12A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, NOV.7, 2001
Team honored for grades
The Kansas soccer team has proved its success on the field and now, the Big 12 Conference has recognized six players' success off the field.
Juniors Brianna Valento, Pardis Brown and Nikki Wahle, along with sophomore Maggie Mason and senior Hilla Rantala were named to the Academic All-Big 12 first team, while senior Natalie Hoogveld earned a spot on the second team, the league office announced yesterday.
Wahle's on the list for the second time, while the rest made the
team for the first time.
Rantala, a co-captain and economics major, was one of three players in the Big 12 nominated with a 4.0 GPA.
Also announced yesterday were separate awards for Valento and freshman goalkeeper Meghan Miller. Valento was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, while Miller was named Newcomer of the Week.
— Ryan Wood
The soccer academic-all league team consists of 62 firstteam members and an additional 18 on the second team.
18 on the second To be eligible for first team consideration, players must maintain a 3.2 GPA or better and participate in 60 percent of her team's games. Second team is given to those who have a GPA between 3.0 and 3.19. Freshman are not eligible.
The Jayhawks (13-5) take on Missouri tomorrow in the opening round of the Big 12 Conference Tournament in San Antonio. Game time is slated for 1:30 p.m.
Valento
Brown
Mason
Wahle
Hoogveld
Rantala
Lack of luster paces Sixers to 0-4
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Larry Brown couldn't turn to Allen Iverson and Eric Snow on the court, so he turned to them in the locker room after the 76ers remained winless.
Jalen Rose scored 26 points and Jermaine O'Neal added 22, leading the Indiana Pacers to an 87-77 victory against the Sixers last night in a rematch of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series.
Derrick Coleman scored 25 and Speedy Claxton had 23 for the injury-riddled Sixers, who were without Iverson, Snow, and Aaron McKie.
Philadelphia, which opened last season with a franchise-best 10 straight wins en route to the NBA Finals, is off to an 0-4 start.
Brown, disappointed with his team's effort, lectured them after
the game, and then turned it
over to Snow and Iverson.
"We don't want to develop a losing mentality and that's what it's headed toward." Snow said.
Snow hopes his teammates aren't just waiting for him, Iverson and McKie to return.
"It's a team game. If they think that's the savior, they're in for a rude awakening." Snow said. "You can see there is not much excitement. We have to get our confidence up I don't think it's a situation where guys aren't trying. Maybe it's inexperience."
With Dikembe Mutombo on
the bench because of foul trouble, Indiana opened a 48-39 halftime lead. Mutombo got his third foul with 3:08 left in the first quarter and didn't return until the second half. The Pacers outscored the Sixers 32-20 with Mutombo on the bench.
The Sixers closed to 69-66 early in the fourth on six straight points by Coleman. A dunk and a short jumper by O'Neal made it 73-66, but Coleman answered with an alley-oop dunk from Claxton.
However, the Sixers were called for their second defensive three-second technical and Coleman got a technical for arguing. Rose made both free throws and Austin Crosher hit a jumper to give Indiana a 77-68 lead midway through the fourth.
Philadelphia didn't get closer than seven points the rest of the way.
Volleyball looks for road win
After victory against Mizzou,'Hawks are ready to take on Cyclones
By Steve Laurenzo
Kansan sportswriter
Riding the momentum of a weekend road win at Missouri, the Kansas volleyball team traveled last night to Ames, Iowa, to take on the 4-16 Iowa State Cyclones tonight at Hilton Coliseum.
The Jayhawks, who are 14-12, 4-11 in the Big 12 Conference, defeated the Cyclones on Sept. 19 and will look to do so again tonight against a Iowa squad that has a 1-14 record in the Big 12.
Coach Ray Bechard has a 2-1 record in Ames after defeating the Cyclones, 3-0, at Hilton last year. Iowa State leads the series, 26-32-1, but Kansas has won the last three matches.
Ashley Michaels, freshman middle blocker, tries to power a spike down against the double-block of Lindsey Morris, freshman outside hitter and Danielle McHenry, freshman outside hitter, as junior middle blocker Molly Scavuzzo prepares to dig.
"It's not always an easy place to play," Bechard said. "It's a big, big building. But, we'll get in there for an hour and work that out. We're hoping for a really good effort from our team."
The Jayhawks will be looking for back-to-back Big 12 road wins, a feat never accomplished by a jayhawk volleyball team.
Iowa State enters the match against Kansas having lost its last five matches. The Cyclones were swept in each of those contests, to add to the eight times they had been swept already this year.
been Cyclones' only Big 12 win this season came against Oklahoma, a team that defeated Kansas earlier in the season. Kansas took the second match this year with Oklahoma.
Bechard said Iowa State was a better team than its record showed.
"We're playing an Iowa State team that is much improved," Bechard said. "They've been extremely close in a lot of games, but they haven't finished in a lot of games. They're capable, and they probably feel like they're ripe to break through, but we feel like we're in the position to get
another road victory."
another roadblock. Junior outside hitter Mandi Harms leads Iowa State offensively with an average of three kills per game. Defensively, sophomore middle blockers Steph Suntken and Julie Mitchell each average better than one block per game.
Junior defensive specialist Jamie Morningstar said the attitude in the layhawk locker room was better after the Missouri win.
"That win against Missouri helped us and uplifted our spirit," Morningstar said. "It would be a great thing if we could put two together."
service aces per game. Kansas' 157 total service aces this season is second best in the Big 12. Sophomore outside hitter Sarah Rome leads the team with an average of 0.38 aces per game.
average of Rome passed the 500 career kill mark against Missouri. Rome's 17 kills in the match put her at 514.
The Jayhawks are third in the Big 12 with an average of 1.77
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