NU golf teams look to rebound
Men's team to face
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top field in St. Louis
Women's team plans
to step up after injury
BY TOBY BURGER
The Nebraska women’s golf
team looks to rebound at the
Legends Invitational in Franklin,
Ind., after a disappointing show
ing last week.
The team finished a dismal
10th at the Big 12 Fall Preview. The
competition at the Legends
Invitational will test the Huskers
again.
Fifteen teams are competing
over two days, including four
other teams from the MasterCard
Collegiate Golf Rankings, which
place Nebraska 18th.
Purdue, Oklahoma State,
Michigan State and Ohio State are
ranked 14th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd,
respectively. All figure to chal
lenge for the team tide.
There are 40 teams that could
be in the top 25, NU Coach Robin
Krapfl said. She said she expects
that with many of those teams
competing today and tomorrow,
the tournament should be a high
ly competitive battle.
“We can compete with and
beat everybody there," Krapfl
said.
If NU does accomplish that
feat, it will be without sophomore
Amanda Krane, who is out for a
second week with an injury.
“We can compete with
and beat everybody
there.”
Robin Krapfl
NU women's golf coach
Krapfl said Krane’s injury has
put some pressure on the teajn
and has made others step up their
games.
One person who has stepped
up her game is junior Amanda
Sutcliffe, Krapfl said.
“I am pleased with how
Amanda Sutcliffe has been play
ing,” Krapfl said. “She went
through a kind of sophomore
slump last year, but has played a
real good ball for us this year.”
If NU is to compete for the
team title, no Husker can be off,
Krapfl said.
“Last week was a case of
where one or two shots means
three or four strokes,” Krapfl said.
The two day event is a 54-hole
tournament with 36 holes played
today and 18 tomorrow. The
course is 5,900 yards with a par of
72.
BY KRISTEN WATERS
The Nebraska men’s golf
team will be looking for some
redemption this week in the
Purina Classics Tournament in
St. Louis after a disappointing
finish in Colorado two weeks ago.
"We didn’t score as well as I
thought we should,” NU Coach
Larry Romjue said. “We were
only a few strokes behind a cou
ple of teams we could have beat”
The Huskers finished the 15
team Ram Intercollegiate
Tournament tied with Wichita
State for 11th place with a score of
588. Nebraska was just one point
behind a two-way tie between
Sam Houston and Texas Tech.
Colorado walked away with a
first-place finish at 563 strokes.
The top finisher for the
Huskers was sophomore Kevin
Bryson, who tied for 28th place
after firing a 73 the first day and a
72 on the final day for a total
score of 145.
Team leader Seth Porter, a
junior, displayed unusually high
scores as he tied for 52nd place
with scores of 75 and 77 for a total
of152.
Romjue said his expectations
for Porter and the team are high
going into this week’s Purina
Classic
“Seth finished second last
year, and I hope he does just as
well this year,” Romjue said.
“Seth is a leader on the team, and
when he is successful, the team is
usually successful.”
NU will face some of its
toughest competition of the fall
season at the tournament. Iowa
State, Kansas and Missouri will
represent the Big 12. The
University of North Carolina
Charlotte, which finished first
place at the Jordan Invitational
earlier this year, will also be com
peting.
“There are going to be 18
teams there from all over the
country,” Romjue said. “It’s defi
nitely going to be a competitive
tournament”
The weather will also be a
factor for Nebraska. The high for
today, the first day of play, is
expected to be in the 50s.
Romjue said he will not allow
the weather to be an excuse for
poor play.
“If you play golf in Nebraska,
you have to be able to handle the
cold weather,” he said.
Porter and company will tee
off the first round of play today at
the Missouri Bluffs Golf Club at 8
a.m. Tuesday's play will also
begin at 8 am.
Huskers sneak past A&M in nailbiter
SOCCER from page 14
The Comhuskers escaped a
bigger hole when defender
Jenny Benson tried to step in
front of a pass to Michelle Royal,
but Royal shot the ball just wide
of die near post
The Huskers would finally
push a goal across with 17 min
utes to go in the game.
Jones atoned for her missed
opportunity in the first half by
perfectly placing a comer kick to
Latham, who headed the ball off
of A&M defender Elizabeth
Pavlas to score.
"Latham really stepped up,”
said Texas A&M Coach G.
Guerrieri. "As her opponent, I
wasn’t real pleased with it but as
a fan, it’s good to see big-time
players step up.”
With 4:20 remaining in the
game, NU had a chance to take
die lead, but Latham’s blast was
deflected by Thompson and
glanced off of the crossbar and
out of play.
In the 87th minute, the good
fortune enjoyed by A&M swung
in the Huskers’ favor.
Benson dribbled the ball up
the left side of the field and
crossed a pass into a swarm of
players from both teams.
Thompson couldn't handle
the pass and deflected the ball in
, the direction of NU forward
Becky Preston. The ball hit
Preston in the stomach and
trickled into the goal.
“I thought for sure the keeper
would get it, but I was just there
in case,” Preston said. “The ball
went through her fingers and fell
right in front of me. I just ran it
in.”
A&M was unable to mount a
threat in the final 2Vz minutes.
As the horn sounded, signi
fying the end of the game,
Thompson collapsed to her
knees and began crying.
Guerrieri praised the play of
Thompson.
"I thought (Thompson) was
terrific,” Guerrieri said. “She
feels bad because she made a
mistake on the last goal, but for a
freshman, she's absorbing more
and more information each
day."
The win moves Nebraska to
14-0 and gives the team a stran
glehold on first place in the con
ference standings. The
Comhuskers are 5-0 in the Big
12, while the loss drops Texas
A&M to 3-2.
In second place is Texas,
which NU blanked 4-0 on Friday
to put itself in sole possession of
first.
The Husker defense was suf
focating, shutting out the
Longhorns for the first time this
season. NU’s defense held Kylee
Wosnuk, the Big 12’s third-lead
ing scorer, to just one shot on
goal.
Texas was fortunate to not
give up any more goals after get
ting outshot 40-5.
Walker applauded NU’s play.
“I was very pleased with our
effort,” Walker said. “It was just
one of those games where the
ball does everything but go in
the net
"We probably just need to
relax around the net. When
you’re 10 yards out, it’s not the
power that counts.”
With the two victories, the
Huskers will probably move up
to No. 2 in the country following
second-ranked Clemson’s 1-0
loss to No. 12 Duke.
Notre Dame, the No. 1 team
in the country, beatVillanova 1
0.
Guerrieri votes on several
soccer polls and has been voting
NU No. 1 for many weeks. His
team played then top-ranked
North Carolina to a 1-1 half time
score before losing 4-1.
"Nebraska and Carolina are
similar teams in that they both
throw a lot of athletes at you,”
Guerrieri said. "I think (NU)
could be tested a couple of more
times, especially as they get into
the postseason. They've got the
big-time players to get it done.”
Nebraska natives play
on other side of net
BY DAVID DIEHL
AMES, Iowa - Familiarities abounded for Iowa
State outside hitters Sarah Rollman and Dana Koziol
when they took on the steamroller that is Nebraska
volleyball on Sunday.
First, there was the fact that each had seen
Nebraska volleyball since they were first exposed to
the sport Both followed NU volleyball diligently as
they grew up in Nebraska.
Koziol did especially as her older sister, Denise,
played for the Huskers from 1995-1998.
Rollman, a sophomore, said squaring off against
the Huskers was different than other matches.
“You just say the name and it’s got such prestige
and history,” said Rollman, who recorded seven kills,
three digs and a team-leading 21 attacks vs. NU.
Also, there was the familiarity between Rollman
and Koziol on the floor. Both played together at
Norfolk High School and were rejoined on die court
when Koziol, who is a true freshman, decided to head
to Ames to continue her volleyball career last fall.
Rollman said having Koziol around this season
has made her second year in college easier than her
first year when she didn’t know anybody.
“You find yourself remembering things from back
in high school,” Rollman said. “She knows people that
I know. It’s nice to have someone I’m familiar with
here.”
Squaring offtogether vs. the No. 1 team in the land
and also their home state team made Koziol and
Rollman approach the game a little differently.
“I was really looking forward to this game,” Koziol
said, “because I know a lot of the players (from NU)
because ofmy sister playing there.”
Rollman said she also had friends on the Husker
squad, especially Laura Pilakowski, who she still
hangs out with during breaks from school and volley
ball. Koziol and Rollman had family in the stands
watching them play on Sunday, much the way it is
almost every home game, both said.
It was a weekend of reminiscing for both Koziol
and Rollman, watching the Huskers battle ISU in foot
ball on Saturday and taking on the Cornhuskers
themselves on Sunday.
“I’m still a Nebraska fan,” Koziol said, “but only in
fbotbalL”
NU beats ISU
in straight sets
with reserves
VOLLEYBALL from page 14
tough.
"Sometimes it is hard to stay at this same level,”
McWilliams said.
“I think we
uiu a guuu juo
of playing our
style of volley
ball and not
playing down
(to their level)."
The
Huskers trav
eled to Iowa on
Saturday night
after watching
the Nebraska
football game
on television
and then
“Sometimes it is hard
to stay at this same
level. I think we did a
good job of playing
our style of volleyball
and not playing down
(to their level.)”
Jill McWilliams
setter
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another one
hour bus ride on Sunday morning from their hotel to
Ames.
Combine that with the fact that many matches
are not scheduled for a Sunday afternoon, Cook said,
and it makes giving it your all even more difficult.
"It is out of our typical routine,” Cook said. “We
didn’t get a chance to practice here last night, so we
had to bus up this morning to practice. Add that to
the fact that Iowa State has struggled a litde bit and
mentally it was tough.” ,'
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