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NU’s Rogers ties record
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
Nebraska junior golfer Jamie
Rogers tied a tournament record
score while winning the Falcon
Cross Creek Invitational in Colorado
Springs, Colo., last weekend.
The Huskers finished the tourna
ment fifth overall with an 875 score.
California won the tournament with
a three-round score of 865.
Rogers, a native of
Maroochydore, Australia, shot a 6
under-par, 210 to win in the
Huskers* first tournament of the
year. Rogers completed the same
feat in 1995, when he won the first
tournament he ever participated in.
Rogers said going into the tour
nament, he felt very confident about
his chances in the field.
“I went in expecting to win for
the most part,” Rogers said. “The
course is set up for guys who like to
hit draws, and I’m a person that hits
a draw. I knew the par 5s were all
very reachable, so I felt like I had a
good chance to win it”
NU coach Larry Romjue said
Rogers can be at the top of any tour
nament he plays in this season if he is
on his game.
“If he stays on this course as far
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For having the medalist and seventh
place finisher, we should have done
better as a team.”
Larry Romjue
NU men’s golf coach
his scoring average is concerned,
he’s one of the top half-dozen players
in the nation,” Romjue said. “He just
has great ability and knows how to
play the game.”
Rogers said his strong short
game during the weekend aided him
the most. The greens were tough to
read, Rogers said, but he started
rolling the ball into the cup early in
the tournament.
“I was on the practice green and
I just started running them in,” he
said. “It was kind of like that all
week long.”
The team, unlike Rogers, didn’t
quite live up to Romjue’s expecta
tions. The Huskers failed to defend
the title they won last year.
Romjue said he was pleased with
Rogers and fellow Australian Josh
Madden’s performance. Madden
tied for seventh with an even-par
216.
But Romjue was disappointed
with the play of the rest of die team.
“For having the medalist and
seventh-place finisher, we should
have done better as a team,” Romjue
said. “We didn’t get the kind of sup
port we needed to finish the way we
wanted to.”
Playing in the first tournament of
the year caused some of the prob
lems for the Huskers, Romjue said.
“Last year, we won this tourna
ment having already played one,”
Romjue said. “It usually takes us one
tournament to get up and running
and playing like we want to.”
Romjue said he feels confident
that he can get his team back on track
for the Kansas Invitational on next
Monday and Tuesday in Lawrence.
“I’m willing to give these guys
the benefit of the doubt after the first
tournament,” he said. “I think we’ll
be where we want to be.”
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Reitsma leads quietly
REITSMA from page 7
and blocks.
Last Saturday against No. 17
Ohio State, Reitsma’s 22 kills and
.475 hitting percentage again led the
Huskers. , f
Despite her statistics, Nebraska
coach Terry Pettit said Reitsma felt a
f little disappointed with her perfor
mance.
“Lisa is a perfectionist and she
wants to do everything really well,”
Pettit said. “But what we wanted was
for her to celebrate when she did good
things and to bring that energy to the
court. She is a genuinely shy, intro
verted person, and yet we need for her
to do that. She understands the issue
and she really is making an effort.”
Reitsma is also making an effort
to improve the fundamental aspects
of her game. Reitsma accepted an
invitation from U.S. National Team
coach Mick Haley to practice with the
team for one month over the summer.
Competing with the Huskers’ for
mer three-time All-American Allison
Weston, Reitsma held her own, Haley
said.
“I think she can stand out at this
level,” Haley said. “Lisa has the
potential and the height. In some
ways, she’s as good as Allison. She’s
. every bit as good a blocker and maybe
even better than Allison.”
While Haley praised her attack
and blocking ability, he said Reitsma
needs to improve her serve receive
and defense. Reitsma recognizes her
weaknesses, and Haley said he
believes Pettit has taken the initiative
to help her.
“Lisa and Coach Pettit are on the
same page,” Haley said. “Terry is
using her more as a primary passer,
and that will help her. It’s really a
major item. The better she is at that,
the more likely it is that she’ll play at
this level.”
Haley has invited Reitsma to join
the national team full time in January;
however, Reitsma’s primary concern
is helping Nebraska win a national
championship. The runner-up nation
al player of the year in 1996, Reitsma
said winning the honor this season
remains far from her thoughts.
“Now, I just want to get back to
the Final Four and win another cham
pionship,” Reitsma said. “This pro
gram has helped me develop into the
kind of player I want to be, and I just
want to keep improving and have the
chance to leave my mark.”
Making an impact on Nebraska
volleyball is something Pettit said
Reitsma - who holds school records
for kills in a season (611), kills per
game in a season (5.05), total attacks
(1,468) and attacks per game (12.13)
- has already accomplished.
1 Big 12 assesses damage
BIG 12 from page 7
any more in college football.
“If you don’t come ready to play
anymore, you’re going to get beat,”
Slocum said. “It used to be where
there were about 10 teams that were
better than anyone else and barring
any miracles, you knew they were
going to win.”
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne
said he isn’t worried about; the Big
12 as a whole, but rather looks at
each individual team for analysis.
“I’ve got enough burden worry
ing about Washington than to think
about the league’s image,” he said.
Slocum said it was too early for
his team to be looking down the road
at an undefeated season.
“We’re not sticking out our
chests at anybody right now,”
Slocum said. “We’re not going to
look at what we can do down the
road and even worry about anything
except the next game,”
In the end, though, many coaches
see the end of November as being a
much more important time of year
than middle September. Oklahoma
State coach Bob Simmons, whose
team is 3-0 for the first time since
1982, said he is putting little stock in
the big losses over the weekend.
“Texas is a good program.
Colorado is a good program,”
Simmons said. “They just didn’t play
well on a particular day. Good foot
ball teams find a way back in.
Everybody makes decisions about
who’s out and who’s in right now.
Let’s talk about who is out of the pic
ture in November.”
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