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October 20, 2005
The Blue Banner — Seizing the Universitv' of North Carolina at Asheville sinee 19S2
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JOHNSON- Staff Photographer
Teammates Amanda Wiles, Krysti Havens, Elif Unlu and Talia Ogle get in defensive position. Wiles record- ‘
ed her 1,000th dig against Radford and Unlu recorded her 1,000th kill against Liberty.
Volleyball overcomes sickness
to get two big conference wins
By Ingrid Allstaedt
Staff Writer
Despite sickness and injury, the
women’s volleyball team defeat
ed Liberty and Radford this
weekend, while two players
reached career highs of 1,000
kills or digs.
“We had to make drug store
runs,” said Amanda Wiles, senior
setter. “Several of the girls were
Jsick, and one injured, yet we man-
Jaged to pull out both wins this
Iweekend.”
The Bulldogs defeated Liberty
121-30, 30-26, 21-30, 30-24 and
115-11 at the Vines Center on Oct.
Il4.
“Liberty has been really hard
[for us to beat, especially at the
Vines Center,” said Julie Torbett,
plleyball head coach. “It is like
I big vacuum, and it feels like no
bne is there.”
Elif Unlu, junior outside hitter,
■recorded her 1,000th kill for her
|career, against Liberty.
“For Elif to be able to do that in
Ithree years is very difficult,” said
llulie Torbett, volleyball head
Icoach. ‘That does not happen
Ivery often. She is doing a nice
|pb of putting the ball down.”
Unlu’s performance added to
[the list of accomplishments for
I the Bulldogs, according to Unlu.
“I was really happy about my
1,000th kill,” Unlu said. “It is a
I year of records for us.”
Friday’s games drained the
team, according to Unlu.
“There were rallies that took us
eight or nine balls,” Unlu said.
“That is a lot of balls, and it is
very tiring when you are sick.”
The Bulldogs came into
Friday’s game with the goal of
making it through the night,
according to Torbett.
“In the fifth game we came out
really fast on them, which was
important,” Torbett said. “All the
other games we tied to 14 or 15,
which drained the girls.”
The Bulldogs defeated Radford
30-16, 30-15, ^30-24 at the
Dedmon Center Saturday after
noon.
“The girls jumped out to very
quick leads,” Torbett said. “They
did a good job not playing down
to Radford’s level.”
Wiles recorded her 1,000th dig
for her career against Radford.
“It is in the back of your mind,”
Wiles said. “Yet you do not
knock people over for it.”
Unlu and Talia Ogle, senior out
side hitter, are nearing their
1,000th dig.
“We have three players that
have already got 1,000 digs now,”
Torbett said. “We will probably
finish the season with five.”
Five players reaching 1,000
digs is an amazing accomplish
ment, according to Torbett.
“That has not happened in many
programs before,” Torbett said.
“It is the first time in the Big
South.”
Wiles also recorded a triple
double with 11 kills, 17 digs and
27 assists.
“A triple-double is a national
recognition,” Torbett said. “She
managed to do it in a very short
match.”
This was Wiles’ second triple
double of the season.
“I got a triple-double and player
of the game,” Wiles said. “It was
the best match I have played in a
while.”
The team had to play hard to
fight the opposing team and their
low energy levels, according to
Torbett.
Mallory Schaffert, freshman
libero, helped the Bulldogs to
their victory.
“Mallory had eight digs in a
three game match,” Torbett said.
“That is a really good number for
her.”
Reserve players had to step it up
to cover the girls who were sick,
according to Torbett.
“We had sickness and injury
going against us, and we were try
ing to elevate our energy level,”
Torbett said. “The other players that
were not sick had to pick things up.”
Many girls who do not usually get
to play had the opportunity this
weekend, according to Wiles.
“We got to put in a lot of fresh
man,” said Wiles. “Mallory
Schaffert, Alexa Jacobs and Heather
Bums all got to play.”
Men’s soccer drops game to
VMI in final minutes of play
By Sarah Ingle
Staff Writer
The men’s soccer team lost
I their game against the Virginia
Military Institute Keydets on
Oct. 15 with a score of 2-1,
in the first 85 minutes of play,
I neither team made a goal.
“We played well enough to
I put ourselves in the position
to win,” said Steve Cornish,
men’s soccer head coach. “We
scored with under five minutes
to go. We dominated the game
certainly for the previous 30
I minutes and had a chance.”
The Bulldogs’ did not clear
the ball sufficiently enough,
according to Cornish.
“They equalized and took it
to overtime and we did not
§nt going in overtime pretty
soon after it started,” Cornish
said.
The Bulldogs Scott Szymanski,
freshman forward, made the
ttnly goal for the team. This is
the fifth goal that he has made
this year.
Michael Pereira, sophomore
Soalkeeper, made five saves
for the Bulldogs.
“We started to get our act
together towards the second
half, did well and then scored
^ith five minutes left,” said
Daniel Bandoly, sophomore for
ward.
Two minutes after Szymanski
tttade a goal, the Keydets’
Stephen Anderson, freshman
•ttidfielder, made a goal for his
team to tie the game 1-1.
“They came back and right
off the kickoff they pressured
us and had a couple of cross
es and a guy just hit it in,”
Bandoly said. “Right at the
start of overtime they had a
guy run through, beat three of
our players and score.”
The Keydets’ Josh Hanna
made the game-winnftig goal
for his team.
They scored both of their
goals in a little over four min
utes.
“We scored to go up one
nothing with under five min
utes to go and we lost the
game,” Cornish said. “I do not
think that I have ever done
that, in fact, I think three times
this year we have been ahead
in the game and we lost two
of them and tied the other.”
The team is not defending as
well as they need to be,
according to Cornish.
“We need to be able to
defend, going forward we are
very good,” Cornish said.
“There has only been one
game this year that we have
not scored and we even
missed a penalty in that game.
Typically when you have that
kind of record, that translates
into wins.”
Losing the game had a big
effect on the teams’ morale,
according to Bandoly.
“That was one of the biggest
games of the year for us
because they are one of the
lower teams in the confer
ence,” Bandoly said. “That
affected who we play in the
tournament. That was one of
the games that we should have
won.”
The team has kept only two
clean sheets all year, according
to Cornish.
“We won both of those
games,” Cornish said. “For 88
minutes we kept the Keydets
off of the board too, so we
are close.”
The team has been dealing
with some injuries.
“It does not help that the
injuries that we have, so it
has been one of those seasons
where we just could not get
going,” Cornish said. “I do
not know that we have started
the same lineup in consecutive
games. Certainly we have not
started what we thought would
be our best lineup all year.
Everyone has injuries and that
is not an excuse.”
The team has been working
very hard, according to
Cornish.
“That is all we can do real
ly, just try to get better each
day and we have made signifi
cant progress,” Cornish said.
“There is no question about
that, I like this team a great
deal and they are very good,
but right now our record does
not reflect the quality of our
play yet.”
The Bulldogs drop down to
1-3 in Big South play after
losing this game.
Opinion
‘Bad boy’ behavior means
bad business for the NFL
By Jason Lilly
Staff Writer
The rampant bad puns and
“Love Boat” jokes associated with
the recent allegations of sexual
misconduct by several Minnesota
Vikings players
during a party
cruise on Lake
Minnetonka
amused many
sports fans, but
punctuated an
alarming trend
in professional
football.
Crew mem
bers of the two
LiUv
vessels rented from A1 and Alma’s
Charter Cruises for the party
turned the boats around after about
90 minutes, claiming there were
nude lap dances, oral sex and
heavy drinking taking place on
board.
In response to the allegations,
the Vikings’ new owner, Zygi
Wilf, apologized to the governor
of Minnesota, scolded the players
and after a meeting with NFL
commissioner Paul Tagliabue,
hired a former FBI agent as the
team’s new director of security.
Former Vikings’ owner. Red
McCombs, abolished the position
during his tenure en route to mak
ing the Vikings’ front office one of
the smallest and cheapest in the
league.
“Bad boy” behavior means bad
business for the NFL, whose status
as the most popular sport in
America is based in no small part
on maintaining a squeaky-clean
reputation.
The league even managed to
convince ESPN to cancel its show
“Playmakers” after only one sea
son, because it featured a fictional
professional football team whose
players frequently used drugs and
lived life with the gusto of well-
funded escapees from the state
penitentiary.
Truth seems to be edging closer
to fiction, as the “Love Boat”
scandal is not so exceptional. The
Vikings running back, Onterrio
Smith, was caught by airport secu
rity in May with a fake penis
called the Whizzinator, designed
to cheat drug tests and is currently
on suspension.
The Dolphins running back,
Ricky 'Williams, left the game in
2004 and cited his desire to contin
ue using marijuana as a reason.
Former player. Bill
Romanowski, recently admitted
that he used steroids while in the
league and intentionally broke
another player’s finger while in a
pilemp.
Any current transgressions by
NFL players, especially Vikings,
would seem to be especially bone
headed, considering the timing.
Lobbyists for the Vikings are
currently petitioning Minnesota
legislators for public funding to
construct a new stadium, which is
estimated to cost around $800 mil
lion.
The NFL has a fresh television
contract which could be worth
$23.9 billion for the next eight
years, and the current collective
bargaining agreement between the
league and its players is set to
expire in 2008, with an uncapped
year in 2007.
Bottom line, it’s just not smart to
threaten your boss’s cash fiow
when you’re about to ask for a
raise.
Many professional athletes, most
notably former NBA star Charles
Barkley, have long argued that it’s
not their job to be role models.
None would argue however, that
sports in America are not big busi
ness.
Players. know they are in the
spotlight, and with untold millions
at stake, it only stands to reason
that these professional business
men should take the health of their
leagues seriously and think twice
before joining in on embarrassing
or depraved antics.
If athletes need an example, then
all they have to do is take a look at
the NHL.
Owners closed down that league
for all of last season when rev
enues could not keep up with play
ers’ salaries and many teams were
losing money by ' playing.
Lockouts happen.
The NFL may be head and
shoulders above the lowly NHL
right now, but with such a bright
future and so much at stake in the
next year, why rock the boat?
Sometimes, a bad pun is just too
good to pass up.
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