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■Comhuskers lead the Big 12
■ North and are back in the AP
■Top 25.
OK, so it’s just one game
■ into the season. But an opening
■ 17-7 Big 12 win over rising
■Oklahoma State and a return to
■ the rankings are important
■ steps for Nebraska after its first
■ non-winning record in 41
■ years.
•’ “I think it reinforces a lot of
■ things in our players’ minds,”
■ Nebraska coach Frank Solich
■ said Monday. “We went into this
■ game with the idea of truly
■ believing in ourselves. For that
■ to materialize the way you real-
■ ly want it to, coming off that
■ first game and playing well, cer-
■ tainly the win was big.”
Oklahoma State coach Les
■ Miles has to worry about the
■ opposite reaction. The Cowboys
■ dropped out of the poll after
■their first preseason ranking
since 1985.
Even with the returning
impressive trio of quarterback
Josh Fields, receiver Rashaun
Woods and running back Tatum
Bell, the Cowboys scored
against Nebraska only on their
opening
SOLICH
drive. And
they had five
turnovers.
“It is
healthy for
our guys to
understand
that they had a
tremendous
opportunity,
opportunity was
and that
national prominence and rank
ing,” Miles said. “That window
of opportunity has closed tem
porarily but could easily reap
pear as the season moves for
ward.”
Not until Oct. 11 when they
get back into Big 12 play against
seventh-ranked Kansas State.
Before then, they can’t slip up in
their non-conference games
against Wyoming, Southwest
Missouri State, SMU and
Louisiana-Lafayette.
“Hats off to a great job by the
Nebraska staff preparing for that
game,” Miles said. “Their kids
played hard. We were prepared
for that game and ready to play.
They got us.”
The Comhuskers were 7-7
last season, the first time since
1961 they didn’t have a winning
record. Their run of 348 appear
ances in the Top 25 poll ended
Sept. 29, 2002, after a loss to
Iowa State, and they started the
season unranked for the first
time since 1969.
“It’s something that this pro
gram has been all about, being
in the Top 25 and being a top
football team in the country,”
Solich said. “It’s great to be
back in. I think it was obvious to
everyone, including ourselves,
that we had to prove that we
deserved to get back in.”
The Comhuskers will remain
alone at the top of the Big 12
North for almost a month. The
next conference game is
Missouri at Kansas on Sept. 27,
a week before the rest of the
league’s eight teams finally play
games that count in the stand
ings.
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By Doug Ferguson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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died him even nr rand clutch pars that kept anyone from making a
• sure he was up tor serious run, Scott closed with a 5-under 66 on
iquita said, lie h ' Monday to win the Deutsche Bank Championship,
lock, but 1 still “Now it seems easy,” he said. “I was grinding
it 4 o'clock in their ' really hard out there.”
make sure." Scott led by at least three shots throughout a
Carter, the powtH'rainy afternoon on the TPC of Boston, and a birdie
has shown himaskk 5 ' on the final hole gave him a four-shot victory over
and his .ittitu(k-*Rocco Mediate.
t seen since donnin; - The 23-year-old Aussie, who finished at 20-
and white. under 268, won for the first time on the PGA Tour
finally get to u • and fifth time worldwide, all of them by protecting
ge of my abilities. A a lead going into the final round.
'ootball is fun again “He’s as good as you can get,” Mediate said.
■ “At his age ... we’ve got our hands full.”
Scott’s record is nothing like Woods, who is 28-
2 on the PGA Tour when he has at least a share of
■the 54-hole lead.
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carried Scott to a dominant performance over the
last three rounds that left everyone else playing
for second.
Mediate did his best to make a charge with four
birdies in five holes around the turn, and he closed
with a 6-under 65. All that got him was second
place.
Justin Rose, Scott’s best friend on the European
tour, birdied the last two holes for a 67 and finished
third at 269. Vijay Singh was another stroke back
after a 66 that could have been much better if not for
a slew of short-range birdie putts that he missed.
Scott earned $900,000 and a two-year exemp
tion on the PGA Tour, although he is expected to
continue playing a full schedule in Europe.
Woods never had a chance in the tournament
that benefits his foundation.
He birdied his first three holes to get within five
strokes of the lead, and consecutive birdies to start
the back nine moved him into a tie for third.
But a double bogey on No. 12 derailed any
hopes of getting closer to Scott, and Woods had to
settle for two birdies at the end for a 67. He fin
ished at 273, tied for seventh.
It was his fifth straight PGA Tour event without
a victory dating to the Western Open on the Fourth
of July weekend, although he has finished out of
the top seven only once during that stretch.
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