as we head down the stretch.” Last year, with a depleted Husker I-back corps, Green was the workhorse. That showed in the fi nal two regular-season games, when he rushed for 99 yards and no touch downs. Later in the third quarter, Green took a pitch from Matt Turman and took off on a 70-yard jaunt. But af ter about 50 yards, he looked as if he was pulling a plow, and a Mis souri player tracked him down from behind. But with all the practice he’s missed, you can’t blame the fastest Comhusker for not being in top form. “It was the fact of not getting my normal reps in practice,” Green said. “I just didn't have that stamina or that extra burst.” Green has not played like the I back who last season rushed for more than 100 yards five times. He has two 100-yard games this sea son. Jbver since that toe injury, he has not been able to get some things done that he normally does,” .NU Running Backs Coach Frank Solich said. “It’s been real disheartening to him. He’s wanted to play well. He’s wanted to be the guy who can make the big play for his ball club, and he’s struggled.” But on a day when the Husker offense was having problems, Green was its solution. Not only will that do his mind good, but it will do his body some good as well. Green has spent the majority of the last month focusing on Satur day and trying not to re-injure his toe in practice, leaving little time to work on basics. Saturday, Green’s best medicine was a good performance, and it left Missouri sick. Parks is a senior news-edito rial major and a Daily Nebraskan senior reporter. -% . — 111 SEEKS? •vv; • - NEBRASKA SOCCER TEAM members (from left) Lindsay Eddleman, Isabelle Mo: i Ratliff, Erica De Vitis, Kari Uppinghouse, Becky Hombachei; Tanya Franck and Jenny Benson hoist the Big 12 Tbumament ay in St. Louis. NU beat Texas A&M 1-0 in double overtime. Eddleman scores ' game-winner with just more than two minutes to play. By Vince D^Adamo Staff Reporter ST. LOUIS—On a brisk afternoon at the Anheuser Busch Conference and Sports Centre, the fifth-ranked Ne braska soccer team had to sweat it out Sunday in the inaugural Big 12 Soccer Tournament. However, the Comhuskers left the Gateway to the West with their perfect record intact and some chwipionship hardware to lug back to Lincoln. On Saturday, the Huskers edged Missouri 2-1 in the tournament semi finals. Despite the win, Husker Coach John Walker was not satisfied. He said his team lacked intensity. Nebraska’s effort on Sunday was nothing short of intense in winning the tournament championship. The Husk ers (21-0) squeaked out a 1-0 double overtime victory over seventh-ranked Texas A&M (19-3). With 2 minutes, 13 seconds, re maining in the sudden-death second overtime—facing the possibility of a shootout — freshman Lindsay Eddleman sliced through the Aggie defense to seal the win. “We knew it was going to be a battle,” Eddleman said. “We were go ing to put in hard tackles. They were going to put in hard tackles. We knew it wasn’t going to be an easy goal. We knew it was going to have to be fought for.” The game’s only goal came seconds after first-team All Big 12 goalkeeper Melanie Wilson challenged Eddleman once the NU striker had already beaten the Aggie defense. Nebraska had defeated A&M by the same count in Lincoln on Sept. 29. In Sunday’s game, Texas A&M out shot Nebraska 19-18, the first time this season that the Huskers have been out shot. “It was a heavyweight fight,” Walker said of the Huskers’ 13th shut out this year. “It was a battle of two teams going at it really hard.” Defensively, NU erected a wall of red and white. Nothing the Aggies tried could knock it down. “The defense played tremendous,” Walker said. “Becky Hombacher had some nice saves.” Stephanie Vacek, Sharolta Nonen and Ihnya Franck often put up road blocks to keep the Aggies from put ting a dent in the scoreboard. “Heather (Brown) and Ihnya did a nice job,” Vacek said. “It was just our job to clean up.” Early in the second half, Vacek— who earlier this season played with a broken tailbone—limped off the field with a bruised knee, but she later re turned. “I still wanted to play even though I was injured,” Vacek said. “I’ll be Please see CHAMPS on 11 ISU By Shannon Heffelfinger StaffReporter The Nebraska volleyball team faced the challenge of finding mo tivation to play at a high level against the two worst teams in the Big 12 Conference this weekend. Missouri and Iowa State entered the weekend with just one confer ence win between them, and that was Iowa State’s victory over Mis souri. The Cyclones had lost 49-con secutive matches to the seventh ranked Cortthuskers, while the Ti gers had not posted a win over NU since 1982. Despite die lack of competition, Nebraska stayed intense and did not falter, sweeping both teams in front of season-high crowds of4,483 on Friday and 4,519 on Saturday at the NU Coliseum. Although they were unaware of it at the time, the Huskers (21-3 overall and 12-1 in the Big 12) se cured sole possession of first place in die conference with their 15-5, 15-5,15-3 victory over Iowa State on Saturday. Texas A&M, previ ously tied with NU, lost to Baylor in four games Saturday night. Husker middle blocker Megan Korver—who recorded four block assists against Missouri arid hit .438 the following night against ISU, said the team didn’t have a problem find ing motivation to play. . “I think we just came out and had fun,” Korver said. “Before the match, we were excited to play, and it was definitely a different level of play.” Saturday night, Iowa State Coach Jackie Nunez said her team hurt itself in almost every aspect of the match. The Cyclones (5-21 and 1-13) recorded only 21 set assists, which led to a dismal .031 hitting percent age. ISU also had problems at the serving line, sewing wily 13 points in the match while posting nine er rors. “We just killed our own momen tum by missing our serves,” Nunez said. “It’s just staying focused and concentrating. We’ve been plagued with that problem all season.” Please see SWEEP on 11 McClain leads Huskersto 22-point win Ik BySamMcKewon i. Staff Reporter Saturday's season-opening exhibi tion was a tale of two games for the Nebraska women's basketball team. The best of times was an 18-1 run in the last 5 minutes, 25 seconds of the Comhuskers’ 84-62 win over the Ne braska All-Stars at the Bob Devaney \ Sports Center. The worst of times came midway Please see HOOPS on 11 v,;.