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Ohio States team huddle prior to taking the floor on Saturday against top-ranked Nebraska in Lincoln lasted longer than the traditional minute.Visualize, coach Geoff Carlston stressed to the Buckeyes, asking each of them to focus on the winning moment of the upcoming match.It wasnt a stretch for sophomore setter Taylor Hughes, the espnW volleyball player of the week, to picture a victory over the Cornhuskers. Although the defending national champions had won 28 straight, Ohio State beat Nebraska in five a year ago in Columbus. The Buckeye seniors have never lost in Lincoln, where Nebraska has sold out every home game since 2002.Hughes pictured setting senior Taylor Sandbothe for the kill, almost exactly what happened a few hours later.I had us winning in five, though, Hughes admitted, but Ohio State (12-4) only needed four sets to take their third straight at Devaney Sports Center. Since joining the Big 10 in 2011, the Cornhuskers have a winning record over every conference program except Ohio State, which is 4-3 in Lincoln.Hughes finished with 41 assists and a career-best 11 kills hitting at a match-high .500 rate, using her long arms and big hands to create chaos for the Cornhuskers.Poor passing in the first set delayed the Buckeyes upset, but Ohio State regrouped when Taylor started putting it everywhere, Carlston said. That made Nebraska uncomfortable and have to worry about her. After that first set, she set a really smart game. She kept our team steady and climbing the mountain.In the second set alone, Hughes carried the Ohio State offense, impacting 17 of the teams 18 kills with 11 assists and six kills of her own.Carlston remembers Hughes as a 9-year-old; he coached her older sister, Ashley, also a setter at Ohio State. Another sister, Cassie, played volleyball for Columbus State.I wouldnt want any other setter in the country, he said. Shes the youngest in a family of competitors, and usually that youngest kid watches and observes. That last sibling tends to have an edge to her. By the time she was a sophomore in high school, I saw that grittiness.Along with that, she owns an enviable topspin lefty serve, one the Ohio State band lauds at home games with an encouraging, Click. Click. Boom, every time Hughes steps to the line.Hughes planned to play basketball along with volleyball in high school before a knee injury made her reconsider competing in a contact sport. She was a regular in the stands for Ashleys college games, but strongly considered Georgia Tech before deciding on Ohio State.The tradition and excellence are unexplainable until you get here, said Hughes, who grew up about 40 minutes away from campus in Carroll, Ohio.Ohio State went 2-0 last week without starter Audra Appold, Hughes roomie and second in hitting on the team to Sandbothe. Credit Hughes for mixing up her sets to keep the Nebraska defense at bay.I had less weapons, but it made it more of a game to trick their blockers, she said.Junior Luisa Schirmer had 16 kills. Sandbothe had 12 kills, hitting .346, and freshman Brooke Bailey added five kills.At 23-13 in the fourth set, Hughes realized her visualization of beating Nebraska was no longer just in her head.Their coach started making challenges, she said. I felt like they were nervous. At 23-13, I finally felt like we had it in the bag, and I got the goose bumps.The final four will be played at Ohio State in December, but right now, Hughes cant imagine anything better that what happened on Saturday night.Ive still got a big smile on my face, she said. I cant picture a bigger win. New Balance Outlet UK . The 28-year-old from Calgary matched his career best after missing just one shot in his two rounds of shooting in the mens 10-kilometre sprint competition. Smith finished in 23 minutes 15. 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Its a shame that we ended up spun around and wrecked.Buschs crew chief Tony Gibson, typically one of the more reserved and easygoing crew chiefs in the garage, tweeted simply: Stupid is as stupid does!!! #22Logano said the accident was unintentional, just a product of restrictor-plate racing.The last thing I want to do is hit someone like that, Logano said. Unfortunately, it happened.As the social media anti-Logano craze continued, Loganos tweet about the crash also included congratulations to his teammate Brad Keselowski?for winning.Hate I got into @KurtBusch at the end, Logano tweeted. Got free turning under him & tried to catch it.Logano probably wont worry too much about it. His car owner, Roger Penske, has his back. Plus, his 12 victories since the start of 2014 is the most of any driver in the series.Still, he has had his share of beefs with other drivers throughout the years, from Matt Kenseth to Kevin Harvick to Tony Stewart.Joey has taken, I think, some undue criticism from my perspective based on some of the things that have happened, Penske said. Certainly you can go back, and I could name three or four things that certainly werent his fault.But quite honestly, I think hes one of the best drivers on the racetrack out there day in and day out, and sure, people make mistakes.What is strange to Penske is the fact that Logano doesnt get a pass for any of his mistakes. That probably comes from what other drivers feel is an aloof or unsympathetic attitude.That is whaat Matt Kenseth cited as a point of frustration in his retaliation of Logano at Martinsville last year.dddddddddddd.A lot of these drivers can knock somebody off the track, and they say, Hey, Im sorry, you follow me, and they move on, Penske said. They dont let Logano do that. ... Im behind him 300 percent.And Ill talk to Kurt, he didnt do it on purpose. It could have been a big mess down there tonight, too, and at the end of the day, thats racing as far as Im concerned.Xfinity Series: Aric Almirola gets that winAlmirola doesnt have any mementos of his first Xfinity Series win, the one in 2007 where he started the race at The Milwaukee Mile but the tardy Denny Hamlin got in the car after arriving from Sonoma and drove the car across the finish line in front of everyone else.By the time the race was over, Almirola wasnt even at the track. But he still got credit for the win.I have nothing, Almirola said. I didnt take anything from it. I didnt take the money. I didnt take the trophy. I didnt take any pictures in Victory Lane. I left before the race was over.That was not my race to win. I started the race, I qualified on the pole, I led however many laps at the start of the race when they called me down pit road but I was not in the car when it crossed the start-finish line. Denny Hamlin won that race.Almirola feels he won his first Xfinity race -- for real -- Friday at Daytona International Speedway.When they called me at the shop that week to tell me how thankful they were and Joe [Gibbs] and J.D. [Gibbs] gave me the trophy, I took it over to the [Xfinity] shop and gave it to [crew chief] Dave Rodgers, Almirola said. I felt he deserved it. He made the car good enough for me to qualify on pole and lead all those laps and then Denny to get in and win the race. Dave has that trophy I think. ' ' '