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
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in NCAA Tournament
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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
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♦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
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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.”
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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.”
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