Publication Date: Friday, November 04, 2005
STANFORD ROUNDUP
Injury really hurts
Injury really hurts
(November 04, 2005) Cardinal volleyball team loses starting setter to a broken hand
by Rick Eymer
On the eve of an Pac-10 important match, the Stanford women's volleyball team suffered yet another setback when sophomore setter Bryn Kehoe broke her right hand during practice on Monday and underwent surgery on Tuesday.
The fourth-ranked Cardinal (9-2, 20-3) was in Seattle on Thursday night to take on second-ranked and unbeaten Washington.
The injury came 10 days after Stanford lost freshman Cynthia Barboza to a torn ACL. Barboza led the Pac-10 in kills per game (4.50) when she went down. Kehoe is second in the conference in assists per game (14.49) behind Washington's Courtney Thompson, the national leader with 14.61 assists per game. Kehoe is fourth in the nation.
Kehoe was one of the heroes in Stanford's run to last year's NCAA championship. As a freshman she stepped in to lead an offensive attack that included Player of the Year Ogonna Nnamani, perhaps one of the more difficult outside hitters for which to set because of Nnamani's unique leaping ability.
All Kehoe did was establish a school record with a 12.40 assists per game average last year (1,637 assists). She already has 2,378 career assists, fifth all-time at Stanford.
Senior Katie Goldhahn, who has 1,698 career assists, was expected to get the starting nod against the Huskies. Goldhahn was Stanford's starting setter in 2003, and has been a defensive specialist this year.
Stanford, which plays at Washington State today at 7 p.m., has already played without junior middle blocker Lizzie Suiter and freshman outside hitter Erin Waller due to injuries for extended periods. Menlo School grad Alex Fisher is a redshirt this season, also due to an injury.
Washington and Stanford are the conference's top two teams in both hitting percentage and opponents hitting percentage.
Stanford currently resides in second place in the conference, but that's likely to be tested when Arizona visits Maples Pavilion next Friday night.
Stanford has a 37-3 advantage over Washington State in their all-time series, though the Cougars have played Stanford tough in recent years, beating the Cardinal in Pullman in 2002, and taking Stanford to five games in 2003.
Cardinal senior libero Courtney Schultz needed 13 digs to become the eight active player in the Pac-10 to reach 1,000. Freshman middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo hit .571 last week, and is ranked eighth in the nation with a .420 hitting percentage.
Women's golf
Stanford senior Kelly Husted won her first tournament title after recording a 1-under-par 71 under tough weather conditions on Wednesday to finish with a three-day total of 4-under-par 212 at the Kent Youel Invitational on the Kapolei (Hawaii) Golf Course.
Husted was the only golfer in the field of 98 to finish under par as gusty winds produced high scores. The average score in the final round was 81.42.
Stanford finished second with a 902, six strokes behind champions USC.
Junior Jennifer Tangtiphaiboontana tied for eighth individually with a 10-over 226.
Stanford participates in the Collegiate Match Play Championships at the Mission Inn Golf Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. beginning next Friday.
Men's golf
Stanford finished 13th at the CordeValle Collegiate in San Martin with a three-round total of 884. UCLA won the tournament by six strokes with a 15-under par 849.
Stanford was led by junior Zack Miller, who tied for 14th individually with a 2-over 216.
The Cardinal will play in the Collegiate Match Play Championships at the Mission Inn Golf Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. beginning next Friday.
Men's water polo
Football isn't the only Stanford sport to be going against a top-ranked team from USC on Saturday.
The Cardinal men's water polo team meet the top-ranked Trojans at 4:30 p.m. at the McDonald Swim Center, which is adjacent to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Third-ranked Stanford (4-0, 15-3) and USC (3-0, 16-1) are the lone remaining unbeaten teams in Mountain Pacific Sports Federation play.
Stanford senior Thomas Hopkins, who scored the game-winning goal in an overtime victory over UCLA last week, was named the MPSF Player of the Week. He scored four goals against the Bruins and added two goals in a win over Pepperdine.
Hopkins has 38 goals this season, two behind team leader Peter Varellas.
The Trojans, on a nine-game winning streak, are led by Juraj Zatovic, who leads the conference with a 2.88 goals per game average.
Tennis
Both the Stanford men's and women's teams will be represented at the ITA National Collegiate Indoor Championships, which began on Thursday, at the Racquet Club of Columbus.
The women sent senior Alice Barnes, and juniors Theresa Logar and Anne Yelsey to compete in the 32-player singles field, and the 16-team doubles field.
Barnes and Yelsey qualified for singles play due to their placing in the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships during the first week of October. Barnes advanced to the semifinals, while Yelsey played into the quarterfinals.
The pair will also play doubles at the indoor championships, earning an at-large bid after advancing to the finals of the ITA Northwest Regional Championship last weekend.
Logar earned a bid to National Indoors with a second-place finish at the ITA Northwest Regional Championship in singles.
The men are represented by senior KC Corkery, freshman Matt Bruch and Menlo School grad James Pade.
Corkery, seeded seventh in the singles tournament, is 7-1 this fall after going unbeaten in six matches at the ITA Region 8 Tournament at Santa Clara. Bruch enters his first national indoor championships as the eighth seed. He won seven of eight matches and beat five ranked opponents before losing in the semifinals of the All-American championships earlier in the season.
Corkery and Pade are playing in the doubles competition.
Women's soccer
Stanford (2-3-2, 8-6-3) visit Oregon State today at 2 p.m. and Oregon on Sunday at 1 p.m. still clinging to its playoff hopes entering the final weekend of the regular season.
The Cardinal is currently in eighth place in the Pac-10, and would likely need to win both matches to secure a spot in the NCAA tournament.
Stanford, ranked 21st by Soccer Times, can finish as high as fourth depending on results from other Pac-10 venues. First-place UCLA and co-third USC host co-third Arizona and co-third Arizona State this weekend while second-place Cal is also in Oregon.
Oregon State (3-3-1, 10-6-1) is in sixth place.
Men's soccer
Stanford (1-5-1, 4-9-2) plays its final matches this weekend with UCLA visiting Maloney Field today at 7 p.m. and San Diego State coming on Sunday for a 1 p.m. match.
Field hockey
Stanford (6-12) entered the Nor Pac tournament on Thursday as the third seed, and was scheduled to play No. 6 Appalachian State in Berkeley.
A win would pit the Cardinal against No. 2 California (10-7) today at 3 p.m.
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