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Lane Hickenboitom/DN NEBRASKA WU UNBACKBI ERIC JOHNSON stops Kansas junior running back Juiius tsnice During tne toutdi quarter or saniruay* game. me h navenso neiii the Jayhawfcs to 21 yards on the ground and 27 yards passing. Jfc';' ':i NU records second consecutive shutout HUSKERS from page 10 ther delay, and the Huskers record ed just two first downs and gained only 38 yards through the rest of the half and all of the third quarter. “I think offensively, we were just a little bit disappointed in how we played,” Nebraska fullback Joel Makovicka said. Makovicka finished with 82 yards on 10 carries and scored two touchdowns. His output was the second-best yardage effort of his career - next to a 129-yard game at Washington on Sept. 20. But his biggest play of the day came when he returned a blocked punt 38 yards for a first down in NU’s sec ond drive of the game. Kansas cornerback Jason Harris blocked Jesse Kosch’s punt, and had KU recovered the ball die Jay hawks would have their best field position of the game. But Makovicka picked up die ball and gave the Huskers a first down as Kansas’s offense would never get past their own 45 yard line. Nebraska senior quarterback Scott Frost finished the game with 121 yards rushing an 21 carries and also ran for two touchdowns?^ Through the air, Frost completed four of nine passes for 33 yards, but wet footballs did not make con ditions ideal to throw in, Osborne said. “We didn’t execute great on offense,” Frost said. “We got it done, but we could have done it better. It’s kind of like painting your house pink. You get it painted, but it’s kind of ugly when you get done. And that’s the way we felt tonight. We definitely can play bet ter.” The Jayhawks struggled offen sively as well, but the Huskers entered the game knowing they weren’t going up against the great est offense, Osborne said. KU earned just four first downs and gained positive net yardage on just 5 of 13 drives. “The defensive effort was good,” Osborne said. “But we thought we should be able to stop them pretty well.” Soccer team defeats Sooners, Cowgirls From Staff Reports In cloudy, windy and cold condi tions at Parkhead Field in Norman, the ninth-ranked Nebraska soccer team downed Oklahoma 7-0 127 fans h e Comhuskers, who e f e a t e d Oklahoma State 4-1 on Friday, won their 1 l^-straight game, improving their record to 15-2 overall and 8-0 in the Big 12 Conference. The Sooners, who fell to 2-13, were outshot by NU 37-2. Senior All-American Kari Uppinghouse and junior Kim Engesser each booted two goals, \ while sophomores Lindsay Eddleman and Amy Walsh and fresh man Julie Greco each added one. With a three-goal effort against Oklahoma State on Friday, Uppinghouse tied Engesser for the team lead in points. An assist on Sunday, along with her two goals, propelled Uppinghouse past Engesser to a total of 38 points this season on 16 goals and six assists. Engesser, who scored once against OSU, ranks second on the team with 37 points. All three of Uppinghouse’s goals on Friday came in the first half, and Engesser added another in the sec ond. But Oklahoma State’s Emily Morgan managed to sneak a goal past NU reserve goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc with 30 seconds remaining in the game and ended Nebraska’s consecutive shutout streak at nine. “We played very well from start to finish,” NU Coach John Walker said Friday. “We got a good, strong effort from everybody, and I thought we had good intensity.” In their last 11 games, die Huskers have outscored their opponents 56-1. Before Friday, Nebraska had gone 937 consecutive minutes without allowing a goal, dating back to NU’s 1-0 loss at Texas A&M on Sept 14. The Huskers will return to action Friday at home against St. Louis at 7 p m. and will play host to Minnesota at 1 p.m. Sunday. By Antone Oseka Senior Reporter LAWRENCE, Kan. - It was only one play in the course of 123 offen sive plays of the football game. But, midway through the first quarter of Nebraska’s 35-0 win over Kansas, if will be the play that is remembered for years to come. Nebraska was leading 7-0, but set up for its first punt of the game. Kansas senior defensive back Jason Harris broke through the line and blocked the punt off NU punter Jesse Kosch’s leg. The ball easily could have bounced into Kansas’arms. “We had to have the blocked punt bounce up into one of our guys’ hands and let him run it for a touch down,” Kansas Coach Terry Allen said. However, the ball wound up in Nebraska junior fullback Joel Makovicka’s hands and he took off 38 yards to the Kansas 32-yard line for a Nebraska first down. Kansas would hold NU scoreless on that drive, but that play set an ominous tone for the Jayhawks (4-4 overall and 2-3 in the Big 12 Conference). “We looked at it and said, ‘Let’s go out there and stop them,”’ senior defensive tackle Brett McGraw said. “It’s one of those plays that are in the ups and downs of a football game. You have to look past them and keep playing.” Harris said most of his defensive teammates were planning a punt return to the left side of the field, thus being easy for Nebraska to block when the ball fell into Makovicka’s arms. “It was a block right and return left, I think,” Harris said, “and most of guys were back there setting up the wall foe the return. Tiie next thing -fou kndw •flieyset upmeir oitfnwall and started picking us off one by one.” After the punt was blocked, the KU offense was ready to take the field. “You go from ‘we’re going to be close to scoring’ to ‘shoot, we’re not even out there,’” senior running back Eric Vann said. “It’s a big turnaround as far as your mind-set goes. You’re just like ‘bad luck. Is there any good luck going to be involved tonight?”’ The failed blocked punt wasn’t the only bad luck for the Jayhawks. Nebraska fumbled the ball three times but all bounced either out of bounds or right back to the Huskers. “We got die blocked punt, I think they had three fumbles and they all bounced up into their hands in that first half, “ Allen said. “When breaks do happen, we had to have them go our way. When die ball was fumbled around, it had to bounce into our hands.” For the game, Nebraska fumbled the football four times but didn’t lose any of them. Kansas also fumbled u— There wasn’t a kid out there that quit tonight and that gives you a great hope for the future.” Terry Allen KU coach four times in the game and did turn one of them over. “Sometimes tonight the luck might have fallen on their side,” McGraw said. “Whenever things like that happen you past them and go on. If you don’t, you’re going to be in big trouble.” From the blocked punt on, it seemed as if Lady Luck was on the Huskers’ sideline. Of the 42,000 fans attending the game, at least half were Husker fans. Allen said he was extremely proud that his team didn’t give up after trailing 21-0 and losing half the lights in the game. A power grid out side Lawrence went out, eliminating half the lights at Memorial Stadium. “There wasn’t a kid out there who quit tonight and that gives you a great hope for the future,” Allen said. “We made them work for everything that they got and that was the key for us.” Sometimes, Vann added, just playing a team like Nebraska can take you out of your rhythm and game plan. “All those teams that play Nebraska are only hoping to win, just hoping to make a good showing,” he said. Below are the two majoF" college football polls. HP ftp 25 Rank School Record Pvs M ' I 2 . 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Passlag Passbw No. Name Att Cmp bit Yds TD No. Name Att Cmp bit Yds TD wmmmm?., dmmmm u mm** - ■ itm- m 1 Frankie London 1 0 0 0 0 Gams Stats mu a mum a mmmm- **: .n ■■ * ; ^ ** vs \*< Rushing attempts 65 31 Interoeptions 0 0 Passing attempts 10 17 Punt returns/yards 9/35 2/10 wmmvm&mt* ' ww* v,■ ■■■tm:.- mr&ii* Passing yards 33 27 Time of possession 34:20 25:40 Total yards 415 48 Fourth-down conversion 2of4 OofO Average yards perpfey M HHMHPi ?$***&*>• Marlins make history in World Series victory MIAMI (AP)—Edgar Renteria ended one of the most thrilling Game 7s ever, singling home the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning to give the Florida Marlins their first World Series championship with a 3-2 win over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday night. The 5-year-old Marlins became the youngest expansion team to win a championship. The Marlins, masters of the late inning comeback, tied it at 2-2 in the ninth on Craig Counsell’s sacrifice fly and then took advantage of sec ond baseman Tony Fernandez’s error to score the winning run. This marked just the third time in history that a Game 7 had gone to extra innings. Marlins manager Jim Leyland celebrated his first trip to the Series, watching the wild-card Marlins win alter spending nearly $ 100 million during the winter to bolster a team that had never had a winning record. “I guess every little boy imag ines this might happen at one time. It’s a total fantasy for me,” Leyland said. “I was a little concerned. We haven’t given up all year - tonight wasn’t the time to give up. When we walked into die clubhouse tonight, we knew we were going to be world champions.”