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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
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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.
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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.”