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Road blunders continue
Texas A&M sweeps Kansas; Jayhawks winless in conference road matches
BY DREW DAVISON
The Kansas volleyball team continued its road struggles Saturday night at Texas A&M.
The Jayhawks (10-10, 3-8 Big 12) were swept by the Aggies (10-9, 3-8) in College Station, Texas.
Kansas has yet to win a road conference game this season and is 0-6 away from home.
The Aggies took game one against the Jayhawks, winning by two. A&M
finished the game on an 8-2 run. Kansas has won the first game just once in conference play this season — against Baylor.
"After they held on in game one, momentum really shifted," Kansas coach Ray Bechard said. "We didn't respond like we needed to."
Kansas took a 3-1 lead to start game two, but then Texas A&M rattled off five unanswered points. After the five-point run, the Aggies never trailed the Jayhawks as they cruised to
a six-point victory. Texas A&M committed just four errors compared to Kansas' 10 in the game. Texas A&M also out-hit Kansas, 294 to 073.
With the final game tied at 3-3, the Aggies went on a 9-1 run. Texas A&M led by as many as 10 in the game and defeated Kansas by seven.
Aggies outside hitter Mary Batis led her team with 11 kills and 13 digs. Middle blocker Christi Hahn had a match-high three aces for Texas A&M.
Kansas' Savannah Noyes, sophomore middle blocker, led the team with 11 kills and a .556 hitting efficiency. Emily Brown, junior right-side hitter, had a double-double performance with 10 kills and 10 digs,
her tenth of the season.
It was the sixth time this season the Jayhawks have been swept in conference play;
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Katie Martinicch, freshman setter, left, and Emily Brown, junior opposite hitter/setter, attempt to save a falling ball against Texas A&M. Brown had 10 kills and 10 digs which was her 10 double-double of the year. Kansas lost to Texas A&M. Kansas lost to
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SOCCER
Goalie gets help from midfielders, shuts out Aggies
BY MARK DENT
Maybe midfielder Jessica Bush and goalkeeper Julie Hanley should switch positions.
Forget that Bush scored in her fourth straight game and Hanley hasn't allowed a goal in 346 minutes — Bush flashed serious goalkeeping skills by making two crucial saves in Kansas 3-0 victory against Texas Tech on Sunday.
"I was fortunate enough to have Jess and Monica kind of save one off the line for us," Hanley said. "I have to give all the credit to them on those."
save, but she knocked the ball away for good after the Raiders' ensuing shot attempt.
It was in the 70th minute when Bush showed her prowess around the net. The Jayhawks (11-6, 6-3) had a 3-0 lead, but the Red Raiders nearly cut into it. Hanley saved a ball on the left side of the net, but Tech collected the rebound and appeared to have an easy goal. A Raider fired the ball toward the right side of the net, but Bush stepped in next to Hanley and headed the ball away. Tech rebounded Bush's
Sunday's showing wrapped up a banner weekend for the sophomore duo of Hanley and Bush. Hanley also shut out Baylor in Kansas' 1-0 victory, and Bush scored the lone goal.
"When you need the result and you need the performance to be good, good players step up," Kansas coach Mark Francis said. "I think obviously Jies has done that, and Bushy has been very consistent over the last five or six weeks."
Bush and Hanley weren't the only Jayhawks to step up Sunday. Senior forward Holly Gault added two assists and scored the game-winner in the 13th minute. It was her first goal in more than a month.
“It's been kind of frustrating cause I didn't really feel like I was really on top of my game.” Gault said. “So, it was kind of a relief.”
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Holly Gauit, senior forward, left, struggles with Baylor's Megan Sherrell for control of the ball during the first half of the game Friday afternoon. The Hawks won the game 1-0.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL C.J. Giles' court date pushed back to Jan. 8
Giles, a junior center on the Kansas men's basketball team, was originally scheduled to appear in front of Judge Pro Tem Peggy Kittel this morning to face
C. J. Giles will not have to appear in court today.
allegations that he owes more than $4,000 in child support.
Giles was suspended indefinitely last week by coach Bill Self for personal and school-related issues.
Instead, the court date has been pushed back to Jan. 8.
— Shawn Shroyer
FOOTBALL
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Baylor wide receiver Dominique Zeigler dives over freshman defensive back Anthony Webb for the game-winning touchdown with 1:08 remaining in the fourth quarter of Saturday's loss. Kansas blew a lead of at least 11 points for the third-straight game. The Jayhawks are now 3-5 and 0-4 in conference games.
Jayhawks come up empty in second half, blow another fourth-quarter lead
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
The fourth quarter implosion — Kansas' forte this season — had to come at some point. After blowing late leads in the three previous games, nothing short of another meltdown would have been a surprise.
WACO, Texas — You knew it was coming.
When Baylor got the ball back with 2:43 remaining in the fourth quarter trailing by only six points,
it was obvious what was about to happen.
Sure enough, the Jayhawks didn't disappoint Saturday against Baylor.
In what's become painfully normal this season, Kansas blew another late lead — this time it was 18 points — in the 36-35 loss at Floyd Casey Stadium.
Baylor scored three touchdowns in its three final possessions in the last 10 minutes to sneak out with the victory.
A four straight conference loss. A fourth straight blown lead.
And the third largest lead coughed up in program history.
"There's no reason for us, as a defensive unit, to allow those quick scores," Kansas coach Mark Mangino said. "That's totally unacceptable."
Welcome to the world of tragic comedy that has become Kansas' football season.
At least there was explanation this week for Kansas' second half futility — and an interesting one at that.
"I really felt like we sort of lost
our edge going into the second half," senior running back Jon Cornish said. "We weren't really coming out to win, we were trying to keep our lead. There's a lot of key mistakes in the second half that just wouldn't happen if we had been mentally ready to play in that situation."
With Kansas content to sit on its lead and run out the clock in the final 30 minutes, things started heading south for the Jayhawks late in the third quarter.
Kansas' points in the second half
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points scored by Baylor in the last nine minutes
consecutive road losses for the Jayhawks
4th quarter points allowed in the last three games
4th quarter points scored in the last three games
kansas record in Big 12 play under Mark Mangino