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Pockctbook, 1 5-1 6 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1984 LINCOLN, NE. JOURNAL 11 acoustic trap9 for Hesters m. mmjkA- ri ra it mv a bw 11 ri i Probable starters By Mike Babcock Journal Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. It took Craig Sundberg the better part ot three years to learn Nebraska's audible system. -Until he did, he wasn't a complete quarterback.

"It's so hard to play and be to reach your full potential without it," Sundberg said. Calling audibles is as much a part ot a Cornhusker quarterback's arsenal as a properly-executed handoff, a pitch or a completed pass. 'ttUA uaN bmii'i nnnunn a nnnninn that skilL When Turner Gill, a three- time All-Big Eight quarterback, played "as a true sophomore, "even he didnt understand how the whole system could benefit him," said Sundberg. i Sundberg has benefited from the system and, as a result, so has Nebraska. The.

Comhuskers take a three-game winning streak and a No. 1 ranking into their final non-conference game of the NEBRASKA (341) Offense SYRACUSE (M) No Name Yr Ht Wt Pos Wt Ht Yr NameNo 80 Froin Jr. 6-2 230 TE 237 6-3 Sr. Chalk 85 73 Behnlng Sr. 6-6 290 LT 266 6-4 Jr.

Brotzki 74 58 Grimmlnoer Sr. 6-3 265 LG 240 6-3 Sr. Stephens 60 57 Travnowlci Sr. 6-6 265 242 5-11 Sr. Slmko 67 67 0rton Sr.

6-1 260 RG 277 6-2 Sr. Villantl 62 77 Morrow Sr. 6-3 260 RT 282 6-4 Jr. AAarrone 78 88 Kimball Sr. 6-0 195 SE 158 5-11 So.

Schwedes 16 ISSundbero Sr. 6-1 190 QB 196 6-1 Jr. Norley 12 22 OuBose So. 5-11185 IB 218 6-1 Sr. Covington 45 26 Rathman Jr.

6-1 235 FB 201 5-11 Jr. Govden 47 17 Swanson Sr. 5-9 200 WB 215 6-4 Jr. Siano 14 NEBRASKA Defense 1 SYRACUSE 87 Weber Sr. 6-2 210 LE 76 Spachman So.

6-4 260 LT 259 6-4 Sr. Knauff 97 52 Graeber Sr. 6-2 245 MG 238 6-1 Fr. Gregory 93 75 Stuckev Sr. 6-3 245 RT 246 6-2 Jr.

Green 72 90 Strasburger Sr. 6-1 205 RE OLB 238 6-2 Klmmel 83 51 Daum Sr. 6-3 235 LB 228 6-0 Sr. King 34 41 Munford So. 6-2 225 LB 215 5-11 Jr.

Reed 35 OLB 224 6-1 Sr. Allen 90 2McCashland Sr. 6-1 200 196 5-11 Sr. Bellamy 22 33 Burke Sr. 5-10190 LCB 174 5-10 Jr.

Lee 20 11 Harris Sr. 6-0 190 RCB 195 5-11 Sr. Roos 40 10 Clark Sr. 6-3 200 174 5-11 Sr. Hobby 10 regular season against Syracuse on Saturday afternoon, at the Carrier Dome.

Kickoff is 11 :20a.nt,CDT. The Katz 'Broadcasting telecast will be carried locally by KOLN-TV, Lincoln channels 10-11, with Curt Gowdy doing the play-by-play and Leh Dawson providing the color commentary. A capacity crowd of more than 50,000 is expected in the Carrier Dome, which could become an acoustic trap for a team that relies as much on audibles as Nebraska does. "There's a lot of stuff going on all' at once," Sundberg said. The stuff of audibles is both mental and verbal The object is to go from a "dead play," one that isn't likely to Work given a particular defense, to one which has a better chance of being successful For a half -hour each day before practice, Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne meets with his quarterbacks, and "we go through the different defenses we're likely to see and learn what plays should be good," Sundberg said.

Put simply, and assuming all that homework has been done, Nebraska's audible system works like this. As Sundberg approaches the line of scrimmage, he checks the defensive alignment, noting, in particular, the whereabouts of the free safety and Kickoff: 11:20 a.m.. Carrier Dome. Telecast: Katz TV: KOLN-KGIN (Channels 10 11), KMTV (Channel 3) and USA Network (Cable channel 17). Broadcast: Nebraska Football Network (Omaha KFAB, Lincoln KFOR and KZKX).

Leads Wheeler, Schuchart by two debut Gotscne strong safety. Those are his keys. The defensive front is important, but "90 percent of the time the secondary is going to be lined up according to how the defensive linemen are, so you have a good idea of where people should be," you get Those birdies were getting hard to come by late in the round" After shooting the 30 on the back, nine, Gotsche lipped a short putt for birdie on No. 1, and figured his hot streak was over. "It was just one of those days where everything held together," he said.

Gotsche is hoping everything continues to hold Friday for the second round of the 54-hole tournament at Holmes. Zaremba may be a challenger for the second-round lead, since the tee times are reversed and hell be playing in the afternoon instead of the morning. Had advantage "We had an advantage today," Gotsche said "That should even out tomorrow." Zaremba closed his round with a dramatic 80-foot putt on the 18th hole for a birdie. "If that ball missed the cup, it was off the green," he said "I got away with one there." If there's a favorite, Zaremba says it would be Eaks. "He hits it so far, it's awesome," Zaremba said "I'm a club pro and he's a tour boy.

That's a whole different league out there." Scores on Page 12 successful can make "dummy calls" to confuse the defense. A team can become distracted if it spends too much time doing either. If Sundberg thinks the play called in the huddle won't work against the defense he sees, he begins calling numbers. "The first set of numbers out of my mouth tells people whether we're going to run the play or change it" Nebraska's offensive linemen respond by making their own calls, adjusting their blocking schemes, as they get down in their stances. It all happens so quickly that the defense doesn't have time to worry too much about the audibles.

"When I say, 'Check, the defense knows we're up to something," Sundberg said "But it still doesn't know what we're going to do." The adjustment might be as simple as running the same play in a different direction, or it might be as complex as changing from a running play to a pass. Sundberg has more running plays to which he can audible, but "my only objective is to go to something that'll work, whether it's a run or a pass," he said According to Sundberg, he's audibled anywhere from 15 to 35 percent of the STAFF PHOTO BY TED KIRK off on the fifth hole. there," VanWaart said Northeast Coach Bob Els cited his team's frustration. "When we really needed to do something, we didn't get the job done," he said "We let people off the hook and then we can't execute." "We only had 10 people in there when they set up their second touchdown and we made another mistake of over-aggressiveness on that punt return touchdown," he said Northeast controlled the first half, rolling up 14 points and 139 yards on the running of Danny Berks and Eric Robinson. But two Rocket mistakes led to Bellevue West tying the game by halftime, despite the fact that the Thunderbirds See LNE on page 13 with a homer and a sacrifice fly to pace the Rangers' victory.

"First place is over, it's gone," said Angels manager John McNamara. "Going in (the start of the season), I honestly felt we could pull it out even though nobody thought we could But in the end we never put our hitting and pitching together." Yost drove in a fourth-inning run with a sacrifice fly and broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth with his sixth home run to support the combined six-hit pitching of Rickey Wright and Dickie Noles. Reggie Jackson accounted for the Angels' run with his 25th homer of the season. Elsewhere in the AL, Boston edged Baltimore 4-3, New York nipped Detroit 2-1 and Seattle downed Chicago 7-2. In National League games, Montreal downed St Louis 6-3 and Cincinnati edged Atlanta 2-1.

Red Sox 4, Orioles 3 At Boston, Mike Easier singled home Tony Armas from second base with two outs in the eighth inning to give the Red Sox their victory. Armas doubled with two outs off reliever Sammy Stewart, 7-4, and Easier singled to left to make a winner of reliever Mark Clear, 8-1 Cal BASEBALL on page 1 2 By Chuck Sinclair Journal Sports Writer A professional golfer for only a week, Steve Gotsche is making a grand entrance into his newly chosen line of work. Gotsche, a former University of Nebraska golfer from Great Bend, fired a seven-under-par 63 in the opening round of the $35,000 Pabst Blue RibbonNebraska Open Golf Tournament at Mahoney Golf Course Thursday to take a two-shot lead over Scottsbluff pro Larry Wheeler and Lincoln amateur Mike Schuchart "I had to get a special exemption to even play in this tournament," Gotsche said "I just decided to turn (pro) last week. Most of the good amateur tournaments were over, and I decided not to postpone it any longer." Smart decision That may have been one of the smartest decisions of his young life. The 23-year-old played the back side at Mahoney first, and turned in five--uhder-par 30.

He followed with a 33 on the front nine to lead the way in his low scoring threesome. Three of the day's top four scores were produced in the hot group. Gotsche's former college teammate Husker-Tiger tilt to be televised The Oct 13 Nebraska-Missouri football game will be produced by Katz Communications and televised by Omaha's KMTV (Channel 3) and KOLNKGIN-TV (Channels 10-11) in Lincoln. Kickoff will be approximately 11:20 a.m. at Memorial Stadium.

''Nebraska Athletic Director Bob Devaney made the announcement Thursday. "We just decided that time of day would be better for our crowd and our team," Devaney said. Tm glad to get this thing settled" Earlier in the week, there was speculation that ESPN would install portable lights and televise the game at night Schuchart had a chance for a 29 on the back nine, but three-putted and settled for a 65 while defending champion Bob Eaks of Colorado Springs, was one more shot back at 66. "I couldn't believe it," Eaks said "After the first seven holes, I was five shots behind Those guys were really playing." A high school teammate of Eaks' at Colorado Springs, Mike Zaremba, was one more shot back at 66. Zaremba shot a 64 in Wednesday's Pro-VIP to claim low pro honors.

Thursday, however, belonged to Gotsche. Having trouble "I played real well all summer, but lately I've been having a little trouble off the tee," Gotsche said "I got by today, hit my irons super and putted about normal, which is about good for me." "He's the best putter J've ever seen," Schuchart said of Gotsche. "I've played with him for three years, and he just doesn't miss a putt inside of 15 feet." Gotsche said that having Schuchart and Eaks play so well helped him keep his round going. "That made it easy," he said "We all had it going. It seems like the more you get it under par, the more nervous Eellmme By Ken Hambleton Journal Sports Writer It took something completely different but Bellevue West Coach Jerry VanWaart figured the only solution to the Thunderbirds' four-game losing streak was to let everything go.

The new approach worked as Bellevue West topped Lincoln Northeast 21-14, Thursday night before 1,665 fans at Seacrest Field "You've got to run wide-open all the time when you're VanWaart said "I've never been in this position of opening the season with four straight losses in my eight years here at West and in my 11 years as an assistant at Bellevue High." "Wide-open football" meant scoring the winning touchdown after a roughing the kicker penalty early in the fourth time this season, and he's been success- tui more oiien man not Under Sundberg's direction, Ne- tiraclra ranfrc thirH in 4ha natinn in fatal Ml Mjnw IUUW MUX V. U. W.V IHIUUtl 111 tVMW offense and fourth in scoring offense going into the Syracuse game. whirh ranks sprnnri in thp rnnntrv with W-of-35 passing for 325 yards and two 1 tminhfmirnc But not everything he's contributed to Nebraska's offense can be measured that way. "It took me until my third year to feel comfortable with the audi- ble system here," said Sundberg, now in lua nun veu.

"It wasn't until then that I had a real good idea of when to do what. After a lot of repetition, after you go through it enough times, it becomes habit It took three years before I had a good hold on it." Travel roster on page 12 Klein replaces Livingston By Randy York Assistant Sports Editor Nebraska's I-back situation is still teetering on a tender ankle, but the Husk- ers will have a new No. 1 placekicker for Saturday's televised game at Syra- -cuse. Jeff Smith, whose ankle was dramatically improved for Thursday's practice, will travel to Syracuse with the Huskers. but his nlavine status won't be determined until shortly before Saturday's game.

Another major decision was made last Monday, but wasn't announced until Thursday. Dale Klein, a 6-2, 190-pound redshirt sophomore from Seward, has replaced senior Scott Livingston as Nebraska's No. 1 kicker for field goals, extra points andkickoffs. Klein kicked the Huskers' last two extra points against UCLA. He set a Nebraska freshman record by kicking six field goals in eight attempts in 1982.

His longest was 42 yards. He was also 20-of-20 on PAT kicks. His field goal range is considered to be 50 to 55 yards. Livingston will keep his No. 1 punting job and NU trainers will keep an eye on Smith until the Huskers fly to Syracuse.

"Well probably take him, but we'll wait until the morning to decide," NU Coach Tom Osborne said of Smith, who estimated he practiced Thursday at about 85 percent efficiency. "The ankle's still sore, but it felt a lot better today than it did yesterday," Smith said "I ran pretty good straight ahead I just can't cut on my left foot." NU offensive backfield Coach Frank Solich said if Smith's ankle "swells up again or remains tender, chances aren't real good that we'll take him." If Smith does not travel to Syracuse, freshman Keith Jones will replace him on the 60-man travel roster. Even if Smith travels, Osborne said a decision to start him may not be made until shortly before kickoff. Solich said sophomore Doug DuBose will start, if Smith doesn't Junior Paul Miles is next in line. Sophomore fullback Thurman Hoskins is also available to play I-back.

Smith said he knew when he sprained his ankle on a punt return at UCLA "that the injury was pretty serious, but I felt it would come around in three or four days. There's still a lot of pain. Right now, I'd say I'm real questionable." The Huskers suffered another major setback Thursday. Junior Todd Fisher, the backup to safety Bret Clark, fractured his left wrist in Wednesday's practice. Fisher suffered the injury in a one-on-one drill with tight end Brian Hiemer.

"The first thing I said was not again," related Fisher, who fractured his right wrist a year ago and wore a cast for seven months. "It's the same navicular bone. It's just on the other side," Fisher said "But this one broke in two pieces instead of three, so I hope it heals faster." Fisher's wrist will be placed in a cast and he may be able to practice again as snnn ac npyt upplr NU secondary Coach Bob Thornton said Chris Carr, a sophomore from Medicine Valley, will replace Fisher as Clark's backun. The Huskers did not add a defensive back to the travel roster. They opted for Tom Welter, an offensive tackle.

Welter is considered insurance because both Mark Behning and Tim Roth have been nursing injuries all week. Behning has a sprained ankle and Roth a bruised hip. Middle guard John Reinhardt, linebacker Todd Proffitt and Hoskins are other travel roster additions. They replace fullback Ken Kaelin, defensive end Brad Tyrer and punter Dan Win-gard from last week's travel roster to UCLA. NU kicking Coach Clete Fischer said SeeNUonpagefi! West stops INE, 21-14 he said.

"You have to have run support with whatever defensive front you're in." Naturally, teams attempt to disguise their defenses and give the quarterback reads. The quarterback, in turn, Mike Zaremba tees utes, the Rockets fumbled the ball back to the Thunderbirds, two yards away from where Bellevue West had the ball four turnovers before. Northeast was called for roughing the kicker to keep the West drive alive at the Northeast 45 and seven plays later, Casey scored to put Bellevue ahead 21-14 with 10:48 left in the game. Northeast lost its third fumble of the half and Bellevue West counted on a 16-yard pass from Bradley to Michael Friedman to set up the Thunderbirds' fourth-and-three situation at the Rocket 18 with 1:58 to play. Bradley hit Tom Shafer on a 14-yard pass on fourth down and kept the ball out of Northeast's hands until there was six seconds left.

"We were lucky they gave the ball back to us those two times and that we made it going on fourth down twice ALWest Pet. GB Kansas City 83 76 .522 Minnesota 81 78 .509 2 Kansas City (3) Away (3) at Oakland (3) Sept. 28, 29, 30. Minnesota (3): Away (3) at Cleveland (3) Sept. 28, 29, 30.

three and pray Kansas City loses two of three," said Twins manager Billy Gardner. "It's extremely disappointing. "I suppose you know that Quirk played seven years with Kansas City? Figures an ex-Royal would help puncture our balloon." What made Gardner feel even worse was the fact the Twins blew a 3-0 lead in the eighth inning, courtesy of a throwing error by second baseman Tim Teufel which allowed the tying run to score. "I feel like a magician who puts his hand into a hat, only to discover that the rabbit is gone. Somebody just told me that one and one may not equal two after all," said Gardner.

At least the Twins are still mathematically alive, which is more than can be said for the California Angels. The Angels were knocked out of the pennant race by the Texas Rangers, 2-1. Ned Yost officially ended the Angels' pennant hwles by driving in two runs quarter and converting a fourth-and-three situation for a first down with less than two minutes left to retain possession of the ball The Thunderbirds broke a 14-all tie when Steve Casey capped a 12-play, 59-yard drive on a one-yard run. Bellevue West's scoring drive started when Northeast punted early in the second half. The Thunderbirds drove to the Northeast 45, but lost the ball on an errant lateral which Rocket defensive tackle Dan Jackson recovered But Northeast fumbled the ball back on the next play.

Two Bellevue West plays later, Rocket safety Dave Svehla grabbed his second interception of the game. To complete the bizarre series of turnovers that lasted just over two min Quirk of fate9 aids Royals 7T if By United Press International Call it a Quirk of fate. The Minnesota Twins' chances of winning the American League West title have been ruined by a sudden twist named Jamie Quirk, who, although he wears the uniform of the Cleveland Indians, no doubt bleeds Kansas. City Royal blue. Quirk, who played seven years with the Royals and still has several close personal friends on the club, hit a home run in the ninth inning Thursday night to give the Indians a 4-3 victory over the Twins.

The loss dropped Minnesota two games behind first place Kansas City in the AL West with only three games left to play in the season. Quirk's homer, off reliever-Ron Davis, 7-10, came in his first at-bat for the Indians after being purchased from the Chicago White Sox' Triple A affiliate at Denver last Monday. "I'm just up here trying to get a foot in the door for spring training next year," said Quirk. "After I hit the ball, I really was in shock for a moment I thought, This is happening to Minnesota has three games remaining with the Indians and Kansas City three with Oakland "I gAss we have to win the next 1 6TAFF PHOTO BY ROBERT BECKER returns the ball en route to the Story on Page 12. Winning style Nebraska's Karen Dahlgren Huskers' eighth straight win.

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