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By Sean Callahan
Staff writer
AMES, Iowa - When freshman
Amber Holmquist stepped onto the
volleyball court Wednesday night
against Iowa State, she was making
only her second start as a
Comhusker.
What differed from her first start
was that she played in all three
games.
After the match, in which
Holmquist made a career-high seven
kills and added three block assists,
she said it could have been a “break
through” game for her.
“I was really comfortable,” said
Holmquist, a 6-loot-4 middle block
er from Houston. “The team just
made me feel so comfortable on and
otf the court. I was really happy with
my play. I feel I am really ready to
step up.”
NU Head Coach Terry Pettit said
he has been pleased with the
progress Holmquist has made, espe
cially as of late.
“I thought this would be a good
game to give Amber a lot of experi
ence,” Pettit said. “She has the poten
tial to be as strong a middle blocker
and attacker as we have ever had.”
Pettit said he had wanted to get
Holmquist on the floor earlier, but he
hadn’t gotten the go-ahead from
Holmquist until recently.
1 wasn t ready until a couple
weeks ago,” Holmquist said. “I could
really feel it whenever I was comfort
able and felt I could contribute to the
team.”
Holmquist picked a good game to
break out, as many family members
and friends saw her play.
“It’s fun to play in front of people
I know, and to look up and see people
I know,” she said.
She may be getting more time as
a starter this week when NU takes on
Colorado in Lincoln.
Pettit said Holmquist would con
tinue to start if the matchups were
right.
“I didn’t see anything to lead me
to believe she wouldn’t,” Pettit said.
Cyclones prepare for NU test
By Joshua Camenzind
Staff writer
Two weeks ago against Kansas
State, Iowa State won a moral victory if
there ever was one.
But that is not what the Cyclones (3
1) are hoping for this Saturday night
when they take on fourth-ranked
Nebraska (5-0) in Lincoln.
| : • r- The 35-28 loss to KSU showed the
ISU players that they were capable of
hanging with the best. A second half
collapse was the Culprit - and Cyclone
players want to make sure it does not
happen again.
“First of all, we have to play four
quarters,n sophomore defensive end'
Kevin DeRonde said. “If we don’t, it is
going to be pretty tough.”
DeRonde said the Cyclones are
; preparing for the showdown in Lincoln
.••• with upset on. their minds but know that
NU is^going to be a challenge.
! 4 Httsker Coach Frank Solich said
that Ms jQyeldife team isihotfe athletic
^thanig thepast • r y
“They are the best all-around team
we afe going to face up to this point,”
Solich said. “The defense moves much
better than in the past, and they have not
allowed many points.” ^
■ The IS U defense, ranked fifth in the
country, is led by junior defensive end
" Reggie Hayward, who has 25 tackles
and two sacks. He had 11 tackles and a
sack against KSU
Junior linebacker Eric Weiford
leads ISU with 30 tackles, followed by
Robert Brannon with 26.
Iowa State has held opponents to
just 215.3 yards per game. It has given
up only six touchdowns all season, none
of which have come through the air. It is
the only remaining college football
team yet to give up a passing touch
down.
“The defense is not very complicat
ed,” Solich said. “They have very few
breakdowns and do not give up many
big plays.”
DeRonde said.that one of the keys
of the game will be how the defense
plays the Husker option.
“They come at you a lot of times in
a double tight end set,” DeRonde said.
“Their tackles are huge, and we just
have to be aware of our responsibili
ties.”
NU running back Dan Alexander is
a worry of DeRonde. Alexander ran for
110 yards and three touchdowns in last
year’s 42-7 win over ISU in Ames.
“Alexander is a big-time back,”
DeRonde said. “He is a load, and we are
going to have to keep him from break
ing away.”
As far as running backs go, Iowa
State has one of the best in the country
in senior Darren Davis, who leads the
nation in rushing at 176 yards-per-game
and has scored six touchdowns.
Davis averages 6.2 yards per carry
and has big-play capability with a 54
yard run this year.
r NU rover Mike Brown said that
Davis had the “ability to make people
iniss” and that the Huskers were going
: to need to have I t defenders running to
die ball to stop him.
Davis rushed for 131 yards in the
first hhlf against KSU but stumbled
along with the rest of the team in the
second - gaining only 21 yards.
Davis backup, sophomore Ennis
Haywood, is also able to put the hurt on
opposing defenses. He led the Cyclones
in rushing against Indiana State with
172 yards. He has rushed for 222 yards
on the season, only 16 yards behind
Husker starter Dan Alexander and 12
yards ahead of backup Correll
Buckhalter.
While ISU ranks first in the country
and the Big 12 Conference in running
the ball, it ranks dead last in the Big 12
throwing the ball.
Iowa State’s quarterback, junior
Sage Rosenfels, has started in only four
games in his career. Rosenfels is com
pleting 53.57 percent of his passes for
394 yards.
McCamey said there is no question
ing that Rosenfels, 6-foot-4, 218
pounds, is an athlete.
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Their tackles are
huge, and we just
have to be aware of
our responsibilities
Kevin DeRonde
ISU defensive end
Rosenfels, not Davis, owns Iowa
State’s longest touchdown run of the
season. He ran for a 52-yard touchdown
against Indiana State.
Rosenfels’ favorite target is senior
Damien Groce, who has six catches for
169 yards - a 28.2 yard average.
Groce will be battling an NU sec
ondary that has yielded only 58 comple
tions out of 149 attempts this season. ?
The Cyclones feel that they can
match up this yearbetterthanin the-past i o -i
in the trenches against Nebraska, q
DeRondesaid.
“The offensive lineman are going to
have to be solid and stick to their
blocks,” DeRonde said. “In the end if
we want to win, we are going to have to
out-tough them.”
The Iowa State players know that
the table is set and no time is better than
the present, DeRonde said.
“Going to Lincoln is going to be a
great opportunity,” DeRonde said. “It
will be a tun place to play. People are
always talking about the sea of red, but
we just have to take the opportunity and
make sure we don’t pea it down our leg.”
' Note:
■NU Sophomore Nebraska defen
sive tackle Jeremy Slechta is “very
doubtful” for Saturday’s matchup,
Solich said Wednesday after practice.
Freshman Jon Clanton will likely
fill in for Slechta, who injured his ankle
and knee Tuesday. Slechta. a 6-foot-6,
290-pounder from La Vista, has record
ed 14 tackles this season.
I rivalry heats up
■ Michigan State hopes
to get bragging rights,
erase frustration with a
win over No. 3 Michigan.
(U-WIRE) EAST LANSING,
Mich. - Every year at this time, the
Michigan-Michigan State football
game elicits a lot of emotion.
Brother faces off against brother.
Father faces off against son. During the
week of the game, a mini-civil war
breaks out throughout the state.
“To a fan, this game is all about
bragging rights,” Michigan State Coach
Nick Saban said. “It’s ah about beating
. . the guy at the office tHat goes to the
other school.”
The hoopla that surrounds the game
-which is crazy in its own right- will be
■ ; at ridiculous levels this upcoming week.
With both the third-ranked Wolverines
and 1 lth-ranked Spartans sporting 5-0
records, the hype machine will be on
overload.
“We need to separate all that sur
rounds this game from the game itself,”
Saban said. “We need to keep the play
ers separated so they can focus on what
they need to do.”
As far as the Michigan State pro
gram is concerned, the Spartans need to
break from the shadow cast by its
maize-and-blue rival to the south.
Three losses in a row to Michigan,
including a 23-7 loss the last time the
Wolverines visited Spartan Stadium,
have Michigan State followers yearning
for revenge and the national respect that
goes along with it
r “This is obviously a huge state rival
ry,” Saban said. “Whenever you have
success against your rival, that is some
thing to be {mid of. But being consistent
over time makes you a national power,
and that is what we are trying to do.
“I don’t mean to minimize this
game, but the loser still has a good shot
of going to the Rose Bowl. There are so
many big games in this conference.”
With the increased interest in the
game comes an increased interest in
what both teams are doing. With the
emotions that are evoked in a game of
this magnitude, everything that is said is
repeated multiple times.
This has been a problem for
Michigan State in the past, as the
Spartans have been known to mouth off
before key games in die past.
Although there were no Michigan
State players at the weekly press confer
ence to affirm his sentiments, Saban
said that the key to the game was the
players’ performance on the field, not
their verbal skills.
“You don’t want to say anything to
rile your opponent,” Saban said. “I don’t
want our players to believe that trash
talking is a way to success.”
