High school senior commits
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“This summer I played all over the
country and played against some of
the best kids in die nation,” Bowling
said. “I felt that I was good enough to
play at the Division I level, but I
thought I had a better chance at play
ing time in football.”
He also considered playing foot
ball at Colorado State, Air Force,
Iowa State, Purdue and Wyoming, but
Bowling said he chose Nebraska for
many reasons, including facilities,
coaching and graduation rate.
“I know Nebraska is going to be
really tough,” Bowling said. “I’m just
going to go down there with the right
attitude and play hard.”
Bowling is the Huskers’ fifth in
state commitment. Nebraska has
received verbal commitments from
Chris Kelsay, a 6-4lA, 235-pound rush
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I know Nebraska
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Jon Bowling
Lincoln Southeast High senior
end from Auburn; Nate Kolterman, a
6-4, 310-pound offensive lineman
from Seward; DeAntae Grixby, a 5-9,
190-pound I-back from Omaha
Central; Dahrran Diedrick, a 6-1,
210-pound I-back from Scarborough,
Ontario; and Jeremy Slechta, a 6
foot-5, 260-pound defensive lineman
from Papillion. High school seniors
cannot sign letters of intent until
February.
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By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
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Amid the strongest field in the
regular season, the Nebraska
men’s and women’s cross country
teams held their own in the
Furman Invitational in Greenville,
S.C., on Saturday.
The women finished eighth in
a field that included 11 ranked
teams. The men finished in the
middle of the pack at 13th. Top
ranked Stanford won both the
men’s and women’s competitions.
Husker coach Jay Dirksen said
he thought both the men’s and
women’s teams competed well in
the meet, which is seen as the pre
cursor to the NCAA
Championships.
“This meet didn’t hurt us at
all,” Dirksen said. “We competed
hard, and both teams ran pretty
well. We can still be better than we
are now, but we’re getting better
every week, which is good.”
On the women’s side, freshman
Amy Wiseman was again the top
Husker, finishing 33 rd overall with
a time of 18:00. Sophomore Jaime
Pauli was 35th with a time of
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18:01, senior Nora Shepherd fin
ished 52nd with a time of 18:15,
freshman Kate Centerwall was
73rd at 18:32, and sophomore
Melinda Mohr was 74th with a
time of 18:33.
Dirksen said he was happy with
all five runners, and he was espe
cially pleased that only 33 seconds
separated the Huskers’ top runner
from their fifth runner in the race.
Dirksen said he was happy with
Pauli’s effort in South Carolina.
“That was the best race of
Jaime Pauli’s collegiate career,”
Dirksen said. “She really ran a
well-managed race. She didn’t get
out too fast and saved a lot of her
self for the end of the race.”
On the men’s side of the com
petition, senior Cleophas Boor and
freshman JerOen Broekzitter again
led the way for the Huskers. Boor,
still recovering from injuries sus
tained in a bike accident, finished
sixth in the race with a time of
24:25, while Broekzitter made a
strong move at the end to finish
ninth at 24:44. Senior Aaron
Johnson was 64th, freshman
Marcus Witter was 128th and
junior Lou Petricca was 126th.
Dirksen said Boor is finally
working into the form he had last
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year.
“Cleophas is getting back to
running the way he’s used to,”
Dirksen said. “He’s almost at that
level where he’s going to be up in
first of second in each race.”
Dirksen said that Broekzitter
put on one of the more impressive
kicks at the end of the race in the
entire field.
“Other than the guy who won
the race, Jeroen was moving better
than everybody out there at the
end,” he said. “His kick is a big
part of racing ability.”
Colorado’s Adam Goucher won
the race with a time of 24:00, and
the Buffaloes finished second with
72 points.
Next week is Ann Arbor,
Mich., where NU will take part in
the Wolverine Inter-Regional.
Dirksen said after Furman, the
Huskers are ready for anything.
“After a field like this,”
Dirksen said, “we’re confident that
we can go anywhere.”
on their feet
By Nate Odgaard
Staff Reporter e
After a shaky performance in its
first and only home meet of the year
Saturday at Sun Valley Lanes, the
Nebraska womens’ bowling team
rebounded with a solid effort Sunday
in Omaha.
The result is a one-point leSd oyer
Wichita State in the Great Plains
Conference Tournament, one portion
of which was ran by the Huskers and
University of Nebraska at Omaha this
weekend. Nebraska currently has 62
points in the ongoing tournament.
Each of the four other represented
teams in the tournament will hold
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competition in its home bowling all^y
beginning in January. Scores will be
accumulated from each site to deter
mine the champion. Other teams
competing in the tournament include
Central Missouri, Southwest
Missouri State, Kansas, Wichita State
and UNO.
The tournament involves a match
game format in which each team
bowls against one another. One point
is awarded for each of the five indi
vidual head-to-head games, and three
points go to the team that accumu
lates the most points from the indi
vidual results.
Junior Jen Daugherty said
Nebraska redeemed itself Sunday
after “struggling a bit” at Sun Valley
Lanes.
“I think we really stepped it up a
notch,” she said. “Our intensity level
was a lot higher.”
The Huskers were more focused
and more supportive of each other,
Daugherty said
“We started out slow, but we built
on that, and that’s what I see continu
ing,” she said.
Daugherty and sophomore Jen
Davis led Nebraska with averages of
215 and 207, respectively.
Transfer Stacy Rogers and sopho
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Our intensity
level was
a lot
higher’
Jen Daugherty
NU bowler (
more Lori Hillman competed for the
first time as Huskers this season on
Sunday. Both are battling for a per
manent spot in the top five.
“I was nervous. I got in the groove
pretty fast, though,” said Hillman,
who averaged a 192.
Nebraska coach Bill Straub said
both women performed well.
The Nebraska men’s team took a
step forward over the weekend,
Straub said.
The Huskers, who placed seventh
in the Milwaukee Tournament two
weeks ago, finished first with 63
points and now lead Central Missouri
State by 11 points.
Freshman David Spencer bowled
a 222 average, and junior Dan White
rolled a 215.
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“I think the linebackers, as a
whole, played well,” Ortiz said.
“We knew what we had to do, and
% we just came out and did it.”
But the solid linebacker play
wasn’t just a freak occurrence,
junior rush end Chad Kelsay said.
When the defensive line does its
job, the linebackers get more
plays. And both played well
Saturday, Kelsay said.
Nebraska’s defensive line
knocked down 15 tackles - includ
ing three for losses. But tackles,
Kelsay said, shouldn’t always nec
essarily be made by the linemen.
“If we can get our linebackers
making tons of plays, that’s great,”
Kelsay said. “Our job is to take
guys out and free up our lineback
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ers.
The rain at Floyd Casey
Stadium Saturday created slippery
footballs, which made passing a
chore. So Nebraska knew it would
see a lot of Baylor’s running game,
Will linebacker Eric Johnson said.
Other than an 80-yard break
away run by Baylor senior tailback
Jerod Douglas, the Huskers held
the Bears to 57 yards on 36
attempts.
Douglas’ run made Nebraska
focus, Ortiz said.
“We were upset about that,”
Ortiz said. “But what makes great
teams is how we respond. We just
played hard-nosed football and
kept pounding them.”
Overall, Osborne said he was
not pleased with the play of the
second and third team players.
“Some of the things we.’ve
been seeing in practice, we saw
out there tonight ” Osborne said.
“I think sometimes the lose a little
bit of their intensity. We need to
play better than that.”
