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TOP PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFAlpha Kappa Alpha performs during the step show at the Lexington Convention Center.

ABOVE PHOTO BY GENEVIEVE ADAMS | STAFFKatelyn Brown and Stephen Bilas after they were crowed homecoming queen and king.

PHOTO BY GENEVIEVE ADAMS | STAFFThe offense stagnated under Morgan Newton in the third quarter.

If there is one thing the UK foot-ball faithful are familiar with, it’sheadaches.

This year especially has fans run-ning for the medicine cabinet, lookingfor anything to take the edge off anoth-er bitter loss.

When Western Kentucky snookeredtheir way to an overtime victory, UKfans were surely massaging their tem-ples. After South Carolina erased a

halftime deficit and buried the Cats inthe second half, fans must have beenreclining on the sofa with wet wash-cloths applied to their foreheads.

And last week’s 49-7 fiasco inFayetteville? Well, that was really moreof a lobotomy than a headache.

But in the middle of UK’s valiantupset bid against No. 11 Georgia, fansdiscovered a whole new cause ofheadaches: a headache.

Jalen Whitlow, who started thegame at quarterback, sat glumly on thebench for most of the third quarter andthe early part of the fourth with a toweldraped over his head. The reason?

A migraine.Whitlow, who said he’s dealt with

migraine headaches since he was a lit-

tle boy, was relegated to the bench withblurry vision so severe that he couldn’tsee much out of his right eye. The paincame creeping in around halftime, ren-dering the freshman useless.

Whitlow’s migraine probablyspurred countless other migrainesthroughout the Bluegrass, as the of-fense sputtered its way to only threepoints and three punts with Whitlowout of the game.

Morgan Newton (who has inspiredhis share of headaches in UK fans)managed to throw and rush for touch-downs in the first half, but the offensestagnated under his command whileWhitlow sat impaired on the sideline.

Just when Georgia went up 29-17

Whitlow, fans share headache in loss

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ALEXFORKNER

Kernelcolumnist

Homecoming weekwrapped up this weekend

with a step show at Memorial Hall on Fridayand the football game

against Georgia on Saturday.

Stephen Bilas and KatelynBrown were crowned

homecoming king andqueen at halftime at

Commonwealth Stadium.

Quarterback suffers migraine; spectators feel more pain as Georgia wins

The third annual safety walk Mondayevening will focus on campus walkways andareas that are unsafe and uncomfortable forstudents to travel at night.

“We will be looking at more convenientways students get around campus that don’tnecessarily have the cat paws,” said WoodyHoagland, head of campus safety for StudentGovernment. “We will walk through thesketchy parts of campus.”

Areas the team will be looking for in-clude poorly lit walkways and enclosed areas.

“They are areas you wouldn’t want totravel overnight,” Hoagland said.

The safety walk will start on North Cam-pus and make its way to W.T. Young Libraryand Commonwealth Stadium, covering all ofUK.

Two to three students from each UK classwill be attending the walk to highlight partsof campus where they would feel uncomfort-able or that are in need of change.

Although few were selected to attendthe safety walk, the public is welcome to at-tend to help point out areas that could beunsafe.

Every year, the safety walk is conductedin the spring, three to four weeks before thetransition in legislation. With the new studentgovernment legislation, Hoagland said thewalk sometimes is pushed aside.

“We are moving the walk earlier solely

Safety walkwill pinpoint

campus issues

By Kayla Pickrell

kpickrell@kykernel.com

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Students, officials evaluating areas

that need improvements

South Campus treated to fall concert

A small concert rockedSouth Campus Sunday forRocktober Fest, sponsoredby the Junior Panhellenic.

Chelsea Killman createdthe social event to connectGreek and non-Greek stu-dents through music.

Junior Panhellenic had26 women help with theevent by either handing outpopcorn, apple cider, candy,music or caramel apples. Allof the performers were stu-dents.

“I thought it would benice to give the studentssomething nice to enjoy on aSunday afternoon,” Killmansaid. “I am so glad that the

weather was perfect for theevent.”

Killman said there wereabout 200 students in atten-dance.

“I really like the envi-ronment and the fact thatI’m getting the chance toconnect with the UK com-munity,” freshman CameronMerrick said.

He said he came to sup-port his pledge brother, EricTorres, but was even happierwhen he received all the freefood.

The singers and per-formers had a microphone inthe grass with speakers anda stool to play from. Theseating included hay bales towatch the artists perform.

“The hay bales are the

coolest thing because I havenever been to a concert thatused hay bales as seats,”said freshman Austin Dunn.

There were five per-formers playing differentgenres of music. The per-

By Jackson Smith

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Rocktober Fest includes free food, games with student performers

PHOTO BY GENEVIEVE ADAMS | STAFFBiology freshman Nick Kanter and mechanical engineering fresh-man Cameron Merrick play cornhole at the festival Sunday.

Matt Cutts, the leader ofGoogle’s webspam engi-neering team, was inductedinto UK’s Arts and SciencesHall of Fame on Friday.

Cutts attended UK whilealso working for the Depart-ment of Defense as part ofUK’s co-operative program.He graduated with degreesin computer science andmathematics in 1995.

After graduating, hewent on to receive his mas-ter’s degree from the Uni-

versity of North Carolina atChapel Hill.

He began studying com-puter science but quicklybecame interested in infor-mation retrieval and searchengines after taking classesin the information and li-brary science department.

Cutts became one ofGoogle’s first 100 employ-ees in January 2000 as asoftware engineer. He start-ed out working with the adsengineering group and wasassigned to create a family-friendly version of Google.

Google employeeCutts returns to UK

By Christina Olgiate

news@kykernel.com

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Alumnus inducted into A&SHall of Fame, speaks about job

Photos from women’sand men’s soccer,

hockey and football

Photos fromHomecomingWeek events

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3rd District council candidates

Lawless, Spiresdebate at UK story online

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Following heavy promotion during theLondon Olympics, the series debuted to strongratings (and dreadful reviews ) on Aug. 12, butnumbers have declined precipitously since.Wednesday night’s episode was the lowest-rat-ed network broadcast during the hour, drawingjust 3.8 million viewers.

While NBC has yet to officially use the“c” word — cancellation — the move means“Animal Practice” has quietly been put out ofits misery.

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“Animal Practice” is the second networkseries to face likely cancellation, after CBS’“Made in Jersey,” which was pulled from thenetwork after just two episodes. Another NBCsitcom, “Next Caller,” wasn’t even that lucky:The Dane Cook vehicle was dropped form thenetwork’s midseason schedule last week.smidseason schedule last week.

NBC cancels ‘Animal Practice,’ setsNov. 14 return for ‘Whitney’

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in the final quarter and thebrain aneurysm that is thisKentucky football seasonseemed ripe to rupture, Whit-low returned to the field withroughly seven minutes left inthe game for a comeback at-tempt.

The pained passer scram-bled to avoid a sack. He lobbeda perfect pass into the out-stretched arms of senior wide-out La’Rod King, all the waydown to the 14-yard-line. Hestood poised in the pocket, fir-ing another dart to King. Oncejunior running back RaymondSanders had finished off the 75-yard drive with a touchdown,Whitlow had brought his teamwithin a score of the heavily fa-vored Bulldogs.

But victory escaped theCats, as UK’s hook and ladderattempt on its final offensiveplay was foiled by the Bulldogdefense. This game, an oh-so-close affair that had UK look-ing its best all season, wouldgo down as just anotherheadache in a season of them.

Or is it?Consider the fact that

Whitlow overcame his mi-graine to lead his team withina score of arguably the biggest

victory of the Joker Phillipsera. And Whitlow is just oneof the youthful cogs in the ma-chine that still needs a lot ofbreaking in. One of theyoungest defenses in the coun-try held Georgia’s rushing at-tack to under 100 yards for thefirst time this season, as wellas allowing the Bulldogs’ sec-ond-fewest points scored.

Did anyone expect a com-petitive game out of this Ken-tucky team — the same Ken-tucky team that was eviscerat-ed by an enigmatic Arkansasteam?

Phillips was adamant thathis team hasn’t and won’t quitthis season.

“We know we’ve got guysthat are good players, guyswith a good attitude, guys thathave good character, guys thatare willing to come out hereand compete every day,” hesaid.

Maybe this game isn’t justanother part of a trend, but aturning point. Maybe this iswhere the team finds a treat-ment for those headaches it’scaused the fans, and where thefans are able to cope with thepains of losing by knowingthat change and progress ispossible.

Or maybe I’m wrong. Allthis thinking is giving me aheadache.

to get things done, whereas ithas always been just sweptunder the rug when it wasdone late in the year,” saidJR Leach, deputy chief ofcommunity outreach for SG.“The focus of our adminis-tration is to make an impactwith safety initiatives.”

The majority of the mon-ey used to initiate thechanges will come from theStudent Government budget,but when redoing the catpaws on campus, the fundswill come from the universi-ty.

“They want to make surewe aren’t drowning our fundswith things they can cover,”Hoagland said.

The walk will start at 6:30p.m. and end around 8 p.m.To join the walk, meetHoagland in Student Centerroom 120, the SG office.

Hoagland said anychanges, at the latest, shouldbe completed within twomonths after the walk.

“I’ve looked at whatthey’ve done in the past,”Hoagland said, “and I want toevaluate everything to makethis a safer campus.”

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formers were Eric Torres, Kalyn Brad-ford, Matt Robin, Cody Jenkins and theband C2.

“I was a little nervous because itwas my first time performing solo,”

Torres said.He has been playing guitar since he

was in the fifth grade. He played songsby Old Crow Medicine Show andMumford and Sons.

“I am happy with how the studentstreated me after I was done (perform-ing),” Torres said.

Junior John Butcher said his fa-vorite part was playing cornhole andlistening to Bradford sing her heart out.

FESTIVALContinued from page 1

This became known as SafeSearch,Google’s family filter.

His job was to filter all of the infor-mation retrieved when using the Googlesearch engine. Cutts’s biggest task wasto filter all pornography coming acrossthe search engine.

Cutts said Google’s mission is to“organize the world’s information andmake it universally accessible and use-ful.”

Through his job, he gained his nick-name “porn cookie guy” for handingout his wife’s homemade cookies to anyfellow Google staff who could still findpornography in the search results.

SafeSearch was a success for Cuttsand he continues moving up in the com-pany. He now works with the searchquality group at Google to keep themost relevant and important informa-tion at the top of the results on thesearch engine.

Cutts came to the Student Center onFriday morning, prior to his induction,to talk with the UK community abouthis achievements.

After briefly discussing his back-ground and work involving Google,Cutts opened the floor to questionsfrom the audience.

“Cutts is a very insightful speaker.He has a way of talking to the audiencein an intelligent and humorous fashionthat kept me entertained throughout thewhole presentation,” said sophomoreKylie Sheehan.

He talked about the ways spam at-tempts to make its way to the top ofuser searches, starting with websites us-ing expired domains.

Spam websites use expired domainsof popularly searched sites, putting theirnew information on the pages and im-

mediately gaining the popularity of theold information. They can rank high inuser searches without actually being in-formation of high demand by using thereputation of the former site.

His work with this idea of using his-torical data to identify links as spam putCutts on the list of co-inventors for theGoogle patent related to search enginesand web spam.

Cutts spoke about writing algo-rithms to cut down on the spam frommore than 30 trillion URLs on the web.

The search engine’s team workshard to stay moral and keep users com-ing back to them. Founded in 1998, thesearch engine has worked to create auseful program in a short period oftime.

Cutts talked to the audience aboutthe different parts of Google, such asGoogle Maps and Google Plus and howthey were put together and operate. Hetalked about suggestion searches andhow they form from other users’ mostpopular searches.

Cutts answered questions aboutwriting code, hacking computers,“Google bombs” and social media.

“It’s inspiring to know that someonewith so much success went to the sameschool as me and is still such a down-to-earth guy,” Sheehan said.

Cutts gave advice to the audienceabout modern hiring strategies atGoogle and what to do now to makeyourself stand out when looking for ajob in computer engineering. Cutts alsomentioned the newest projects ofGoogle, including Google Glass and aself-driving car that has been in theworks for a few years now.

Matt Cutts was among four to be in-ducted into the hall of fame on Fridaywith James C. Duff, Susan Abbott-Jamieson and Louis Swift.

Cutts joins the current 30 alumniand 6 emeritus faculty Arts and Sci-ences Hall of Fame members.

CUTTSContinued from page 1

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gary hermann | opinions editor | ghermann@kykernel.comkernelopinions

On a recent Tuesday in October, the stu-dents of Dr. Jenny Minier’s Econ 402 joined

the national conversationabout the cost of under-graduate education.

They had been assignedseveral New York Timesarticles about college tu-ition and unemployment,and Dr. Minier opened theclass discussion by tellingthe students that they wereat the front and center ofthe issue of college costs.

Overall, student com-ments paralleled the prob-lems raised in the readingassignments.

They were worried about the rising costof college, about the burden for out-of-statestudents and the pressures of graduating withstudent debt.

Referring to UK in particular, studentsexpressed concern that they weren’t sure howmoney is being spent in the institution. Jor-dan Frank commented that Americans andcolleges alike “take on this mindset of spend-ing and figuring out how it is to be paid forlater.”

More than one student argued that educa-

tion is a public good; Lindsay Hill remarked, “One thing I

thought was interesting is that the state keepslowering funding for higher education. Thisjust doesn’t make sense to me. The stateshould actually be putting more money intoeducation.”

As President Eli Capilouto meets withfaculty and students Monday, student feed-back should be kept in mind.

But the students of Econ 402 are reallyjust a place to start such a discussion. Insome ways, Econ 402 is not representative ofthe average UK undergraduate; those juniorsand seniors are on track to graduate (andprobably overrepresented in scholarships).The economics students are as a group practi-cal about career choices, and are probablymore likely than the average student to findgainful employment after graduation.

We need to discuss the cost — and thevalue — of education for the students ofEcon 402, but we also need to think about itfor the students who have not gotten that far.

Though the flags on campus advertisethat UK has the highest graduation rate ofany Kentucky public institution, by the uni-versity’s own numbers this past April the six-year degree completion rate is just under 60percent.

We should certainly be worried about theEcon 402 students, but we should also worryabout the 40 percent who pay their tuitionwithout getting a degree in six years. Whyare they being admitted without being giventhe tools to be successful?

For the most part, the students in Econ402 agreed that UK is still a good deal. Onestudent stressed that “The fact of the matter isthat UK can still raise tuition because it isstill cheaper than places like IU or OSU. Inthe SEC it is very comparable, if not cheap-er.”

A senior economic student compared histuition to his brother’s private college costs inNew Orleans; Jordan Frank pointed out theother end of the college tuition spectrum in“for-profit colleges like the University ofPhoenix.”

Although I think these students have avalid point that UK is a better value, it is alsoimportant to consider the cost of college overtime, and how the cost (as a percentage of,say, family income) is changing in such ashort period.

Until UK students see their situation asnot unlike what other students face at publicinstitutions across the nation, there will be lit-tle motivation for collective action.

At the end of the class period, I asked

how the students might evaluate the worth oftheir educations — after all, cost is not thesame as value.

The response to this was varied: one ar-gued that it depends on one’s choice of ma-jor. Another suggested that the value of beingat UK is not quantifiable because of the im-portance of networking. Yet another com-mented that general education requirementsprevented her from focusing on her major,prompting her to ask whether this is whygraduate school seems to be a prerequisite fora good job.

Perhaps the most critical comments camefrom two math majors who had done re-search at other universities. One expressedsurprise that North Carolina State had signifi-cantly more resources than UK, “It is insanethe difference between those schools. I won-der what the difference is.”

The issues raised by Econ 402 suggestthat in our conversation about the cost of col-lege, we should also be talking about — andworking towards — improving its value.

Denise Y. Ho is an assistant professor inthe history department of the College of Artsand Sciences. She thanks Jenny Minier andthe students of Econ 402 for letting her listento their discussion. Email opinions@kykernel.com.

Discussion on college costs should also focus on value

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Prescription drug abuse and related topics have receivedmuch media attention lately. Unfortunately, a lot of that atten-tion has spotlighted Kentucky.

Several newspaper articles around thecountry have mentioned the fact that moreKentuckians died last year from prescrip-tion drug overdose than did in car acci-dents. While shocking at first, this factdoesn’t seem as surprising when consider-ing that Kentucky’s opioid abuse rate isamong the highest in the country.

Additionally, the highly publicizedFlorida pain clinics that were recentlyshut down due to unethical prescribinghave contributed largely to the problemof prescription drug abuse in Kentucky,particularly in the eastern parts of thestate.

With these sad truths creating a nega-tive reputation for our state — and more importantly — ruin-ing the lives of thousands of Kentucky families, somethinghad to be done to combat the tragedy of prescription drugabuse.

House Bill 1, which went into effect July 20, was de-signed to address several of the underlying issues that arecontributing to this devastating problem. However, it is alsoimportant to note that this bill was not written with the intentto limit medication access for patients who have legitimatemedical needs.

Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting,keeps track of both prescribing and dispensing of scheduledmedications for individual patients. KASPER, the statewidedatabase specific to Kentucky, is similar to reporting systems

that are being used in several other states. Although KASPERhas been around for several years, HB-1 expanded its use byrequiring all practitioners with valid DEA licenses, regardlessof whether or not they prescribe controlled substances, beregistered with KASPER in order to maintain medical licen-sure. HB-1 also ensures that the KASPER system will beused more than in the past.

Although many practitioners previously had access toKASPER reports, HB-1 ensures that the system is used by re-quiring that a KASPER report be run on initial prescribing ofSchedule II or Schedule III products containing hydrocodone.

Furthermore, another report must be obtained every threemonths if treatment with these medications is to be contin-ued. Keep in mind, however, that this does not mean that pa-tients who have been treated by the same doctor for extensiveperiods of time will have gaps in care. Instead prescriberswould judge these situations on a case-by-case basis and useappropriate treatment standards for these patients.

Several of the most extensive changes due to HB-1 relateto pain management clinics. Prior to HB-1, pain managementclinics were allowed to be owned by anyone who wanted toopen a business. Consequently, many of these pain manage-ment clinics were owned by people without medical back-grounds. Several pain clinics, with owners of both medicaland non-medical backgrounds, began prescribing controlledsubstances unlawfully.

Acceptance of flat consultation fees in exchange for astandard cocktail of controlled substances allowed avoidanceof insurance companies, large profits for owners and physi-cians, and the ability to easily run a business and see hun-dreds of patients per day.

Often, little consultation was actually provided and pro-fessional judgment was ignored when prescribing. Also,

many pain clinics obtained their supply from smaller whole-salers that had more lenient rules about what they would sellwhen compared to the larger wholesalers such as McKessonor Amerisource Bergen. These suppliers would often alloworders to solely consist of controlled substances, obviouslymaking their operations run more smoothly.

Now, under HB-1, only physicians can own pain manage-ment clinics. If unlawful prescribing is detected, physicianswould not only be at risk of losing their businesses, but alsotheir medical licenses. HB-1 also requires that pain clinics ac-cept insurance as opposed to operating as cash-only business-es. As seen in the media with Florida pain clinics, many painclinics stayed “under the radar” because regular insuranceclaims could not be filed. HB-1 will help to avoid this prob-lem in Kentucky.

Lastly, and in addition to the increased monitoring andchanges seen with pain clinics, HB-1 allows health-care pro-fessionals to incorporate KASPER reports into patient med-ical records. The information can also be shared with otherhealth-care professionals involved in the patient’s care, aswell as the patient themselves. Previously practitioners werenot allowed to share this information. This often led to gapsin treatment and may also have contributed to increasedabuse and diversion since all healthcare professionals in-volved with the patient were not aware.

Although the implicated changes seem strong enough tocurb abuse and diversion, HB-1 has only been in place for a lit-tle over two months. At this point the impact of this legislationcannot be measured. Hopefully the implemented changes willmake a difference in the lives of Kentuckians and slow theproblem that has so dramatically affected our state’s families.

Jessica Stokes is a College of Pharmacy Class of 2014candidate. Email opinions@kykernel.com.

State attempts to curb prescription drug abuse

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UK hockey split a pair ofmatches this weekend, de-feating Alabama 6-5 Friday atthe Lexington Ice Center andfalling to Dayton 5-4 on theroad Saturday.

UK struck first againstAlabama less than a minuteinto the game when captainSean McLaughlin interceptedan Alabama pass for a highshot that sailed over theshoulder of Frozen Tide goal-tender Sean Vinson, creatinga 1-0 game.

It wasn’t long after thatassistant captain Dylan Roharslid a pass over to sophomoreforward Andrew Baron, whoburied the one timer behindVinson, giving the Cats a 2-0lead.

“It feels great to beback,” Baron said. Friday’sgame was the forward’s first

game since a concussion sus-tained Sept. 29 against OhioUniversity.

Matt Mayes of Alabamaskated in on a one-on-onewith goaltender Sal Olivet afew minutes after the Barongoal to earn the first goal ofthe night for the Tide. It wasa 2-1 Cats lead at the end ofthe first period.

Not long into the second,a scramble in front of the UKnet resulted in the Tide push-ing the puck over the line be-hind Olivet.

Alabama wasn’t finishedpunishing the Cats with onegoal. A few minutes later, abouncing puck would find itsway into the net behindOlivet, creating a 3-2 Ala-bama lead.

“They jumped on us earlyin that second period beforewe started working,”McLaughlin said.

Alabama forward Mark

Wysock was called for hook-ing and the Cats capitalizedon the power play whenMcLaughlin found the backof the cage for the secondtime. Less than five minuteslater, on another Cats powerplay, McLaughlin would havethe hat trick.

Less than a minute later, aone timer from sophomoreforward Charlie Hales wouldcreate a 5-3 Cats lead.

With just under two min-utes remaining in the secondperiod, Rohar scored whatwould be the eventual gamewinner, sending the puck be-hind Vinson. Time expired inthe second to see a 6-3 UKlead.

Five minutes into thethird, Alabama sent a hardslap shot towards the net, re-sulting in a goal and a brokenstick for Olivet as the goalieattempted the stop.

Not long after, UK hadtoo many men on the ice, re-sulting in a power play forthe Tide. Alabama got a hardshot off, which was coveredby Olivet, but a late whistle

caused some poking after theplay. Freshman defensemanDylan Higgins saw the needto go in and protect his goal-tender and pulled an Alabamaplayer off of the goalie.

With just over three min-utes left in the game, Ala-bama pulled goaltender Vin-son for the extra man on of-fense. With about 90 secondsleft, Alabama struck again,cutting the Cats’ lead to 6-5,which would serve as the fi-nal score.

The Cats lost to the Day-ton Flyers 5-4 Saturday night.

Two early penalties to as-sistant captain JeremySchmidt caused the Cats tofall back on their heels tostart the game. While UKmanaged to kill those twopenalties, a third to sopho-more forward Jacob Cohenproved to be just the thing theFlyers needed. Dayton led 1-0 to close out the first period.

“We had some good mo-ments, but the bad momentsdefinitely cost us,” juniorgoaltender Aaron Tenfeldesaid.

McLaughlin was the firstUK player to find the back ofthe net, creating a tied game.Less than two minutes later, amiscommunication in front ofthe Cats’ net would result inDayton taking a lead that theFlyers wouldn’t relinquishagain.

“We really need to put 60minutes together,” McLaugh-lin said.

Despite another goal fromMcLaughlin and an addition-al two from Rohar and juniorforward Ryan Thomas, Day-ton would add goals of theirown and hold on to win thegame 5-4.

“We never gave up,” Ro-har said.

The Cats return to the theice at Akron on Friday andSaturday evening.

Hockey beats Alabama, loses to Dayton in weekend matches

By Char Grimm

sports@kykernel.com

Teams kept scores close throughout both games

PHOTO BY JONATHAN KREUGER | STAFFSenior forward Sean McLaughlin stops Alabama’s Fritz Pickard in Friday’s game. Thelead went back and forth, but UK eventually won the match 6-5.

UK volleyball finishedoff LSU in a three-set sweep(25-19, 25-18, 25-22) in athird-set comeback in front of1,244 at Memorial ColiseumSunday.

The Cats out attacked theTigers 50 kills to 36 and inhitting (.287 for UK, .160 forLSU). Defensively, UK out-dug LSU 59-49 and blockedeight LSU kill attempts (toLSU’s two blocks). Three UKplayers earned double-digitdigs, including sophomoreJackie Napper and senior set-

ter Christine Hartmann with13 each and junior WhitneyBillings with 14.

Billings led UK overall onthe attack with 16 kills,recording her eighth double-double of the season. Sopho-more Lauren O’Connor added14 and senior Ashley Fraziercontributed seven for the Cats.Hartmann hit 40 assists.

“It’s always important torespond after not getting thewin on Friday night,” UKcoach Craig Skinner said.“LSU has been very good thepast couple weeks and it wasimportant for us to jump onthem early.”

UK came out of the breakahead 2-0 when LSU playedits best volleyball of the after-noon. The Tigers stormed outto a 12-6 advantage andpushed its lead to 16-9, thelargest lead LSU held in thematch. Then, the Cats earnedthree consecutive points toclose within three, and tradedpoints with LSU leading 20-16. UK went on a 7-0 runstamped by two kills fromO’Connor and a service aceby senior libero StephanieKlefot to hand UK a 23-20lead it would not relinquish.

UK started the matchready to atone for the three-set sweep by Arkansas on Fri-day, holding leads as large asseven on the strength of O’Connor and Frazier on theattack. O’Connor earned sev-en kills in the initial frame,while Frazier added four killson six attempts with no errors(.667 attacking percentage).The set included a 10-2 Catsrun punctuated by three UKblocks as a team. The Catsearned 6.5 team blocks over-all for the set.

In the second set, UKheld a small advantage after a4-0 run gave the Cats a 11-7lead. Each team traded pointsup to a point where UKearned two straight points togo into an LSU timeout lead-ing 20-16. LSU earned the

first point out of the timeout,but the Cats claimed five outof the last six points to wres-tle hold of the match away attwo sets to none. Billingscontributed most on the at-tack for UK on the set witheight kills on 10 attemptswith no errors. Overall, theCats hit .325 in the set with17 kills and only four errors.

UK climbed to 13-8 over-all and 7-4 in the SEC, whileLSU dropped to 9-12 overalland 5-7 in the SEC.

Friday night UK volley-

ball fell to Arkansas in threesets (25-23, 25-23, 25-20) atMemorial Coliseum.

The Cats struggled in theclosing moments of the firsttwo sets, failing to convert ineither set after holding a leadand a tie late. UK allowedArkansas to hit .330 on theattack as a team and 50 killsoverall, while the Cats strug-gled to a .252 hitting percent-age with 17 errors. JuniorAlexandra Morgan was theonly UK hitter with doubledigit kills (11) and hit .400 as

a bright spot for the Cats, butthe rest of the team combinedfor only 33 kills. Hartmanndished out 34 assists.

“It’s a tough matchagainst a very good team.They executed points and wedid not. Bottom line, ingames one and two, that wasthe difference,” Skinner said.“In the third game they hadmomentum and confidence,and we had to get that backon our side. We started outslowly, battled back butcouldn’t close the door.”

Volleyball sweeps LSU, atones for loss to ArkansasBy Nick Gray

sports@kykernel.com

PHOTO BY JENRETTE ROMBERG | STAFFSenior Christine Hartmann sets for Sara Schwarzwalder on Friday.

Women’s soccer clinches SEC Tournament spot

Sophomore defender ArinGilliland propelled UKwomen’s soccer into the SECTournament Friday by nettingthe winning goal in a tighthome win over South Caroli-na.

That marks three years ina row the Cats have qualifiedfor the SEC postseason event,comprising the top 10 teamsin the regular-season stand-ings.

The Lexington native alsoscored the game-winning goalSunday as the Cats camefrom behind to defeat Auburn2-1. It was her third goal infour games since beingswitched to forward by UKhead coach Jon Lipsitz.

“She’s a special player,”Lipsitz said of Gilliland fol-lowing Friday’s game.

Lipsitz was philosophicalon the overall performanceduring the weekend victories.

“I’m pleased to get sixpoints. I’m pleased withmany things that we did butit’s not enough, we’ve got toget better,” he said.

Friday’s game started off

slowly as both teams strug-gled to gain a foothold of thematch as they battled eachother and the elements.

The wet and windy condi-tions played a part inGilliland’s winner.

Freshman midfielderCourtney Raetzman gainedpossession in midfield beforethreading out to Gilliland onthe left.

After collecting a passfrom Raetzman, Gillilandskipped past her defender,galloped toward the edge ofthe box and unleashing a lowdrive, which skimmed off thewet grass into the net.

The awkward bounce offthe wet turf confused Game-cocks goalie Sabrina D’Ange-lo, who could only watch theball slide past her.

The closest the visitorscame to an equalizer was afree kick from Danielle Auwith 10 minutes to play,which fizzled 2 feet overgoalie Kayla King’s crossbar.

Sunday’s game wasplayed in bathing sunshine,with both teams making themost of the conditions in anaction-packed first half.

Auburn’s Tatiana Cole-

man fired the visitors aheadon 33 minutes with a sweethalf-volley shot, which wastoo powerful for UK sopho-more goalkeeper Kayla Price.

Auburn almost doubledits lead before halftime fromthe penalty spot, but AnaCate’s tame effort dribbledwide of King’s goal.

The visitors were left torue that miss moments intothe second half when they lettheir lead slip.

Senior defender AlyssaTelang picked up the ball onthe right flank and sent aninch perfect cross into the 6-yard box for Gilliland to pokehome and tie the game.

Five minutes later UKcompleted the turnaroundwhen Telang drilled a cornerkick into the box, which washeaded home by freshmanmidfielder Olivia Jester.

A 2-1 advantage wasenough for the Cats to holdonto as they clinched the winand a first-round bye in theSEC Tournament.

UK finishes its regularseason Thursday with seniornight at the UK Soccer Com-plex. Kick off vs. Vanderbiltis set for 7 p.m.

By Tom Hurley

thurley@kykernel.com