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NEBRASKA DEFENDER Sharolta Nonen tries to hnrdle Texas A&M midfielder Jessica Martin, after Martin slide tackled Nonen. Martin received a yel- - "
low card for her stale tackle on this play in the first haH with the score tied at 0-0.
Huskers’ win over A&M includes fight
By Brandon Schulte :
Staff writer
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It had the emotion and intensity that a third
round NCAA Soccer Tournament should have.
But the passions of die match proved to be
too much as tempers flared in No. 4 Nebraska’s
1-0 win over No. 11 Texas A&M in front of
1,413 fans at the Abbott Sports Complex.
It was the fifth-straight win by the
Cornhuskers over the Aggies in the last two
years, including a 7-0 NCAA tournament win
last year, and it moved the Cornhuskers into the
quarterfinals, where they will meet Notre
Dame.
Nebraska, 22-1-1, gained entrance to the
round of eight on a goal fay freshman midfield
er Breanna Boyd, as she headed a comer kick
from Meghan Anderson past A&M goalkeeper
Angela Barker in the 68* minute for the only
tally by either team in the match.
“Meghan (Anderson) swung in a perfect
ball,’7 Boyd said. “All I had to do was get up in
the air and finish it. It was so exciting to give
something back to the team.”
- Boyd’s goal came less than five minutes
after A&M starting goalkeeper Melanie
Wilson received a red card for illegally touch
ing a shot by Husker Becky Preston out of the
goal box,
The ejection was the biggest play of the
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By Brock Wendlandt
Staff writer
Texas A&M senior goalkeeper Melanie
Wilson held the Aggies’ fate in her hands
Sunday.
Wilson, the All-Big 12 Conference first
team selection, used her hands to stop numerous
Nebraska scoring opportunities and to dominate
the 18-by-44-yard penalty box for two-thirds of
the match.
Whenever the ball was off the ground,
Wilson was also airborne to greet it and to stop
all NU advances. Although she recorded only
one save on the day, her aggressive play limited
NU to five shots on goal.
But unfortunately for A&M, which finished
die season 17-5-1, Wilson’s feet were what ulti
mately cost the Aggies an opportunity to play in
the quarterfinals of the NCAA Women’s Soccer
Championship.
And then her hands betrayed her.
At the 62:32 mark, Wilson found herself
handling the ball with her feet about 5 yards out
side the penalty box’s perimeter. As she attempt
ed to make a pass to one of her defenders, NU
forward Becky Preston intercepted the ball.
Realizing that Wilson was well out opposi
tion, Preston lofted a ball high toward the goal.
Wilson swatted the shot down, and because of
her location outside the box, received a red card
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Wins aplenty for NlTs
Muller at Sprint Classic
■ She gets the world’s 12th
fastest time in the 100-meter
freestyle this year.
By Brian Christopherson
Staff writer
The Nebraska women’s swimming and div
ing team were looking back at the competition
fpr most of the weekend, as they won both the
adidas Sprint Classic and the Husker Shoot Out
in convincing fashion.
The Husker men, meanwhile, are still try
ing to figure out how to catch a Wolfpack, as
North Carolina State slipped through
Nebraska’s fingers in both meets at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
The NU men lost die adidas Sprint Classic
by a single point, edged out for second place in
the 200-meter freestyle relay by the Wolfpack
by 5/100 of a second
That race was the final one of the meet, and
it catapulted N.C. State from one point behind
to one point ahead, taking the title away from
the Huskers.
“This meet has a format that makes the
competition so tight,” Nebraska Head Coach
Cal Bentz said.
The women did not make the adidas Sprint
Classic close at all. They ran away with 78
points, well ahead of the Wolfpack women,
who were second with 46 points.
“These kind of meets are fun to win,” Bentz
said. “But we take die season one meet at a time
and try to be at our best crane NCAAs.”
All-American Helene Muller stole the
show on the women’s side, winning four events
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Stacey Sedlacek hugs Helene Muller as she comes out of the water after winning the Women’s 100
meter freestyle during the adidas Sprint Classic held at the Devaney Center on Saturday.
