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Difficult pin spots hinder golf teams By Darren Ivy Staff Reporter Nearly impossible pin placement at the Big 12 Women’s Preview in Columbia, Mo., had many of the golf coaches see ing green Tuesday after noon. NU coach Robin Krapfl said Tuesday’s round was a struggle for all the golfers because the pin placements were Krapfl ridiculous. Most of the holes were on the steepest parts of the greens, she said. “It was a difficult golf course anyway,” Krapfl said. “The Missouri assistant coaches didn’t need to do that. They placed the pins where the pros couldn’t even have made shots.” NU’s 323 was the fourth best score of the day, but the team fin ished in sixth place overall with a three-round score of 951. Oklahoma State won the tournament with a 921. WWWmWMWWMWMMMMM NU junior Gretchen Doerr shot a 77„which Krapfl said was one of the best scores of the third round. Doerr shot an 86 and 80 on Monday during the first two rounds to finish the tournament tied for 33rd. Under the circumstances, Krapfl said the team played well on Tuesday. However, she was disap pointed with its play on Monday. The Huskers had hoped to challenge for the title after shooting a school record 887 at the Colorado Invitational Sept. 29-30, but they never got going, Krapfl said. “I don’t know what went wrong,” Krapfl said. Senior Rachelle Tacha continued her solid play, and led all Huskers with a 16th place finish at 236. Senior Shirin Homecker and sopho more Hanne Nyquist finished in a tie for 25th with 239 strokes. Sophomore Susie Kiene rounded out the scoring for the Huskers with a 25l and a tie for 48th. Krapfl said she didn’t think her team’s poor showing at the tourna ment would affect its winter prac tice. “Hopefully by not playing well we will be more motivated to prac tice harder over the winter.” SMMOOQaaoooaaaaftaflwvwMvsflflflflflflflflflflflfli Wins built in first half ■ NU is outscoring foes 93-30 in the beginnings of its games this year. By Sam McKewon Staff Reporter While the fourth quarter is consid ered by many coaches as the point where football games are won or lost, sometimes a game can be over early in the first half. Nebraska has made a habit of posting big leads in the first quarter and never looking back. So far this season, NU has outscored its oppo nents 93-30 in the first half, 38-13 in the first quarter. Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said a good start to the game is critical to the Huskers’ success. “You always want to come out and do something early in the first half,” Osborne said. “We’ve always felt that big games are won in the fourth quar ter, but you can’t play well in the fourth quarter if you didn’t play too well in the first three.” The Huskers’ game against Washington serves as the best exam ple so far this season of what early scores can do. Facing a hostile crowd and the then-second-ranked team in the country, NU quarterback Scott Frost scored two first-quarter touch The Score II The Nebraska Football team has controlled their first four games of the season by outscoring their opponents by a combined score of 63 points in the first half. Team 1st Quarter 2ndQyarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter Total | Nebraska 38 pts. .. 55 pts. . , 52 pts. 35pfe. laopls. Opponents 13 pts. 17 pts. 20 pts. 28 pts. 78 pts. downs as NU led 14-0 just 15 minutes into the game. Nebraska added a touchdown in the second quarter and went on to win the game 27-14. Junior I-back Ahman Green said the two quick scores deflated the Huskies for much of the game. “It took the wind out of their sails,” Green said. “You could see that they were a little frustrated early in that game. We lost a little of the momentum in the third quarter, but we got it back m the fourth ” The biggest moment in that game may have been before Nebraska’s offense even touched the ball. Washington drove to the NU 16 on its initial drive of the game, but failed to convert on a third down and two and then missed a 33-yard field goal to come away with no points. Junior Mike linebacker Jay Foreman said holding the Huskies on that drive was a key to the rest of the first quarter for the Huskers. “It was big for us,” Foreman said. “We let them down there with three offsides penalties and they still didn’t score. I think it gave us a lot of confi dence that we could stop Washington, especially when we eliminated the penalties.” The only game Nebraska hasn’t led at halftime this season was Central Florida, where NU trailed UCF 17-14 at the break. While the Huskers went on to win 38-24, Osborne said the first half hurt the Huskers. “A lot of times, the first quarter is a sparring match,” he said. “You try and figure out what the other team is going to give you and what you have to do to stop them. We probably gave Central Florida a little too much early in the game.” The same holds true for the Huskers last season. NU outscored opponents 251-69 in the first half, 82 29 in the first quarter. The only two games where NU was outscored in the first were against Arizona State (17-0) and Texas (20-17). Nebraska lost both, 19-0 to the Sundevils and 37-27 to Texas. The Sun Deyils jumped out to a 9 0 lead after only 4:22 had elapsed. Green said that the two quick ASU scores gave the Huskers a wake-up call. “We realized that we were in a tough ballgame, and we had to get our act together,” Green said. “In that game, we were really never able to do that.” This season, Foreman said Nebraska has focused on the running game on both sides of the ball to establish the tone of the game. “The running game is everything to us,” Foreman said. “If we stop the run, then we make the other team one dimensional. And if we run the ball, we can do what we want. The reason we score so much is we stop the run and run the ball.” I POPPA KOLLO S PIZZA, P “Best Pizza” Family owned in Waco and operated 1984-1997. .IT since 1969. 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Still Nebraska was 11 strokes behind win ner Miami of Ohio, which shot an 845. Kansas finished second with an 852, while Wichita State shot an 855 and came in third. i^c&pnc a luurm-piace tally, Romjue said he was impressed with how his team played. “The course wasn’t easy, so to have done as well as we did is a good thing,” he said. “We played better than we have played this year, scorewise.” The Legends of Indiana Golf Course featured more than 10 lakes and 140 hazards on the par-72 layout, making it one ofjhe harder courses the Huskers have played this year. Romjue said the team was able to stay away from trouble for most of the tournament. “We negotiated the course pretty well for never having played the course before,” he said. “It was a course that presented many hazards, and when we got in them, it hurt us, but for the most part we stayed out of them.” Junior Steve Friesen, who finished in a tie for third overall, led the Huskers with his best three rounds of the year, shooting a 54-hole total of 208, including a 67 in the second round. Junior Jamie Rogers finished witha215. Friesen struggled in the first tour 66 We negotiated the course pretty well for never having played the course before... Larry Romjue men’s golf coach nament of the year in Colorado, but has since rebounded. Much of the improvement can be attributed to Friesen’s return to hitting a draw on the golf course as compared to trying to hit cuts and fades, Romjue said. “Steve was experimenting a lot with his ball flight, and he was strug gling a little with trying to cut the ball,” Romjue said. “I told him to just go back to what he’s comfortable with, which is a draw.” i ne loumainem marics me second time this season the Huskers have fin ished outside the top three. While Romjue isn’t completely satisfied with that statistic, he is happy with how well NU is scoring. “We’re shooting good scores right now,” he said. “It’s just a matter of looking at where your competitlbn is and getting to the point where you’re shooting better than they are.” Nebraska needs to continue to score, Romjue said, as the Huskers enter their toughest competition of the year in the Kroger Intercollegiate Invitational in Memphis, Tenn. Oct. 13 through Oct. 14. Five ranked teams will be at the tournament, including Auburn, Florida State and LSU. “We’re going to have to be on top of our game down there,” he said. “If we play well, we’ll be up there among the top five.”
