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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SOCCER
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15,2007
Tie,loss drops Kansas to 3-9-3 overall
BY ALISON CUMBOW cumbow@kansan.com
The Kansas soccer team's winning streak did not continue this weekend when it played host to Oklahoma State and Oklahoma.
The home field advantage did not work in the Jayhawks' favor. Instead, they ended the weekend with a tie and a loss.
The Jayhawks have only won three games this season, and after an impressive last weekend against Drake and Texas Tech, the team seemed to be falling into its losing rut — again.
JAYHAWKSTIE
Kansas tied Oklahoma State, 2-2 on Friday after two overtures.
The layhawks' first goal against the Cowgirls came from an assist made by senior midfielder Nicole Cauzillo to sophomore forward Shannon McCabe.
Cauzillo continued racking up points for her team by scoring the second goal of the match. The goal,
which bounced off her shoulder and into the net, was her fourth of the season.
Coach Mark Francis said he was disappointed in the game's outcome.
"We just have to regroup and hope for a better result on Sunday," he said.
JAYHAWKS FALL TO SOONERS
During the first half of Sunday's game against Oklahma, it seemed the result would be better.
Junior midfielder/forward Jessica Bush scored her first goal of the season during the first 40 minutes of play. The Sooners responded with two goals in the 52nd and 83rd minute.
During the last few minutes, nailbiters got down to the cuticle, and KU fans' legs shook nervously.
It looked as though the game was tied when a shot from Bush soared toward the goal. The Sooners' goalkeeper, however, did not let her team face an overtime.
She grazed the ball with her fingertips, deflecting it off the crossbar.
Despite the Jayhawks' effort to tie the score — they out-shot the Sooners 24-8 — they were unsuccessful, and lost 2-1.
"We had so many opportunities in the first half that we didn't finish," Francis said.
As well as in shot attempts on goal — Kansas led 11-5 — the Jayhawks dominated Oklahoma in corner kicks, 10-2.
Francis said he felt gutted after the game ended and that the game should have been over at halftime.
"Instead of finding a way to win that game, we found a way to lose it. It's not acceptable to lose that game, with the opportunities we had," he said.
KEEPING THEIR HEADS UP
Looking forward to the team's next game, Francis said that despite the loss, the team has improved, and is playing better.
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Kansas falls to 3-9-3 overall and 1-2-2 in the Big 12 Conference. Up next for the Jayhawks is a trip to
Shannon McCabe, sophomore forward, dribble the ball down the field in Sunday's game against Oklahoma. The Jayhawks lost to the Sooners 2-1.
Colorado where they will face off against their conference rival at 4 p.m.
— Edited by Meghan Murphy
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Team sets sights on NCAA berth Under senior leadership of McIntosh, last year's freshmen ready to grow up
BY TAYLOR BERN tbern@kansan.com
Any team that puts three or four freshmen on the court at once will have its share of growing pains, and the Kansas women's basketball team experienced every one of those pains last year.
Things changed at the end of the season, though, when everyone's play improved and it resulted in big victories against Kansas State and Missouri and a Big 12 Tournament upset over Oklahoma State. That finish has everyone excited about the possibilities of this season and it has brought the expectation of an NCAA tournament bid at the end of the year.
"I think most of us have the number 20 in our heads," sophomore guard Kelly Kohn said. "We want to win 20 games and we want to go to the tournament."
"It's definitely been easier," sophomore forward Sade Morris said of her transition from freshman to sophomore. "I'm used to it, I know what to expect, I know how hard it's going to be and I've
Playing in March would be a big change for a team that won only 11 games last year and struggled through the maturation of its large freshman class. But those six freshmen are now experienced sophomores who understand what it takes to play Big 12 basketball.
just got to push through it and I'll be all right."
Another factor in the growth of this Jayhawk team has been the leadership of senior guard Taylor McIntosh, who has carried the nickname "Grandma" for almost three years.
"She's the voice," said coach Bonnie Henrickson. "She's brutally honest, but they look at Taylor and they respect her because she talks the talk, but she also walks the walk."
Sophomore forward Danielle McCray, the team's top returning scorer at 10.5 points per game, said that McIntosh received the respect of her fellow teammates because she knew what she was talking about.
"It's natural for me," McIntosh said on her role as a leader. "Not to say I'm bossy, but I'm more like a motherly kind of person."
Players said McIntosh's mentoring helped the freshman class work through its
frustrations last season, and under her guidance again this season, everyone hopes the core group of players is ready to take the next step.
"To make this a great year is to make it to the NCAA tournament." Morris said.
— Edited by Matt Erickson
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VOLLEYBALL
BY RUSTIN DODDrdodd@kansan.com
The loss dropped Kansas to 10-9 (3-6 Big 12), while Texas improved to 12-3 (8-1).
Junior middle blocker Natalie Uhart and freshman outside hitter Jenna Kaiser added six kills each, and sophomore setter Katie Martincich notched 11 assists and eight digs.
Kansas has lost seven consecutive matches against Texas. The Jayhawks last victory against Texas
Coach Ray Bechard said Wednesday that 'Texas' freshman Juliann Faucette was the best freshman in the Big 12. On Saturday, Faucette made Bechard look like a prophet. The freshman outside hitter erupted for 22 kills and led Texas to a 3-0 (30-14, 30-22, 30-21) victory against Kansas on Saturday in Austin, Texas.
Texas played without All-American sophomore Destinee Hooker, who was injured, but her absence didn't slow the Longhorn offense. Texas tallied 60 total kills and .388 hitting percentage, compared with only 32 kills and a .081 percentage for Kansas.
Senior setter/right side hitter Emily Brown led the Kansas offense with seven kills. The Baldwin City native also had 11 assists and eight digs in the losing effort.
came in Austin on Nov. 8,2003.
KANSAS TOPS
COLORADO
Fall break weekend wasn't all bad for Kansas. The Jayhawks began the four-day weekend with a 3-1 (30-22, 30-26, 22-30, 30-27) victory against Colorado at the Horeisi Family Athletics Center.
Kaiser and Uhart finished with career-high numbers in kills with 19 and 14 kills respectively, and freshman libero Melissa Manda led a great team defensive effort with 24 digs.
"I'm extremely excited, because even though we didn't play very clean at times tonight, I thought we fought," Bechard said. "I think a reflection of that is you have 81 digs to your opponent's 54, and Colorado is a program that prides themselves on that stat."
"You have to take care of your own business to beat that team," Uhart said. "They'll just linger around. We knew we had to buckle down and do our jobs."
Kansas won the first two games, but Colorado bounced back in game three and took an early lead in game four. Uhart said Kansas knew Colorado was a team that would fight and battle.
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Sophomore middle blocker Brittany Williams will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL, and senior middle blocker Natalie Uhart, who missed all of 2006 with a similar injury, has been helping Williams through the tough times.
- Edited by Kaitlyn Syring
INJURY UPDATE
KANSAS EIGHTH IN BIG 12
With the victory against Colorado and loss at Texas,
Kansas is now in eighth place in the Big 12. Kansas is a half game behind Texas A&M and a game in front of Baylor.
UP NEXT
Kansas plays host to Baylor at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Kansas split its two games with Baylor last season.
The Jayhawks won 3-0 at home, while losing 3-0 at Baylor.
DENVER — No more slumbering lumber for the Colorado Rockies, who are one win away from roaring right into their first World Series.
MLB
Rockies one game away from sweep over D-Backs
With a cold rain falling, Josh Fogg shut down Arizona's bats in his first postseason start and Yorvit Torrealba hit a tiebreaking three-run homer to fuel the Rockies' 4-1 victory Sunday night in Game 3 of the NL championship series.
The Rollin' Rockies took a 3-0 lead with their 20th win in 21 games. They will try to sweep the Diamondbacks on Monday night when Franklin Morales faces Arizona's Micah Owings in a matchup of rookies who have never faced each other's teams.
The Diamondbacks are hoping to join the 2004 Boston Red Sox, who rallied past the New York Yankees, as the only teams to overcome a 3-0 hole to win a
After a 60 mph bender that he fought off for a foul, Torrealba hit a fastball 402 feet into the left-field seats, then raced around the bases pumping his fists and hooting and hollering.
Torrealba connected in the sixth inning, three pitches after watching one of Livan Hernandez's trademark "eephus" offerings poke across the plate for a strike — so slow it didn't register on the stadium scoreboard radar.
best-of-seven postseason series.
Torrealba, who is 8-for-21 in the playoffs with seven RBIs, nearly had a home run in the third when he doubled off the center-field wall. The stadium's pyrotechnics operator thought it was gone and set off some fireworks as Torrealba pulled into second base.
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The real fireworks came three innings later from Torrealba, who had just eight home runs in the regular season.
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MVP hopeful Matt Holliday also homered off Hernandez, who fell to 7-3 lifetime in the playoffs. He allowed four earned runs on eight hits in 5 2-3 innings. Holliday's homer in the first inning was the first by either team in this series.
Fogg, who won Game 2 of the divisional series over Philadelphia in relief of Morales, scattered seven hits, including rookie Mark Reynolds' solo home run in the fourth, in six innings. He didn't walk a batter and struck out three.
With the game time temperature hovering at 43 deg
perature hovering at 43 degrees — and quickly dipping into the 30s — and a light drizzle falling, the crowd showed up wearing fleece jackets, gloves, wool caps and scarves, looking like they were headed for the ski slopes west of Denver, where it was indeed snowing.
Even Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero wore a ski cap beneath his catcher's helmet.
It was only fitting that the Rockies sent a pitcher named Fogg to the mound to deal with the elements in the first NLCS game in Denver in franchise history.
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