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NU women breeze past two foes HOOPS from page 10 remaining in the first half. NU then out-scored the Bison 29-11 to take control of the game. On Saturday, St. Louis led 8-7 with 4'A minutes gone in the first half. But in the last 15 minutes of the half, Nebraska went on a 34-17 run. “I like the way they focused and played,” Beck said. “We wanted to keep them under 55 points and we did it. We wanted to keep them at 35 percent field-goal percentage. We wanted to out-rebound them, and we did.” Nebraska junior Anna DeForge led the Huskers both nights with 12 points against Bucknell and 19 against St Louis. DeForge, who was named the tournament’s most valu able player, scored 26 of her 31 points this weekend in the first half. Husker senior Tina McClain and freshman Nicole Kubik were also named to the all-tournament team. Kubik and McClain both averaged 10 points in the two games. “It doesn’t matter how much we are ahead by, we had a goal in each game to hold them to so many points,” Kubik said. “It doesn’t matter who’s in the game, we all have the same goal to hold them to a certain number of points. Every body takes pride in that.” NU will play Creighton in Omaha at 7 p.m. Tuesday. NU earns No. 4 seed • . •'* V in NCAA Tournament NCAA from page 10 NU has played with a lot of poise since losing a five-game match at Texas Tech on Oct. 26. Nebraska has won 10 consecutive matches and has won 30 of its last 33 games. Nebraska enters the tournament af ter playing a difficult schedule. The Huskers are 14-2 against 10 teams that made die tournament field of 48, which included, six Big 12 schools. The Huskers wrapped up the first ever Big 12 title by winning 15-11,7 15.15- 8,15-5 at Texas Friday and 15 3.15- 13,15-7 at Texas A&M Satur day. Nebraska, which finished the sea son with a 19-1 conference record, earned the championship Friday night. At home, the Huskers have been almost unbeatable. NU has won 30 straight home matches -— and 29 straight at the coliseum. In post-sea son play, Nebraska is 21-3 all-time at the coliseum. “That’s really neat and very impor tant for a lot of reasons,” Pettit said. “If we are fortunate enough to win, our players would get to stay in school an other week and then Nebraska has tre mendous fan support.” Nebraska setter Fiona Nepo agreed. “We knew if we got to host a re gional, we’d have a really good chance at making the Final Four,” said Nepo, Nebraska’s sophomore captain. Stanford is the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed and the top team in the West Region. Florida is the Brown \ ♦Maryland / ♦Penn St ♦George Mason/* * First-round bye tournament’s No. 2 seed and seeded No. 1 in the Central Region. Hawaii, which lost to Brigham Young in the Western Athletic Conference tourna ment final Saturday in Las Vegas, earned the No. 3 seal overall and the No. 1 seed in the Mountain Region. “Every region is a tough region,” Pettit said. “There are two or three teams capable of winning a Final-Four match in each region. There are four or five teams capable of beating any one in a given region.” Huskers down Buffs 17-12 > - ... . , , . , uu irom page g seal the win. - “The best thing we did offensive!) all day was the last drive, where we didn’t give the ball back to them anc we were able to hammer away,’ Cfc&orne said. For the game, Nebraska out-gainec CU 294 yards to 277 yards. “The defense came up with the stops that we needed,” Frost said, “anc it’s a team game, so we are all out dim playing for the same thing. The defense picked us up, and we picked them uj in the end.” In the beginning, Colorado marched the ball 52 yards in 10 plays on the opening series ofthe game, taking a 3 0 lead when Aldrich’s first career field goal attempt bounced off the crossbai and skipped through the uprights. It was the first time Nebraska hac trailed since losing to Arizona State 19 ; 0 on Sept. 21. Less than four minutes later, the Buffs capitalized on an Ahman Greer fumble, which was recoveredby Ryai Black at the NU 35. Aldrich ther drilled a 40-yarder moments later tc give CU a 6-0 lead. The next time Colorado’s offense took the field, Detmer’s first down pasi was tipped by defensive tackle Jef Ogard near the line of scrimmage a the CU 16. Foreman* picked the ball out of the air and returned it 21 yards for a touch down, putting NU in front 7-6 despite the ineptitude of its offense, which hac yet to gain a first down. There is a time in the game where yoiTve got to come together like brothers and sisters out there and step up” Jast Foreman NU linebacker “We always like to make something , happen,” Foreman said, “and it was my turn to make die big play.” The Huskers extended their lead to 10-6 on a 30-yard field goal by Kris Brown with 12:46 left in the second quarter. Thai Evans, who became NU’s of fensive workhorse because of a toe in jury to Green and Damon Benning’s ankle sprain, took over. No. 4 I-back Jay Sims (sore ankle) was also unavailable Friday* leaving 1 NU with no depth behind Evans, who 1 missed a day of practice last week be 1 cause of a groin injury. Schuster, a full 1 back, was next in line to play at I-back, > said Frank Solich, NU’s running backs coach. But Evans, a true freshman from i Wichita, Kan., held up. He rushed foi ' 59 of his game-high 123 yards on i t seven play, 78-yard second-quartei drive that he capped with a 7-yaid spin ning touchdown. The lone offensivt 5 touchdown of the game widened NU’: [ lead to 17-6 with 6:47 left in the half [ That was one of few bright spots for Nebraska’s offense, which lost fou of five fumbles—three of which were inside its own 39-yard line — and gained only 13 first downs. NU also hurt itself by committing 11 penalties for 70 yards. “Our defense did a great job of holding us in there,” Osborne said. “We didn’t have a great offensive day.” Playing without suspended line backer Terrell Farley, Nebraska threw a defensive loop at the Buffs. * Mike Minter, who^started the first 10 games of the season at rover, moved , to the Will linebacker position. The 5 foot-9, 190-pound Minter harassed Detmer all day, recording four tackles and breaking up one pa®. Frost, who competed 6 of 14 passes for 56 yards and rushed for 32 yards, said the offense played well enough to win. “We were in that mode again where we were hurting ourselves,” Frost said. “The turnovers kill you, and that let | them back in the game. 1 “We feel like we are playing good enough football to beat anyone in the ! country right now, and we are going to r have a chance to prove that.” ill ’■ * ' ; ' 1 NU wresders take 5th at Mat Tbwn Invite From Staff Reports Nebraska heavyweight wrestler Tolly Thompson was beaten 8-5 by top-ranked Keny McCoy of Penn State Saturday in the finals of the Mat Town Invitational in Lock Ha ven, Penn. The Comhuskers finished fifth with a score of 90, trailing team champion Penn State, which was followed by Rider, Lock Haven and Pittsburgh. The heavyweight battle pitted the 1994 national champion, McCoy, against the 1995 champion, Thompson. Other than Thompson, oily 158 pounder Jason Kraft reached the fi nals for Nebraska. Kraft was beaten by Oregon’s Scott Norton on an overtime tie-breaker. “I was disappointed Tolly lost his match to McCoy,” NU Coach Tim Neumann said, “and that Jason Kraft lost in the finals. You hope that once a guy reaches the finals, he is trained to be a champion. But they both just fell a little short.” Jeramie Welder at 126 pounds and 134-pounder Brad Canoyer fin ished third for Nebraska; 118 pounder Darin Giese and 142 pounder Allen Hankins were fourth; Ryan Bauer finished fifth at 150 and Terry McCreary was seventh at the same weight. “Placing someone at every weight from 118 to 158 was encour aging,” Neumann said, “but finish ing fifth was a little disappointing.” Regular Dental Care. /r~^n\ f f University I \ / V Health Center J \ \ Dental Office / Brush Healthy Diet \ 472-7495 ( Twice-a-Day ^^^■Floss Once-a-Day-^^^ UNL Is a nondiscriminatory Institution. 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