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By Shannon Heffelfinger
Senior staff writer
Minutes after the Nebraska volley
ball team slapped 17-3 Colorado with
a three-game loss Wednesday night,
Cornhusker
Coach Terry Pettit
entered the post
game interview
room with two
scouting tapes in
his hands.
The lopsided
victory over CU
was forgotten, and
hours of scrutiniz
Pettit ing tonight’s oppo
nent, Kansas Sta
te, lay ahead.
So goes the job of Pettit, who has
one day to prepare the Huskers for
their fourth match in eight days. Third
ranked Nebraska (22-0 overall and 13
0 in die Big 12 Conference) will play
host to 21 ^-ranked and Big 12 fourth
place team KSU (14-7 and 8-4)
tonight at 7:30 at the NU Coliseum.
“K-State is a very strong team,”
Pettit said Wednesday after the
Colorado win. “Having one day to pre
pare for diem certainly presents chal
lenges”
Kansas State outside hitter Dawn
Cady and swing hitter Kim Zschau
may present the greatest challenges to
the NU defense. Cady and Zschau are
the only two players on the same team
who average more than four kills per
game in die league.
Colorado Coach Pi’i Aiu doubts
the Huskers will have too many prob
lems defensively on the outside.
NU broke die three-game match
block-assist record against the
Buffaloes with 38 stops and forced
CU’s attackers into 42 errors.
“They are as solid on the outside as
I’ve ever seen them,” Aiu saidL “They
are good, physical players. And that’s a
scary thought when you combine
those outsides with great middles like
Megan Korver. I think they have a shot
to go all the way.”
But the road may prove difficult
Tonight’s match marks the first time
the Huskers will face the Kansas State
Wildcats in November. The contest
also signifies the beginning of a diffi
cult final-conference stretch.
NU will or has already faced five
of the top six league teams in
November. Nebraska plays host to
Baylor and No. 24 Texas Tech next
weekend, then ends Big 12 play with
four consecutive road matches, two of
which are at No. 12 Texas and No. 22
Texas A&M
“The conference schedule is
ridiculous” Pettit said. “To play the
last four, matches of the season on the
road is not something I would choose
to do.
“But there is nothing we can do
about it. You just have to accept the
challenge and prove that you can do
it”
NU outside hitter Jaime Krondak
said die Huskers gained a confidence
boost after their impressive win over
Colorado.
“Quite honestly, we did not expect
to do this well against Colorado,”
Krondak said. “It was a fun game, and
we’re excited to play another good
team.”
Newcombe hints at transfer
From staff reports
What started out atrip back home to see doctors and fam
ily has turned into somewhat of a controversy for Nebraska
quarterback Bobby Newcombe.
Newcombe, while in Albuquerque, N.M., for further doc
tors’ tests on his injured left knee, was quoted in the
Wednesday issue of the Albuquerque Journal about many
problems he had not touched upon with the media in
Nebraska, including the possibility of transferring.
“Nothing’s impossible,” Newcombe told the Journal.
“You never know what’s going to happen tomorrow. You
never know what’s going to happen a year from now. But
more than likely, I’ll stay where I’m at I'm pretty happy, but
I’ll keep my options open.”
Newcombe also told the Journal that he’s received hate
mail from Nebraska fans after losses, and that oftentimes
around the UNL campus, Newcombe fields questions about
his knee that he doesn’t “want to answer.”
Along with the fans, Newcombe said there are players on
the NU team that believe he is “goldbricking,” or not playing
as hard as he could be right now.
“They see that I can walk and run a little, and hey think
that I’m not hurt,” Newcombe said.
It was revealed Thursday hat Newcombe’s partial tear in
a—
You never know what’s going
to happen tomorrow. You.never
know what’s going to happen a
year from now. But more than
likely, I’ll stay where I’m at. I’m
pretty happy, but I’ll keep my
options open.”
Bobby Newcombs
Nebraska quarterback
tiie posterior cruciate ligament was actually a complete tear,
making the injury more serious than it had been in the past
Newcornbe hurt the knee in a 56-27 win over Louisiana Tech
on Aug. 29.
Attempts by the Daily Nebraskan to reach Newcornbe
and his father, Robert, for comment were not successful
NU gets dual meets against TCU, SMU
By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
The Nebraska men Is and women’s
swimming and diving teams hit the
road this weekend to open the 1998-99
dual season.
This will be the first time the NU
swimming team will be inaction since
taking part in die Big 12 Relays and the
Big 12 Invitational. The women placed
first in the Big 12 Relays while the men
placed third in the same event
" The men, currently ranked No. 16,
wih face off in two dual meets at Texas
Christian and at Southern Mediodist.
The Huskers defeated both teams last
year but will face a stiff test from die
Mustangs, who come into the dual as
the No. 10 team in the country.
The 11 ^ranked Husker women
will compete in the Lady Mustang
Invitational on Friday and Saturday
before traveling to Fort Collins, Colo.,
for a dual with Colorado State.
The Lady Mustang Invitational
year in and year out is one of the most
competitive invites. This year is no dif
ferent. The host, fourth-ranked
Southern Methodist, heads die field.
Ninth-ranked Texas and perennial
powers Florida, Wisconsin and
Northwestern all are competing in the
invitational.
NU Sophomore All-American
Shandra Johnson - fresh off of four
wins in the Big 12 invitational - will
lead the women with strong swims
expected out of junior All-American
Beth Karaica and freshmen Jana Brock
and Emma Johnson.
All-Americans Adam Pine and
Valery Kalmikovs, both double win- .
ners at the Big 12 Invitational, should
lead the charge for the men.
Associate Head Coach Kelly
Nordell expects the Comhuskers to be
prepared for these early season chal
lenges.
“1 expect good early-season
swims,” Nordell said. “The competi
tion is good. Both the men and the
women should respond.”
UCLA coach won t run up score
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Will UCLA
run up the score on Oregon State?
Brums Coach Bob Toledo
promises he won’t pile it on when die
teams meet in Corvallis on Saturday,
but his team needs a convincing win
to get back in the good graces of the
Bowl Championship Series comput
er.
UCLA was No. 1 last week in the
first BCS rankings, which takes into
account The Associated Press and
ESPN/USA Today polls, computer
rankings, strength of schedule and
number of losses.
The top two teams on the BCS list
at the end of the season play in the
Fiesta Bowl for the national champi
onship.
After UCLA (7*0 overall, 5-0
Pac-10) escaped Stanford with a 28
24 victory, the Bruins dropped to No.
3 in the BCS rankings, rankling
Toledo and stirring speculation that
Oregon State (4-5,1 -5) could be in for
a serious whipping Saturday.
“I’m not going to run up die score «
on anybody, regardless 6f what hap
pens,"Toledo said in a conference
call Tuesday. “My main thing is I
want to win by one point, if I can.”
The coach, however, questioned
whether the BCS poll might bring out
the worst in some coaches.
“To drop to third after winning a
football game, it makes you wonder,”
he said. “You not only have to win in
this (by and age, but you have to win
convincingly, and that doesn’t seem
right to me.
Oregon State Coach Mike Riley,
whose team is one loss away from
extending its NCAA-record streak of
losing seasons to 28, seemed less
concerned about Toledo’s predica
ment than his own.
The Beavers were 4-2 at one point
this season, but then got beaten by
Arizona, Washington and California,
the last two losses coming by a single
point each.