SPORTS
MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2004
Jayhawks get final tune-up in rout of alumnae
By Bill Cross
bcross@kansan.com
KANAKAN SPORTSWITTER
No one was safe during the warm-ups preceding Saturday's volleyball alumni match.
Spectators, officials and even Kansas athletics director Lew Perkins deflected stray digs that exceeded the court's inadequate boundaries.
No court was big enough to contain this enthusiasm.
"They're great," former Jayhawk setter Laura Rohde said of this year's team. "They have the toughest serving I've ever seen."
est serving 14.
The current Jayhawks scored 14
aces during the match, which lasted
four games only because the
varsity team volunteered to play an
extraneous game after sweeping
the first three. The 2004 team
recorded victories of 30-7, 30-27,
30-18 and 30-12.
30-16 and 18 The first game was never close. The varsity built a 15-1 lead on multiple kills by junior middle blocker Josi Lima and freshman opposite hitter Emily Brown before the alumni called a timeout to try to regroup. Lima and Brown each finished the set with 4 kills.
In the second game, it became obvious that the alumni didn't return to campus to be target practice for the younger, faster Jayhawk team. Rohde and outside hitter Nancy Bell answered with four
kills each during the game, and the score was tied 18-18 after a Rohde kill.
Though the alumni stayed close, trailing just 27-26 after Lima mistimed a block attempt, they had no answer for the powerful spikes of senior middle blocker Ashley Michaels. She landed five kills in the game and contributed two digs to the inconsistent team defense.
The Jayhawks overcame seven attack errors in game three to win the match. With the match already decided, the crowd turned against the current Jayhawks in the fourth game. Attendees at the Horesji Family Athletic Center shouted "let's go alumni" and booed when sophomore outside hitter Jana Correa landed serve after serve just inside the baseline. She had five for the match.
to the meet.
Lina set the tone for game three with a spike that displayed all the speed and power that earned her Big 12 preseason honors as an all-conference middle blocker.
for the match. The current Jayhawks displayed a light-hearted nature during the final two games with playful celebrations, but the tone will be much different at Wednesday's season opener at Arkansas, coach Ray Bechard said.
Senior libero Jill Dorsey, who dominated Saturday's match defensively with 16 digs, said Wednesday's contest will be a better measure of how the team
had progressed. She said the Razorbacks, who made the NCAA tournament last year, were just the first obstacle on a tough 2004 schedule. The lineup includes 10 games against 2003 tournament teams. Kansas made its first ever tournament appearance last season before being eliminated by Pepperdine in the second round.
had progressed.
ont round. This season, the team hopes to make it even farther and into the regional semifinals.
regional seminars.
Beachard said Saturday's scrimage provided evidence of the team's potential to do just that.
"We had pretty good balance," he said, noting that five players had at least 9 Kills.
After facing Arkansas, Kansas will head to Tulsa, Okla., for the Oral Roberts tournament this weekend, where it is scheduled to play three games in less than 30 hours.
ours. "We'll come back a different team," Bechard said. "I hope it's for the better." I 10
Brown, the preseason Big 12 co-freshman of the year, said the exhibition was the last step in preparing the team for the regular season.
"We had a couple weeks of twoa-days," she said. "Now it's just good to play somebody new, not ourselves."
- Edited By Ryan Greene
2004-2005 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 1 Arkansas
Sept. 3-4 Oral Roberts Tournament
Sept. 3 Loyola Chicago
Sept. 4 North Texas
Sept. 4 Oral Roberts
Sept. 10-11 Kansas Tournament
Sept. 10 RHODE ISLAND
Sept. 10 WISCONSIN
Sept. 11 DENVER
Sept. 14 UMKC
Sept. 17 Texas A&M
Sept. 19 NORTH DAKOTA STATE
Sept. 22 TEXAS TECH
Sept. 25 TEXAS
Sept. 29 NEBRASKA
Oct. 2 Baylor
Oct. 6 KANSAS STATE
Oct. 9 Colorado
Oct. 13 Iowa State
Oct. 16 MISSOURI
Oct. 20 Oklahoma
Oct. 27 IOWA STATE
Oct. 30 Kansas State
Nov. 3 Missouri
Nov. 6 OKLAHOMA
Nov. 10 BAYLOR
Nov. 12 Nebraska
Nov. 17 Texas
Nov. 20 TEXAS A&M
Nov. 24 Texas Tech
Nov. 27 COLORADO (Senior Night)
Dec. 2-5 NCAA First and Second Round
Dec. 9-10 NCAA Regionsals
Dec. 16 & 18 NCAA Championships
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