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Senior middle blocker Paige Mazour spikes the ball past a Lipscomb blocker in this photo. The Jayhawks were unable to get a victory in yesterday's match with Missouri.
Kansas can't handle Tigers in Border Showdown
ZACH GETZ
zgetz@kansan.com
The Kansas volleyball team kicked off the Border Showdown Series with a loss against Missouri 1-3 (25-19, 22-25, 25-27, 24-26). Every loss hurts, but losing to Missouri hurts even more, Karina Garlington, junior outside hitter, said.
While Kansas played in front of a packed house, Melissa Grieb, senior defensive specialist, said the
"It really sucks to lose, but losing to Missouri leaves the worse taste in your mouth." Garlington said. "We had it in our hands and it slipped through our fingers. It burns really, really deep."
student section wasn't as hostile as it usually was. She also said she agreed that losing to Missouri hurt worse than a normal loss.
"The rivalry with Missouri, no matter if you watch volleyball,
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game that caused the loss.
"We had it in our hands and it slipped through our fingers. It burns really, really deep."
"The last two points weren't the issue." Tolefree said. "It was stuff throughout the game. We played from behind instead of taking the lead."
Missouri's high-powered offense tallied 64 kills and had four players with double digit kills. Kansas had 55 kills, led by Garlington with 20 kills.
every Jayhawk knows that you are playing Missouri" senior defensive specialist Melissa Grieb said. "The rivalry makes it that much harder not to come home with a win."
"Their girls hit the ball hard," Grieb said. "In the end game they
KARINA GARLINGTON junior outside hitter
Kansas fell to 7-3 with its loss to its rival. The Jayhawks missed many opportunities to put Missouri away late in the last two sets. Kansas was tied at 24-24 in the last two sets. Freshman middle blocker Tayler Tolefree said it wasn't just inability to take control at the end of the
One positive was Kansas' ability to keep its errors low. The Jayhawks only had 20 errors during the four sets. Sophomore setter Nicole Tate also recorded her third double-double of the season with 43 assists
were still hitting hard as game one."
and 11 digs
In the first set Kansas and Missouri started out 6-6, but Kansas scored the next four points in a row to build a lead. Kansas kept its lead and won the set 25-19 without many difficulties.
Missouri came out strong in the second set and led 4-0 early, but after a timeout Kansas came back to tie up the match 6-6 early. Missouri then came back and scored five in a row to take back a strong lead, and
Kansas could never catch up losing the set 22-25.
Kansas started out slow in the third set, trailing by as many as four points. Kansas tried to crawl back but could never get over the hump and lost in a close set 27-25.
Kansas came out strong in the fourth set, but Missouri scored
eight out of nine points to take a 11-8 lead over Kansas. Kansas and Missouri fought throughout the set and tied up the score at 21-21. Kansas then took 24-22 lead, but Missouri went, to score the next four points and won the set and match.
Garlington said that the loss may
"Last year we would've been happy with being competitive, but this year it's not okay with just being competitive," Garlington said. "It definitely motivates us with Oklahoma coming up and upcoming events."
help motivate the team with future games.
Kansas has the weekend off and will then continue conference play 6:30 p.m. Sept. 23 against Oklahoma at the Horeisi Family Athletics Center.
— Edited by Tim Burgess
NHL
Devils slide past Rangers, 3-2 in preaseason opener
NEWARK, N.J. — David Clarkson scored twice on the power play and the New Jersey Devils bounced back from blowing a two-goal lead in the third period to beat the New York Rangers 3-2
in a preseason shootout Wednesday night.
Travis Zajac netted the decisive goal in the sixth round of the shootout to lift New Jersey to victory in its preseason opener under new coach Jacques Lemaire.
The Rangers got even on goals by Matt Gilroy and Jordan Owens scored. Owens punched in a rebound with 8:14 left in regulation
to tie it. Gilroy added a goal in the shootout, but it was answered in the third round by Zach Parise.
Yann Danis played the whole game in goal for the Devils and made 28 traditional saves and five in the shootout. Chad Johnson allowed a goal to Clarkson on the first shot he faced, but recovered and stopped the next 19 before the tiebreaker.
Red Wings win thanks to goalies multiple saves
DETROIT — Kris Draper, Jamie Tardif and Jeremy Williams scored to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night in the preseason opener for both teams.
Red Wings' starting goalie Jimmy Howard made six saves in
a little over 30 minutes and Daniel Larsson stopped 14 shots.
James Van Riemsdyk scored for Philadelphia and Flyers' goalie Ray Emery made 23 saves in two periods. Brian Boucher stopped nine shots.
Draper tied it at 1, 9:36 into the middle period when he put a rebound past Emery.
lead with 1:52 left in the second period when he put in a one-time shot from the slot.
Tardif gave the Red Wings the
Associated Press
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