Huskermen
qualify for
NCAAmeet
By Gregg Madsen
StaffReporter
The Nebraska men’s cross coun
try team qualified for its first trip to
the NCAA Championships since
1989 by finishing second at the Dis
trict 5 meet Saturday in Peoria, 111.
Oklahoma State won the meet,
scoring 47 ppints to the
Comhuskers’ 58.
The Nebraska women finished
third behind Missouri and Iowa
State. The women will find out this
afternoon if they have earned a wild
card berth to the NCAA Champi
onships, Nov. 25 in Tliscon, Ariz.
Jonah Kiptarus and Cleophas
Boor finished 1 -2 for the fifth-con
secutive race. With the victory,
Kiptarus became the first district
champion in school history.
“My race was OK,” Kiptarus
said. “I thought either myself of
Cleophas would win. My goal is to
finish in the top three at nationals.”
Kiptarus finished the 10,000
meter course in 30 minutes, 26 sec
onds, and Boor came in at 30:35.
“Our first two guys ran just great
again,” Dirksen said. “They were
able to do what they wanted to do
from the start of the race.”
The Huskers also received valu
able efforts from Balazs Tblgyesi
(10th place) and Philip Maiyo
(22nd). Nebraska Coach Jay
Dirksen said Maiyo moved up 20
places in the final 1 % miles of the
race.
“You can just see that he’s re
ally coming on,” Dirksen said.
“This is. just ,his fi fth week of train
ing. His move probably secured sec
ond for us.”
The women were led by senior
Christina Blackmer, who was 12th.
Nebraska placed all seven runners
in the top 27.
Freshman Jaime Pauli was the
next highest Husker finisher at 17th,
and junior Nora Shepherd was
22nd.
High school standout
headed to Nebraska
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an extra scholarship player next fall,
NU also appears finished recruiting for
the 1998 season, because Behrends is
likely to receive the scholarship occu
pied by Lisa Reitsma, Nebraska’s only
junior.
Behrends caught the attention of
college coaches across the nation dur
ing the 1995 season. As a junior, she
led the state with 525 kills and set a
state tournament record for kills in a
match with 28 as Chappell won its first
ever state title.
' In 24 matches this season,
Behrends posted 418 kills and 166
blocks. ,
Behrends made official visits to
Penn State, Colorado State, Nebraska
and an unofficial visit to Stanford. She
said she made her final decision to at
tend NU while driving back to
Chappell after visiting CSU in early
October.
“I guess I kind of regret not taking
the scholarship,” Behrends said. “But
I needed to see for myself what else
was out there. I just wasn’t ready to
commit in July.
“Hopefully, I’ll earn a scholarship
next year.”
Behrends’ fate, Jim—who is also
the Chappell head coach — said he
supported his daughter’s decision not
to accept a scholarship elsewhere.
“I’m sure Coach. Pettit is just tick
led to have Kim walk on,” Jim
Behrends said. “I’m happy she’ll be at
Nebraska. That’s where I always
wanted her fo gO;? ' i; .
NU storms by K-State
behind Reitsma, Korver
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the Huskers 10-4 during the fourth
game. She added a kill, a block and an
ace during the 11-2 Husker run that
ended the match.
If Reitsma was the terminator, then
Korver was the demolisher in that
stretch. She started the Huskers off,
assisting on two blocks to close the lead
to 10-5. Kansas State opened the lead
to 11-5, but stalled there.
Korver combined with freshman
middle blocker Tania Tauke on a block
to pull Nebraska to 11-7. Following a
Reitsma ace at 11-9, Korver added a
kill to close the lead to 11 -10.
After two-hitting errors by Kansas
State, an ace by senior outside hitter
Kate Cmich put Nebraska up by two
at 13-11. The Wildcats finally scored
their 12th point, cutting the NU lead
to one. But Korver pounded the next
ball over the net to give Nebraska a
sideout, leading to the last two points
and the win.
The key for Nebraska throughout
the match was defense, Pettit said.
Nebraska held the Wildcats’ top hit
ter, senior middle blocker Kate
DeGerk, to only seven kills on 23 at
tempts, a. 174 percentage.
The problem for Nebraska was sub
stitution. Pettit used all of his first
game substitutions, forcing the Husk
ers to play with Korver and Tauke, pri
marily front-court players, in the back
row during game one. With the game
tied at nine, Tauke served four straight
points to put Nebraska up 13-9.
“My feeling is we out-served and
passed at critical moments,” Pettit said,
“critical moments being when the score
is tied at 1040 or 1141.”
Nebraska played the final 314
games without senior defensive spe
cialist Maria Hedbeck, who left mid
way thrdiigh the first game with a mi
graine. Hedbeck returned Saturday
against KU.
Moore was impressed with
Nebraska’s depth, but said he would
have liked to take better advantage of
the Husker middle blockers in the back
row.
“One of the things we wanted to do
was extend the game so they would run
out of substitutions,” Moore said. “If
you’re using a defensive specialist and
you run out of them, sometimes you
panic.
“And they didn’t.”
Huskers advance to Sweet 16
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characteristically yielded two first-half
goals. But Hornbacher rebounded
nicely in the second half and in over
time, coming up with several timely
saves.
“We had a couple defensive break
downs, Walker said. “One-third ol
being a goalkeeper is mental. The key
was that she didn’t let anything bother
her.”
Nebraska’s defensive effort also
improved after Minnesota’s two early
goals, defender Tanya Franck said. The
• Huskers out-shot the Gophers 33-24
and recorded 14 shots on goal to
Minnesota’s 12.
“We started winning some balls in
the air,” Franck said. “We were wear
ing them down. The forwards pres
sured hard and so did the midfielders
and defenders.”
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Swimmers
lose duals
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s and
women’s swimming and diving
teams were beaten in dual meets
Saturday night by Minnesota in
Minneapolis.
The No. 21 Husker men won
eight of 16 events, and were led
by Juan Benavides, who won
both the 50- and 100-yard
freestyles. Adam Pine took the
100- and 200-yard butterfly
events, and Danny Bergman won
the 1- and 3-meter diving com
petitions.
The NU women, ranked No.
12, received victories from
Conny Wenberg, Julia Russell,
Janet Danburg, Christine Troy
and diver T.D. Rowe.
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NU women
win by seven
From Staff Reports
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The Nebraska women’s basketball
team won its second exhibition of the
season, 75-69 over Club Uralmash on
Friday night at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
Anna DeForge scored 19 points and
Tina McClain added 12 for the
Comhuskers, who begin the regular
season Friday at Illinois State.
NU held a 44-25 lead with 2 min
utes, 5 seconds remaining in the first
half before Club Uralmash cut the lead
to 48-45 with 15:05 remaining in the
game.
“We beat an excellent team,” NU
Coach Angela Beck said. “We’re not
where we want to be right now, but
we’re ahead of a lot of people.”
Freshman Nicole Kubik had nine
points and Emily Thompson and
LaToya Doage each scored six.
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