14A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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'Hawks prepare to battle Bears
The Kansas volleyball team will attempt to complete a task Saturday that the football team failed to accomplish last weekend — to heat Baylor
By Jason Hwang
jhwang@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
"They've always been technically sound," Bechard said. "Now we've got to counteract that with our own game plan."
Edited by Chris Wintering
The team (15-2 overall, 4-2 Big 12 Conference) will play the second game of its three-match home stand as it takes on Baylor (8-8, 2-4) at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
Kansas won its the first game of the home stand Wednesday against Iowa State three games
"It's always a battle against Baylor. They always come here and play hard," Junior outside hitter Abbie Jacobson said. "They like to extend rallies and digs a lot of balls."
Baylor has won three of the last four matches against Kansas, but all the matches went to five games in each of those victories. Kansas Coach Ray Bechard is 2-6 over all versus Baylor.
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Kansas will welcome the pair of Oklahoma schools to Lawrence after setting a record attendance mark two weekends ago against Nebraska. The sudden interest is something the players feel helps them.
"It is awesome when the stands are filled and the fans are cheering hard for us," freshman Caroline Smith said. "There is no doubt that it provides us with a little extra energy and makes us play better."
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Smith enters this weekend's games as the Big 12 conference scoring leader with 10 goals scored and 23 points. Smith faced some trouble last weekend when she was double-teamed and did not get a single shot off against Baylor.
"Caroline is now a marked player," Francis said. "She is
getting double-teamed all the time now. She will learn to play with it though. She is an extremely tough kid."
Smith also leads the conference with four game-winning goals and has been named Big 12 Player of the Week twice in the past four weeks. Smith was also named the Big 12 cooffensive Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 1.,Big 12 Newcomer of the Week on Sept. 15 and named to Soccer America's Team of the Week on Oct. 2.
Despite the loss against Bayor, Kansas still remains ranked eighth in the Central Region. Francis and his troops look to build on that ranking this weekend.
"This is a very big weekend for us," Francis said. "It would keep us farther in front of them. We need to play together and as a unit, if we do that we will be successful."
Event showcasing student wrestler
Edited by Sarah Hill
By Daniel Berk
dberk@kansan.com
Kansan sports writer.
In baseball, there is the Triple-A league for players who are not ready for a Randy Johnson fast ball. In basketball, there is the newly formed developmental league for players who are not yet NBA caliber. In wrestling, there is the Central States Wrestling league for those not ready for a "Stone Cold Stunner."
The Central States Wrestling league has produced such wrestling stars as Shawn Michaels and Scott Hall. As everyone searches for the next big thing, wrestlers in the Central States Wrestling league are waking up every morning sore and tired with the dreams and hopes that one day, 20,000 people will be cheering their names.
That is what keeps them going.
It is not the average pay of $25 for a match. It is not the separated shoulders, but it is the fans who keep the wrestlers going.
The league will make a stop in Lawrence this weekend, as they will put on a show Saturday night at the National Guard Armory, Iowa and 2nd streets. It will be a homecoming for one of the league's wrestlers.
Mark Ptasnik is a fifth-year senior at the University of Kansas, but when he is not learning, you can find him at the local gym. Just to get to the Central States Wrestling league, Ptasnik has had to take gymnastics classes and attend wrestling school.
Not to mention the three hours he spends working out at night. He first started wrestling in Kansas in 2001 and in August of that year, he was in his first show.
I love it," Ptasnik said. "I just love performing and putting smiles on people's faces. When I was a kid I watched wrestling six nights a week and had posters and everything."
Saturday, Ptasnik will fight in one of three non-title matches. Also, there will be a cruiserweight match for the number one contender; a tag-team match, a hardcore match, where anything goes; and a heavyweight title match.
Ptasnik said the pay depended on the number of people in the crowd. He has earned up to $80 in a night and has also gone a night with no pay at all.
The Central States Wrestling league travels all over the Midwest to states such as Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa.
Currently, the league puts on one or two shows a month, but under the direction of Rogers that could change to one or two shows a week according to Ptasnik.
Dave Chapman, the business manager for the league, said the league just got a new owner, Mike Rogers.
"Mike Rogers is a great fit for this league," Chapman said. "He has seen the best and he knows what it takes to get there."
"It is a Sigmund Freud theory that says people have a subconscious death wish," Ptasim said. "That is how I wrestle, like every match is my last one, because you just never know."
To his friends, Ptasnik is known as Mark, but that all changes once he steps in the "squared circle." Thanatos is the name he chose while reading an abnormal psychology textbook he has.
"I am obsessed with wrestling. — Edited by Chris Wintering
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