Huskers come back to top Tech
Monson helps NU extend streak to eight matches
By Shannon Heffelfinger
Assignment Reporter
The Nebraska volleyball team
rose to meet a difficult challenge
Friday night from upset-minded Texas
Tech, and NU did not slip Saturday
when it encountered little resistance
against a struggling Baylor team.
The 1 lth-ranked Cornhuskers
(23-6 overall and 14-4 in the Big 12
Conference) battled Texas Tech in a
five-game match that lasted 2 lA
hours.
NU finally secured an 8-15,13
15,15-10,15-6,15-10 victory in front
of 538 at Municipal Coliseum in
Lubbock, Texas.
Saturday, NU needed only 80
minutes to defeat Baylor 15-3,15-13,
15-3 in front of 213 at the Ferrell
Center in Waco, Texas.
The two victories pushed the
Huskers’ conference win streak to
eight with two matches remaining in
the regular season.
“I’m pleased with this weekend,”
NU Coach Terry Pettit said. “It was
two vastly different matches. Friday
night, we struggled and showed some
character. Saturday, we were just
dominant.”
NU faced a difficult challenge
against Tech, the conference’s fifth
place team.
In the rally-scoring fifth game
against the Red Raiders, freshman
Nancy Meendering pounded a kill
and served two consecutive aces as
Nebraska jumped to an early 3-0 lead.
“Meendering came in and gave us
a lift and played aggressively,” Pettit
said. “Once she did that, (Mandy)
Monson and (Angie) Oxley started
digging balls. I have a feeling
Meendering really made the differ
ence.”
The Huskers continued to build an
advantage, allowing Tech (22-9 and 9
8) only five points while NU strung
together seven points for an 11-5 lead.
The Red Raiders answered with
four straight points to cut Nebraska’s
advantage to 11-9, but NU permitted
only one moreTech point and closed
the match with a 15-10 win.
Monson, who totaled 12 kills and
a .478 hitting percentage against
Baylor, led the Huskers with 19 kills
against Tech.
Lisa Reitsma had a season-low
nine kills.
“This may have been one of the
most important matches of the year
for us,” Pettit said. “We went down on
the road to a very good team and our
best player had an off night. We just
had to find a way to win.”
_ Nebraska plays host to No. 10
Texas Friday night and closes the reg
ular season Saturday against No. 17
Texas A&M at the NU Coliseum.
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to reach national meet
By Sam McKewon
Staff Reporter
Before the season, Nebraska
Cross Country Coach Jay Dirksen
never envisioned what his men’s and
women’s teams endured this season.
But both squads ended with the same
predicted result: a berth in the NCAA
Championships, today in Greenville,
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The NU men’s and women’s
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are at the NCAA Championships.
“If you would have told before
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The men’s team received a wild
card bid after finishing third at the
District 5 Championships in Ames,
Iowa, on Nov. 15. The women’s team
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day by finishing second in the NCAA
Midwest Regionals.
Dirksen said he wants both
Husker teams to finish in the top 20.
Stanford is the prohibitive favorite on
the women’s side, while Stanford and
Arkansas are the favorite for the men.
NU’s men features the 1-2 combi
nation of freshman Jeroen
Broekzitter and senior Cleophas
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together in all but one race this sea
son. Last season, Boor was third
overall in the NCAA Championships
and is the highest returning runner
for the meet this season.
Dirksen said he expects
Broekzitter and Boor to finish some
where in the top 25.
“Both of them are running really
well right now,” he said. “Cleophas
had an accident earlier in the season,
but he coming around more now.”
The rest of the men’s lineup
includes senior Aaron Johnson,
junior Lou Petricca and freshman
Marcus Witter.
The women’s team has had sever
al lineup changes during the season,
and may have to deal with another
injury. Sophomore Jaime Pauli will
run today with a stress fracture in her
leg. That may force freshman Deb
Osteen or Kate Centerwall to finish
in a scoring position for the Huskers.
Dirksen said he plans to rely on
freshman Amy Wiseman to lead the
Huskers again in Greenville.
Wiseman has led Nebraska in every
race this season.
“Coach has taught me that I get
farther if I’m passing people at the
end of the race than I do starting out
fast,” Wiseman said. “I don’t want to
waste my energy at the beginning and
die.”
It helped that Nebraska has run
on the NCAA course earlier this sea
son when competing in the Furman
Invitational. Dirksen said the famil
iarity of the trip will help the team
adjust.
“We’re taking the same flights
and driving the same routes and
doing the same things,” he said.
“We’ve done this before.”
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added 12 points off the bench.
Freshman guard Todd Smith saw
his first playing time of the season
off thelfusker bench. Smith had
been recovering from surgery in
which rods were inserted in both of
his lower legs. In nine minutes,
Smith scored six points.
“We were throwing him to the
wolves, and I thought he did a decent
job,” Nee said. “He’s still learning a
lot of things. We just wanted him to
get in there under fire.”
As a whole, Nee said, the
Nebraska offense needs to play with
better rhythm. The Huskers will get
their next opportunity when they
take the court Tuesday at 7:05 p.m.
against Colorado State at the
Devaney Center.
“If we play this way on Tuesday
night against Colorado State, they’ll
beat us,” Nee said. “We’re just going
to go back and really try to concen
trate on that offensive side of the
ball.”
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