MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2004
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By Bill Cross
bcross@kansan.com
KANSAN SPORTSWINTER
The No.21 Kansas volleyball team lost its first home match of the season Saturday as No.22 Texas came into the Horejsi Family Athletics Center and pulled off a 3-0 sweep.
Kansas junior setter Andi Rozum and senior middle blocker Ashley Michaels leap to defend a Texas serve. Despite the Jayhawks' effort, the Longhorns swept the match, 3-0 Saturday night at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
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"You wait for something to get better," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. "We ran out of games before it did."
The Jayhawks knew the Longhorns could hit the ball hard, but they hoped to match the Texas offense and record their fourth straight victory over the Longhorns.
Texas's defense wouldn't allow it. It held the Jayhawks to a .099 hitting percentage, by far the worst of the season for Kansas. In contrast, the Longhorns hit at a .359 clip.
The Jayhawks struggled to defend the Longhorns' powerful attacks from the first point in game one. Junior outside hitter Paula Caten tied the game with two early kills, but Texas took a 17-10 lead and went on to win 30-24.
"They blocked a lot of balls and made us alter our shots," said freshman opposite hitter Emily Brown.
The second game started out with an early service ace by Texas' highly-touted freshman libero, Alyson Jennings. She
added another ace later in the game to give her team a 15-8 lead. The Jayhawks were never able to close the gap, and they lost 30-20.
Caten led the team with five kills in game two.
After the match, Bechard singled out Caten, a junior college transfer from Barton County Community College, as the lone bright spot. The only players with positive hitting percentages for the match were Caten (.286), junior setter Andi Rozum (.143), and senior middle blocker Ashley Michaels (.400). Michaels had only 15 attack attempts, while the other frontline starters had 26 or more.
"We didn't get Michaels the ball enough." Bechard said.
Texas had five players with positive percentages, including outside hitter Bethany Howden, who hit at an amazing 630. She added six block assists on the night.
Kansas took its only lead of the match on a Michaels kill to start game three, but Howden immediately answered with a kill of her own to tie the game, 1-1. In game three alone, she had seven kills and three block assists in leading her team to a 30-15 victory and securing the match for the Longhorns.
"This team got hit pretty hard tonight, and they need to get off the mat," Bechard said.
Sophomore outside hitter
Iana Correa sat out again with a
knee injury. She missed three matches earlier this season before returning Sept. 19 against North Dakota State.
"Jana helps a lot," Caten said.
"Soon she will be back, hopefully.
With senior outside hitter Lindsey Morris out indefinitely, sophomore outside hitter Meghan Hill started the first match of her career. She had three kills and five errors on 16
attack attempts, including three errors on four attempts in game two.
Freshman opposite hitter Tessa Jones took Hill's place late in the final game, when it was already out of reach.
Beachard was not sure whether Hill, Jones or Correa would start the team's next match. The No. 8 Nebraska Cornhuskers come to Horesi on Wednesday.
Brown said Saturday's loss could benefit Kansas against Nebraska, as the Cornhuskers play a physical game, similar to the Longhorns.
"It's a great opportunity to put this loss behind us," Brown said of Wednesday's match. "We feel a little more prepared after going against such a powerful team."
- Edited by Ryan Greene
FINISH: Manthe leads women runners
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B
Senior Megan Mantle led the Jayhawks, finishing 68th out of 273 runners with a six-kilometer time of 22:42. She was followed by freshman Connie Abbott (120th, 23:27), senior Monika Spinger (137th, 23:43), sophomore Laura Major (140th, 23:47) and freshman Mallory Richardson (149th, 23:56).
The team was boosted by the
arrival of Spinger and Richardson, who both raced for the first time this season. Spinger, a Berlin, Germany, native, sat out the first two races to rest a hurt Achilles' tendon.
Richardson, a Lawrence sophomore in her freshman season, joined the team last week. She said she had been training for the past year and decided to compete for Kansas posting a 18:46 in the five-kilometer this
summer. But she didn't call with the coaches in time to join the team at the beginning of the year.
"I would've liked to have started earlier in the season," she said, "but I'm glad to be on the team. I hadn't run a cross country course in a year, so it's good getting back into it."
Clark said the young team was rattled by the size of the competition, but that the experience will benefit them in large meets
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Women
"I think the big thing with younger kids is they're used to being in the top 10 in high school automatically, and now they're fighting their hearts out to be in the top 100," he said. "It takes some getting used to."
Women
Megan Manthe 22:42
Connie Abbott 23:27
Monika Spinger 23:43
The Jayhawks' next meet is the NCAA Pre-Nationals on Oct.16 in Terre Haute, Ind. They will not compete at the OSU Cowboy Jamboree on Oct. 2 as originally scheduled.
— Edited by Steve Schmidt
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