In This Issue:

Husker Highlights
Feature Story
Story Spotlight
Upcoming Schedule

Husker Highlights

Football (4-2 Overall, 1-1 Big Ten)

• #12 Ohio State 63, #21 Nebraska 38, Saturday, Oct. 6, Columbus, Ohio

Volleyball (13-2, 3-1 Big Ten)

• #4 Nebraska 3, Indiana 2, Saturday, Oct. 6, Bloomington, Ind.
• #4 Nebraska 3, #12 Purdue 0, Friday, Oct. 5, West Lafayette, Ind.

Soccer (6-7-1, 3-3 Big Ten)

• Nebraska 3, Wisconsin 2 (OT), Friday, Oct. 5, Madison, Wis.

Rifle (2-0)

• #10 Nebraska 4,641, #4 Alaska 4,641 (Tiebreaker), Sunday, Oct. 7, NU Rifle Range
• #10 Nebraska 4,635, NC State, 4,582, Friday, Oct. 5, NU Rifle Range

Softball

• Nebraska 13, UNO 0 (Husker Fall Classic), Sunday, Oct. 7, Doris Bair Softball Complex
• Colorado State 13, Nebraska 8 (Husker Fall Classic), Sunday, Oct. 7, Doris Bair Softball Complex
• Nebraska 1, Colorado State 0 (Husker Fall Classic), Saturday, Oct. 6, Doris Bair Softball Complex
• Nebraska 11, UNO 3 (Husker Fall Classic), Saturday, Oct. 6, Doris Bair Softball Complex
  

Women’s Tennis

• Riviera ITA All-American, Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 2-4

Men’s Tennis

• ITA All-American, Tulsa, Okla., Oct. 2-4

Shawn Eichorst Prepared to Lean on Osborne

Randy York’s NSider - Welcome to Nebraska, Shawn and Kristin Eichorst, and while we’re at it, the N-Sider is throwing out a Big Red welcome mat for your three sons, too – Jack, Joseph and Bennett. Even though we know most of your next three months will be spent working directly with Harvey Perlman, our chancellor, we also know that once you begin your new job on Jan. 1, 2013, Husker Nation can and will trust you.

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Story Spotlight:
Perlman Names Shawn Eichorst Nebraska Athletic Director

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced the appointment of Shawn Eichorst as director of intercollegiate athletics. Eichorst, who has served as director of athletics at the University of Miami since April 2011, will join the University of Nebraska Oct. 9 as a special assistant to the chancellor, and will succeed Tom Osborne as director of intercollegiate athletics when Osborne becomes athletic director emeritus on Jan. 1. 

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Upcoming Schedule

• Oct. 8-9 | Men’s Golf at Firestone Invitational, Akron, Ohio, 7:30 a.m.
• Oct. 8-10 | Women’s Golf at Price’s “Give ‘em Five” Invitational, Las Cruces, N.M., 9:30 a.m.
• Oct. 9 | Baseball Red/White Series Game 1, Hawks Field, 3:30 p.m.
• Oct. 10 | Baseball Red/White Series Game 2, Hawks Field, 3:30 p.m.
• Oct. 11 | Baseball Red/White Series Game 3, Hawks Field, 6 p.m.
• Oct. 12-13 | Swimming & Diving at North Dakota with St. Cloud State, Grand Forks, N.D., 6 p.m./11 a.m.
• Oct. 12 | Cross Country at Wisconsin adidas Invitational, Madison, Wis., 1 p.m.
• Oct. 12 | Soccer vs. Penn State, Nebraska Soccer Field, 4 p.m.
• Oct. 12 | Volleyball vs. Wisconsin, NU Coliseum, 7 p.m. (NET)
• Oct. 13 | Rifle vs. Kentucky, NU Rifle Range, 8 a.m.
• Oct. 14 | Soccer vs. Ohio State, Nebraska Soccer Field, Noon
• Oct. 14 | Volleyball vs. Minnesota, NU Coliseum, 2 p.m. (ESPN2)
• Oct. 15-16 | Women’s Golf at Missouri State/Payne Stewart Memorial, Springfield, Mo., 8:30 a.m.