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SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006
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FRIDAY
Soccer vs. Pepperdine,
S p.m., Jayhawk Soccer
Complex
McCabe
Player to watch: Freshman Shannon McCabe scored the game tying goal with 26 seconds remaining in regulation in the game against No. 12 Duke Sunday, McCabe was also one of five Jayhawks added to the UAB Classic all-tournament team.
Football at Toledo, 7 p.m.,
Toledo, Ohio, ESPN2
SATURDAY
Volleyball vs. Texas, 7
p.m., Horeisi Family Athletics Center
SUNDAY
Soccer vs. UCF, 1 p.m.
Jayhawk Soccer Complex
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Nebraska junior Sara Pavan, opposite hitter, stands 6-5 and led the team in kills with 12. Pavan, the reigning Big 12 Player of the Year, ended the match with a powerful kill after a Nebraska error.
"She's very methodical, and she hits from a different angle," Bechard said.
At least Kansas can walk out of Nebraska Coliseum knowing every team, except Minnesota, has been
swept by top-ranked NO this season.
Beachard the team got off to good starts in the first two games, but could not hang on for the full 30 points.
swept by top-ranked NU this season.
Kansas trailed by as much as eight, 14-22, in the final game and rallied back to cut the deficit to within three. With the score at 23-26, NU's Pavan had three kills to complete the Huskers' sweep against the Jayhawks.
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Senior defensive specialist Jamie Mathewson sets a ball during the Jayhawks' loss to Nebraska Wednesday night. The Jayhawks were unable to set their offense for much of the night because they were rattled by the Cornhuskers' serves.
A match with Nebraska in Lawrence is set for Nov. 22 and Jana Correa, senior outside hitter, thinks Kansas will put up a better fight.
"I don't think Nebraska is as good this year as last year, so I think we have a chance," she said. "I know we just lost 3-0, but I think if we work more, we can actually beat Nebraska."
Correa had a game-high 14 kills.
Kansas will play another top team when it hosts No. 5 Texas this Saturday at the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. Fans will receive 'rally towels' and admission is free to students with a valid KUID.
Game Notes:
Kansan sportswriter Drew Davison can be contacted at ddavison@kansan.com.
Natalie Uhart had surgery on her knee Tuesday and did not travel with the team to Lincoln.
Nebraska had 4,128 fans in attendance cheering on their team. In fact, the volleyball team sold out every game since 2001 and Husker fans camped out to buy tickets for single-match games before the season started.
Kansas' bus broke down at 19th and Iowa, so the team arrived in Lincoln about two hours behind schedule (3 p.m. instead of 1 p.m.).
Edited by Patrick Ross
Lucy Chapman cheers on her cousin, Kansas' Megan Hill, during the volleyball game Wednesday night. Chapman, 6, is from Omaha, Neb. Hill is a senior outside hitter from Lincoln, making the game a homecoming for her.
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FOOTBALL (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
times. Four of those turnovers — three interceptions and a fumble — came in the Rockets' 31-10 loss to Mid-American Conference foe Western Michigan.
》Crowd noise:
Football Notes:
Mangino again declined to announce whether sophomore cornerback Aqib Talib would return to the starting lineup. He said that it was possible, but that he hadn't decided yet.
The constant loud noise you may have heard coming from Memorial Stadium Wednesday afternoon was artificial crowd noise that was pumped in to help simulate what the atmosphere will be like during Friday's game at Toledo. Kansas' first road game kicks off at 7 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN2.
Despite Mangino's comments, there's reason to believe Talib will play, based on comments by multiple teammates.
》Talib's status:
"It's nice having him back," freshman safety Justin Thornton said. "It's always nice having him back there on every play."
Kansan senior sportswriter Ryan Schneider can be contacted at rschneider@kansan. com.
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RANT (CONTINUED FROM 1B)
All this, even though a member of Kansas' coaching staff was able to watch Louisiana-Monroe's quarterback daily last season. Bill Whittemore was a graduate assistant at Louisiana-Monroe and is now a graduate assistant for Kansas.
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Lancaster to throw for more than 370 yards. That is unacceptable — Louisiana-Monroe will likely finish in the bottom third of Division I-A football this season.
Yes Kansas will likely have pre
Jon Cornish can only rush the ball so many times.
If the defense struggles again, Cornish needs to be given the
Yes Kansas season all-Big 12 selection Aqib Talib back tomorrow but he can cover one receiver. In just two games the Kansas secondary has been exposed and every opponent will take advantage of it. The Jayhawk secondary would be improved
Go to Kansan.com for more sports opinion, including Kendall Dix' column about how the NFL is ruining football.
A more inspired defense and secondary had better show up tomorrow or it's going to be ugly.
ball every time so Kansas can hold on to it and not give Toledo the opportunity to light up the second
Kansas can look terrible one week, appearing to have one of the worst offenses in college football then appear set to win the Big 12 North the next week.
ary.
tomorrow with Talib but then the unit can only improve after the avalanche of yards it allowed last week.
Kansas has been anything but predictable since coach Mark Mangino took over.
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Maybe after tomorrow fans will be talking about a trip to the conference championship game and not about the likelihood of a disappointing season.
Kansas has lost a non-conference game and still qualified for a bowl. Kansas lost the season opener to Northwestern in 2003, won the remainder of its non-conference games and then won three conference games to qualify for the Tangerine Bowl. With the way the Big 12 North has looked this season — and an easier schedule than usual against the South teams — Kansas could do it again.
victory during the season opener against Northwestern State. Kansas offense had eight fewer minutes on the field than its I-AA opponent. The offence has looked good at times but needs to keep the defense off the field for longer periods.
they had in the final games of last season. Kansas has struggled to put consistent drives together even in its 49-18
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