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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Kansas men's rugby team beat Oklahoma 35-0 Saturday.
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November 1, 1999
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Volleyball
Kansas volleyball will try to rebound from its 3-0 loss at Texas when it plays Oklahoma Wednesday at home.
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Big 12 preview
The Kansan starts its previews of the conference's basketball teams today with a look at the Missouri and Iowa State men's and women's teams.
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Just out of reach
ter touchdown and lost 24-17. Above: Senior wide receiver Michael Chandler gets a comforting hug from his father after the game. Photos by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Junior defensive back Kareem High misses a tackle as Nebraska's junior wide receiver Bobby Newcombe runs in for the game-winning touchdown. Kansas failed to answer Nebraska's four-quar-
'Hawks battle come up short in 24-17 defeat
Bv Mike Miller
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
If Saturday was any indication, things are looking up for Kansas.
No, not because the Jayhawks played Nebraska close for the first time in six years, losing 24-17 Saturday night at Memorial Stadium, but because of the team's attitude after the game.
Coach Terry Allen, usually contemplative and patient with his team's performance, was upset. His team played good enough to win, but he wouldn't be happy with a loss, no matter how close it was.
"We're getting better each and every week," Allen said. "But you don't compliment yourself when you lose."
When a team comes close to beating a team like Nebraska — one of the best teams of the decade — the first inclination is to offer the coach condolences and congratulate him on a close game.
Allen would have none of it.
"You don't give congratulations," Allen said. "We came to play, and we came to win."
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Indiana State edges out Kansas in tournament
By Melinda Weaver
sports@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's tennis team fell short of the Region V Championship yesterday with a 4-2 loss to Indiana State, but the team found several positives from the fall season.
The top-seeded Jayhawks had a first round bye and defeated Tulsa 4-3 in the semifinals. Kansas won the doubles points and had singles wins from sophomore Rodrigo Echagarray, freshman Pete Stroer and senior Bryan Maier.
Maier won the match for the Jayhawks by breaking the 3-3 tie with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 win against Juan Bertoldi.
Doubles continued to do well for Kansas as the teams won the doubles points in both matches.
In the finals, Kansas battled second-seeded Indiana State but could not put together a win.
In collegiate tennis, the team that wins two of three doubles matches captures one point for the team score.
"There were not much difference between our two opponents." Maier said. "Indiana State had better players at the bottom of the lineup, but I didn't think any of us were not capable of beating any of our opponents. A few things that could have gone either way went their way."
In singles, Kansas lost four of five, giving Indiana State the 2-4 win.
Indiana State led 3-1 when sophomore Quentin Blakeney, sophomore Alex Barragan and Maier lost in the three, four and six positions. Echagaray brought the score to 3-2 with his 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 win against Gaerth Keating.
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"I'm very satisfied with the top of our lineup, and our freshman, without any college experience, are a good sign for where this program is going," coach Mark Riley said. "I feel very responsible for Pete Stroer having to save the match. We need to do a better job to keep the pressure off the freshmen. We were depending on both of our freshman players for the match, and that's not fair. The upperclassmen need to do a better job, period."
Riley said that he was pleased with the results he saw in the fall season. Kansas qualified a doubles team, Ed Dus and Echagaray, and a singles player, Magallan, for the Regional Indoors in February and were one point away from qualifying as a team.
When Streo lost at the five position, the match was finished, and freshman Eleazar Magallan, playing at the top position, did not finish.
"With more work, we will turn around the three, four and six position. We will be better in January, believe me. We have come so far in three months I'd like to see where we are in three or four more months. I'm satisfied with where we are going. We have a good team."
"We have a very young team, but we found that we have two very good players at the top of the lineup, and the doubles teams are very solid." Riley said.
Magallan finished the fall season with a team-high 16 wins, and Echagaray and Dus finished with the best doubles record. 9-2.
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Jayhawk soccer ends fine season with two losses
By Chris Wristen
sports@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
After losing to Mississippi 1-1 Friday night, the Jayhawks, 8-10-1, were defeated 3-0 Saturday by San Diego State. Both losses followed a similar pattern which plagued the Jayhawks in their tie with Texas and loss to Texas A&M the previous weekend. Kansas continued to have trouble finishing opportunities.
The Kansas soccer team concluded the most successful season in its five year history with an unsuccessful weekend at the Ole Miss Classic Tournament in Oxford, Miss.
In Friday's loss, Kansas came out slow and didn't get things rolling until the second half when it already trailed by two goals.
"We played horrendous in the first half," coach Mark Francis said. "We came out in the second half and played much better. We had a few wide open one-on-one opportunities with the goalkeeper that we missed, so unfortunately it came down to missed opportunities again."
The Jayhawks had plenty of chances, as they fired 22 shots but only scored once. The goal came in the 76th minute when sophomore forward Natalie Hooydvelburied an unassisted goal, cutting Mississippi's lead to one. But the Rebels answered with their final goal and won. 3-1. Hooydvelburial was her sixth of the season, which tied a team record for goals in a season. Hooydvelburial wasn't the only Jayhawk to tie a team record on Friday. Senior goalkeeper Laura Rohe丁 tie the school record for saves in a game with 15. Her loss to San Diego State brought
Kansas forward Meghan Haven heads the ball over a Texas defender. The Jayhawks finished the season this weekend with a record of 8-10-1. Photo by Aaron Lindberg/KANSAN
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a disappointing conclusion to the season and also came as the result of missed chances. Kansas only had a few opportunities to score and didn't succeed. They were outshot 17-3 by the Aztecs.
Although he was not pleased with the final result of the game, Francis was pleased with his team's overall effort.
"We did not quit." Francis said. "They had four good chances to score, and they scored three of them. We had probably three good chances to score, and we did not score. It is disappointing to end the season this way."
Outstanding play against 'Huskers delights loyal fans
For one evening, the University of Kansas showed that it had potential to be a football school.
While thousands of red-clad Nebraska fans invaded Memorial Stadium on Saturday in anticipation of another lopsided win, Kansas students were thinking of which bars they were going to visit at halftime with the Cornhuskers jumping 35-0.
But Kansas was holding its own
But Kansas early in the game. Both sides were exchanging punts. Kansas had some confidence.
Brad Hallier sports columnist sports @kanan.com
Then came the blocked punt by Matt Jordan late in the first quarter that sailed out of the Nebraska end zone. Holy Columbus, Ohio! Kansas 2, Nebraska 0.
What a feeling
that was. Now students were talking about the goal posts coming down.
The students were delirious with excitement. Kansas 9, Nebraska 0. The talk around the stadium included not only tearing down the goal posts but ripping up the turf.
After Kansas held Nebraska to a third consecutive three-and-out possession in the second quarter, Dylan Smith, who is looking more like Mark Williams every game, maneuvered the Jayhawks 79 yards on seven plays. The drive was capped by Smith avoiding a sack, rolling right and firing a bullet to a wide-open David Hurst for a touchdown.
Now the rout was on, right? Kansas' offense was dead. The defense was wearing out. The students were filled with disappointment. But that disappointment quickly turned to ecstasy when Michael Chandler took a Smith pass and scampered 77 yards into the end zone. Chandler also caught the twopoint conversion pass, and again the Jayhawk faithful were talking of the posts coming down, the turf coming up and the bleachers coming off.
The students weren't alone. Coach Terry Allen looked like a crazed man, jumping up and down and waving his arms. Like the students, Allen was simply delirious with excitement. Students were hugging friends and strangers as if they were friends. Excitement didn't even begin to describe how half the stadium felt with score deadlocked at 17. The other half was praying that their team would escape with a win. And escape they did.
But after a Josh Brown field goal put the 'Huskers on the scoreboard, Bobby Newcombe drove a stake into the heart of every Kansas fan with an 86-yard punt return for a touchdown. Nebraska 10, Kansas 9.
Halftime came. Still 9-0. Nobody wanted to leave the stadium. The anticipation of an upset was evident. Even though Lyndon Johnson was in the White House the last time Kansas had defeated Nebraska, Kansas fans believed.
Early in the fourth quarter, Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch slipped into the end zone, giving Nebraska a 17-9 advantage.
Newcombe caught a 49-yard pass late in the game, which would be the winning score. The Jayhawks were out of timeouts. But even when Smith took Kansas onto the field with less than a minute left, no timeouts and 71 yards to go, nobody lost the faith. As time expired, Kansas fans kept their heads high.
How close our football team came to winning and the excitement we experienced while the Jayhawks played their best football of the season made, for one night at least, Kansas a football school.
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Hallier is a Mission senior in journalism.