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This team is doing great! This Wednesday they play the Texas Aggies in
College Station. Game time is 7:00 p.m. Some of the Houston Alumni Club plan to attend. We will be eating, before the game, at the Outback Steakhouse on Texas Avenue at 5:00. Come join us! Go Cats! Joyce Nesmith -----Original Message----- From: Mitzi Frieling <MFrieling@K-State.com< To: MFrieling@K-State.com <MFrieling@K-State.com< Date: Sunday, January 13, 2002 8:20 AM Subject: WBK vs. Nebraska < < <-----Original Message----- <From: K-State Sports Information Office [mailto:KSUSPORTSINFO@ksu.edu]On <Behalf Of Doug Dull <Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:59 PM <To: KSUSPORTSINFO@LISTSERV.KSU.EDU <Subject: WBK vs. Nebraska < <FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <Date: January 12, 2002 <Contact: Doug Dull, Sports Information Director < <WILDCAT WOMEN BEAT HUSKERS BEFORE RECORD-SETTING CROWD < < MANHATTAN, Kan. - Laurie Koehn scored 26 points to lift <14th-ranked Kansas State to an 85-71 victory over Nebraska in a Big <12 Conference women's basketball game Saturday played before a <school-record crowd of 13,466 at Bramlage Coliseum. < The victory lifted the Wildcats to 16-1 overall and 4-0 in <the Big 12, while the Cornhuskers fell to 11-6 and 1-3. K-State has <won 13 straight games this season. < The crowd was announced as a sellout, the first for women's <basketball in the history of Bramlage Coliseum. The previous high for <attendance for a K-State women's game was 9,736, set on Feb. 22, 1997 <at a game against Kansas. It was also the largest crowd a Wildcat <women's team had ever played before either home or away. < Kendra Wecker added 21 points and 12 rebounds for the <Wildcats, while Nicole Ohlde finished 18 points and nine boards. < Katie Robinette scored 16 points on 7-for-18 shooting from <the floor to lead four Nebraska players in double figures. K.C. <Cowgill scored 15 points for the Huskers, all from three-point range, <with Stephanie Jones adding 14 points and Keasha Cannon scoring 10. < Kansas State iced the victory by hitting 22 of 25 free throws <in the game, including a 19-for-22 effort in the second half. < Kristin Rethman scored five points and Wecker added four in <an early 9-0 run that put K-State ahead 14-5 with 13:46 left in the <first half. Nebraska cut the lead to four once before halftime. The <lead was six with 6:06 remaining in the half when back-to-back <three-pointers by Koehn and Wecker pushed the Wildcats' edge to 33-21. < K-State led 45-32 at the break, as Koehn had 14 points and <Wecker finished the first half with 13. < Nebraska used a 9-0 run early in the second half to cut the <deficit to 49-45 with 14:19 to play. But the K-State lead was never <less than four points the rest of the way. The 'Cats led 65-59 with <7:16 left when Koehn buried a three-pointer and Ohlde hit two free <throws to increase the lead to 11 with 6:21 remaining. < Kansas State led by at least 10 points the rest of the game. < Koehn's six three-pointers were the most ever by a Wildcat in <a conference game. She hit 6 of 9 behind the arc and also went <6-for-6 from the free-throw line. K-State got four blocked shots by <Ohlde and five steals by Wecker in a solid floor game. < Nebraska held a 46-42 edge in rebounding, as all but one <Husker who played had at least one rebound. Cannon finished with five <assists for Nebraska. < Kansas State travels to Texas A&M on Jan. 16. The Wildcats' <next home game is Jan. 23 against Kansas. <--ksu-- <-- <***************************************************** < <Doug Dull, Sports Information Director <Kansas State University <1800 College Avenue <Manhattan, KS 66502 <Phone: 785/532-7977 <Fax: 785/532-6093 <www.k-statesports.com <
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