By Brandon Schulte
Staff writer
It didn’t have all the bells and
whistles of a game situation, but the
first Nebraska football scrimmage
of the spring proved that the young
NU quarterbacks have the tools to
lead the offense.
Redshirt freshman Jammal
Lord, sophomore Joe Chrisman and
freshman Brett Lindstrom led the
Cornhusker offense to scores
against the NU defense during the 2
H-hour workout at Memorial
Stadium on Saturday.
Starting 40 yards from the goal
line with the top offense against the
top defense, the No. 2 offense vs.
No. 2 defense and the No. 3 offense
against the No. 3 defense, the
offense was able to put together four
scoring drives in 10 attempts.
With starting quarterback Eric
Crouch held out of the scrimmage
after undergoing arthroscopic
shoulder surgery, Coach Frank
Solich said he was pleased with the
overall effort and execution of the
scrimmage.
He was most encouraged by the
play of his young quarterbacks, con
sidering “a lot of younger guys, par
ticularly on the offensive side, are
kind of confused in terms of know
ing our offense.”
Lord showed the ability to ad lib
on the first scoring drive of the day.
Against the No. 1 defense, Lord
picked up 10 yards on an option on a
4th-and-5 from the 35. Then, on a
third down, he scrambled right to
connect on a 14-yard pass to tight
end Jake McKee.
Finally, on second and goal from
the five, Lord was chased back past
the 25-yard line before scrambling
for a four-yard gain. On the next
play, Judd Davies would score on a
one-yard plunge. Lord would score
later in the scrimmage on a four
yard option run.
“I thought Jammal showed the
ability to scramble,” said Solich, of
Lord’s seven carries for 44 yards and
a touchdowp. “He showed very
good athletic ability. And he kept us
alive on a drive with individual play.
That was important to see.”
Chrisman was at the controls
three series later when redshirt
freshman running back Robin
Miller scored on a 32-yard run
against the No. 2 defense. On the
drive, he lugged the ball 43 yards on
three carries.
The defense was handicapped by
a short field on Saturday, but it
won’t be next Saturday when the
team will hold its first full-field
scrimmage of the spring.
Husker linebacker Carlos Polk
said that even though the offense
appeared to move the ball well this
scrimmage, he expects it will be
more difficult for it to gain yardage
the rest of the spring.
“I wouldn’t say they moved the
ball on us well,” Polk said. “They
had some lucky breaks for them.
Sometimes the ball is going to
bounce like that.
“We just got to bounce back. We
feel that once the younger guys get
down and get in the groove of
things, it’s going to be a different
story.”
Saturday was the first time this
spring that Huskers battling for
spots on the depth chart had a
chance to set themselves apart from
other players at their positions.
Defensive Coordinator Craig
Bohl wasn’t able to see the scrim
mage because he was working with
the players in Schulte Fieldhouse,
but he said the film would be digest
ed by the coaching staff over the
weekend.
He wouldn’t comment on the
scrimmage until after he saw the
tape but said the goal of the practice
was “to find out, especially for the
jobs that are open; we’re looking for
guys that can come in and make
LL A lot of times
guys can look
good in practice
and then it
comes time when
they ’re one-on
one with a good
back and they
can’t bring him
down in the
open field.’’
Craig Bohl
Defensive Coordinator
plays,” Bohl said.
“A lot of times guys can look
good in practice, and then it comes
time when they’re one-on-one with a
good back, and they can’t bring him
down in the open field. We want a
guy that can bring down that back or
a guy that can make a big pass rush
move up front.”
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Pine wins
swim title
PINE from page 16
have done worse,” Bentz said. “Bu1
overall, our senior leadership was
excellent, and we had an outstanding
meet.”
Senior Valery Kalmikovs was one
of those NU swimmers who closed his
career on a high note with a sixth
place finish in the 200-meter breast
stroke.
Kalmikovs touched the wall with a
new national record time of 2:10.64
for his country of Latvia.
“I’m very happy with my time,”
Kalmikovs said. “It’s nice to be a sen
ior, but I will really miss collegiate
swimming.”
In the final event of the meet,
NU’s 400-meter freestyle relay team
of Pine, Javier Botello, Peter Fry and
Anthony Rogis finished with All
American honors and an 11th place
time of 3:16.52.
California won the race with a U.S.
Open record mark of 3:11.25.
Rogis earned All-American hon
ors Friday with a ninth-place finish in
the 200-meter freestyle, not qualifying
for the finals in the event in which he
took the bronze last year.
Also on Friday, senior Michael
Windisch became only the sixth
Husker to finish in the top five at the
NCAA meet with a fourth-place time
of 4:11.74, with the winning time put
up by Michigan’s Tim Siciliano of
4:06.02.
After a fourth straight top-20 fin
ish by his team at the NCAA meet,
Bentz was anxious to think about what
next year’s returning swimmers may
have taken from taking on such a high
level of competition.
“Hopefully, the underclassmen
can take something from this experi
ence, and we can move up in the years
to come,” Bentz said
NU beats
Texas Tech
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Cole and Stem and a walk to Hopper.
But Vlieger wouldn’t get a chance
to be the hero again. Kevin Tracey’s
first pitch to Vlieger bounced in front
of the plate and past the Tech catcher,
allowing Cole to score the winning
run for NU.
Van Horn said: “This was the first
time we’ve come from behind all year,
and I was pleased with how we hung
in there.”
Nebraska’s Dan Johnson hit his
fifth homer in five games in the con
test, with a solo shot in the second. He
nearly added another in his next at bat,
when he singled off the top of the right
field fence.
Reliever Steve Hale pitched five
innings and allowed only two hits and
one run for NU.
In the series opener Friday, Shane
Komine and NU disposed of die Red
Raiders with ease, 11-0. Komine gave
up only two hits in his eight innings of
work and struck out 13 to improve to
4-2.
The Husker offense, meanwhile,
scored six runs in the first three
innings to leave Tech in the dust.
NU next hosts North Dakota State
on Tuesday before traveling to face
Baylor in a three-game series next
weekend.
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