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1 PHBusinesst12 ut" jg) Peskeirs down blitzing Cowlc By Ken Hambleton STILLWATER, Okla. Oklahoma State stopped the steady drip, but left the gates open for a flood of Nebraska big plays. They didn't want to play us straight and bleed to death, so they came at us with everything, all the time," Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne said. "It made for an interesting offensive day," he said. The problem with the blitz is that if you dont make the big plays on defense, the offense will make them." Nebraska had more than enough big plays in posting a 48-23 victory against Oklahoma State Saturday before 40.0G9 Quote of the game uU- itf'VM NU Coach Tom Osborne: yt "jffj 'frXYS VOVJ ftWP VfV "They didn't want to play us 23 iCfc MRfS i ''Vt straight and bleed to death, irM fof- V-v so they came at us with 1 V't 'V Cl 1 --V-vs everyth.ng.a.lthetime." TS tM' Scoring, team stats L'K Nebraska 10 10 14 14-48 I rf.W I ttpKW tAiij Oklahoma St 3 10 3 7 23 ll' NU-FG Barrios 23 iA If lA, Iv 'v 08U-FQBIanchard36 1 7 k' idt NU-aark14run(BarrtotWck) i (M.

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fang at Lewis Field. The victory was Nebraska's 16th straight against the Cowboys and 28th without a loss to OSU. It also assured the Cornhuskers of their NCAA-record 28th consecutive winning season. Overcame blitz Nebraska found the blitz to Its liking for two reasons. One was the adjustments that led to 511 yards of total of fense.

The other reason was two key defen sive plays from its own rare blitz. First downs Rushes-yards Passing yards Total yards Return yards Passing Punts Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards Tims of possession Third-down conversions Fourth-down conversions The first key play was a pass interception by Reggie Cooper in the NU end zone. The second came less than two minutes later on a 21-yard sack and fumble recovery by cornerback Bruce Pickens. Osborne said the two turnovers were key plays. "At that point, the game was up for grabs.

Then we got going." NU defensive coordinator Charlie 8-iB 6-15 vi, yy I JV 1-1 ivy if vv4. On the Inside More stories, photos. Page 8D.90. McBride said, They blitzed all the time. We only blitzed when they didnt expect it.

It cost us a touchdown, and it helped us take control of the game. That's the blitz for you." The fourth-ranked and 7-0 Cornhuskers struggled some against the Oklahoma State blitz. A Cowboy fumble on the second play of the game, when NU outside linebacker Jeff Mills wrestled the ball loose TH KIBK8UN0AV JOURNAL-STAR Nebraska l-back Ken Clark is stopped for no gain by Oklahoma State's George Bright (2) and Jay Flelschman (48) in the third quarter, but quarterback Gerry Gdowskl scored from the 1 on the next play. See HUSKERS on page 80 Logical9 first-team choice Gundy no longer logical choice Mike Babcock Columnist for career total offense Saturday. The previous record was held by Missouri's Phil Bradley.

The play that gave it to Gundy also gave Oklahoma State its first touchdown of the game a 65-yard pass to split end Curtis MayfieM. But Gundy's play Saturday was overshadowed by that of Nebraska quarterback Gerry Gdowskl, who once again proved he deserves consideration as first-team all-conference. In fact, Gdowski and Colorado sophomore Darian Hagan seem to be the favorites for that honor now, unless it's based on a career and not an individual season. "Gerry's got my vote," said Nebraska center Jake Young, who, of course, doesn't get to vote. Gdowski had his most productive STILLWATER, Okla.

Going into this football season, Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy was the logical successor to Nebraska's Steve Taylor as the first-team All-Big Eight quarterback. And, really, Gundy hasn't done anything to change that logic. Despite being hobbled by a knee injury, the senior from Midwest City, is finishing his college career in remarkable fashion. His performance in the Cowboys' 48-23 loss to Nebraska Saturday has become commonplace. Gundy completed 13 of 23 passes for 191 yards and a touchdown.

He also showed characteristic determination, playing in obvious pain, further aggravated by a Cornhusker defense that sacked him twice, for 29 yards in losses, and intercepted him once. Gundy broke the conference record school record of 319 yards total offense, set against Missouri in 1971. Gdowski had 295 yards Saturday. In addition, Gdowski handled an Oklahoma State defense that blitzed on nearly every play. "Gerry never panicked," Young said.

"He just kept going. He did an excellent job." Obviously, Gdowski doesnt have Gundy's career numbers. Basically, his collegiate career is this season. And he hasn't gotten a lot of attention, or respect for that matter. Some fans bad written him off prior to the season, expecting Mickey Joseph or Mike Grant to earn the starting job.

But Gdowski has played well, better than well if Young is to be believed. "He does more than just get the job done. I'd consider getting the job done adequate," said Young. "Gerry's been excellent" might be a little biased, not only because they're teammates but also because they were roommates as freshmen at Nebraska. "Gerry deserves something for that," said Young.

The endorsement Gdowski was given by Oklahoma State free safety Rod Smith could hardly be considered biased, though. "He's a pretty good quarterback," Smith said. "Hey, he's as good as anyone in the league." Gdowski isn't flashy, like Hagan. "He's not an electrifying guy, but he's a good, solid football player, and I really respect the guy," said Oklahoma State Coach Pat Jones. Smith elaborated, sort of.

Gdowski "just goes out and takes care of business, that's alL" he said. I That's enough to deserve to be first-team All-Big Eight He's averaged 7.8 yards per carry running with the ball and is on pace to break Taylor's single-season rushing record for a quarterback. And he's completed more than 50 percent of his passes, with seven touchdowns and only two interceptions. Though running is what he does best, Gdowski ranks 18th on Nebraska's career passing yardage list, and he's within reach of the school's top 10 in career touchdown passes, again in essentially only one season. But that's beside the point First-team AO-Big Eight recognition should be based on the season in which it is given.

And it should depend on team as well as individual accomplishments. That's why Gdowski or Hagan is the logical first-team choice now. Young's endorsement of Gdowski game as a Cornhusker, rushing 14 times for a career-high 125 yards and one touchdown and completing 10 of 24 passes, without an interception, for 170 yards and two touchdowns. He left the game with 13:43 remaining, after throwing the second of his touchdown passes both to sophomore split end Jon Bostick. Otherwise, he probably would have surpassed Jerry Tagge's single-game.

It Fired-up Huskers Irish come back late to beat Southern Gal stop No. 1 Hawaii wmf By Michael Larsen And then there were none. The fourth-ranked Nebraska volleyball team which suffered its first loss of the season Friday night against top-ranked Hawaii returned the favor Saturday night, defeating the Rainbow Wahines 15-7, 14-16, 16-14, 15-12. The loss dropped Hawaii's record to 17-1, meaning there are no unbeaten NCAA Division I teams. The key to last night was not losing, and the key to tonight was not winning," said Nebraska Coach Terry Pettit, whose team improved to 15-1.

"The key was the opportunity to play a great team like Hawaii" Hawaii Coach Dave Shoji agreed that the two-match Baden Challenge would with a few punches thrown, continued for several minutes before coaches and players separated those involved "There's no place for what happened before the ballgame. None whatsoever," Holtz said "And I promise you that will never happen again as long as I am at Notre Dame." Oregon St. 18, UCLA 17 Pat Chaffey scored his second touchdown with 3:27 remaining and Matt Boo-her passed to Reggie Pitchford for the two-point conversion to give Oregon State an Pacific 10 Conference upset over UCLA at Corallis, Ore. Chaffey, who rushed for a career-high 118 yards, scored from the 1 to cap a 10-play, 67-yard drive as the Beavers beat the Bruins for the first time since 1978. Washington 29, California 16 Le-Lo Lang returned a blocked kick and an interception for scores in Washington's victory over California, at Berkeley, Calif, in a game played despite an aftershock to the earthquake that devastated the Bay area earlier in the week.

The aftershock, measured at 4.8 on the Richter scale, hit during the third quarter while play was going on Spectators felt the aftershock, but play was not halted and no damage was reported After Cary Conklin's 17-yard touchdown pass to Orlando McKay early in the third quarter gave Washington a 10-7 SeePAC-10onpege2O By Associated Press vTony Rice didn't mince words: He badly wanted to win Saturday at South Bend, Ind. The Notre Dame quarterback ran for two touchdowns and engineered two more rushing scores against a Southern Cat defense that had allowed only 37 rushing yards a game as the No. 1 Irish beat the ninth-ranked Trojans 28-24. "It's the best in the West against the best in the East," said Rice, who scored the winning touchdown on a 15-yard rush with 5:18 to play. "And we like to be the best -period." A powerful Notre Dame ground game broke the Trojans vaunted rushing defense, twice overcoming Trojan leads with second-half rushing touchdowns.

The Irish have won 19 straight "They can run on anybody in the country," Trojan coach Larry Smith said. Notre Dame rushed for 266 yards against the Trojans whose defense had not allowed a single touchdown on the ground. "I didn't like wh'vt I saw at the beginning, but I like what I saw at the end," said Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz, who saw the Trojans turn two Irish first-quarter fumbles into touchdowns as Southern Cal opened a 17-7 lead pre-game fight broke out as Southern Cal players were blocked by Notre Dame players as they entered the narrow tunnel at the north end of the field after warming up. The shoving match, second game, but the Wahines stormed back with 14 consecutive points. After Nebraska tied the game 14-14, Hawaii won it on a service ace by Jamie Long and a kill by two-time AH-American Teee Williams-Sanders.

Neither team led by more than three points at any time in the third and fourth games. Nebraska broke a 14-14 tie with two kills by sophomore Janet Kruse to win the third game, then put away the fourth game and the match on two kills by freshman Eileen Shannon. Kruse leads hitting Kruse led the team with 23 kills and a .439 hitting percentage, helping Nebraska to a team percentage of .253 an improvement on Friday's season-low .162 mark. "Last night showed us a lot of things we to need to work on," senior middle blocker Carla Baker said "It's kind of good we lost at least once so we can keep things in perspective and not get our heads too big." Of course, it was also good to defeat the nation's No. 1 team.

"I knew we could do it," Baker said 1 knew we had the potential. "It kind of makes us believe we have the potential to win a national championship because we can beat a team like that" Notes Shannon added IS kfll and ennKn. all ASSOCIATED PRESS Notre Dame's Rickey Watters (12) scampers into the end zone for a third quarter touchdown. Rain cancels Series workout benefit both teams. "What we wanted to do was go on the road and play a tough team," said Shoji, whose team is 11-0 at home.

"We did it, and we found out what it's like." One thing the Wahines found out was that Nebraska's performance in Friday's loss was not typical "I think Nebraska was the difference tonight," Shoji said They played a great match. They deserved to win. They beat us at about every skill "I thought it was a great match. I'm proud of our kids for playing so hard I think a match like this is good for volleyball." Fans turned away again The 2,856 people who packed the NU Coliseum probably would agree. For the second straight night, fans were turned away from a full Coliseum.

The thing to celebrate about tonight was the fans," Pettit said This was a major event Tickets were hard to come by. People were turned away. "That says something about Nebraska volleyball" The fans who did get in saw both teams battle hard With freshman Valerie Vermeulen serving in the first game, the Huskers turned a 6-5 deficit into an 11-6 lead that they eventually expanded to 14-6 on the way to the victory. Nebraska jumped to a 1M lead in the NWU blasts Dm more Cris Hall had 13 for the Huskers. Williams-Sanders led Hawaii with 24 kills and a .333 hitting percentage, part of her team's .164 mark.

"We played some nice defense," Pettit said Tee Williams-Sanders you're not going to block her very often. To our credit, even when she got the kffl on the third try. we made them work for their points." The Huskers resume pursuit of their 14th consecutive Big Eight Conference title in their next three matches: Tuesday at Ames, Iowa, against Iowa State 5:15 pm Saturday at home against Oklahoma; and 3 p.m, next Sunday at home against Missouri SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Rain forced the San Francisco Giants to cancel practice Saturday and caused the Oakland Athletics to cut theirs short, and Commissioner Fay Vincent said the World Series might get called off, too. "It's not likely, but it's possible," Vincent said in an interview. "We cant wait forever.

We cant just tread water." The National Weather Service forecast showers into early next week Game 3 is tentatively set for Tuesday, following a week's layoff after a disastrous earthquake struck the Bay area. Vincent said other factors more than the storm system would likely determine whether the Series resumes. If Candlestick Park is not certified as safe or if the mayors in San Francisco and Oakland are strongly against playing baseball, Vincent said the Series could be over. City officials were to inspect Candlestick on Monday. Vincent has not spoken to the local mayors since the tragedy but said he planned to talk with them on Sunday or Monday.

"II it's not the right thing to do, it will be canceled," he said "We will not move the series out of the Bay area. I can guarantee that" Sooncro outscoro iowa State 43-40 Page 2D No. 2 Southeast blasts Kearney 35-0 5-' Page7D Dry conditions hamper turkey hunters Page11D E3.