This weekend -- just a quick sort and fold.

No time in Sandy’s house this weekend for laundry

Paul and Sonja have been fortunate enough to play the role of football team groupie but in the meantime the remaining contributors struggle to keep up with their high quality of reporting.  With no time available this wekend I brought in a couple of sub-contributors for assistance.

Central Cardinal Club 2012 Holiday Boutique and Style Show

We are proud to announce that the Central Cardinal Club is organizing a Holiday Boutique and Style Show all for the purpose of your being able to meet The Cardinal Couple and many of those contributing articles to the site.  Paul will be at the October 16 show from its 11 am beginning and others will join him during the day until the program ends at 9 pm.  Timmy is still undecided if he will be available for autographs.

The show is being held at the PNC Club in Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.  The GPS address is 2800 S Floyd St.  The Cardinal Couple team thanks Susan Sweeney Crum for agreeing to emcee for the Style Show Luncheon.

Actually the benefit is to provide financial assistance to the Cardinal Athletic Fund and U of L Athletics.   Fundraising and entertainment includes $16.00 lunch and $20.00 dinner buffets, fashion show, free day long wine tasting and a silent auction.   For additional details contact 502.649.2638 email debbiedoodlebug@mail.com.

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Red White Scrimmage

I understand last night’s men’s basketball Red White Scrimmage went well and was successful.  As a note of interest:  Many teams across the country are combining such new season events for their men’s and women’s basketball teams.    In recent years, U of L has normally been ahead of the curve when it comes to promotion of their women’s teams but not this time.               

       

                                         

I am sure that there are many good reasons for the UL women’s basketball team to not have either a combined or sole pre-season event but other schools across the nation have begun thinking differently.  I don’t really believe that # 20 ranked and UL highly recruited guard Saniya Chong signed with Connecticut on Saturday only because of their Friday night combined men’s and women’s basketball team kick off (“First Night”) but her official visit and signing did conveniently occur during the weekend of the event.  It couldn’t have hurt for recruits to see such pre-season excitement and attention being given to both of the teams.

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ANGEL McCOUGHTRY

If you haven’t seen the video yet, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iov-c2sQIzo and catch Angel in a Commercial thanking Louisville for our support and promoting attendance at U of L women’s basketball.  The video was taken during her appreciation moment at this season’s U of L football game and encourages Louisville fans to cause UL to become the number 1 team for women’s attendance in the nation.

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BASKETBALL

There is still time to get your season tickets.  Go to http://www.uoflsports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/100912aaa.html or call the ticket office.   Single session tickets do not expect to be available until 1-2 weeks before the season starts.

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TIP OFF LUNCHEON

Additional Reminder

Additional Reminder: The basketball tip off luncheon is set for Tuesday October 23.  Be sure to call and make your reservations for the noon start time on center court of the KFC YUM! Center.   $30.00 tickets can be purchased by calling the U of L special events office at (502) 852-0706 or completing the form found at http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/lou/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/2012Luncheon.pdf.  Jeff Walz is the featured speaker.

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VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball played St. John’s Friday at St. Johns and came away with a  3-2 win over St. in BIG EAST volleyball action. Scoring was 21-25, 25-19, 25-20, 19-25 and 15-9.  The women are now 17-3 and 6-1 in the Big East and play again today at 2:00  at UConn.

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GOLF

Today the Golf team continues play at the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational. The team finished play in yesterday Second round in 12^th place with Tar Lyons leading for the Cardinals.  All day play continues today at Chapel Hill, NC.

CROSS COUNTRY

Yesterday the cross country team participated in the NCAA Division I Pre-National Meet at E.P. Tom Sawyer Park which is the site for this year’s 2012 NCAA Championships.  The U of L women were lead by sophomore Michelle Molodynia who completed a career best 6K time o f22:16.10.

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TENNIS

Tomorrow and Tuesday Women’s Tennis will participate in all day competition at the ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships which is held at West Lafayette, Indiana.

Sandy Walker

Today laundry features mixed loads needing special attention!

TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Staff columnist Sandy Walker offers a downpour of valuable information on this rainy Tuesday in Louisville. Grab the raincoat, umbrella and skip the sandals today! 


Tournaments, tournaments and more tournaments – All here on U of L campus facilities.   Recruits, tournament tickets, kitties, L – Club Brick problems and more history.

BASKETBALL

Last week before full practices!!!!

See Tournament Championship ticket information below.

·         Calendar reminder for the women’s basketball tip-off luncheon.  Mark Tuesday October 23, 2012 beginning at noon and held at the KFC YUM! Center. 

Jeff Walz will be the featured speaker.  Check for details at http://www.uoflsports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/091312aaa.html .

Emmonnie Henderson

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On campus visits still in process.   Emmonnie Henderson

(@E_BallSoHard_32) and

Mercedes Russell (@MerSladezz)



Mercedes Russell



 are scheduled for campus visits of October 26 with additional home visits by our coaches to be scheduled.

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Linnae Harper (@OhH_NaeNae) appears to be a favorite of Mercedes Russell as she indicated as a choice of who she would like to play with.



Linnae Harper



 

Saniya Chong

·  Saniya Chong reportedly is still interested in Louisville. 

       

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  Brianna Ruiz

     Despite a summer knee injury, 5’ 10” Del Oro senior guard Brianna Ruiz
• is still heavily recruited and is reported to have 20 scholarship offers.  Louisville is to have visited September 20.

·         Imani Wright keeps appearing in multiple web forum rumors and discussions.

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CHAMPIONSHIPS

Due to the work of the Tom Jurich and the University we are fortunate to have the facilities and the personnel to attract the attention of the NCAA and their decision to bring multiple post season games/matches to Louisville.   I know it may seem a bit early but time has a way of sneaking up on us so get your calendars out and set these times and dates to print.

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CROSS COUNTRY

We are fortunate to have the NCAA Cross Country Championships being held at Louisville’s Tom Sawyer State Park on November 17, 2012.  Tickets are available at the park upon arrival and collected as you park.  Entry fee is $10.00 per person.

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VOLLEYBALL

On December 13 and 15 Louisville will host the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship.  The events will be held at the best volleyball facilities in the nation, our KFC YUM! Center.  Tickets can be purchased through the NCAA.com website. All-session tickets are $62, and special rates are available for groups and teams wishing to attend.  You can also buy tickets for the event through the Louisville Athletic Ticket Office by calling (502) 852-5151.

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FIELD HOCKEY

The Big East Field Hockey Championship is being held at Trager Stadium on November 2 & 4.  Tickets are available for each days individual sessions at $5.00 for Adults, Seniors and Youths both get in for $3.00 for each session and college students gain entry for free with a valid student ID.

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BASKETBALL

The First and Second Rounds of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament is being held at the KFC YUM! Center on Sunday March 24 and Tuesday March 26.  Other regional game locations will be held either on these dates or on Saturday March 23 and Monday March 25 so you will be able to see other action between the 64 tournament teams.

Tickets are available through the NCAA at NCAA.org, Ticketmaster, the Louisville Athletic Ticket Office at ticketoffice@louisville.eduat or by calling 502-852-5151.   The Ticket Master link opens http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/16004933F2388E3F where then clicking “On sale dates and times” on the right opens a drop down where Season Ticket holders can purchase tickets beginning today, September 25,  and general public ticket purchases begin October 1, 2012.  Tickets are on a first come, first serve basis so let’s make it our mission to show the country the support Louisville has for women’s basketball by filling the arena.  Bring your friends and make it a party.

U of L’s invite to the tournament dance will allow them to not only play their first round game but if successful on the 24^th, they will also play their second round game at their KFC YUM! Center home arena.  All-session tickets are $32 or $18 for youth, seniors or college students.

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KITTIES

We still have 4 baby kitties who need help in their upbringing so that as adult Cats they can eventually be the best citizens possible. They cannot help being genetically programmed as baby kitties instead of baby birdies.  Please help me find good U of L foster homes for these orphan babies who have already been to the vet for their healthy baby checkups.  It would be a terrible thing to contribute to the addition of the undomesticated/feral wildcat population.

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Prayers to Deceased Athlete's Family & Friends

By Chad Twaro, Southeast Missouri Sports Information

"CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – On Thursday afternoon, senior Meg Herndon from the Southeast Missouri soccer team passed away at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo.

Herndon suffered severe injuries in an automobile accident on Sept. 9 and had been hospitalized since.
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Herndon played 55 matches in her four years with the Redhawks and started 39 times. She helped lead the Redhawks to an Ohio Valley Conference championship in 2011, starting all 19 matches on defense during that season.

A standout in the classroom as well, Herndon held a 3.83 grade point average as a nursing major. She earned a spot on the OVC Commisioner's Honor Roll three times and was a three-time Southeast Scholar-Athlete."

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L FUND WALL OF HONOR LIMITED TO MEN?

I recently became aware that the L-Club has begun a fund raising campaign which involves the purchasing a $150 brick on the “Letter Winners Wall of Honor”.  The letter-winners wall will be located at the corner of Floyd and Warnock streets with the funds raised will be used to provide scholarships for student athletes.

All of the plans sounds great until and unless you were a female letter winner as the sport name and each row can contain up to 16 letters

"Please fill out the information above.

Each line can be a maximum of "16 characters"

Men's Basketball = 16 letters

Women's Basketball = 18 letters which is > what is allowed.

  

While I absolutely want this project to move forward and be successful, changes need to and can occur.   An additional look at the brick calls for the years of play to be located on the last of 3 available lines.  Perhaps instead of

Name

Sport

Years of Play

The choices could be:

Name

Years with Space then Men’s or Womens

Sport Name such as Basketball

It can be made to work as it would be sad to have a Letter Winner Wall across from facilities which include women athletes with no former women athletes names on the wall.  Contact can be made to the Cardinal Athletics, L-Club at 2100 S. Floyd St., Louisville, KY 40292.

Atlanta Dream with Angel McCaughtry to Play Indiana

in First Round of the WNBA Playoffs

The first game will be played on September 28 at the Indiana Fever’s home court.  It can be watched at 7:00 on ESPN2.

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HOW IT WAS – ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST

The women’s basketball team was to play in a tournament in Lexington on the UK campus.  We were privileged to be provided 2, Get this, 2 University of Louisville owned cars to make the trip.  I am serious when using the word privileged as it was really a big deal.  As normal, time was tight and by the time we and our jammed in luggage arrived in Lexington with very little time so our coach needed to participate in a coaches meeting on campus while we needed to get to our hotel rooms, change into our uniforms and return to the campus for our game.

All was well as we dropped off the coach –- notice no assistants existed – and headed into town to our hotel where 4 players were booked per room.  We circled and circled the streets of Lexington without being able to find the hotel name we were given.  One by one, at red lights, a player would leave the first car, ask a person on the street for information, tell the players in the first car then hop into the second car to share the new directions.   As you might figure, eventually the only person left in the first car was the driver with the remaining players literally crammed into the 2^nd car – that is all except me who had actually been successful in learning that the hotel had changed its name and was only a short distance away.  Unfortunately, the light had changed and the cars had left me behind in a pre-cell phone era with no wallet, change, ID or familiarity with the town. 

I made it to the hotel lobby by walking with a helpful downtown shopper while the cars continued to circle for a while longer.  We did make it to the game on time, barely, while making most of our uniform changes in the cars on the way to the arena as there was no time to check into the rooms.  

I am sure that I lost some of the humor in the translation but at the time it was just two car loads of inexperienced college travelers turned loose on the city of Lexington and a story being told 3 decades later.

Sandy W.
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It's Raining Mud Pies and Victories

With or without the Holiday - Tuesday is still Sandy's Laundry Day

TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Columnist Sandy Walker takes us on her weekly journey through Cardinal women's sports. We think you'll enjoy her new feature that takes a look back at some classic sports moments from the days when gasoline was 30 cents a gallon and rap was something you did on a door to announce your presence. 

 

 This weekend’s rain has caused the laundry to be particularly messy and it is taking forever to complete each article.  The mud puddles combined with Bill the Goat knocking over the tailgating food table left every piece of clothing in a mess.  Add Timmy’s decision to make and sell mud pies as a fundraiser for the School for Exceptional Primates during tailgating and then throwing the left-over’s at Coco did not help as every clothing item is now requiring soaking and spot washing.  Happily, with the win over the Kitty Cats no one cares too much or became upset over the stained clothes.   The clean-up is nothing like what is needed for many of the kittens who either didn’t make it to their litter boxes in time or who ran out of litter.

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 INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED

 

·          Get a bucket of hot soapy water.

·          Place the washboard inside the hot soapy water.

·          Take one clothing item and soak it in the bucket.

·          Press the clothing up against the metal ridges of the washboard and rub it up and down.

·          Squeeze clothing item to dump the dirt off of it.

·          The cycle is repeated a second time to make sure all of the dirt has been removed from the clothing.

·          The clothing is then rinsed out in plain water and hung out to dry.eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4672467_a-washboard-work.html#ixzz25RIoyCxS

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RESULTS

Congratulations are sent to each of the Women’s Card Teams this weekend as it is an easy week to report outcomes.  All matches from each of these teams (Volleyball {KY match and Battle of the Bluegrass Tournament Winners}  Field Hockey, Soccer, Cross Country) with events in the last week are reported as WINS.

A special salute goes to the Louisville Women’s Cross Country Team whose win at the Mid-America Opener reported the following results:

WOMEN'S TEAM RESULTS
1. LOUISVILLE, 25; 2. Evansville, 30; Oakland City, NTS; Kentucky Wesleyan, NTS

  

Michelle Molodynia

                                                                                         

Maria Frigo

WOMEN'S INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
2. Michelle Molodynia, 14:56.27; 4. Maria Frigo, 15:26.00; 5. Kelsey Cramsey, 15:55.98; 6. Leah Kiyohara, 15:56.32; 8. Paige Dooley, 16:03.07; (11.) Cassie Martin, 16:17.46

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HOW IT WAS

Prior to Title IX, girls and women took on various tasks and lived circumstances which are now humorous but at the time were just how it was if we wanted to be able to play any level of organized sports.  I hope that on a weekly basis to be able to share one or more of the situations women found themselves in due to their desire to compete but I need help from our readers.  If anyone has stories they would like to share please add them to the comments section, or pick up your rotary phone and e-mail me at Swalker0005@gmail.com.

As a Starter: One Louisville, KY Academy school was able to pay their basketball referees by waiting until after the game was over and collecting the soda machine change which had accumulated during the week and the game. 

                                 

                                        

The referees were then paid with the quarters, dimes and nickels from the machine sales.

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SHE’S BACK!

As of Sunday’s game Angel is back.  Not only was she physically back on the Atlanta Dream court she also is back in form as 18 of her 24 game points (7-8 from the field in 4^th quarter) were scored during the 4^th quarter. The Dream were able to pull away from an end of 3^rd quarter tie to a 87-80 win.  

I am looking for this year’s playoff outcome to end differently for the Dream as Angel finally has assistance from others.  Opponents can no longer key solely only Angel as in the Dream’s defeat of the Connecticut Sun as Erika De Souza and Sancho Lyttle both had double doubles with 14 points and 12 rebounds and 15 points and 13 rebounds respectively.

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VOLLEYBALL

Friday night’s 25-23, 25-12 and 25-17 win over Duke in the first round of the Cardinal Classic KFC Yum! Center was the team’s 800^th win.  The weekend's 3-0 sweep resulted in its win of the Tournament. Marshall and Samford were the other victims.  This win was preceded by their 3-1 upset win over #10 ranked Kentucky on Wednesday night.

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The Cards downed Ball State 5-0 on Monday at Trager Stadium. Louisville scored there first goal just two minutes into the contest and led 4-0 at the half.  The first big road trip of the season awaits with games at Ohio and Indiana later this week.  
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