Coaches happy with defensive line’s depth !
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And then, of course, add Jeremy
Slecha, Chris Kelsey, Brandon
Mooberry and Justin Smith - all of
whom will miss spring ball with
injuries.
Tally it all up and you have a
whole lot of players and a ton of
depth. It’s something that Defensive
Line Coach Jeff Jamrog is grateful
for.
“We feel that we’ve done an
excellent job the last few years in
recruiting,” Jamrog said. “And we’re
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fortunate to have that many quality
defensive linemen.
“It’s rare that you’ll never sign a
defensive lineman in any class. So
hopefully that will tell you that the
coaching staff has done an excellent
job the last couple years signing line
men - which are hard to find.”
The defensive line may have
quantity and quality, but it lacks
experience. Gone from last year are
starters Aaron Wills and Steve
Warren, or half of the starting group.
So returning senior starters Kaiser
and Vanden Bosch have taken it upon
themselves this winter and spring to
“mature” their fellow linemates.
“We’ve really been pushing
them,” Kaiser said. “They found that
out right away this winter when we
made them all be here by 6:30 in the
morning to lift weights and be back
by 3 p.m. to run.
“We were basically trying to gel
it into their heads that it’s your turn to
step up. Your not a redshirt anymore,
even the younger guys that were red
shirts last year.”
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We were basically trying to get it
into their heads that it s your turn to
step up.
Loran Kaiser
defensive lineman
met with mixed reviews. Solich has
praised the individual efforts of sev
eral linemen, but as a whole, he said
the defense has been allowing the
offense too much consistency run
ning the ball.
And the defensive line, Vanden
Bosch said, is where stopping the run
starts.
“We saw a couple of years ago
that if our d-line is hitting on all
cylinders, teams can run up the mid
dle on us, and that’s when our
defense is vulnerable,” Vanden
Bosch said. “Right now we’re really
stepping it up because we realize that
it starts with the d-line, and if we
don’t get a good push, then it’s going
to be a long game.”
Notes:
The Cornhuskers went through
the second station scrimmage of the
spring at the end of Wednesday’s 2 Vi
hour workout. Solich said most play
ers received about 18 to 22 snaps.
Starters Matt Davison, Bobby
Newcombe, Correll Buckhalter and
Dan Alexander were held out so
younger players could get experience
with the top units.
For the second straight practice,
Solich ripped his defense for its
inability to stop the run consistently.
The main factors he listed for the
problems were inexperience on the
defensive unit and the fact that a lot
of defensive sets have been put in
this spring.
“I was a little disappointed with
the No. 1 defense,” Solich said. “We
were able to run the ball right at
them. Generally speaking, that hasn’t
been the case at this point in time in
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' LRE DeMoine Adams
5 tack. 5 sacks
LRE Chad Kelsay
16 tack. 5 sacks 1
LRE Justin Smith 1
12 tack. 1.5 sacks
LRE J.P. Wichmann
4 tack. 1.5 sacks
NT Jason Lohr
33 tack. 3.5 sacks
DT Loran Kaiser
36 tack. 3.5 sacks
DT Jeremy Slechta
18 tack. 2 sacks
RRE Kyle Vanden Bosch
37 tack. 4.5 sacks
=3 i
NT Steve Warren
LRE Aaron Wills
It’s a deep group, but Warren is a
big loss. Wills turned into a leader
by his senior season. Kelsay has the a
tools to be a great rush end; Vanden
Bosch may be there next season.
Kaiser is a big run stutter. Lohr is
undersized, but quick. Adams is a
speed rusher capable of big third
down plays.
the spring.
“The first team offense - when
they didn’t score - they took them
selves out of drives with turnovers
and penalties. We need to pick it up
Year holds promise for Sasse
| SASSE from page 20
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girls as many as eight years older than
she. And she beat more than half of
[ them.
Two years later, she would win
Girl’s State. Four years after that, she
i would capture back-to-back Women’s
[ State titles.
And four years after that, the NU
sophomore is, in the words of Nebraska
Women’s Golf Coach Robin Krapfl,
J “playing the best ofany golfer on our
Iteam.”1
You want more superlatives about
Sasse’s ability?
Krapfl is happy to provide them.
“She could win the NCAA
Championship before she graduates,”
she said. “There’s no doubt in my mind.
> There is nothing on the golf course that
Sarah can’t do.”
As long as the clubs are the right
size, at least.
The prodigy wasn’t a prodigy until
Sasse’s father, James, noticed that his
tiny daughter’s set of junior clubs were
still too large when she was nine.
Sasse’s scores were in the 70s at the
Jim Ager Junior Golf Course, a par-27
layout.
That was until the elder Sasse cut
seven inches off the clubs.
The next day, playing with the short
ened clubs, the 9-year-old nearly broke
40.
And the rest has been, well, prodi
iJ 8ious
!As a prep athlete, Sasse was, by all
accounts, exceptional. She won two
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There's no doubt in my mind. There
is nothing on the golf course that
Sarah can't do."
Robin Krapfl
NU women’s golf coach
state championships for Lincoln High
and 50 tournaments overall. She was the
state’s most acclaimed young female
golfer since Val Skinner, the same Val
Skinner now competing on the LPGA
Tour.
Krapfl and Nebraska won the
recruiting battle, in large part because
Sasse said she wanted to stay in her
comfort zone.
But, despite living in the same city,
Sasse’s comfort zone disappeared.
Last season, her game descended
into disarray. Her scoring average bal
looned to over 79.
The prodigy was frustrated, con
fuse^ maladjusted - and maybe a little
scared.
“I wasn’t prepared for college,”
Sasse said. “It was too much freedom at
once, with the homework and all the
other freshman experiences.”
Sasse laughs. It is funny now, to
look back at her freshman year, to see
how lost she was.
She isn’t lost anymore.
After improving last year’s stroke
average by more than three strokes dur
ing the fall season, Sasse won her first
collegiate tournament at the Longhorn
Classic in Austin, Texas, on March 19.
The win was also Sasse’s third top-10
finish of the spring in only four tourna
ments.
The sophomore is content with
those results.
“After last year, which was a terri
ble, terrible season, it is really nice to
know that I can still compete with any
body out there,” Sasse said
Sasse’s turnaround has much to do
with her impressive short game. At 5
foot-3, she doesn’t drive the golf ball
tremendous distances, Krapfl said. But
Sasse makes up for it when she has a
shorter club in her hand.
“She can’t hit the golf ball 250
yards, but it doesn’t really matter,
because her chipping and putting will
save her from a shorter drive almost
every time,” Krapfl
Sasse said her short game was
molded at Jim Ager; that, and the repeti
tion of playing the course every single
day.
“A couple friends and I always
bought those 10-round punch cards
from Jim Ager, and they’d be gone a
couple days later,” she said. “I mean, we
were playing six days a week, two to
three rounds a day. It got to be a little
pricey, but the course was still a pretty
cheap baby sitter for our parents.”
The short game never truly disap
peared last season, though, Sasse said
her putting wasn’t very good at times.
More than her short game, more
than anything else, Sasse said the main
difference this season has been her atti
tude.
“I came out this year with a revolu
tionary idea that made me a much better
player,” she said. “The idea was that I
was playing for a Division-I college. My
school was getting paid for, I was able to
travel all over the country and play the
absolute best golf courses.
“It’s great. And, as long as I’m trying
my hardest, I have nothing to complain
about.”
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