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3C 'POMTS EoHo homer boats Jays agam i ii ipp. i i iiihiiii i il mi hiiiihuiiiwimiuiiii I iiam I ill i i tnnn mil iimn liiliw Gbwloyi MB JLL BY KEN HAM BUTTON Lincoln Journal Star Game Statistics Nebraska 6 30 14 14 64 Oklahoma State 0 7 7 7 21 NU Philips 3 run (kick failed) NU FG Brown 24 NU Farley 29 interception return (Brown kick) OSU Richardson 2 run (Vaughn kick) NU Phfllips 80 run (pass failed) NU Phillips 27 run (Brown kick) NU Frazier 1 run (Brown kick) NU Baul 76 pass from Frazier (Brown kick) NU Vedral 5 pass from Frazier (Brown kick) OSU Thompson 8 run (Vaughn kick) NU Green 14 run (Brown kick) OSU Gr enter 8 pass from Jones (Vaughn kick) NU Sims 5 run (Brown kick) A 42,100 NU 28 55-513 158 OSU 14 38-144 138 Tsi" vv. S't Mf I'l Vv i A I -S-vi tow i I r-. -V VW -J 1 tO 1 673 282 12-20-1 11-27-3 48 STILLWATER, Okla. About 1,000 Nebraska fans lined the way for the Nebraska players to file into the lockerroom after watching the Cornhuskers smash Oklahoma State 64-21 Thursday night at Lewis Field.

There was quiet applause, a few handshakes, a few hugs. But mostly, it was quiet Almost as if the crowd was in awe of the 1995 version of the Nebraska football team. After watching senior quarterback Tommie Frazier tear up the Big Eight opener with two touchdown passes and a touchdown run, maybe the fans were comfortable. After watching I-back Lawrence Phillips fumble on his second carry, but rebound for three touchdowns and 153 yards rushing, maybe the fans were overwhelmed. State was beyond the realm of whelm.

Taber LeBlanc, the freshman Oklahoma State linebacker may have said it best "The coaches tried to tell us how fast Nebraska was. But this was awesome, you can't believe how fast they really are," he said. "I took hits, we all took nits that we have never taken like in our lives." Nebraska exploded with the big plays and ground out the long marches to open the Big Eight with a victory and extend the conference win streak to 17 victories in a After Josing the ball on Phillips' fumble at midfield three minutes into the game, Nebraska's defense slammed OSU for minus-15 yards and Jared Tomich slapped down a pass to force a punt. The Huskers ground out 72 yards in 12 plays, including three option runs by Frazier for 29 yards and two Frazier passes to tight end Mark Gilman for 20 yards to set up a three-yard scoring run by Phillips with 6:20 left in the first quarter. First downs Rushes-yards -Passing yards Total yards Passing Return yards Punts Fumbtes-tost Penalties-yards Time of possession Third-down conversions Fourth-down conversions 12 0-0 5-33 30:05 5-15 0-1 1-1 6-55 29:55 8-11 04 That was all Nebraska needed to take control of the game.

The Huskers scored 30 points in the second quarter and tacked on two more scores in the first six minutes of the third quarter. Nebraska scored on a nine-play, 44-yard drive that Frazier finished with a 6-yard option run to the left Reserve linebacker Terrell Farley scored on a 29-yard interception return to increase the lead to 16-0. Then, after Oklahoma State finally broke into positive yards with a 79-yard run by tailback David Thompson and finally scored on a RANDY HAMPTONUncom Journal Star A Nebraska outside linebacker Jared Tomich (93) runs down Oklahoma State quarterback Tone' Jones (9) early in the first quarter Thursday night. More on NU, Page 4C tt YZ2 I 5 1 East coach happy debut victory over cm sr a Islanders ahead of schedule BY RYLY JANE HAMBLETON Lincoln Journal Star John Gingery wasn't at all surprised by his Lincoln East team's BY RON POWELL Lincoln Journal Star On paper, this season appeared tol explosive start, but he said lie AAW fhinlr Vo NU's rout impressive; So what? The Huskers produced the blowout in Stillwater that everyone was expecting. And so begins a season of expectations that are even higher than usual at Nebraska.

It's a heavy burden to carry. When a team has a load of high expectations on its back, it's often robbed of the exuberance and celebration that a victory should bring. By the time the final score of 64-21 was posted Thursday night, even the Husker faithful were restrained in their enthusiasm. Around the country, the likely reaction was one of, "So what?" After all, this was a game against a team which hasn't won a Big Eight game since 1992. This was against a team that hasn't had a winning season since 1988.

This was a game the gamblers said Nebraska should win by 26 points. Nebraska lived up to those expectations Thursday night before a national television audience. Lawrence Phillips had more than 100 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns before the first half was over. He followed his blockers impeccably, blasting past defenders and straight-arming tacklers away like underweight high-schoolers. v.v, Tommie Frazier, renowned for lightning-quick moves on the 1 ground, passed for two touchdowns, including a 76-yarder to Reggie Baul.

Brook Berringer, renowned for his passing, knocked off a nice 17-yard run and the offense continued its scoring Defense tops Except for a few lapses one allowed OSU running back David Thompson to ramble for 79 yeards the defense was smothering. The tattooed Peterbilts caved in the middle of OSU's offensive line. In this game at least, the pass rush didn't seem to have lost a step. Jared Tomich racked up two sacks during OSU's first six possessions. Television sets across the country probably were going click by the time Frazier crossed the goal line for the second time with 59 seconds to play in the first half.

As awesome as Nebraska's performance was, it still produced only a lukewarm reaction. What did you expect? What the first game in the 1995 season did was put last year's magical season into sharper perspective. Last year, Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State by 32-3, which by itself wouldn't indicate an exciting contest. But the game had charm. Frazier was out.

Berringer was out. Matt Turman, a walk-on from Wahoo, came in, handed off and Phillips rolled for 221 yards and three touchdowns. It was football drama. The circumstances brought zest to the post-game hoopla. Win old hat By comparison, this year's game produced yawns.

Nebraska won. Big deal. It was predictable. It could get worse. There are at least four more games on the 1995 schedule that will produce double-digit point spreads if the game against Pacific even merits a point spread).

In those games, Nebraska has little chance.to win respect Things could also get better. And what would make them get better is adversity. Champions aren't made by blow outs. Champions are made by adversity. You can count on it coming.

And it isn't always when it's expected. You never know when a game might turn treacherous. Remember Iowa State's miracle win over the Corhuskers in 1992? So Nebraska's team and its fans should hope for some tough games. The tough games are what make true champions. On Thursday night, Nebraska did what was expected.

But the real fun is still ahead. And you never "ow when things might get uteresting. be a rebuilding year for the Grand Is land volleyball team after losing four! key starters from its state tournament! game would ever I ena. Gingery, mak semifinal team last season. Based on the Class A No.

9 Island 1i ing his debut as only the second fL 'IfrVJ henrl fnnrhAll mhh? ers'. 10-15, 15-10 season-opening victory) against No. 6 Lincoln High Thursday night at Earl Johnson Gym, construction seems to be ahead of coach in Lincoln F.act'o hictnrw rf- schedule "I'd like people to think we just re watched as the loaded a little bit," Grand Island CoacW Cindy Wells said. "Nobody knows came despite a 264-yard rushing performance by Bryan's Adrian Kellogg. "This is a young team and they don't know they're not supposed to do that" Gingery said.

"They showed a lot of heart Kris Klem did a good job running the offense and I thought Neddenriep and (Casey) Reid did a nice job running the football. They complemented each other well." Neddenriep opened the game with a 46-yard run with a pitch around the left end. Six plays later, Klem followed the line surge into the end zone on a 2-yard run for the first score. The East defense forced Bryan to punt after three plays and this time, Reid had a 48-yard run to spark the drive. Reid went the final 15 yards, spinning at the 5-yard line to get free for the score.

"Lincoln East just blew us off the field at first. We couldn't tackle anybody," said Bryan Coach Tim Bond. "This is a young team and they found out the difference between junior varsity and varsity in that first quarter. We botched an opportunity at the end of the first half and then we got stung on that deep pass play in the third quarter." Bryan capitalized on a Spartan fumble early in the second quarter. Kellogg scored on the third play of a More on EAST, Page 5C about our two middles (middle block-) ers) and our little setter (Ten Knuth) played junior varsity all last season.

kiiH-- Mr i. ritT They played very well, especially considering this is the first match of the year." One of those middles 5-foot-ll sophomore Elizabeth Wegner smashed a match-high 10 kills and added three ace blocks. The other mid Spartans burst to GINGERY a 14-0 lead over wins thriller Omaha Bryan in the opening eight minutes of the game Thursday night at Seacrest Field. But he couldn't celebrate until Kyle Neddenriep's interception on the final play preserved East's 21-13 victory. "I'm glad that's over with," Gingery said.

"That's one of the longer games I've ever coached in. The last 11 minutes were the longest I can remember." Gingery took over for Lee Zentic, who coached the Spartans for the first 28 years the school was open. It was East's first season-opening win since beating Ralston in 1989, and it GERIK PARMELEUncsln Journal Star A Southeast's Emily Anderson (center) gets help from course workers after winning the girls' race. Anderson staggers, still gets four-peat dle blocker 5-10 junior Julie Ewoldt added five kills and three ace blocks. Wegner contributed three kills and two ace blocks in the decisive game in which Grand Island jumped to a 12-5 lead.

Knuth, a 5-2 senior, put up 25 set More on LHS, Page 5C BY SHARON LOUDON Lincoln Journal Star Yankees' O'Neill swats 3 homers what they call the oven, down right before the hill (the park's winter sledding area) and that's just what we did, come on strong at the finish." Anderson said the push from Monica Kepler, a Lincoln High senior who finished at 15:45, and Hillary Alberts, a Northeast senior who placed third with a time 15 55, was only a minor irritant. "In a sense yeah, because I knew they were there. But I also wanted a four-peat really bad. That's been something I Wanted to do ever since I was a freshman. "I usually don't care.

I just want to run a good race," she said. The third-placed Alberts shaved 1 minute and 36 seconds off of the time she ran at state last year. Last year's disappointing time was a good motivator for Thursday's run, she said. "Yeah, it was. I don't want that to happen again," she said.

"I was so excited. It was tough, but Monica Kepler, who runs for Lincoln High, was way ahead of More on RUNNER, Page 5C Southeast's Emily Anderson wasn't quite sure what hit her as she staggered and fell at the finish line, but she knew she was pleased to claim her fourth straight win at Thursday's Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational cross country meet at Pioneers Parle "I'm just out of it. I don't feel much of anyting I'm doing alright though," said the still somewhat woozy senior, who completed the race in 15:39. Anderson said the race blessed with a cool front and only a few sprinkles until after the awards ceremony went exactly how she and her teammates had hoped. "It went just how we wanted it.

We knew we wouldn't go out with the guys, because we knew everyone else would." Anderson said the plan was to hang back and come up slow on people, she said. "We kind of had to adjust because of the heat When it got cool we decided to go out a little bit faster and attack down in O'Neill's three homers marked the 20th time the feat has been accomplished by a Yankee in the regular season, and he became the 14th New York Yankees player to hit three homers in a game, and the second this sea Top-seeded Agassi trips, doesn't fall NEW YORK (AP) Andre Agassi played his worst match of the past year Thursday night against an inspired opponent playing the match of his life in a second-round shocker that came perilously close to toppling the U.S. Open defending champion. Overpowering the ball, rushing the net wildly and double-faulting like a hacker on key points, Agassi dug himself into a hole, got furious with himself and somehow crawled out with a 5-7, 6-3, 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 victory over Alex Corretja of Spain. What Agassi and the crowd may.

remember most about this match will be the backward, over-the-head shot he drilled off a lob in the last game of his fourth-set sweep and the forehand he ripped on the final point that Corretja chased futilely before collapsing with leg cramps. NEW YORK AP) Paul O'Neill drove in eight runs with three home runs and a single Thursday night to lead the New York Yankees to an 11-6 victory over California, the Angels' sixth straight loss. O'Neill, who raised his season homer total to 19, hit a three-run shot in each of the first two innings off starter Brian Anderson (6-7) as the Yankees built a 7-0 lead. He led off the fifth with a solo homer off Mike Harkey and added an RBI single in the Yankees' three-run sixth. O'Neill faced Troy Percival, the sixth Angels pitcher, in the eighth, and was called out on strikes.

After an eight-game losing streak, the Yankees have won four of five and swept the three-game series against the Angels, who have lost nine of 11. O'NEILL drives in 8 son. Mike Stanley, who hit his 17th homer in the first to account for the Yankees' fourth run, hit three homers against Cleveland on Aug. 10 in a game which the Yankees lost 10-9. O'Neill's eight RBI were his career-high and the three-homer game was the first of his career.