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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 2012
VOLLEYBALL
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Senior middle blocker Tayler Tolefree spikes the ball Saturday night at the game against the Baylor Bears. The Jayhawks came out ahead with a final score of 3-2.
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Jayhawks slam 10th straight home victory
GEOFFREY CALVERT
gcalvert@kansan.com
The Baylor Bears recorded 10 more blocks than Kansas Saturday night, but it was one of the Jayhawks' three blocks that sealed their 10th-straight home victory this year.
The Jayhawks led the fifth set 11-8 when redshirt junior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc and junior setter Erin McNorton teamed for Kansas' first block since the first set. The block energized the Jayhawks, who closed out the final set 15-11. The win moved the team to 16-2 on the season.
Although five-set matches are exciting for fans, this was the third straight home match in which the Jayhawks needed five sets to win after beginning the match with a 2-0 lead.
"To be honest, it's more frustrating," junior libero Brianne Riley said. "We know that we're a better team than how we played tonight, but a win's a win. We'll take it; we just know we have more things to work on, which is exciting for us because we can play a lot better than how we did tonight."
"I was like, 'Get your feet here, and press on this ball,'" Jarmoc said. "That's all I was thinking, and then I went up and I sealed really well, and Erin set up a good block."
After winning the first set 25-17, Kansas was cruising in the second set, leading 21-13. But a Baylor kill began an 11-2 run aided by six Kansas errors. Suddenly facing set point, freshman outside hitter Tiana Dockery responded with a kill, the first time in 11 points Kansas scored on an offensive attack and not from a Baylor error.
The Jayhawks won the next two points to take a 2-10 lead, but Baylor seized the momentum from its late surge despite losing the second set. The Bears opened the third set on an 8-3 run, and Kansas could not put together a run to get back into the set.
"That's hard to wrap your arms around when they should be the deflated group because we came back and won a set that they looked like they might win," coach Ray Bechard said.
The Bears hit .583 in the third set, recording 14 kills and no errors. In the first two sets, the Jayhawks back line did a good job digging balls, helping the Jayhawks offense get into system. In the next two sets, however, the Bears adjusted to the Jayhawks' defense and began hitting balls into space and around the Kansas block.
"Their middles are unorthodox in the angles they hit," Bechard said. "But if they hit a ball at you, then you need to dig and convert."
Baylor outblocked Kansas 13-3 for the match. Bechard said the Bears don't normally block as well as they did, but that they are also a
team that doesn't get its own shots blocked often.
Although Kansas struggled to hit through the Baylor block the entire night, five Jayhawks finished with double-digit kills for the first time this season. Sophomore outside hitter Sara McClinton led the team with 15 kills, although she did have 10 errors.
"We had too many hitting errors, but we did have good balance," Bechard said. "Double-digit kills is critical for us. And Tolefree hadn't been in double digits for a while, so that was great."
After Baylor won the fourth set 25-23, serving was the key in the decisive fifth set. A Jarmoc ace and two service errors by Baylor gave Kansas the early lead in the set. The Bears refused to let the Jayhawks pull away until Jarmoc and McNorton's block gave Kansas the momentum they needed to win the set.
"We had some better serving going on at the end," Riley said. "It got them out of rotation, which is what we did to them in the first and second set, so that helped us out a lot and pulled it through."
Edited by Ryan McCarthy
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Freshman outside hitter Tiana Dockery serves Saturday night at the game against the Baylor Bears.
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Junior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc defends during Saturday's game.
CRIME
Sandusky to serve 60 years
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, about forgiveness, about dogs and about the movie "Seabiscuit."
With his accusers seated behind him in the courtroom, he denied committing "disgusting acts" against children and instead painted himself as the victim.
And then, after he had said his piece, a judge sentenced him to 30 to 60 years in prison Tuesday, all but ensuring the 68-year-old Sandusky will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the child sexual abuse scandal that brought disgrace to Penn State and triggered the downfall of his former boss, football coach Joe Paterno.
He leaves behind a trail of human and legal wreckage that could take years for the university to clear away.
"The tragedy of this crime is that it's a story of betrayal. The most obvious aspect is your betrayal of 10 children." Judge John Cleland said after a hearing in which three of the men Sandusky was convicted of molesting as boys confronted him face to face and told of the lasting pain he had inflicted.
The judge said he expects
Sandusky to die in prison.
In a disjointed 15-minute address before he learned his sentence, Sandusky said: "In my heart I did not do these alleged disgusting acts"
Sprinkling his remarks with sports references, the former assistant coach spoke of being locked up in a jail cell, subjected to our
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His voice cracked as he talked about missing his loved ones, including his wife, Dottie, who was in the gallery.
bursts from fellow inmates, reading inspirational books and trying to find a purpose in his fate.
"Hopefully we can get better as a result of our hardship and suffering, that somehow, some way, something good will come out of this" Sandusky said.
He also spoke of instances in which he helped children and did good works in the community, adding: "I've forgiven, I've been forgiven, I've comforted others, I've been comforted. I've been kissed by dogs, I've been bit by dogs, I've conformed, I've also been different. I've been me. I've been loved, I've been hated."
Sandusky was convicted in June
of 45 counts, found guilty of raping or fondling boys he had met through the acclaimed youth charity he founded, The Second Mile.
He plans to appeal, arguing among other things that his defense was not given enough time to prepare for trial after his arrest last November.
Among the victims who spoke in court Tuesday was a young man who said he was 11 when Sandusky groped him in a shower in 1998.
He said Sandusky is in denial and should "stop coming up with excuses."
"I've been left with deep painful wounds that you caused and had been buried in the garden of my heart for many years," he said.
Another man said he was 13 in 2001 when Sandusky lured him into a Penn State sauna and then a shower and forced him to touch the ex-coach.
"I am troubled with flashbacks of his naked body, something that will never be erased from my memory" he said.
After the sentencing, prosecutor Joe McGettigan praised the victims' courage and dismissed Sandusky's comments as "a masterpiece of banal self-delusion, completely untethered from reality and without any acceptance of responsibility."