Nebraska women’s sports

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The Nebraska soccer team couldn't quite hold an early lead Sunday against Indiana as the Huskers and Hoosiers battled to a 1-1 tie after two overtimes in Bloomington, Indiana.

The Huskers (9-3-4, 3-1-4 Big Ten) extended their unbeaten streak to seven matches and remain within striking distance of a top-four seed in the Big Ten Tournament with two weeks and three matches left in the regular season.


The Huskers led most of the match after senior Haley Hanson scored on an assist from Amanda McClanahan in the 17th minute. The goal marked Hanson’s ninth of the season, which leads the Huskers. Hanson, who played all 110 minutes, led the NU offense with six shots, including four of the Huskers’ six shots on goal.



As a team, Nebraska outshot the Hoosiers 21-16, including a 6-5 edge in shots on goal. NU goalkeeper Aubrei Corder made four saves.


Indiana’s Mykayla Brown scored to tie the game at 1-1 in the 72nd minute.

The Huskers next play at Iowa at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The match, which is rescheduled from earlier in the season, will be streamed live on BTN Plus. journalstar.com/sports/huskers/soccer/huskers-draw-with-indiana-as-unbeaten-streak-reaches-seven/article_217d2653-e515-5303-9de9-63e88e0cd15c.html

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The Nebraska volleyball team rebounded from a loss to Wisconsin earlier in the week to beat No. 16 Purdue 25-16, 22-25, 25-14, 25-18 on Saturday night.

Despite taking a ball to the face early in the action, and having a tissue in her nose for the rest of the match, Nebraska junior Mikaela Foecke led all players with a season-high 21 kills, hitting .476 for the match.

"When you get hit like that, you come back and it's easy to get going," Nebraska coach John Cook said after the match. Purdue came out firing in the first set, scoring five straight points early to lead 7-4 and later pushing the lead to 13-11.

Fourth-ranked Nebraska responded with a run of its own to win the first set. Briana Holman and Jazz Sweet teamed up for a block, and a few points later the Huskers used back-to-back Purdue errors to go up 18-14.

The Huskers used a 14-3 run to end the set and held the Boilermakers to .069 hitting.


The Boilermakers came out of a close second set with a 25-22 win, getting a huge kill by Sherridan Atkinson for set point. Atkinson led Purdue with 15 kills on 38 attacks.

Nebraska dominated the next two sets, setting the tone early in the third set behind a block by Kelly Hunter and Lauren Stivrins. Annika Albrecht served an ace right after the block, and eight points later, Nebraska led 6-4.
Later in the third set, Foecke made a kill from the back row to give Nebraska a 13-8 lead, starting a 5-0 run for an 18-9 advantage.

Purdue hit .000 in the third set, and Nebraska led 2-1 with a 25-14 win.

The Huskers capped off the win with a 25-18 fourth-set victory.

Nebraska led 5-0 right off the bat and didn't look back. Stivrins had two kills to push the Husker lead to 17-11, and NU finished off the victory with an Albrecht kill.
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Women's Gymnasts Already In Big Ten Driver's Seat

Dan Kendig held out his flat hand just to show he could not keep it from tremoring.

“Part of me thinks I’m getting too old for this,” the Nebraska women’s gymnastics coach said, “but boy, it sure makes you feel younger.”

You could say Kendig could relax after his No. 12 Huskers put together their best meet of the young season to defeat No. 8 Michigan before 2,008 fans at the Devaney Sports Center on Saturday afternoon.

Of course, that won’t happen.

“We’re still not the team we’re capable of being,” Kendig said. “We’re still not completely healed.”

That continual strive for perfection is why Nebraska, with a season-high score of 196.875, is annually in contention for conference titles.

To wit, these Huskers are already in the driver’s seat for the Big Ten Conference regular season championship after outscoring perennial league power Michigan, which finished at 196.525.

“They’re our arch rival,” Kendig said. “There’s no getting away from it, and they’d have to say the same thing about us.

“But we’re not out of the woods for conference yet. Minnesota is a tough team next week, then we’re at Iowa, and they’re tough at their place.”

Nebraska, though, has opened the season with three straight Big Ten victories and holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over Michigan, which has claimed at least a share of four straight Big Ten titles.

Abbie Epperson won Saturday’s all-around with a career-best 39.450, and Sienna Crouse anchored vault with a season-best 9.975 to pace the Huskers, who were without assistant coach Chris Brooks, home ill.

Kendig can’t remember ever coaching a meet without his full coaching staff present, but he’s not surprised this team persevered.

“Seriously, that’s what I love about this team. They have not let anything bother them,” Kendig said. “We go to Penn State, first meet, very young team, we stayed focused, we’re down after the first event, we fought back, we won, by just staying in the moment.”

Nebraska had fewer issues in defeating Rutgers last week, although it didn’t necessary get off to a blazing start on vault.

That changed against Michigan, when freshman Makayla Curtis, competing for the first time in any event this young season, filled in because of an injured teammate. She led off vault with a 9.775, and the Huskers scored a 49.275 as a team.

Crouse entered the weekend with the nation’s top score of 9.950 on vault, although Florida’s Alex McMurty scored a perfect 10 on Friday night. Still, Crouse’s vault on Saturday, Kendig said, was quite special.

“I don’t think many people work harder than she does on vault,” he said. “It’s a timing thing. Her shoulder’s a little tight and if she doesn’t get it back she winds up on her bottom, and she’s worked hard to make sure that (shoulder back) happens.”

Michigan scored a 49.175 on uneven bars, giving the Huskers the early lead, and then Nebraska expanded on that margin when teams switched events. Nebraska scored a 49.075 on bars and Michigan a 48.875 on vault, and the Huskers were well on their way to victory.

Nebraska never had a fall in 28 routines, although it counted a 9.650 on floor when Grace Williams went big on her final pass and landed slightly out of bounds. But Crouse and Megan Schweihofer closed with solid routines, meaning the Huskers didn't count the low score, while Michigan had falls on both beam and floor.

Nebraska (3-0, 3-0) hosts Minnesota next Saturday night at 7 with a chance to put a stranglehold on first place in the Big Ten.

“Our goal going into this meet was to be a better version of ourselves than we were last week,” Kendig said. “I can say we did that, all the way around. That’s what makes it fun.” www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=211694569

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Huskers Top Illinois on Senior Day
By NU Athletic Communications | 01/20/2018




Lincoln- The Nebraska swim and dive team defeated Illinois on senior day with a final score of 183-112.

The Huskers started the meet with a first place finish in the 200-yard medley relay with Autumn Haebig, Gwen Worlton, Izzie Murray and Lindsay Helferich in the lane (1:44.46).

In the 1,000-yard freestyle, team captain Kaylyn Flatt pulled out a first-place finish (10:12.97).

Standout freshman Haebig captured first place in the 200-yard freestyle (1:50.97) followed by Jessica Pentlarge for third (1:53.93).

Morgan McCafferty found a second place win for the Big Red in the 100-yard backstroke (57.96), followed by Carla Gonzalez-Garcia for third (1:03.95).

The Huskers swept the top three spots in the 100-yard breaststroke with senior captain Jordan Ehly in first (1:03.95), Tori Beeler in second (1:04.30) and Gwen Worlton rounding out the top three (1:04.40).

In the 200-yard butterfly, Dana Posthuma finished first (2:03.51) and freshman Madison Coughlen took third (2:05.86).

Helferich added her second first-place finish of the day in the 50-yard freestyle (24.21) and Allie Worrall follwed for third (24.35).

Pentlarge got on the board for the Huskers again with a first-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle (52.23), and Helferich came in third (52.50).

Team captain Anna McDonald finished first in the 200-yard backstroke (2:04.49).

Ehly found her second first-place finish of the meet in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:15.96) and Worlton followed for second (2:19.39).

Haebig finished first in the 500-yard freestyle (4:58.02) followed by Flatt for second (5:04.59).

In the 100-yard butterfly, Murray finished second (56.22) and Posthuma came in third (56.44).

McDonald finished second in the 400-yard individual medley (4:31.34), followed by Coughlen for third (4:32.90).

On the diving front, Abi Knapton took first in the three-meter dive with her score of 324.22. Junior Katrina Voge took third 276.30.

In the one-meter dive event, Knapton also took first place (263.73), followed by Voge for third (233.55).

The Nebraska swim and dive team will be back in action January 26 when they face Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J. www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=211693499&DB_OEM_ID=100

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Huskers Remain On Top

By NU Athletic Communications
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The Nebraska bowling team has remained in the top spot in the nation in the latest National Tenpin Coaches Association poll, released Thursday.

The Huskers received 26 out of a possible 43 first-place votes. After starting the season in the No. 2 spot and earning their way to the top in the December poll, the Huskers again took the top spot in the February poll.

The top-ten teams remain the same as the poll released in December with McKendree coming in second, receiving 17 first-place votes. Arkansas State and Vanderbilt maintain their third and fourth-place spots, respectively. Sam Houston State also retained their spot in fifth-place.

The Huskers will return to competition this weekend at the Crusader Classic in Richton Park, Ill. www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=211699279