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The Kansas men's golf team won the Kansas Invitational and now looks to the Pepperdine tournament for more victories. PAGE 7A
The University Daily Kansan
10A
Friday, October 3, 2003
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Junior middle blocker Ashley Michael's spiked the ball at Missouri's freshman middle blocker Nicole Wilson during the Jayhawks' loss on the road Wednesday night. The team will travel to Lubbock, Texas, this weekend to face Texas Tech
Volleyball comeback essential for team
By Jason Hwang jhwang@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
After suffering a tough loss on Wednesday evening in Columbia, Mo., the Kansas volleyball team will have to have a victory away from home this weekend to start the road to recovery
It won't be easy. Three of the team's five losses this year have been on the road.
The Jayhawks will travel to Lubbock,
"If you live in the past and not concentrate what's in front of you, the Big 12 will jump up and grab you."
Ray Bechard
Kansas volleyball coach
Texas, to play the Texas Tech Red Raiders tomorrow afternoon in an attempt to claim its first Big 12 Conference road victory of the season.
Kansas lost 3-2 to Missouri (30-16, 31-33, 28-30, 30-2, 10-15) on the road Wednesday, despite leading the Tigers 6-1 in the final game.
"In game five, a couple of breaks
went against us. But that's life. You can't put the game in the volleyball gods' hands," coach Ray Bechard said. "You got to make the clean play and make it beyond the shadow of the doubt."
Sophomore setter Andi Rozum had a season high of 50 assists, and freshman outside hitter Janaina Correa and senior outside hitter Sarah Rome each registered more than 20 in the match.
"We let one slip away, but we have to have the ability to move on against a quality opponent on the road," Bechard said. "If you live in the past and not concentrate what's in front of you, the Big 12 will jump up and grab you."
"We've got another opportunity. Out of two road contests if we could go 1-1 that's a pretty good week's worth in the Big 12," Bechard said.
Sophomore middle blocker Josi Lima said the Jayhawks are trying to be the best road team that they can be.
"We just need to fix the little things which will make us a better road team," Lima said.
-Edited by Ashley Marriott
Kansas (10-5, 2-2 in Big 12) will go to Lubbock and try to avoid being Texas Tech's first victim. The Red Raiders are 8-6, 0-5 in the conference. They lost to Iowa State at home Wednesday 5-1.
Correa leads the team with 3.89 kills per game, Rome is second on the team in kills and blocks, and junior libero Jill Dorsey leads the team in digs (3.74).
Rozum will start, after coming back to the lineup a week ago after nagging injuries.
Soccer to face Texas test
Aggies and Longhorns to pose challenges for injury-riddled Jayhawks this weekend
By Nikki Nugent
nnuagent@kansan.com
Kansan sportswriter
This weekend's home games could be the toughest of the regular season for the Kansas soccer team.
The Jayhawks, 9-2-0 overall and 1-1-0 in the Big 12 Conference, face Texas today and Texas A&M, the No. 3 team in the country, on Sunday. The Texas Longhorns, 5-5-0 and 0-1-0 in the Big 12, fell out of the polls this week after coming in at No. 16 last week. The Aggies of Texas A&M are 8-1-0 overall and 1-0-0 in the Big 12.
Kansas coach Mark Francis said the Jayhawks were looking to bounce back after last Sunday's 3-2 loss to Texas Tech. Francis said the team worked on finishing scoring chances during practice this week.
"I'm just looking for us to play well in the game," he said. "I think everything will fall into place if we do that and be consistent."
Tuesday's practice, the first since last weekend's Big 12 opener, saw eight of the team's 21 players sit out because of injury. Forward Caroline Smith was fighting off a nagging ankle injury. Junior midfielder Gabriela Quiggle and senior defender Maggie Mason suffered ankle injuries in last Friday's game against Baylor, causing them to leave the game.
Francis said he wasn't sure how who would be able to play this weekend, but said he expected most of them to be ready.
"It was a challenging week just in terms of balancing things we needed to get done
without killing the players, because we're kind of beat up," Francis said.
The Longhorns lead the series with a 6-0-1 record against the Jayhawks. Texas may be a stronger team than its average record indicates. Four of the team's five losses have come against ranked teams, and all of them have been on the road. The Longhorns lost their last game 2-1 against unranked Oklahoma.
Texas' freshmen have played a major role in their first year of college soccer. They have 10 of the team's 20 goals, and 26 of the team's 58 points. Longhorn freshman goalkeeper Dana Hall is 4-4 this season and has recorded three shutouts.
Kansas has also gotten a solid contribution from its first-year players. All of Kansas' freshmen have seen playing time, and four of them have scored for the lavwhaws.
Sunday's game against Texas A&M should be the Jayhawks toughest challenge of the year. The Aggies are the defending Big 12 regular season champions and have placed high in the national rankings all season. The team is ranked behind only North Carolina and Notre Dame.
The Aggies only loss came against No.1 North Carolina in mid-September. Texas A&M plays 10-0-0 Oklahoma State today before meeting Kansas on Sunday.
The Jayhawks play Texas at 4:30 p.m. today and Texas A&M at noon Sunday. Both games are at SuperTarget Field.
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Michelle Rasmussen, freshman midfielder, and the rest of the Jayhawks will face Texas on Friday. Both teams have gotten solid contributions from their freshmen this year.
—Edited by Andy Marso
Goalpost antics not punished
By John Domoney
jdomoney@kansan.com
Kansan sportwriter
Among the many scenes from Saturday's football victory over Missouri, one seemed out of place.
As thousands of University of Kansas students and fans poured onto the field to attack and tear down both sets of goalposts, KU Public Safety officers stood by
and did little to curb the actions of the postname celebration.
Last week, officials said any fan who aided in the process of tearing down a goalpost would be arrested by police for criminal damage to property. The only problem was that the Athletics Department decided not to do anything about the damage.
"First off, the Athletics Department has yet to report any damage," said Chris Carey, assistant director of campus
police. "The people who receive the damage must report it for anybody to be arrested. In this case, it is the Athletics Department, and they have never reported it as criminal damage."
John Nowak/Kansan
The Big 12 Conference has a regulation that states that no fan should be allowed on the playing field. But the KU Public Safety Office said it would not arrest anybody for simply running out onto the field after the game.
That differs from the practice of the University of Missouri campus police who did this after last year's Tiger victory over the Jayhawks in Columbia, Mo. After that game, dozens of Missouri students and fans were handcuffed and arrested for trespassing on the field before they even got to the goalposts.
Despite concerns from officials, nobody was hurt or arrested while tearing down the goalposts after Kansas' victory over Missouri on Saturday. KU fans and students chanted "Rock Chalk Jayhawk" as they threw the north goalpost into Potter Lake after the game.
"Anytime you run out onto the field it's against the law," said Brian Weimer, captain of the MU campus police.
The only problem was that only a small portion of a group of thousands of people were arrested while others were left to tear down and carry the goalposts out of the stadium in Columbia. Weimer said it was impossible for the police to arrest every student and fan that participated in the action but there were reasons for the arrests.
"It serves as a deterrent," Weiner said. "It seems that if a student saw that they would probably think about doing it again, and we have to do something."
This "something" is not what the
police and Athletics Department were willing to do on Saturday. The costs that the department would have faced for replacing the goalposts were covered earlier this week when an anonymous donor presented the department with a check to nav for a new set of yellow uprights.
A new pair of goalposts was ordered from Gilman Gear, a company in Connecticut, this week and will cost between $3,500 and $4,000 each, said Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director.
In the end, the Kansas football team walked away with a victory over the rival Tigers, nobody was hurt or arrested during the tearing down of the goalposts and a donor paid for new goalposts to save the Athletics Department the financial burden.
This is not to say that another situation could not arise later in Memorial Stadium could result in one more pair of goalposts being added to the bottom of Potter Lake. Marchiony said he wanted Memorial Stadium to be full of rabid fans and for the Hawkaws to continue to put notches in the win column, but he said he would be fine if the goalposts stayed in their places.
"The spirit is great and it's great to see the students excited," Marchiony said. "But I'd rather not see it happen again because somebody could get hurt or killed."
- Edited by Dave Nobles
Border War score should fire up Kansas
Good sports fans love to see their rivals lose, especially to their favorite team. The Kansas/Missouri rivalry is about as intense as any in sports.
In its second year, the Border War scoring sheet should make the Jayhawk faithful more interested in attending every Kansas/Missouri matchup, no matter what sport it is.
Unfortunately, last year against Missouri the Jayhawks were nothing short of pathetic. Missouri demolished Kansas in 17 sports, series 32 points to 8 1/2, in 26 head-to-head matchups. In 2002-2003 the Jayhawks only won five matchups (men's cross country, women's indoor track and field, two men's basketball games and men's golf).
Right now, Kansas fans should be impressed. Already this season Kansas jumped ahead, getting the first three points of the season series after last
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Jason Hwang jhwang@kansan.com
week's victory in football. Unfortunately, Missouri got some revenge, earning 1.5 points by defeating Kansas in volleyball Wednesday night, 3-2 in Columbia, Mo. As of today, the score is Kansas, three points, Missouri, 1.5 points.
Junior setter Ashley Bechard said the rivalry was so fierce on Wednesday that even the Missouri men's basketball team booed the Kansas volleyball team off the court.
As Kansas fans, how can one not be
Before this, Kansas fans could hold their heads high and repeatedly say, "Muck Fizzuz" with nothing to show for it. Now this Border War scoring sheet is a measuring stick on how superior Kansas fans are to Missouri.
more fired up about this innovation? It's another way to measure against Kansas' biggest adversary.
"Our main goal in creating the Border War series is to increase crowds in all sports, not just the big revenue ones." ESPN Regional accounting executive Jennifer Bruenjes said. "Hopefully, more people will attend Olympic sports events against Missouri, something that they would not normally do, because there is more to look forward to in collecting points in the series."
If you're a true Kansas fan, this points system should get you pumped up to go to as many Kansas vs. Missouri
matchups as possible. Some of the Jayhawk athletes who are not from the state of Kansas may not grasp the intensity of this rivalry. If more Kansas fans attended athletic events they would not normally go to, and show all the Jayhawk athletes how much they support them, it will motivate these athletes and help Kansas snatch the points title away from the dirty paws of those damn Tigers.
Since every head-to-head matchup counts towards the series points title, this will increase animosity towards the Tigers. I hope that you, the fans, can make all Jayhawk sports more enjoyable show Missouri who the superior school is. The Jayhawk athletes are working hard to strike fear into the eyes of the Tigers, and so should you.
Hwang is an Overland Park senior in communication studies.
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