SportsMonday Some interesting numbers from Nebraska’s rampage of a first quarter: Elapsed Time: 50 minutes. Total plays for Nebraska and Baylor: 20 each. Total yards: Nebraska 189, v e s •K>r complete Nebraska 9ame<^y cover scored on: five age, see pages of five. 8-9. Drives Baylor went three and out: five of six. They went four and out on the other. *** Overheard from a Baylor area sportswriter after Nebraska’s 38-point first quar ter: “I think college football needs what Little League base ball has: the mercy rule." *** Cornerback Keyuo Craver scored the first touchdown of his career after he blocked Baylor punter Adam Stile’s first of 12 punts on the day and recovered the loose ball in the end zone for NU’s first score of the day. It was the third blocked punt of Graver’s career. Putting up its second high est rushing total of the season, Nebraska had 15 different play ers carry the ball on Saturday. On the ground, NU amassed 459 rushing yards, 93 more than their nation-leading average of 366.5 coming into the game. *** Coach Frank Solich called the second half “disjointed," as NU managed only seven sec ond-half points. The Huskers were hampered by six drive stalling penalties in the second half. “It's difficult to keep drives alive when you keep getting flagged for holding," said Solich, whose team was penal ized 12 times for 109 yards. When it rained, it poured yellow flags. Late in the third quarter, penalties were called on four consecutive plays. *** The first question addressed to Solich in the post game press conference was “How ready are you to play Oklahoma?" *** After the win, NU's 13th in a row, which is the longest streak in the nation, the Huskers retained their top position in The Associated Press and Coaches polls and are expected to grab the top ranking in the season's first official Bowl Championship Series poll. The BCS determines which two teams will face off in the de facto national championship game. Notebook compiled by David Diehl Derek Lippmcott/DN Sophomore forward Christine Latham lunges at the ball in front of a Colorado defender Friday. Latham scored a goal and had two assists in Nebraska's 4-0 win. On Sunday, NU defeated Texas Tech in Lubbock 4-1. Soccer polishes scoring in wins BY TOBY BURGER Nebraska Soccer Coach John Walker had said it all week - the lack of goals in Nebraska's 2-1 loss to Oklahoma, Nebraska’s first loss of the season, wasn’t a big deal. It wasn’t a problem. The Comhuskers’ offense was fine. In NU’s 4-0 victory over Colorado on Friday and 4-1 triumph over Texas Tech on Sunday, the team proved that the lack of scoring wasn’t any sort of epidemic. The Huskers believed Walker when he said scoring was no big deal. "John just told us all to keep doing the same things we've been doing all year,” sophomore Christine Latham said. "The goals will come. Finishing was a problem that one game, but in practice this week, we didn’t do any extra finish ing. We worked on the same things we did before we lost the game.” And the goals came from strange places. Of the eight goals scored in Nebraska’s 4-0 victory over Colorado and the win over Texas Tech, four were scored by Husker freshmen. Freshman Lindsey Greenwood provided two goals in the Huskers’ victory over Texas Tech on Sunday in Lubbock, Texas. Greenwood’s third and fourth goals of the season helped the Huskers improve to 17-1-0 overall and 8-1-0 in the Big 12. In comparison, Nebraska 4 Colorado 0 Nebraska 4 Texas Tech 1 the Red Raiders fell to 4-12-0 and 2-7-0. While Greenwood came in as a substitute, starters Lauren Tatum and Christine Latham each added a goal and Latham tallied two assists. Latham’s performance added to her league-leading 43 points and 18 goals. The Red Raiders struck first and early. Ali Jepson booted a ball over goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc as she attempted to return to the box. Even with the goal allowed, LeBlanc, the Hermann Trophy candidate, still holds the league lead in goais-against average at 0.43. Greenwood entered the contest at the 27:12 mark, and made her presence felt with a goal at 30:30. She struck from outside the box and the ball deflected past goalkeeper Brittney Preese. It took less than two minutes before Greenwood struck again. She blasted her sec ond goal of the game and fourth of the season off a Latham header that set up the go-ahead goal. Tatum and Latham finished the scoring onslaught with goals in the second half. The victory over the Red Raiders followed a 4-0 win against Colorado on Friday night at the Abbott Sports Complex. Nebraska’s first goal came off a comer kick at the 19:59 mark, as a combination of headers led to a score by Latham. Colorado tried to regain its composure after the score but faltered again less than a minute and a half later. Shannon Tanaka, a junior, took a pass from Latham, sliced through the Colorado defenders and blasted in her third goal of the season. Greenwood added a goal off assists from Latham and junior Meghan Anderson. Greenwood then turned around a minute and 38 seconds later to assist fellow freshman Lacey Woolf on her second goal of the season. The game also marked the last regular sea son home game for seniors LeBlanc, Tatum, Jenny Benson and Christine Gluck. While LeBlanc tended goal for her 41st career shutout, Benson, Gluck and Tatum all returned to the field late in the second half. But the seniors know that while the victory closes out the last regular season home game, the sports complex is likely to host post-season contests. “We know our season's not over here,” Tatum said. "We know that we have some stuff yet to prove on this field.” Nebraska 12 15 15 15 Texas 15 8 5 10 Huskers survive Texas threat BY SEAN CALLAHAN AUSTIN, Texas—The hard est thing about a No. 1 ranking in any sport is carrying it on the road. The Nebraska (19-0,11-0) volleyball team found that out Sunday as a previously under achieving Texas (5-13, 4-7) squad gave the Comhuskers as much as they could handle in a 12-15,15-8,15-5,15-10 Husker victory. The last time these two teams met on Sept. 13 in the Coliseum the Huskers disman tled the Longhorns 15-4,17-15, 15-4. The Horns came into Sunday’s match with high emo tions. The home team’s excite ment resulted in the Longhorns playing a nearly flawless first game while NU couldn't have played any worse. In game one the Huskers hit a season-low .146 with a sea son-high eight service errors. Nebraska Coach John Cook said that combination doesn’t match up very well and Texas took advantage of it in the first game. “Texas came out with a lot of energy and they were very sharp in that first game,” Cook said. "I think we were maybe not expecting them to play that well. “We were a little bit tenta tive, and we had a tough match down here last year, so maybe that was in the back of our minds. I think it rattled us a little bit, so that's why I think you saw a lot of uncharacteristic errors from us.” In games two and three, the Huskers played what Cook called "Nebraska Volleyball,” allowing only 13 total points in the two games, but in game four Texas made things interesting when they drew to within three, 13-10. A controversial call that had UT Coach Jim Moore out of his seat gave NU a 14-10 advantage, which was enough to escape with the game and the match. Moore said after the game he knew his team could play with the Huskers and was glad it showed that in game one. “The one difference is they blocked a lot of balls and we didn’t block a lot of balls, but we dug a lot of balls,” Moore said. “We didn’t make any hitting errors except for those into the block. “That was one of the things I said. We're still a team that’s try ing to figure it out right now, so when were trying to figure it out against somebody as good as Nebraska they’re going to score Please see VOLLEYBALL on 11 Sophomore pitcher Steve U.l> #|a|h