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NU quarterback Eric Crouch is lifted off his feet at the line of scrimmage by OU defensive tackle Ramon Richardson in the first
quarter with NU leading 14-O.The Oklahoma defense held the Comhuskeis scoreless for the final 53 minutes of the ballgame.
Punt block, interception
doom Huskers in defeat
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week’s game against Baylor.
But from that point on, Crouch was seven for
22 and was sacked three times. Crouch carried six
times for 56 yards in the first quarter, as compared
with 18 times for 47 yards the remainder of the
game.
“As the game went on, he had more pressure on
him," said Solich, whose top two running backs,
Dan Alexander and Correll Buckhalter, carried
only 13 times for a combined 40 yards. “They were
doing things a little stronger and stepped it up
defensively."
After being shelled by Heupel in the first half,
NU stepped it up defensively as well, getting OU to
punt on its first series of the second half. Crouch
took over and after he gained one and 18 yards on
his first two carries, he was sacked twice by OU
linebacker Torrance Marshall for a loss of eight on
each.
On the ensuing play, Crouch was intercepted
by OU safety Derrick Strait who took it 32 yards to
paydirt for the Sooners.
Less than five minutes into the second half,
Oklahoma had scored for the last time, making it a
three-possession game.
Despite its defense shutting out OU’s high
octane attack for an entire quarter, Nebraska’s
offense could do nothing to capitalize on the other
side of the ball.
NU’s following drive would last 13 plays, but it
resulted in a Dan Hadenfeldt punt - as did five
other drives. The senior averaged 49.5 yards per
punt, but OU was able to block Hadenfeldt's third
attempt in the second quarter with the score tied
at 14.
In addition to the punts, Crouch saw one drive
end on downs and another end on a Matt Davison
fumble - signifying it just wasn’t Nebraska’s day.
“Without the interception and the fumbles,
who knows what happens,” Crouch said. “The vic
tory is a credit to their defense and their whole
team.”
Solich, who seemed to go away from his game
plan of controlling the clock from the second
quarter on, called more drop-back passes and said
being passive never crossed his mind.
“You take your chances,” he said. “You just
can’t sit back and not try to do things to make big
plays.”
But Solich did admit that the 24-point barrage
that Oklahoma hit his team with might have
affected his play calling.
“(Quarterback Josh Heupel) came
out and showed he could make big
plays, and a lot of the credit goes
to him in what (OU) did today.”
Kyle Vanden Bosch
NU rush end
“If people are scoring points on you and you
are not, you want to try to do something,” Solich
said. “It appeared that there were some points in
the game where we needed a big boost. We did, at
times, move the football down the field with the
passing game.
“It was not a deal where we could line up every
time and get five yards on them.”
The day didn't belong to Crouch and the vaunt
ed running attack of Nebraska. Instead, it was
Heupel's.
The senior quarterback completed 20 of 34
passes, overall, to seven different receivers, with
Curtis Fagan leading the way with six grabs for 95
yards and OU’s lone receiving touchdown.
“I knew he was a big-time quarterback coming
into the game,” NU rush end Kyle Vanden Bosch
said. “He came out and showed he could make big
plays and a lot of the credit goes to him in what
(OU) did today.”
The NU defense did pick off Heupel in the sec
ond half for the first time in 145 attempts when
Troy Watchhom came down with his fifth on the
season in the third quarter.
NU was also able to sack Heupel three times,
but he got away from their grasp a few times as
well, rushing for 46 yards on eight carries.
“He’s a winner and everything you want in a
quarterback,” OU Coach Bob Stoops said. “It isn't
the system. He is the system.”
Stoops promoted Heupel for the Heisman after
the game, as well as his team for the No. 1-ranking
in America.
“We’ve more than proven who we are,” said
Stoops of his Sooners, who have now beat the likes
of Texas, Kansas State and Nebraska by a com
bined score of 135-59.
Heupel said he was just glad to be part of the
resurgence of a storied rivalry and the moment.
“These are the best moments of your life and
youth, and you have to enjoy them,” he said.
Golf team to play in NMSU tourney
■ The women's team looks to finish their
fall campaign on a high note in the 18
team tournament
BY JASON MERRIHEW
The fall season comes to a conclusion this
week for the Nebraska women’s golf team.
The Comhuskers travel to Las Cruces, N.M.
for the 2000 Prices /New Mexico State
University Invitational
“This is a good, tough golf course,”
Nebraska Coach Robin Krapfl said of the
NMSU golf course. "It has hosted national
championships."
Krapfl feds the toughness of the golf course
plays to the strength of Nebraska.
“We play better on tougher courses,” Krapfl
said.
The two day tournament consists of 18
teams, with New Mexico State as the host
school.
The Huskers will head into the invitational
led by juniors Sarah Sasse and Amanda
Sutcliffe.
“Sarah and Amanda been having a great
fall,” Krapfl said.
Sasse was the top individual finisher for NU
during the last time the Comhuskers competed
at the Shoot-Out at the Legends, in Franklin,
Ind.
With an overall score of 217 in three rounds
of golf, Sasse tied for sixth-place at the tourna
ment
Sutcliffe finished 14th overall with a score of
222.
The lone senior, Amy Roux, is expected to
make a solid contribution for the Comhuskers
during the tournament
"Amy hit the ball well during practice,”
Krapfl said.
* The last time NU hit the links competitively,
Roux placed 28th with a score of227.
The Husker competition includes last year's
Price champions and fellow Big 12 foes,
Oklahoma State.
OSU sophomore Linda Wessberg returns as
the defending individual champion. Wessberg
shot a 216 to capture the 1999 Price Invitational
Championship.
“We want to finish the fall on a good note,"
Krapfl said. "We’re ready to play.”
The 2000 Prices/NMSU Invitational will
begin today at 8 a.m.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat
NFL's last undefeated team
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa
Bay Buccaneers didn't give the
Minnesota Vikings a chance to
remain unbeaten.
Playing with renewed vigor
on defense and breaking out of a
month-long offensive funk, the
Bucs (4-4) scored on their first
five possessions and shut down
the high-scoring Vikings (7-i) to
rout the NFL’s last undefeated
team 41-13 on Sunday.
It was the second time in
three years Minnesota brought a
7-0 record to Raymond James
Stadium only to leave with a loss
to the Bucs, who stopped their
longest losing streak in four sea
sons at four.
Shaun King threw for a
career-high four touchdowns,
Keyshawn Johnson had his first
100-yard receiving day for
Tampa Bay and Derrick Brooks
scored on a 34-yard interception
return.
The Bucs also ruined a
homecoming of sorts for the
Vikings’ Daunte Culpepper, who
grew up in nearby Ocala and
played in college at Central
Florida.
Warren Sapp sacked
Culpepper, forcing a fumble
that set up Tampa Bay’s first
touchdown, and the defense -
overworked during the team’s
losing streak because the .
offense couldn’t move the ball -
also had two interceptions.
Johnson finished with six
receptions for 121 yards, includ
ing a 9-yard TD catch in the first
quarter. King, who was 16-of-23
for 261 yards and no intercep
tions, also threw scoring passes
of 23 yards to Warrick Dunn, 20
yards to Dave Moore and 16
yards to Reidel Anthony.
The Vikings, who had won 10
consecutive regular-season
games dating back to last
December, were limited to
Randy Moss' 7-yard touchdown
catch and two field goals by
Gary Anderson, all in the first
half when the Bucs played keep
away by controlling the ball for
nearly 22 minutes.
Moss was ejected with 1:54
remaining for making contact
with an official after a third
down incompletion in the end
zone.
He had seven receptions for
65 yards, while Culpepper was
29-of-53 for 313 yards.
King threw 74 passes in loss
es to the Vikings and Detroit
Lions in the previous two
games, raising questions about
depending on the second-year
quarterback. But it was the
defense and King’s pinpoint
passing that set the tone for the
day.
The Bucs scored on all four
of their first-half possessions
and added seven points on
Brooks’ interception return to
build a 31-13 lead. It could have
been worse for the Vikings if not
for a successful replay chal
lenge.
Sapp, the 1999 defensive
player of the year, stripped the
ball from Culpepper, fell on it on
the ground and then got up and
lumbered 37 yards to Minnesota
8, where Culpepper wrestled
down the 303-pound tackle.
The Vikings, trailing 14-3 at
the time, challenged, contend
ing Culpepper’s arm was mov
ing forward. Referee Phil
Luckett ruled it an incomplete
pass and Minnesota retained
possession at the Bucs 48.
Eight plays later, the Vikings
drew within four points as Moss
leaped and stretched at an awk
ward angle to make a one-hand
ed catch over Ronde Barber.
That finished a 13-play, 82-yard
march accounting for nearly
seven minutes of the 8:07
Minnesota had the ball in the
half.
The Bucs continued their
domination, holding the ball for
the first 8:35 of the third quarter
and scoring on Martin
Gramatica’s 26-yard field goal to
make it 34-13. The game's first
punt, by the Vikings, occurred
five minutes later.
Tampa Bay didn't punt for
the first time since beating the
Vikings 27-24 on Nov. 1,1998. It
was Minnesota’s only regular
season loss that year.
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