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/ **SPORTS** / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
VOLLEYBALL
Missouri tops Kansas in three sets
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
missouri started strong on offense and out-blocked Kansas 13-8 Wednesday night to sweep the Border Showdown rematch in Columbia, Mo., with scores of 23-25, 21-25 and 26-28.
Sophomore middle blocker Tayler Tolefree said all three of the sets were close.
"It was easy to let a couple of things go wrong, and you're right back to it being a tight score," she said.
Kansas' offense kept up with Missouri (14-8 overall, 6-6 BG 12) for most of the first set, where both teams hit with comparable efficiencies. Kansas managed a .333 hitting percentage while Missouri topped them at .342.
Toleffre led Kansas in that set with five kills.
In the second set, the Kansas offense ran into serious trouble. Kansas (13-10, 4-8) held a lead for the first half of the set, but when their lead reached 15-12, the momentum of the game reversed. Missouri answered with four unanswered points and carried the lead to end. Both teams saw their offensive numbers drop in the second set, but Kansas was the poorer for it. The Jayhawks hit for a 020 hitting percentage in the set, while the Tigers managed a team average of.111.
Missouri seniors Paola Ampudia and Juliana Klein and junior Brittney Brimage reached double-digit kills on Wednesday — 13, 11 and 10, respectively — while no Kansas players hit better
than nine. Missouri out-blocked Kansas and recorded three more than Kansas' 54 digs.
The third set came down to the wire, but ultimately went to the Tigers. Kansas was behind 17-20 when freshman middle blocker Caroline jarmoc served three aces in a row. Those points combined with senior outside hitter Karina Garlington's kill and a Missouri attack error gave Kansas the a 22-20 advantage. But Missouri scored three unanswered points to regain the lead at 23-22. The two teams went back and forth until Klein scored two kills and ended the match.
The middle blockers on the Kansas side had more success than the rest of the squad. Jarmoc had the team's second-best hitting efficiency, with .333 and the
three service aces. Tolefree had the Jayhawks' best hitting efficiency of the night with .571 on eight kills and no errors.
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"They were by no means an easy team - they were a team that we really needed to be good against," Tolefree said.
"We kind of put ourselves in a spot that we had to hit it into their hands. They did their part," she said.
She said the Missouri defense was boosted by good blocking.
Senior outside hitter Jenna Kaiser contributed five kills and a career-high four blocks to the effort, while Garlington and Jarmoc led the team with nine kills each.
But, overall, the Jayhawks did not have a successful outing on offense; two players ended the match with negative hitting percentages and the team averaged 132 — much lower than usual.
Coach Ray Bechard credited Missouri with coming into the match with a good game plan.
their ability to block more balls than we did create some issues at the end of this game," he said. "We need to adjust a little bit better on the swings we were taking," he said. "And we were a little bit slow to do that tonight."
The Jayhawks return to Lawrence on Saturday to play Texas Tech.
Edited by Joel Petterson
NBA
Duncan, Ginobli lead Spurs in win
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SAN ANTONIO — Tim Duncan had 23 points and 12 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Indiana Pacers 122-109 on Wednesday night in the season opener for both teams.
Manu Ginobili scored 22 points for the Spurs, who blew an early double-digit lead and nearly their goal of starting strong in what could be the last season for their Big Three.
then big three.
Roy Hibbert led Indiana with 28 points and Danny Granger had 26. Darren Collison scored 19 points in his debut for the Pacers, who fell apart in the fourth quarter.
Tony Parker, starting the final year of his contract with the Spurs, had 20 points and nine assists.
No longer among the NBA favorites, the Spurs are mindful of beating the teams they should beat and not falling behind early in the West. San Antonio labored out of the gate with an overhauled roster last year and doesn't want to be so patient
to be so patient this time.
The Pacers, coming off a dreadful 32-win season, showed promise before squandering a close game. They erased an early 10-point deficit thanks
Ginobili gave the Spurs momentum for good with another 3-pointer.
But the Spurs pulled away in the fourth.
Collison was 7 of 13 and had seven assists. The Pacers hope they've found their point guard after years of shuffling at the position, acquiring the New Orleans point guard who filled in for Chris Paul when Hornets star was injured last season.
to Hibbert, who was 10 of 17 from the field, and carried a slim lead late into the third.
Ginobili was 5 of 9 from behind the 3-point line in a familiar Big Three-led win for the Spurs. How much longer the championship trio will be together is in doubt with Parker in the final year of his contract, though the star point guard has repeatedly said he wants to remain in San Antonio.
Unlike the Pacers, the Spurs didn't get to show off their prized new addition. Brazilian 7-footer Tiago Splitter watched from the bench in street clothes while continuing to nurse a calf sprain he got just three days into training camp.
The Spurs are mindful of beating the teams they should beat and not falling behind early in the West.
Richard Jefferson opened the final quarter with a 3-pointer from the corner, and after Mike Dunleavy missed two free throws that would have tied the game.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said before the game that Splitter would likely miss Saturday's game against New Orleans but would
probably play Monday at the Los Angeles Clippers.
"He's quite frustrated," Popovich said.
Even without Splitter, the Spurs still unveiled a
change in their frontcourt, starting DeJuan Blair at center. Blair was a 6-foot-7 spark plug off the bench as a rookie a year ago, but his debut as an opening-night starter was shaky.
Blair had nine points on just 2-of-9 shooting and three rebounds. He was the Spur's youngest opening-night starter since Parker was 20 in 2002.
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