SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 21, 1993
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Senior posting strong numbers
Richard Devinki / KANSAN
Cyrdee Kanabel, senior middle blocker, prepares to spike a ball during practice at Robinson Center. Kanabel leads the Jawhaws in four statistical categories this season.
Player successful in class, on court
By Gerry Fey Kansan sportswriter
also coach Frankie Albitz and Kanabel's teammates can confirm that.
Sometimes statistics are not a true representation of a team, but for one Kansas volleyball player, statistics don't lie.
VOLLEYBALL
Senior middle blocker Cyndee Kanabel is a key player for the Jayhawks.
"She's the strongest player on the team," sophomore middle blocker Jenny Larson said. "It seems like when she is on, the whole team is on. She's really a dominant player."
Kanabel currently leads the team in kills, kill attempts, attack percentage and block assists. She is Kansas' all-time leader in block assists with 281 and is fifth all-time with 48 solo blocks.
Some of those numbers don't impress Kanabel.
"The middle blocker should always have the most kills on the team," Kanabel said. "She should also have the highest hitting percentage because of the position."
Goals are important to Kanabel and the team. She said the only way to measure most of those goals was to look at statistics.
Kanabel is the team leader in attack percentage with .283. She said one of her goals was to end the season with a .260 percentage. Attack percentage is calculated by taking kills minus errors, divided by kill attempts.
Focusing on numbers instead of actual performance may be odd, but Kanabel said it was a good representation of a player's abilities.
"With a lot of the goals we make, the only way they can be measured is by statistics," Kanabel said. "I use it to measure how you are performing. It's good because they also include all of your errors."
Being a quality player on the team carries responsibilities like leadership for Kanahel.
"I'm more of a leader action-wise," Kaneb said. "I'm not as vocal as I could be. It's hard to say, 'Let's side out and put the ball down,' when you are not putting the ball down when you're up front."
Albitz says Kanabel is vocal, although her actions speak louder than her words.
"She's a captain of the team," Albitz said. "She is also one of our most powerful players. Her actions are great. She goes above and beyond."
One player who respects Kanabel's leadership and advice is Larson, who plays middle blocker with Kanabel.
"Since we play the same position, she helps me out," Larson said. "If she sees what I'm doing wrong on the block, she tells me. It's great. But she doesn't like to talk to other positions. She doesn't want to play their position for them."
Kanabel also displays leadership in the classroom. She has a double major in business administration and accounting.
Kanabel earned the Phillips 66 Classroom Champion award last year and also was a Jayhawk Scholar with a grade point average over 3.0. She said she wanted to receive both awards again this year.
Not all of our goals are statistically related," Kanabel said. "Others are in the classroom, like studying every night or having a certain GPA, which I think is really important."
Kanabel is a different kind of player because she is strong in both academics and volleyball, Albitz said.
Kanabel's career stats
"We'll miss her," she said. "It's been a delight. I have no idea what she'll end up doing, but I think she'll throw herself into it, just like volleyball. She'll be successful."
Year MP/GP Kills Att. Pct. SA BS BA Digs
1993 20/05 216 480 283 23 6 56 149
Totals 110/383 971 2,327 231 11 48 281 911
Standings on the Kansas all-time statistics lists:
first in solo boxes
first in block assists
second in kill percentage
second in kills
fourth in service aces
fifth in total attempts
Career match bests:
Kills..20, twice
Service aces ..4, twice
Colorado...4, Colorado
(Nov. 15, 1991)
Digs..24 vs. Ilinois-
Chicago (Sept. 18, 1992)
Career match bests:
Teams are announced for basketball classic
Source: Kansan staff reports
By Mark Button Kansan sportswriter
The Kansas men's basketball team will play host to the tournament, which will be sponsored by the popcorn company for the second straight year, Dec. 29 and 30 at Kemper Arena in Cairo City. Mo.
The field for the 1993 Golden Harvest Classic was announced yesterday during a news conference at the Parrott Athletic Center.
Southern Methodist will play Eastern Tennessee State, and Rhode Island will play Kansas in the opening round, with the victors meeting in the championship game. The two losing schools from the first round will play a consolation game before the final game.
The four coaches -John Shumate of SMU, Alan LeForce of ETSU, Al Skinner of Rhode Island and Roy Williams of Kansas – were all present at the news conference.
Each of the four coaches has won Coach of the Year honors in his respective conference within the last two seasons. Shumate was last season's Southwest Conference Coach of the Year. His Mustangs finished the season 20-8, 12-2 in the conference, and won the regular season title.
Alan LeForce was the Southern Conference Coach of the Year for the 1991-92 season. He led his Bucceaneers to a 19-10 record and a tie
for second place in the conference with a 12-6 record. ETSU has won the conference tournament each of the last five years and the regular season conference title in each of the last three.
Skinner, who was the Atlantic 10 Conference Coach of the Year in 1991-92, led the Rams to a 19-11 record last year and an 8-6 conference record. That was good for a second-place tie.
Williams earned Big Eight Conference Coach of the Year honors for the 1991-92 season and led the Jayhawks to the NCAA Final Four last season after the team claimed its third consecutive conference title.
Each of the teams lost valuable seniors from last year, and the visiting teams were concerned with the crowd aspect of Kemper Arena.
"It gets so loud, it's like a ringing in your ears," said Shumate. "The younger kids may be affected by it, but it's a great atmosphere."
Williams admitted that Kemper was somewhat of a home-court advantage for the Jayhawks, but Skinner and the other visiting coaches said they were up to the test.
"This is what college basketball is all about," Skinner said. "The players enjoy the challenge, and remember, your most enjoyable victories are on the road."
Blue Jays rally past Phillies
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — The game was already wacky and weird.
Then it all came apart for the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Toronto Blue Jays somehow hung on long enough for Mitch Williams to appear in the midnight mist at Veterans Stadium, and they whacked him. Devon White's two-run triple capped a six-run rally in the eighth inning for a 15-14 victory last night and a 3-1 lead in the World Series.
The Blue Jays won the highest-scoring of 779 postseason games and moved within one victory of becoming the first World Series champions to repeat since the 1977-78 New York Yankees.
How Toronto won the longest nine-inning game in series history - 4 hours, 14 minutes - may have been hard for the Blue Jays to believe, but it was probably even harder for the 62,731 fans to stomach.
The crowd sat through a rain that did not stop and saw their team start fast. Lenny Dykstra homered twice, doubled and tied a series record by scoring four runs, and Mitch Thompson drove in five as the Phillies built a 12-7 lead after five innings.
But on a night when everyone looked like a designated hitter — Blue Jays DH Paul Molitor was back in the lineup, at third base — the big edge was not enough.
Toronto became just the third team to overcome a five-run deficit in Series history.
Oiler won't appeal withheld check The Associated Press
Sooner tailback strives to reach lofty expectations
HOUSTON — Houston Oilers tackle David Williams, who skipped Sunday's game to be with his wife and newborn son, decided today not to file a grievance against the team for withholding his $125,000 game check.
"We've decided not to appeal," Williams' attorney Leigh Steinberg said. "David's hope is the Oliers will allow him to donate the money to a charity in Houston called Kid Care, which delivers meals on wheels to kids and does functions to make life better for kids in Houston."
Williams missed his team's game Sunday against the New England Patriots in Foxboro, Mass., because he was with his wife following the birth of their son the previous evening.
"Because he did not play in the game, he will not receive his game check," the Oilers said in an unsigned statement. "This however, should not be construed or reported as a fine."
By Matt Doyle
Kansan sportswriter
Oklahoma freshman tailback James Allen experienced a new feeling after the Sooners' contest against Colorado last week. The feeling was losing.
ning streak.
"I didn't know how to take it at first," Allen said. "It was a different feeling, and it was very frustrating because we could have played better."
The 27-10 loss to Colorado was something Allen had not experienced in 35 games, dating back to his sophomore year at Wynnewood (Okla.) High School. Saturday's game against Kansas in Norman gives Allen the opportunity to start a new win-
Winning was one of many expectations Sooner fans had for Allen. He rushed for 4,928 yards and 79 touchdowns during his last two seasons in high school, and the expectations began about him becoming an immediate player impactor for Oklahoma.
Allen said he did not pay much attention to the expectations.
"I'm more worried about school than I am about numbers," Allen said. "I go into each game hoping to put up big numbers, but I have a better supporting cast here than I did in high school. If the big numbers show up, so be it."
Allen has started all six games for the Sooners almost by default. He entered fall practice listed as the fourth-string tailback, but he moved into the starting lineup because of injuries and players leaving the team.
Redshirt freshman Jeff Frazier and sophomore Michael Thompson are out with injuries, and senior Earnest Williams quit the team in late August.
Allen leads the Sooners in rushing with 411 yards, which ranks him fourth nationally among freshman running backs. Allen has been able to live up to Oklahoma Coach Gary Gibbs' expectations of helping improve the Sooner running game, which was fifth in the Big Eight in 1992.
"He's very mature, both mentally and physically," Gibbs said. "He's able to cope with pressure and has focused better than we thought."
Colorado held Allen to 20 yards on seven carries last week. But Colorado coach Bill McCartney said Allen had qualities that many great running backs possessed.
"He has great balance and vision, what that can't be taught," McCartney said. "If
you give him the ball enough, he is going to make a big play."
the performance against Colorado came one week after Allen ran for 102 yards in a 38-17 victory against Texas. Allen said the victory might have given the Sooners a sense of being a better team than they actually were.
"After the Texas game, we thought we could move the ball on anyone." Allen said. "After watching the Colorado film, we realized we have a long way to go yet."
This week against Kansas, the mission for Allen and the Sooners is improvement. "Coach Gibbs cares about winning, but if he can look at the film on Sunday and see that we've improved, then he can live with that," Allen said. "But we can't play like we did last Saturday because Kansas is a pretty good team."
40 Seconds of Silence
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Special thanks to the AAW sponsors: Association of University Residence Halls, PARTY, Scholarship Halls, Center for Sexual Health Education, GAMMA, Student Housing, KUPD, and Watkins Department of Health Education. For information about AAW: 864-9570.
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