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Sports Page 8Wednesday, September 29,1999 Huskers prepare for one of 3 QBs 1 By Samuel McKewon Senior staff writer Loran Kaiser remembers Tony Lindsay well. The NU defensive tackle remem bers how Lindsay orchestrated sec ond-half drives to tie the Comhuskers at 17 in last season’s game. He remem bers how Lindsay nearly led the Cowboys down the field for another touchdown to tie the game again and send it into overtime. Though Lindsay isn’t expected to play Saturday against Nebraska because of a knee injury, the Huskers aren’t taking any chances on forget ting about Oklahoma State University’s most dangerous offensive weapon. “Oh he’s good,” Kaiser said. “Their offensive line came out and gave him some holes to run through, ana he was going through them. You always have to worry about containing a guy like him.” Lindsay, a junior from Denver, went out in the first half Lindsay 01 u::>u s nrsi game this sea son, a 24-7 win over Louisiana Lafayette. His strained knee is on a four-week recovery process and even though he has moved around in prac tice, Cowboy Head Coach Bob Simmons said Lindsay is doubtful for Saturday’s game vs. NU (4-0 overall, 1-0 in the Big 12 Conference). Still, Oklahoma State (2-1 and 0 0) might try to see if he can go. His replacements, B.J. Tiger and Ben Bowling, have been less than spectac ular. OSU is averaging 60 yards less rushing the ball than it had last year. Tiger had been the starter but was replaced by Bowling in the second half of a 29-11 loss to Mississippi State. Neither of them led the Cowboys to a touchdown in that game. Simmons said both will play Saturday and though he hasn’t named a starter, it will likely be 6-foot-3,195 pound Tiger. So far, the redshirt freshman has rushed for 121 yards and passed for 66 They re running back type quarterbacks, like ours areT Charlie McBride NU defensive coordinator 322. Nebraska Defensive Coordinator Charlie McBride said Tiger’s style compares favorably to Lindsay’s. “Tiger can run, all of them can,” McBride said. “They’re running back type quarterbacks, like ours are. We’re Please see LINDSAY on 9 NU defender fills big role I Isabelle Morneau uses personality attributes to help the Huskers. By Brandon Schulte Staff writer Isabelle Morneau has three attributes every soccer coach in America and Canada wants. But only Nebraska Coach John Walker is lucky enough to have her on his team. Well, both of them actually -the fourth-ranked Cornhuskers and the Canadian national team. Morneau has versatility - she’s played nearly every position on the field. She’s intelligent - carrying a 3.58 grade point average in her second language. Last but not least, she’s intense - as one of the most passionate mem bers of the Huskers, who are poised to make their first Women’s College Cup appearance ever. “She has a certain intensity to her personality in every thing she does,” said teammate and roommate Amy Walsh. “She’s very intense, very determined and very goal-oriented. She sees what she wants and goes after it and gets it. And she’s been very successful on the field. Those characteristics as a person are her greatest attribut es.” As a senior defender, Morneau’s accomplishments may make it look like she has done it all. In the past four years - since she graduated from high school in French-speaking Longueuil, Quebec - she has played in two World Cups (’95 and ’99), received All Conference honors as a forward (’96), midfielder (’97) and defender (’98). She was an Academic All-Big 12 selection and an NSCAA Second-Team All-American last year. Despite her honors, she puts virtually no stock in any of them. “I don’t pay too much attention (to the awards),” Morneau said. “There are a lot of players who have had them. I still have to go out on the field and prove myself.” , She also demonstrates her abilities in the classroom. As a psychology major, she hopes to be accepted to physi cal therapy school following graduation. Please see MORNEAU on 9 Matt Miller/DN ALONG WITH PLAYING on two World Cup teams, Nebraska senior Isabelle Momeau has earned All-Conference honors at three different positions in each of the last three years. Huskers ready to put ‘stupid things’ behind ■ One loss and one near upset sent a message to the Nebraska volleyball team. By John Gaskins ^ Staff writer Jill McWilliams answered reporters’ questions Tuesday about the recent sagas of the Nebraska vol leyball team in the same way she sets attacks - steadily and confidently. Doing either of those things in that manner has been far from easy this year. After all, McWilliams was not exactly prepared to have three home losses already, nor did she expect the meltdown her team suf fered in a five-set loss to Kansas State on Sept. 22. “Something like this always hap pens in a season,” McWilliams said of the KSU loss. “I did not expect it to happen this early. We always do stupid things like that but usually later in the year.” As one of the two setters in NU’s new and complicated 6-2 offense, McWilliams has been caught in a whirlwind on the court in her first year as a starter for the eighth-ranked Comhuskers (9-3 and 1-1 in the Big 12 Conference). She hopes the storm will calm when they take on unranked Kansas (10-3 and 1 -1) in the NU Coliseum tonight at 7. The vortex of this whirlwind hit McWilliams and the rest of the Huskers in the stunning loss to K State, their first loss to the Wildcats in 59 matches and their first official conference loss at the Coliseum ever. After picking up the wreckage with a come-from-behind win at unranked Texas Tech on Saturday, McWilliams said that the Huskers aren’t taking any teams for granted anymore. I “The biggest thing to swdllow is that we’re not finishing right now,” McWilliams said. “We get to a certain point in the game or the match and think that because we’re Nebraska, we are going to end up winning. “We just have to concentrate on finishing every play, finishing every point, every game and not trying to coast through the last few points.” That has been difficult, consider ing NU coasted through most of its Please see SETTER on 9 NU I-back overcomes adversity --I Darren Ivy What a difference a couple weeks made for Correll Buckhalter. Three weeks ago, he was AWOL from the team. Saturday he became NU’s first 100-yard rusher this sea son. Buckhalter just has a knack of finding a way onto the field. It’s like someone is watching out for him. Maybe someone is. His freshman season, injuries to DeAngelo Evans and Jay Sims forced Buckhalter into immediate action as a backup to Ahman Green. Last season, Buckhalter again benefited from being the only healthy back. He started seven • games and ended the season as the Cornhuskers’ top rusher with 799 yards and eight touchdowns. During both seasons, the knock on Buckhalter was that he was a great No. 2 guy, but he didn’t have the breakaway speed to be a starter. That may have just changed. Against Missouri, Buckhalter showed his newfound speed by breaking a 57-yard run. “I am a lot quicker this year,” Buckhalter said. “I am seeing the holes better, and I am able to explode faster. I dropped five pounds in the offseason, and I am much faster.” So was Saturday’s 132-yard rushing game a true judge of what Buckhalter can really do? I think so. In two previous games, Buckhalter was given the ball just four times. It is no wonder he was frustrated and confused about his future as a Husker. You could hardly blame him. He was probably the best third-team I back in the country. After his game Saturday, he showed that he is one of the top backups in the country. Next week he will get another chance to prove it. Buckhalter said the only thing he can do is continue to work hard and let playing time take care of itself. witn a couple more luu-yara games, Buckhalter could replace Dan Alexander as the starter. Whether he starts or not, it is nice to see Buckhalter have success in a Husker uniform. It’s not hard to admire him - partially because of his hard work ethic but mostly because of what he has overcome. He lost his mother when he was young. His brother, Chris Buckhajjter, whom he idolized as a child, was sentenced to prison earlier this year for murder. Furthermore, many of Correll’s high school friends got into trouble. Buckhalter chose a different path - the right path. He chose to follow God. He remained humble, and he always worked hard. He is a true success story, and it is good to see that he will continue that story here at Nebraska. Darren Ivy is a senior news editorial major and Daily Nebraskan senior staff writer.