TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE


(Tuesday brings another edition of Sandy's laundry day, read by fastidious homemakers and hotel employees from sea to shining sea...and complimentary breakfast bar.)



This week I am trying out one load in each of the machines in laundry where a later report indicating the best to worse wash results will be issued.

GOLF

The golf team is preparing for their upcoming Sunday – Tuesday matches in Sorrento, Florida where they will participate in the UCF Golf Tournament.   Even if we can’t go, perhaps we can all do our part with a shout out to the team with words of encouragement and maybe they will bring some of that warm Florida weather back to us.

02/10/13	UCF Challenge	Sorrento, Fla.	All Day
02/11/13	UCF Challenge	Sorrento, Fla.	All Day
02/12/13	UCF Challenge	Sorrento, Fla.	All Day

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VOLLEYBALL

As we all were fortunate to read this week’s Sunday edition where events from the Volleycards sold out banquet at PNC were described.  A special link labeled as Photo Gallery can be found at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/020313aaa.html# where transitions and a slide show are available.  For those of you who cannot get enough of the evening, the link also provides an additional read of the night’s events from another perspective.

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Louisville Women’s Sports Teams Schedule for the Week

Thanks to http://www.gocards.com/ we can find this week’s complete U of L’s team schedules with a portion shown here.

Wednesday, Feb 6
SPORT		OPPONENT		LOCATION			TIME				COVERAGE
Friday, Feb 8
Softball		Texas Tech			Las Vegas				4:15 PM
Softball		UNLV			Las Vegas				6:45 PM
Women's Tennis		Eastern Michigan			Yipsilanti, Mich.				1:00 PM
Saturday, Feb 9
Women's Basketball		PITTSBURGH				KFC YUM! CENTER			2:00 PM
Softball		DePaul				Las Vegas			12:00 PM
Softball		UCF				Las Vegas			4:30 PM
Sunday, Feb 10 SPORT OPPONENT            LOCATION TIME COVERAGE Softball    Minnesota             Las Vegas 1:15 PM Women's Tennis    Michigan State             East Lansing, Mich. 10:00 AM Women's Lacrosse    CANISIUS             UofL LACROSSE STADIUM 12:00 PM Women's Golf    UCF Challenge             Sorrento, Fla. All Day Monday, Feb 11 SPORT OPPONENT LOCATION TIME COVERAGE Women's Basketball Notre Dame South Bend, Ind. 9:00 PM WatchESPN Women's Golf UCF Challenge Sorrento, Fla. All Day
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                                                        SOCIAL MEDIA

CONTACT OUR TEAMS AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT

Louisville Athletics' Official Social Media Accounts

U of L Teams and Coaches Twitter and Facebook accounts can be found at http://www.gocards.com/ot/connect-with-cards.html.

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BASKETBALL

“SHOWTIME”

“Showtime” is back as Shoni Schimmel was named Big East Player of the Week.  The award obviously was strongly influenced by her 38 point South Florida game where she also tied the school record with 8 made 3 pointers.  The complete story can be read at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/020413aaa.html

PITTSBURGH GAME

Fans need to gear up for Saturday’s 2:00 Pittsburgh game at the KFC YUM! Center as our number of regular season home games are drawing to a close.  My understanding is that there will be no television broadcast of the game which leaves radio and Cards TV.  I only wish the timing of the audio from Matt and AJ matched the action on the court as it would be a great addition to following the action on the court.   Add instant replay on the big screen and no home transmission could ever match.  Past time for another record crowd to be cheering on the team!

GEORGETOWN GAME

Go to http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/020213aac.html  to see the Recap/ Final Stats/ Photo Gallery and Notes from quotes by Jeff Walz.

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THIS WEEKS’S TELEVISION BROADCAST

Day	Broadcast Date	Broadcast Time (ET)	Network	Network Attribute	Status	Description
Saturday	02/09/2013	NOON	Metro Sports2		Live	Division II Women's Basketball - Regular Season - Nova Southeastern at Florida Southern
Saturday	02/09/2013	NOON	CBS Sports Network		Live	Division II Women's Basketball - Regular Season - Nova Southeastern at Florida Southern
Saturday	02/09/2013	NOON	NCAA.com		Live	Division II Women's Basketball - Regular Season - Nova Southeastern at Florida Southern
Sunday	02/10/2013	6:00 PM	Cox Sports Television (CST)		Tape Delay	Division II Women's Basketball - Regular Season - Nova Southeastern at Florida Southern

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LACROSSE

The Lacrosse teams long awaited and announced first match is upon us.   They play next Sunday at our home field against Canisius with a start time of 12:00.

RECRUITS

Thanks to  http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-lacros/spec-rel/012813aad.html  we have a great overview of each of the 7 new Lacrosse recruits.  Connect with the hyperlink above to have the opportunity to read about each new Louisville Card. 

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SOCCER UPDATES AND SPOTLIGHT

All semester GoCards.com  will be writing weekly updates on this year’s team in a  "Behind the Scenes" blog. In February Nicole Gerber will give us a special glimpse into the world behind these Cardinals.  Check it out at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/020113aab.html.  The site also spotlights midfielder Erin Yenney at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/020413aab.html.

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SOFTBALL
 

On the 8^th, 9^th and 10^th the softball team opens in the Sportco Kick-Off Classic in Las Vegas, NV.    Over the course of the 3 days they will play Texas Tech, UNLV, DePaul, UCF and Minnesota.

 

Coach Pearsall
 

There is a special article on Coach Pearsall by Brian Davis, NFCA Director of Media Relations which you won’t want to miss.  His story goes not only inside the balls and strikes of softball but also focuses on her other life-long interest.   Read about it at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/020413aab.html.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING
 

The swimming and diving teams are taking a short competition break in order to better prepare for the February 27 and 28^th Big East Championships which are being held in a short driving distance to Indianapolis.  The coaches are moving practices to private pool where they will not be disturbed.

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TENNIS

Last week the women's Tennis team upset the nationally ranked Minnesota Gophers.  The article is located at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-tennis/recaps/020213aaa.html.

Next up on the 8^th then 10^th of February will be Eastern Michigan held at Ypsilanti, Michigan and then Michigan State which is also away but at their campus East Lansing location.

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TRACK

The Track team is nearing the end of their indoor season by using this time to prepare for the February 16 and 17 Big East Championships which this year are held in Geneva, Ohio.

In preparation, on February 2^nd  Louisville had 9 top 5 finishes in the Meyo Invitational.   The complete results can be found at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-track/recaps/020213aaa.html.

Sunday Cardinal Couple -- Lady Cards 74- 60 over Hoyas

SUNDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

-Cards sour Sugar... Improve to 7-2 in BIG EAST

-Volleyball Banquet at PNC Plaza

30 minutes can be a very long time sometimes. In basketball minutes, it can be an eternity. The University of Louisville women's basketball team held BIG EAST leading scorer Sugar Rodgers scoreless for 30 minutes yesterday afternoon in a 74-60 win over the Georgetown Hoyas in the KFC YUM! Center in front of 10549 fans.

No Sugar tonight in my coffee, no Sugar tonight in my tea...to borrow a phrase from The Guess Who. 

Going 0-7 in the first half and 0-4 in the second half before she connected on a jumper with 10:51 left in the game and Louisville leading 55-40...Rodgers was held to six points on 2-17 shooting by the guard trio of Bria Smith, Jude Schimmel and Shelby Harper.

Pass the Splenda, there wasn't any Sugar in the KFC YUM! Center Saturday afternoon.

Coach Walz's pregame instructions and practices sessions had a very simple theme leading up to this game. Don't allow her to get the ball and guard her more closely than the Army guards the gold in Fort Knox if she does.

It worked. Georgetown shot 33.8% for the game. Sugar 12%.

This one was won for the Cards in the first four minutes of the second half. Leading 33-29 at the break, the Cards sprinted off to a 13-3 run to start second half play and led 46-32 when Sara Hammond scored in the paint with 16:02 left. A Shoni three 30 seconds later made it 49-34 Cards and Georgetown would get no closer than nine the rest of the way.

Keying the run was Shoni, who drilled two threes and had nine points in a two minute stretch.   

Nita Slaughter with a huge effort tonight, 22 points on 6-13 shooting (five of those threes) and a perfect 5-5 from the free throw line. The Cards shot 77.3% from the charity stripe...toss out Cortnee Walton's 3-6 performance and Louisville goes an amazing 14 for 16.

That's the kind of stat that takes you deep into success in tournaments.

Shoni Schimmel with a slow start hitting just one of ten attempts from the field in the first half...but shooters are going to shoot and the junior ended up with 15 points and a team high seven assists. She was nonchalant about it in the post game:  

"My shots weren't falling early so I just started finding people open whose shots were falling. It was a team effort."

With Sugar salted away, sophomore forward Brittany Horne picked up the scoring yoke for the Hoyas in the first half with nine points. When Sugar still wasn't melting in the final half, freshman guard Katie McCormick grabbed the orb and produced 18 second half points for Keith Brown's 13-9 squad. McCormick, returning from a knee injury that had her on the bench for the first 11 games this year, led the Hoyas with 21 for the game. She had scored just 18 points all season. 

 6'6" center Sydney Wilson was the other Georgetown player to hit double digits with 11. She must have missed at least 10 shots from two feet or closer in, though. Does anyone use the box behind the rim on the backboard anymore?

Sara Hammond was the third double digit performer with a double-double...10 points and 11 grabs. Megan Deines added nine, Jude Schimmel seven, Bria Smith four, Cortnee Walton three and Sherrone Vails and Shelby Harper two each.

Louisville outrebounded the Hoyas 48-43. The Cards forced 16 G.U. turnovers while committing 16 of their own. Louisville won the points in the paint battle 28-24.

It wasn't pretty in the early going...Lousville and Georgetown both missing easy shots and only 26 total points had been scored in the first ten minutes. Georgetown actually led the Cards 16-10 with 9:11 left in the first stanza before UofL went on a 9-2 run to take the lead at 19-18 when Slaughter hit her second three of the half with 7:17 showing on the clock.

The Cards never trailed again.

On a afternoon where the roads had been salted several hours earlier because of an overnight snow...the Sugar remained in the cupboard and Louisville gets a sweet win....thanks to some sticky defense and Slaughter and Shoni shooting.

With Howie Lindsey and Jody Demling in attendance, the "Ho and Jo Show" was back and they asked 90% of the post game media questions for Coach Walz. Would hate to get in front of those two boys at a buffet...LINK BELOW.

POST GAME WALZ

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A crowd of over 250 packed the PNC Plaza Saturday night for the 2013 Louisville Volleyball banquet. Sean Moth served as emcee for the event that gave a few a scare when the fire alarms went off shortly after dinner was served.

Fortunately, it was a false alarm and the crowd was later entertained by the affable Anne Kordes' season in review speech and a hilarious video that featured Kordes playing freshman Katie George and George portraying Kordes.

The G.P.A. Award went to Emily Juhl and Cardinal Award was presented to UofL FCA chaplain Chris Morgan. Alumnae of the year went to Kelly Gillooly.

Kordes' keynote address covered her appreciation and association with all the players, staff and backers that have made Cardinal Volleyball the unqualified smash hit it's turned into since she arrived three years ago. She's also quite the comedian...sending the crowd into gales of laughter when she shared personal stories with players, friends and staff.

We want to meet "the Betty's"...

She has a heartfelt and deep relationship with those who make Cardinal Volleyball what it is today and it's easy to see why Julie Herrmann went after her and brought her here from the head coaching job at St. Louis.

Good times. Player Courtney Robison from Sheperdsville, KY. sat at our table with us and the D.S. who transferred her from West Virgina after one season was a friendly and charming host. Later we found out about her lifelong friendship with Katie George. Robison is the team driver and pushing catalyst. She also has two personalities, according to Kordes...so I guess we actually had two players at the table with us.

Our thanks to Louisville Volleyball for allowing us to cover the event and it was a class evening and a lot of fun!

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