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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1994
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Soccer club team wins tournament
Last-minute goal gives Kansas the edge over Kansas State 1-0
By Kent Hohlfeld Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas soccer team kept a string of five consecutive national tournament appearances in tact yesterday afternoon.
The team won the Great Plains Conference tournament this weekend at the YSI athletic fields with a last-second, 1-0 victory against Kansas State.
As the Great Plains Conference champion, the team gets an automatic bid to the National Collegiate Club Soccer Association championships in Phoenix in three weeks.
Kansas used two second-half goals to knock off Iowa State 2-0 in Saturday's semifinal game. That victory gave Kansas a spot in the tournament's championship game yesterday against Kansas State, a 5-1 winner against Oklahoma.
Kansas had split a pair of regular-season games with the Wildcats earlier this season, each winning on their home field.
K-State, hoping to buck that home-field trend, played Kansas to a 0-0 tie through the first half despite giving scoring opportunities to Kansas.
"We had a lot of chances in the first half," junior forward Matt Hirschenbein said. "It should have been 2-0 at halftime.
Because of those missed opportunities, Kansas needed the late-game heroics of graduate student Fetis Ngope to pull out the win. After K-state missed on a scoring opportunity, Kansas move the ball down field and into position for Ngope's game-winning shot in the 89th minute.
Ngeope also score the team's lone goal in its victory against K-State earlier in the season.
Kansas killed the final minute, and all that was left was the customary Gatorade bath for the coach Mark Salisbury.
"We were able to keep our patience and play with poise," sophomore Christian Cox said.
The victory marked the second tough game for Kansas, which needed two second-half goals to defeat Iowa State.
Kansas' first goal against the Cyclones came when sophomore Will Stelle scored off an assist from Ngopee. Kansas' second goal came when junior Matt Meives' shot hit the top cross bar, bounced off the goalle and went into the goal.
Kansas shutout an Iowa State team that won the Big Eight Championship last spring.
Kansas has not allowed a goal in its last three games, which pleased Salisbury.
Salisbury said that as a defensive team, Kansas went into the season wanting to play without giving up a lot of goals.
Defense was a major focus of the team heading into the K-State game. Kansas gave up four goals in their loss at Manhattan earlier in the season.
Salisbury said that it was a major accomplishment for the team to win the championship. He credited the leadership of junior Brandon Myer, senior Matt Jones and graduate student Chris Lewis as a major reason for the team's success.
With the two victories, Kansas improved its season record to 8-1-1. Kansas will now have three weeks off to prepare for the N.C.C.S.A. championships Nov. 16-19. The tournament is held for the 16 best collegiate soccer clubs in the nation.
"It really an honor to be among the best 16 teams in the nation," Salisbury said.
Above: Kansas soccer player Matt Jones attempts a slide tackle. The Kansas men's soccer team played Iowa State in the conference semi-finals Saturday. Left: Two Iowa State players close in on Kansas' Chris Lewis as he pushes the ball up field. Julianne Peter /Kansan
Swimmers increase intensity
Swimming, diving team defeats Missouri Tigers after rigorous training
A Kansas women's divers practice at the Robinson Natatorium on Thursday. The women's swim team posted a 166-77 victory against Missouri Friday. The Kansas men's swim team won 169-74.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
By Jenni Carlson
Kansan sportswriters
It's scary to think how well the Kansas swimming and diving team may perform after finishing its intensive training.
the team swam tired Friday against Missouri after a hard week of practice but still easily handled the Tigers in Robinson Natatorium. The women posted a 166-77 victory while the men won 169-74.
"We have headed into a different phase of our training, where we picked up the intensity," Kansas swimming coach Gary Kempf said. "We're a tired team that's working hard."
With all the training last week, freshman breaststroke Kelly Williams, winner of the women's 200-meter breaststroke, was surprised at how well she swam.
Freshman butterflier Marshall Dortch won the men's 200-meter individual medley and anchored the winning 800-meter freestyle relay team. He said the team had established a good base but would see even more benefits from the sprint training it recently started.
"It was a lot better than I'd expected," she said. "For right now, it was a pretty good time for me."
Dortch, Williams, and freshmen backstroker Kristin Nilsen each won an event. Kempf said their performances were indicative of the freshmen class talent.
"The 100s and the 50s should start getting a lot faster," he said.
"We have a lot of freshmen that are impact kids," he said. "I expect them to contribute right away and do a good job."
The freshmen were not the only swimmers making an impact though. Junior butterflier Donna Christensen was a double winner in the women's 200-meter freestyle and the 200-meter
Rojohn nearly broke Kansas' school record in the 1-meter competition that Kelley Kaulzarier established in 1991. Rojohn's score of 270.150 was. 6 points away from Kaulzarier's record.
"I was really pleased with my 1-meter dives." Rojohn said. "I was really consistent tonight, pretty much across the board, with all my dives."
butterfly. Junior diver Michelle Rojohn swept the women's diving competition, winning at both the 1-meter and 3-meter heights.
The Kansas men had three double winners. Senior co-captain Marc Bontrager out touched Missouri's Roger Alvarenga in the men's 50-meter freestyle and the 100-meter freestyle by a total of,18 seconds.
Junior Dan Phillips won the men's 200-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly, while junior diver Kris Hoffman won both the men's
The Jayhawks' depth proved to be the deciding factor in the meet. Kansas lost only two of 13 events on the men's side, the 200-meter medley relay and the 100-meter breaststroke. The women were victorious in all but one race, the 400-meter freestyle relay.
1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions.
Kansas recorded five sweeps, which are races where team members finished first, second and third. The men had four of those sweeps.
"This team is pretty versatile," Williams said.
"I don't think there's anything in any areas at all."
"I don't think we're hurting in any areas at all.
Even in defeat, Missouri swimming coach
Brian Hoffer said he was pleased with his
team's performance.
"Our main goal was to just be competitive with Kansas," he said. "I think they did that tonight. We understand Kansas is a very strong team in the conference as well as the country."
BRIEFS
Kansas senior is eliminated in second leg of tennis Grand Slam
Koves lost in the first round of the Riviera All-American Championships in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Jana Stradnaud of Syracuse defeated Koves, 6-3, 6-4.
After winning the SkyTel Clay Court Championship, the first of four tournaments in the grand slam, Koves seemed poised to win the second leg. The Riviera All-American Championship was played on hard court, a surface more suitable to most collegiate players.
The drive for the women's collegiate Grand Slam came to an abrupt halt Thursday for Kansas senior Nora Koves.
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Koves and Atkerson played in the doubles competition as well. KovesAtkerson lost to Lindsay Blanckensce and Steff Hesse of San Diego, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in first-round competition.
The team played through the consolation bracket, making it to the semifinals. In the semifinals, Koves and Atkerson lost to Susie Italiano and Petra Schmitt of Southern California, 6-3, 6-4.
Sophomore Jenny Atkerson also competed in the tournament and lost in her opening-round match. She was defeated by Arizona State's Kori Davidson in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. Davidson was the fifth-seeded player in the tournament.
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Local girl starts for football team
It was a ninth-grade girl.
Jacy Hurst, 14, said she went out for the team this year because she loves football, not to prove anything genderwise.
"This was not a women's movement," she said Thursday, after knocking helmets for 48 minutes in South's 26-18 season-ending victory over Central.
"This was just, I want to play football. I like the sport. And if you like it, you do it," she said. "You should only do something that you really want to do."
Now that football is over, Jacy is trying out for the girl's basketball team, and says that when she's not practicing, she's studying.
Jacy, whose boyfriend plays on the football team of another Lawrence school, has gained the admiration of many, including her coach.
David Lawrence, the Cougars' coach for 10 years, said that a lot of girls talk about going out for sports, but Jacy is for real.
"She doesn't act like a girl during the game," said Robert Flock, a teammate on the offensive line. "She doesn't wimp out or anything."