Golf seeks Rocky Mountain high
■ Men's team looks for a change in
fortune at a Colorado tournament featur
ing several top teams.
BY DUSTY BAYNE
Even with a couple of disappointing out
ings this early in the fall, men’s golf Coach
Larry Romjue still sees every tournament as
a building block for his young Husker team.
“It’s pretty early in the fall season, so it’s
tough to tell where we are at as a team,”
Romjue said.
“We've definitely improved from last
year. But we are still sorting out our rotation
and we’re just getting some experience in big
meets, and that’s what the fall season is all
about.”
To get that experience, Romjue and his
Husker squad will tee off against some of the
best teams in the nation today and Tuesday
at the Ram Intercollegiate Tournament in
Fort Collins, Colo.
“There is going to be a lot of quality
teams up there,” Romjue said.
“Colorado State is probably the favorite,
and there are about four or five teams that
are going to compete. The field is very bal
anced. Anyone could step up and play well
and win this thing.
University of Colorado in Boulder,
University of Texas-Arlington and Sam
Houston State University in Huntsville,
Texas are other quality teams at the meet,
Romjue said.
Sam Houston won Nebraska's own
Fairway Club Invite Sept. 11-12, while NU
placed fourth.
The Huskers will be looking to improve
on last year’s showing in the Ram
Intercollegiate Tournament, where they had
a 12^-place finish, 38 strokes behind first
place Colorado.
“We’ll be looking to finish higher,"
Romjue said.
“We will be expecting to finish in the top
third of the field, so we definitely want to see
a significant improvement.”
But how will the Huskers react to an
unfamiliar high-altitude course in Fort
Collins?
“The ball obviously flies further there,”
Ramjue said.
“You have to adjust your club selection
with the altitude. The high-altitude teams
obviously have an advantage playing up
there all the time.
“But we are trying to play in different
places to get experience, and we are looking
for that to bring us to where we want to be.”
Crouch good, defense not-so-good Saturday
GAME from page 6
But Iowa didn’t go away.
Though one drive was thwarted
with a Scott Shanle interception
and another with a third-down
sack by Chris Kelsay, the
Hawkeyes (0-4) spent much of
the first half in NU territory,
tacking on two Nate Kaeding
field goals to cut Nebraska’s 14-7
lead - gained when Crouch hit
Wistrom for passing touchdown
No. 2 from 12 yards out - to one
point with 1:44 left in the first
half.
Thus began Nebraska’s final
drive of the half - a confusing,
will-they-or-won’t-they-try-to
score march that culminated in
the game-turning touchdown.
Nebraska seemed ready to
pack the half in until Crouch’s
25-yard quarterback draw got
the ball to the Iowa 41. Solich
called two passes, one ending
with a sack of Crouch at the 43,
before calling time-out with four
seconds left.
Solich called a "double-take
off" play for receivers Davison
and Bobby Newcombe on the
left side of the field. Crouch
floated the ball short of the end
zone, Davison stopped short to
catch the ball at the three,
turned and trotted in.
Nebraska led 21-13 and iced
the first half’s dead heat.
“It wasn’t like a Hail Mary or
anything,” said Crouch, who
completed 10-of-13 passes for
159 yards. “It’s one of those plays
at the end of the half, where you
know the defense is going to be
playing off. Matt just did a great
job of adjusting to the ball. I was
just throwing the ball to an area,
and Matt went up and got it.”
The Huskers scored on its
initial drive of the second half to
put the game out of serious
reach. Crouch again hit
Wistrom, this time from 10 yards
out, though most of the damage
was done on the ground as
Crouch busted loose on a 41
yard run, while I-back Dan
Alexander added 22 yards on an
option right.
For the day, NU's rushing
game looked healthy against an
Iowa defense that Solich touted
as stingy. The Huskers rolled up
331 yards and both Alexander
and Correll Buckhalter - show
ing no ill effects from an injury
that kept him out of practice -
rushed for more than 100.
Crouch was just short of the cen
tury mark with 93.
"The running game was very
good,” Solich said. “Iowa wasn’t
a team we expected we were
going to run the ball up and
down the field against.”
“We were frustrated through the first half. We
were frustrated at halftime. I know I was. This
is a young football team, but this is our third
game."
Craig Bohl
NU defensive coordinator
By the same token, Iowa’s
offense wasn’t supposed to look
quite like it did. Nebraska’s
defense did adjust in the second
half, as Bohl instituted a “Cobra”
rush package that forced five
second-half sacks. Still the
Hawkeyes hung around on the
NU side of the field for several
drives.
Iowa had a little extra help
from the NU special teams,
which again did little in cover
age or return formations to raise
spirits after their meltdown at
Notre Dame. Iowa had 143
return yards; Nebraska had 67
and looked downright bad on
the two kickoff returns by Joe
Walker and DeAntae Grixby.
“That is not where we want it
to be,” Solich said.
Nor was the defense. At least
for the Blackshirts. While
Crouch padded his statistics
with a fifth touchdown pass (to
Wistrom), and safety Troy
Watchhom capped scoring with
a 39-yard interception return, a
sense of disappointment hung
heavy as NU relinquished 299
total yards and 252 passing
yards.
“We thought we were a pol
ished defense,” Vanden Bosch
said. “We thought we had things
ironed out. (Iowa) didn’t come
out with anything unexpected -
it was exactly what we scouted -
and we didn’t stop it. There’s just
a lot breakdowns. We had a cou
ple guys blow assignments.”
So amidst the talk of a pass
ing day for the Husker ages,
there was a slight warning from
the preseason All-American
about the NU defense.
“We’ve got the talent and
we’ve got the players,” Vanden
Bosch said. “But we had break
downs. We play these teams
down the road in the Big 12
Conference like that, it’s gonna
kill us.”
NU cross country
falters at invite
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Cold weather coupled with
stiff competition blasted the
Nebraska cross country team
Saturday at the Roy Griak
Invitational in St. Paul, Minn.
The men's team placed 18th
out of 31 teams while the
women claimed 19th place of 29
teams.
Senior Marcus Witter was
the first Husker to complete the
8,000-meter course, in 24:46,
good enough for 11th place.
Along with leading the
Huskers, Witter broke a person
al record. Saturday's meet was
the first time he’s run under 25
minutes in an 8,000-meter race.
The only other NU runner to
break the top 100 was sopho- '
more Mike Kamm, finishing in
72nd place, with a time of25:27.
On the women’s side, sopho
more Kathryn Handrup ran the
fastest time for the Huskers,
placing 59th in a time of 22:23.
Freshman Ann Gaffigan ran
the 6,000-meter race in 22:32,
taking 74th place.
The men’s team title was
won by Providence College
while Minnesota, the host
school, placed first in the
women’s competition.
Keith Kelly of Providence
College took the men’s title with
a time of 24:12, and Tara
Chaplin of Arizona won the
women's race in 21:00.
Runners had a lot of compa
ny on the course, as 252 athletes
ran in each race.
The Huskers’ next competi
tion will be on Friday at the
Emporia State Invitational in
Emporia, Kan.
Rain-shortened
tourney unkind to NU
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Nebraska women’s golf
team probably wishes it had
played the full 54 holes at the
Mary Fossum Invite.
The Huskers shot 315 and
finished 10th out of 15 teams at
the rain-shortened event on
Sunday. The Michigan State
hosted tournament was only 18
holes, as the 36 holes scheduled
for Saturday was canceled
because of flooded greens.
The 10th-place finish was
NU’s second in a row after win
ning their home meet to begin
the fall season. Minnesota won
the team title with a total of 296.
Junior Sarah Sasse led the
Huskers with a five-over 77,
good enough for a 22nd place
finish. Senior Amy Roux and
junior Amanda Sutcliffe were
the only other NU golfer to
break 80, as they shot 78.
Junior Catha Fogelberg fin
ished with an 82 and sopho
more Amanda Krane shot 83.
Michigan’s Kim Benedict
and Jenny Bruun of Minnesota
both shot two-under par 70 on
the par-72 layout to tie for the
individual title.
The Huskers don't return to
action until Oct. 2-3 and the Big
12 Conference Preview in Waco,
Texas.
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