Bowling teams earn victories
BY LINCOLN ARNEAL
The Husker bowling team
knew it would have its work cut
out for it entering the Midstates
Invitational in Kansas City, Miss.
With quality competition
such as Wichita State University
in Wichita, Kan., and the
University of Kansas in Lawrence
waiting to knock off the Huskers,
miscues couldn’t be allowed.
The women's team faced a
bigger challenge because it was
shorthanded, as top bowler
Diandra Hyman is currently com
peting at the AMF Bowling World
Cup.
The team didn’t let any of
these distractions get to it as both
the men’s and women’s teams
won the tournament
“This was a very rewarding
victory for the Cornhuskers,"
Coach Bill Straub said. “We per
formed very well, and as close to
our potential as can be expected.”
On the men’s side, Nebraska
outdistanced Wichita State
15,086 to 15,028.
Kansas was third with a score
of 14,533, followed by Central
Missouri State University in
Warrensburg and Texas A&M
University in College Station.
Sophomore Derek Eoff led the
Huskers and finished second
overall with an average score of
225 pins. Junior John Asbaty was
fifth overall with a scoring aver
age of 220.
The women won the tourna
ment with a score of 14,058.
Wichita State was second with a
score of 13,823. Central Missouri
State, Iowa State University in
Ames, and Kansas rounded out
the top five teams.
Freshman Shannon
Pluhowsky led the women with
an average of 228, which means
she defeated all the men as well.
Straub said, "It is a rarity to
have a woman (have the highest
scoring average), but she is a
tremendous bowler.”
Suzanne Medwell also placed
in the top five for the Huskers.
Medwell was fourth with a 201
average.
Straub said he was very
pleased with how the team com
peted.
"We performed well under
pressure. It was pretty close for
both teams going into the last
game,” Straub said. “We showed
that we could still perform physi
cally (under pressure) and
showed our capability mentally
as well"
The women’s next tourna
ment is November 4 and 5 in
Atlanta, Ga. Both teams will com
pete November 11 and 12 in
Chicago, HI
Men's tennis loses
in quarterfinals
BY VINCE KUPP1G
The Nebraska men’s tennis
team advanced two competi
tors to the quarterfinals before
falling at the ITA Mid-American
Championships in Thlsa, Okla.
Senior Jorge Abos Sanchez
and junior Lance Mills each
went 3-0 before losing in the
quarterfinals on Saturday.
Mills fell to Stefan Him of
Indiana State, 6-2,2-6,6-4.
“I felt like (Mills) had a
chance to win,” Nebraska
Coach Kerry McDermott said.
“He played aggressive. Overall,
he played well.”
In the second round on
Friday, Mills defeated the tour
nament’s fourth seed, Elezar
Magadan from Kansas, who
won last year’s regional tourna
ment.
Abos Sanchez’s quarterfinal
match also came down to the
third and final set. Like Mills,
Abos Sanchez could not
advance, losing to Jonas Piibor
of Indiana State, 6-3,2-6,6-3.
“I was hoping that Lance
and Jorge could at least get to
the semis,” McDermott said.
Mills and Abos Sanchez
were each on the same side of
the draw and would have
played each other if they
reached die semifinals, guaran
teeing a Husker would be in the
finals.
The two finalists of each
7 was hoping that
Lance (Mills) and
Jorge (Abos Sanchez)
could at least get to
the semis.”
Kerry McDermott
men’s tennis coach
regional advance to the
National Indoors in Dallas in
February.
Now, the team must wait to
learn its fate for the rest of the
fall season.
The team will find out this
morning if it will be competing
as one of four teams at the ITA
Mid-American Team
Championships next weekend
in Tulsa. The winning team will
advance to the National Team
Indoors.
McDermott thinks the
Huskers are probably one of five
teams being considered for the
four spots.
Based on the Husker’s indi
vidual performances this week
end, McDermott feels they
deserve to be part of the team
regional tournament.
“We feel like we're right up
there where we need to be,”
McDermott said. “We feel like
we have a shot to play in the
regionals.”
Yankees unleash
fiiryinwinvs.Mets
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEWYORK—Roger Clemens
didn’t throw a ball at Mike Piazza
this time .Just a bat
And when die benches emp
tied in die very first inning, it was
dear this Subway Series had a def
inite mean streak, fueled by a
beaning that was far from forgot
ten.
Clemens set the tone right
away and pitched eight shutout
innings, and the New York
Yankees held off the Mets' five
run ninth for a 6-5 victory Sunday
night and a 2-0 lead in the World
Series.
Piazza seemed to unleash all
his fury in the ninth, hitting a two
run homer off reliever Jeff Nelson.
Jay Payton hit a three-run homer
off Mariano Rivera, but it could
not stop die Yankees from posting
their record 14th straight World
Series victory.
Scott Brosius homered off
game two-loser Mike Hampton
and hit a sacrifice fly, and Paul
O’Neill, Derek Jeter and Tino
Martinez each had three hits for
die Yankees.
For the second straight night,
the Mets looked lost at Yankee
Stadium, this time making three
early errors as a sellout crowd of
56,059 hooted.
Now, when the Series shifts to
Shea Stadium for Game 3 Uiesday
night, the Mets must hope Rick
Reed can somehow beat Orlando
Hernandez, the only pitcher ever
to win his first eight postseason
decisions.
The Rocket was clearly revved
up from the start, bouncing all
around die diamond to congratu
late his fielders. He hardly needed
a lot of help as he struck out nine
and walked none.
Nelson took over to start the
ninth and gave up a single to
Edgardo Alfonzo, Piazza's homer
high off the left-field foul pole and
a single to Robin Ventura.
At that point, Rivera relieved
and closed it out, though it wasn’t
easy. Left fielder Clay Bellinger
had to reach at die top of the wall
to rob Todd Zeile of a two-run
homer, and after Benny Agbayani
singled, Payton homered. Rivera
struck out Kurt Abbott to end it
Ever since the Mets-Yankees
matchup was set, the whole city
wondered what would happen
when Clemens faced Piazza for
the first time since hitting him in
the head with a fastball in an
interleague game July 9.
Yankees manager Joe Torre
even talked about how, given his
choice, he’d prefer not to have
Clemens start a game at Shea.
Before this game, Torre tried
to play down the lingering feelings
between the star players, and the
local fans.
“I’d like to believe they’d rather
watch the World Series than to see
if Roger Clemens is going to hit
him again, or if Mike is going to
throw the bat at him,” Torre said
Fat chance.
Clemens struck out Timo
Perez and Alfonzo to start the
game, and that brought up Piazza.
Boos filled the ballpark as
Piazza slowly walked to the plate.
Then, all the tension that had
been brewing suddenly blew up.
Piazza shattered his bat on a
foul ball, and the barrel went skit
tering toward the mound.
Clemens reacted, grabbing the
broken piece and fbriously sling
ing it in Piazza’s path as the Mets
star jogged toward first base.
Piazza stopped with the bat
handle in his hand, looked at
Clemens and took a couple of
steps in his direction. As plate
umpire Charlie Reliford rushed
between them, players from the
dugouts and bullpens ran onto
the field
There was some pushing, but
no punching, as Clemens and
Piazza were kept apart and order
was quickly restored.
When the inning ended,
Clemens walked over to Reliford
and said the words “my fault” dur
ing a 30-second discussion.
That was the last sign of trou
ble between the two stars, with
Piazza going hitless in three at
bats against Clemens.
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Huskers hang on
to No. 1 ranking
VOLLEYBALL from page 12
a lot of points."
The lopsided blocking differ
ence Moore was talking about
definitely showed on the stat
sheet as NU out-blocked the
Homs 49-6.
Sophomore Amber
Holmquist did most of the dam
age with 16 blocks to go along
with her 12 kills.
The two biggest bright spots
for the Huskers were sopho
mores Laura Pilakowski and
Greichaly Cepero.
Pilakowski had a match-high
20 kills to go along with 21 digs
on defense. On the other end
Cepero had 46 assists, 10 digs, 10
blocks, nine kills and two service
aces.
After the match Moore cred
ited Cepero with an excellent all
around performance.
“She’s very, very good,”
Moore said. “Right now she’s the
most athletic setter in the coun
try, there’s no doubt about that."
Cook was also very pleased
with the way Cepero fought off
the distractions and played a
good match.
“She found ways to get kills
when they had two blockers on
her, she made some great digs
and she really did a great job
blocking,” Cook said. “She was
competing out there, even
though we were a little discom
bobulated and struggling with
our rhythm.
“That’s a big step for her, to
be able to be the other parts of
the game when offensively we’re
not in a great rhythm.”
One of the distractions Cook
mentioned for Cepero was a
heckling Longhorn fan that was
yelling and pointing in Cepero’s
face every time she stepped back
to serve.
“We shouldn’t let that affect
us, but sometimes it gets to us
because they’re right behind us,”
Cepero said.
“I said as long as he didn’t
touch me he was OK. Fans are
fans, and if you let them know
you’re affected by it, they're just
going to do it worse. Back home
in Puerto Rico its pretty bad.
“But I’ve never had a whacko
sit behind me like that. He wasn’t
even saying anything, he was
just gibbering.”
Cook was amused with the
situation and said he thought the
fan made Cepero play better.
He said he wished the
Longhorn fanatic would attend
all of NU’s matches.
“I saw that guy on some of
the TV tapes so I figure he’s
always there,” Cook said. "I don’t
know if he’s whacked out or
what.
“That probably fires Griecha
up, so maybe we ought to bring
him for every match.”
White triumphs in series
BASEBALL from page 12
he said. “We had five or six one
run games and a couple or three
extra innings games. It’s not
often you see this intensity in
the fall.”
The starting pitchers looked
good throughout the series, Van
Horn said. In the first game of
the series, pitchers R.D. Spiehs
and Shane Komine dueled to a
2-1 finish with Komine earning
the victory.
Van Horn said he was also
pleased with the efforts of Seely,
Leise and pitcher Justin
Pekarek.
“Those guys really looked
good, but 1 could go on and on
about guys that impressed me,”
Van Horn said. “We’ve got some
questions answered that will
help make things easier in the
spring.”
Johnson said he was also
impressed by many of the
Comhusker players.
“We’re looking good, real
good,” Johnson said. "The depth
and speed we have is unbeliev
able. I’d love to get the season
started right now, while we're all
rolling good.”
Steven Bender/DN
Nebraska sophomore l-back Dahrran Diedrick gains four yards on a third-quarter run
on Saturday against Baylor.
Baylor doomed
from start in loss
BAYLOR from page 7
“Unfortunately, it didn't happen that way.”
Even one of the greatest Husker quarterbacks of all time couldn’t
help out the BU offense on Saturday.
“I had to try and figure out how to move the ball on these guys,
which we didn’t do a very good job of,” said Frazier, who is used to
seeing Husker romps on Saturday afternoons, but now coaches run
ning backs at Baylor.
On top of the offensive problems, the Baylor defense struggled
mightily with NU’s first, second and third team offensive players
before clamping down on Husker reserves late in the second half. NU
dressed 132 players and 115 of them saw time on the field.
“It could have easily been a lot worse than it was,” said Steele,
whose Bears held the Huskers to a lone touchdown in the second half
after trailing 52-0 at halftime. “I have been on that field when a lot of
guys substituted and it just kept getting more and more.”
No matter if it was Crouch or the fifth-string defensive back, in
Bush’s mind, Nebraska’s next game with Oklahoma was far from the
minds of those in the opposing locker room.
“You can tell they practiced hard for us,” Bush said. “They had a
mission and they executed it.”
And as far as Baylor is concerned, Steele remained upbeat and
said his team will make a move.
“You either get better or you get worse - things never stay the
same,” said Steele, whose team dropped to 2-5 overall on the season
and 0-4 in Big 12 play. “At some point in time, we are going to come
out of that curve and hit-the straightaway.”
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