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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Sports
Friday
September 19, 1997
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Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams and his assistants are traveling the country hoping to land the next great recruit. See Page 3B
Check out the depth chart for this weeks Kansas football game.
Kansas football
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Entertainment
Ashlee Roll reviews another batch of CD's in this weeks musical discharge.
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Finding the hole
Running back David Winbush sprints through an opening made by Kansas offensive linemen, Chris Enneking, Jerome Parks 0 on the season for the first time since 195. A win could also earn the Jayhawks a top-25 national ranking. Saturday. Photo by and Justin Glasgow during last week's game against Missouri. Kansas plays at Cincinnati at 6 p.m. and will try to move to 4- Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
The problem asks you to find the value of x in the equation $2x + 5 = -10$. To solve this, follow these steps:
1. Subtract 5 from both sides of the equation:
   $2x + 5 - 5 = -10 - 5$
   $2x = -15$
2. Divide both sides by 2:
   $\frac{2x}{2} = \frac{-15}{2}$
   $x = -7.5$
So the value of x is $-7.5$.
Perfect record to face trial by Bearcats
By Kelly Cannon
kcannon@kansan.com
Kansas sportswriter
The Kansas football team will test its undefeated record when it travels to face the University of Cincinnati this weekend.
The Bearcats are 1-1 and did not play last weekend. Kansas football coach Terry Allen said that the Cincinnati game would be the most challenging yet.
"We have a lot of things going different for us," Allen said. "This is the first time we're going on road, and it's a change from the home crowd."
A victory would give Kansas a 4-0 record. The Jayhawks have only been 4-0 one time in the 1990s — in 1995 when Kansas finished 10-2 and defeated UCLA at the Aloha Bowl.
"We have an opportunity to get to the 4-0 point, and it puts you in a position to have two weeks to get ready for Oklahoma." Allen said. "Four wins at this juncture is huge."
recover.
Cincinnati's quarterback Chad Plummer suffered a concussion against Tulane on Sept. 6, but has had two weeks to
Tomorrow's game is the second time Kansas and Cincinnati have met. The last game was in 1995, and Kansas won 23-18.
Allen said he was preparing Kansas offense to handle Cincinnati's defense.
"I don't think we have any overconfidence by the offense," Allen said. "We really stressed that with Cincinnati's style of defense we have to keep our composure."
Kansas is taking a consistent approach to each game, but is handling each team uniquely. Allen said.
"The theme of week has been don't let it get away from you now," Allen said. "We are game-plan oriented people. In the past, they have not been used to that, especially offensively. But it is a very
legitimate wav to go about it."
Just because they have had some early success, the Jayhawks aren't underestimating Cincinnati, Allen said.
"Defensively, we haven't played the greatest opponents the first two weeks," Allen said. "The style of defense we play, with the personnel we have, is a great fit. We really feature the play of our outside linebackers. Our two playmakers all year have been our outside linebackers — (Ron) Warner and (Patrick) Brown."
Allen said that he wasn't excited about Kansas' travel plans. The Jayhawks will leave today for tomorrow's game.
"If I had been involved with the travel
plans, we would have gone on Saturday," Allen said. "I have always been a big believer in that—a consistent routine. Go in, get the job done, go home and sleep in your own bed. They're young people, social people sitting around in a hotel. That can lead to a potentially lethargic situation."
Tight end Brian Gray said that the Jayhawks play was partly because of Allen.
"When you have a coach who gets excited and cares about his players, it makes us want to play that much harder for him on the field." Gray said.
Kickoff is at 6 p.m., and marks Kansas' second night game of the season.
Winless soccer team hopes to reach goals against No.8 Virginia Cavaliers
Kansas looking to rebound after two Big 12 losses
By Harley V. Ratliff
sports@kansan.com
Kansas sportswriter
After going winless in its last four games, the Kansas women's soccer team could use a break.
The Jayhawks will play Virginia at 7 tonight in Charlottesville, Va. The game is Kansas' first in the University of Virginia Coca-Cola Classic. The Jayhawks will finish the weekend against Virginia Commonwealth at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
The Jayhawks are looking to rebound from last weekend, where they dropped two disappointing road games against Big 12 Conference rivals Texas Tech and Baylor.
Enter No.8 Virginia
Kansas goalkeeper Jen Fecke, who recorded 14 saves in the 0-1 loss against Baylor, said the team continues improving despite setbacks.
"It was a frustrating weekend," Fecke said. "We really played well as a team. We played great defense and for the first time it seemed as if we played at full speed for the entire 90 minutes."
Fecke said that the team anticipated carrying its concentration into the weekend.
"We've all worked hard," she said. "We need to continue to have a lot of hard work, concentration, and good communication on defense."
Virginia enters the game undefeated and having outscored its opponents 12-5. Two of the Cavaliers' wins came last weekend when they defeated the University of Washington and No.3 Portland.
Fecke's play in the net could prove to be an important ingredient for the Jayhawks to stav close with the Cavaliers.
While it's Virginia who will enter the game with the accolades, Kansas co-captain Jackie Dowell said the Jayhawks would not be intimidated.
"Against Texas A&M, I felt a sense that we were slightly intimidated before the game," Dowell said. "But we know what to expect now. We know what to expect as far as speed and talent."
Dowell will be integral in starting an offense that has mustered only four goals on the season. Even though the Jayhawks changed their lineup last weekend by inserting an extra forward, they were shutout. Dowell said the team had focused on offense during practices this week.
"We've done a lot of shooting this week," she said. "I feel like we can move the ball up the field, it's just a matter of getting it done."
Christy Clark, sophomore, jumps up for the ball at practice on Wednesday at the Super Target Soccer Field. The team will play Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth this weekend in Charlotteville, Va. The team is trying to complete its first full season under new head coach Dan Magner, who came to Kansas from Wake Forest last fall. Photo by Steve Pruce/WKANSAN
Volleyball is just as exciting as the other fall contact sport
Although volleyball takes a backseat to another contact sport during the fall, it packs a comparable punch in action, drama and, yes, contact.
I witnessed Kansas' home-opening match Sept. 12 against Buffalo in the Kansas Invitational. The Jayhawks handily defeated the Bulls in straight games — a 3-0 sweep in the best-of-five match.
I'm telling you this because only 124 people were there with me. I'm not kidding.
Allen Field House is a little creepy with only 125 people in the stands. Fortunately, attendance for Kansas' remaining three matches swelled to 225, 250 and 300. But here's what 16,000 people missed during the opening weekend volleyball:
n Junior setter Laura Rohde's jump serve. It made me think, "Ow. That has to hurt," each time it glanced off a Buffalo player's arms or whatever other body part it hit. And it is about 200 times better than any of the imitation jump serves I've seen in sand volleyball.
n The Kansas frontline, which includes Amanda Reves, Kendra Kahler, Moira Donovan, Mary Beth Albrecht and Anné Kreimer racked up 234 kills and 44 blocks during the Buffalo match and the three other matches during the tournament.
n The scoreboard displays are even better than the announcer saying "kill" and "block" all of the time. When a
Kristie Blasi
Sports editor
editor@kansan.com
Kansas player or players block an opponent's hit, the words "No soup for you" appear in similar fashion to the "Slam dunk" or "Foul" that more of us have seen later in the fall and winter.
Volleyball is an easy sport to watch
— much easier than it is to play. I played for four
years in high school, but sorely lack several things it takes to play Big 12 volleyball. Two of the most notable ones are vertical challenges: my height is 5-foot-4.75 and my leap is less than two feet.
But I'm more than qualified to sit on my butt and watch a team with natural ability and skills. And the Big 12 is a tough volleyball conference — Nebraska volleyball is ranked higher than the football team.
The Jayhawks continue this weekend to prepare for its conference opener, playing host to the Jayhawk Classic. They play Georgia at 7 tonight, and Louisiana Tech and Colorado State at noon and 7 p.m. tomorrow.
That other fall sports team won't be playing at home this weekend, but there will be some Jayhawks playing at the field house.
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