NU misfires costly in 20-16 upset
UPSET from page 8
set up a goal line situation, where
Williams was stuffed twice by theNU
defense before Applewhite rolled to his
right on third down.
Throwing an awkward ball,
Applewhite’is pass fluttered toward die
turfbefbreUT receiver Wane McGarity
hauled it in for a 20-16 lead with 2:47
remaining.
Nebraska’s comeback attempt fell
short After NU I-back Dan Alexander
rumbled 22 yards to die NU 45-yard
line, the Huskers managed only four
yards in as many plays, with Crouch
missing NU receiver Matt Davison on
fburdi down to turn the ball over
Two plays later, Williams sealed die
UT Victory with an 11-yard run, which
forced die Huskers to watch the 1:12
harmlessly tick off the clock and toward
Texas’ biggest win since, well, the last
time it beat Nebraska.
“What a great win for the
University ofTexas and the great state
of Texas,” Brown .said. “I’m so proud
for Ricky. This was a major step toward
theHeisman”
The Huskers, for the most part,
were able to keep Williams in check. He
had a 3 8-yard run in die first quarter but
never broke anything longer than 15
yards after that
“I thought we did a good job against
Ricky,” Foreman said. “He runs hard,
and he’s a good player. But he didn’t
break a lot of big plays.”
Other than that NU was outgunned
on its own field. Fbr the third time this
season, NU was held to under 200
yards rushing. It was outgained 398 to
311. It converted on only four of 15
third downs, to eight of 18 for UT.
It seemed to hurt that much more
that it came at home.
‘I’d have to say it’s the lowest point
of my athletic careen” senior rush end
Chad Kelsay said. “This is our house,
and you don’t want someone to come-in
here and beat you.
“That’s what they did today.”
Once again, a slow start seemed to
hurt Nebraska, as it had only 15 yards to
UT’s 146 in the first quarter. Both
Christo and starting I-back Correll
Buckhalter were ineffective and even
tually replaced. Senior place-kicker
Kris Brown missed a field goal.
UT didn’t have such problems,
scoring on its first and third drives of
the game to forge a 10-0 lead. Kris
Brown did boot a 27-yard field goal for
the 10-3 halftime maigin.
“Things just weren't working in the
first half?’ center Josh Heskew said
For the first time this season, penal
ties doomed the Huskers’ fortunes.
While there were only five penalties on
Nebraska, they were costly, with two
directlyhe^ring UT to touchdowns.
Solich did not elaborate on the
penalty calls, some ofwhich he was vis
ibly upset over; excqjt to say they had a
factor in the game. And that response
came after nine seconds of dead silence
after the question was asked
Finding itself in unfamiliar territory
for the first time since 1991, what does
Nebraska do how? For Solich, itfc back
to die practice field to prepare for Iowa
State on Nov. 7 and in two weeks a
matchup with No. 4 Kansas State, a
game that has lost some significance.
“Wb’ve got to come back and try to
get rolling again,” Solich said. “Our
players are proud. They’re a good
group. But they just don’t feel very
good about things right now.“Thatfs the
way it goes after a loss.”
NU volleyball team
blows by Cyclones
From staff reports
After receiving a scare on Friday
night from Missouri, the Nebraska vol
leyball team made quick work of Iowa
State, winning die match in just over an
hour 15-6,15-2,15-1 on Saturday night
in Ames, Iowa.
Senior middle blocker Megan
Korver led the Comhuskers with 10
kills and sophomore outside hitter
Angie Oxley came off the bench and
added two kills and nine digs.
TheHuskers (21-0 overall, and 12-0
in the Big 12 Conference) needed only
three servers in die third game to drop
tf« Cyclones (3-21,1-11).
The night before in Columbia, Mo.,
the Tigers (11-14,2-10) gave NU fits
before the Huskers won the match in
fivegames 14-16,15-3, 13-15,15-4,
15-4,
It was the first time all season the
Huskers were taken to a rally-scoring
fifth game. .
The match also marked the first
time since Nov. 3,1984, that a Missouri
team had even taken a game from die
Huskers.
Nebraska had a chance to win the
first game, but couldn’t convert on its
only game point, and four consecutive
errors led to a 14-16 defeat
In the third game NU had leads of
1 1-2 and 12-4, butwere unable to dose
outthe Tigers.
The Huskers hit .248 for the match,
holding Missouri to .058, and were
aided hy 12 service aces.
- Indmduanrs^»h6fitttdiwtside
hitter Nancy Meendering hit .408 with
28 kills, and senior outside hitter Jaime
Krondak added 11.
The No. 3 Huskers will next play
Wednesday night at die NU Coliseum
against No. 13 Colorado at 7:30 p.m.
Death of Colorado runner
motivates Buffaloes to win
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“They’ve got the big front-runner,”
said OSU Coach Dick Weis. “It’s tough
to give them No. 4, but they’re a real
solid team.”
Buffaloes Coach Mark Wetmore
said the weeks since Severy’s death put
up many questions for his team, includ
ing whether or not CU could continue
their dominance at the conference
meet
“We’ve really been trying to climb
out of a pit,” Wetmore said. “There was
a time when I felt we should just wrap
up the season. But they started to have
some decent workouts again.
“They started talking about how
Sev would want us to do it and they got
some momentum going in die middle
of last week.”
That momentum amounted to a big
push for CU in a meet that could propel
them into a shot at a national title.
But Goucher will be shooting for a
little more, hoping to end his career
with an individual tide.
nty ambbibanlto goo
out with a bang.” . s’ t
In the women’s 5,000-meter race,
Kansas State won its first ever Big 12
team championship by placing four
runners in the top 15.
Baylorb Sherri Smith won individ
ual champion honors with a time of
17:17.9, outlasting OSU’s Hanna
Smedstad by eight seconds.
Baylor and OSU, two of the
favorites in the wide-open women’s
race, finished fifth and sixth, respec
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uvely, in team competition.
One major factor in Baylor’s team
race was Karin Emstrom, the Bears’
No. 2 runner, who stayed on pace for,
the majority of the race but faltered at
the end, finishing 25th, behind three
other Baylor runners in die top 25.
“Everyone’s a little disappointed,”
Smith said. “Karin just didn’t have a
good day, but we’ll bounce back. We’re
confident”
For KSU, the win came as a wel
come, if not pleasantly surprising, vic
tory.
“This is pretty neat,” said KSU
Coach Randy Cole when he was
advised that his Wildcat team had
gained the tide. “Are you sure?”
With Missouri placing three run
ners in the top 15 and CU finishing all
seven of its runners in the top 35, Cole
said the race seemed a lot closer than
the results dictated.
“We wanted to get out and establish
position,” Cole said. “In a women’s
race, if you can get that position pretty
early and make it stick, then it’s not
going to change a whole lot
anything^abovethat whs gravy.’r 1 “v
With 78 total points, the Wildcats
finished 21 points ahead of runner-up
CU and 28 points ahead of third-place
Mizzou.
Finishing in the lead for the KSU
team was Korene Hinds, who came in
sixth overall.
“I’m overwhelmed,” Hinds said.
“We have been training for this race for
the past 214 months. That’s a lot of hard
work and it really went well today.”
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Huskers fall to Baylor,
lose shot at Big 12 title
By Carrie Heaton
Staff writer
The Nebraska women’s soccer
team lost its chance at a second Big 12
Conference regular season champi
onship with 1-0 loss to Baylor on
Sunday in Waco, Texas.
The Bears finished the conference
at 9-0-1, while Nebraska suffered its
first loss in the Big 12 and fell to 9-1.
TheNo.9Comhuskersoutshotthe
No. 16 Bears 15-6 in Ihe match, but
only BUIs Courtney Saunders scored a
goal in die match, receiving an assist
from Molly Cameron to put Baylor up
for good at the 53 minutes and 20 sec
onds mark. It was die Bears’ first shot
of die match.
Nebraska held Baylor to no shots
on goal in the first half and allowed
only two in the second. But BU goal
keeper Megan Jones staved off nine
NU shots in the win.
“I thought we played extremely
well. In fact, I think we dominated the
game even more than we did in the tie
with Portland a few weeks ago,” NU
Coach John Walker said.
We didn’t finish, and that is part
of the game. It couldn’t be much more
disappointing because we played so
well, but that is justthe way it goes.”
Nebraska ends the regular season
witha 14-3-1 record, while Baylor had
a 15-3-1 record.
Baylor will enter the Big 12
Conference Championships with the
No. 1 seed. For die second year in a
row, Nebraska will settle for No. 2.
Both teams wiU be given a bye through
the first round.
Nebraska will play the winner of
the game between No. 3 seed Texas
A&M and No. 6 seed Iowa State,
while the Bears will face the winner
between No. 4 seed Texas and No. 5
seed Missouri.
The win by Baylor marks the first
Big 12 Conference regular-season title
in any sport for the school. The tide
comes in only the third year of
women’s soccer.
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