Softball Falls to FSU -- Track & Field Posts Two ACC Champions -- Casey Madura Interview -- FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Louisville Falters in Loss to FSU

Louisville softball collapsed and a 3-0 lead turned into a 7-4 loss as the Cards bowed out of the second round of the ACC Tournament to Florida State.  The loss is their third in four games.

Sidney Melton led off the game with a solo shot over the left field wall for the early lead.  They added two runs in the second when a fielder's choice drove a run home and Melton walked with the bases loaded to add an easy RBI.  The only other run came in the sixth when Alison Szydlowski reached base on a fielder's choice and drove in a run, almost exactly like the second inning play.

The Seminoles scored all of their runs in the middle three innings, relying on four Louisville errors and a pair of home runs to ignite the offense.  Megan Hensley and Danielle Watson split time in the circle with three innings apiece.  The duo only surrendered six hits, but walked four and the defense had four infield errors.  Hensley (17-8) took the loss.

Coach Pearsall heavily emphasized the impact the errors had on a game where Louisville had an early shot at winning, "If we dont make those mistakes, we have a chance at winning that game, but the errors set us back and we just couldn't overcome that."

With a record of 33-20 and an RPI hovering around 44 the Cards are a bubble team for the NCAA Tournament.  Unfortunately, the ACC is weak at softball and FSU is the only school inside the Top 40 in RPI.  The Cards will need some help in receiving a bid to the "Big Dance" and hope the top seeds win their respective conference tournaments.

Track and Field Takes Home Two ACC Championships on Day One

Dorcas Wasike ran away with the gold in the women's 10,000 m, running a personal best and setting a new meet record.  Damar Robinson leapt his way to the podium with a personal best on the men's high jump.

The Championships are still young and there's plenty more Cardinals hoping to make their mark in history and bring home the gold.

Casey Madura Sits Down with Cardinal Couple

Casey Madura (left) and Emily Howell

The lacrosse alum will graduate from UofL this Saturday, but she found some time to sit down for an interview.  We were fortunate that she still has field access and made our way to the Louisville Lacrosse Stadium to enjoy a beautiful day that was tortured by the pollen invasion.

Madura has battled injuries and a cancer scare in her career at Louisville and spent almost all of her time on the bench as a supporter, teammate, and helping coach.  The senior captain talked about what brought her to Louisville, her experiences and memories here, and future plans that involve a trip to the Big Apple.

We talked about what her walk-up song would be, a secondary sport she might play, and deciding the style of wave she will perform as she walks across stage at commencement.

You can view the entirety of the lengthy interview

here.

The Cardinal Couple Radio Hour

Don't forget to tune in to your favorite knuckleheads this Saturday at 11 am on WCHQ 100.9 fm.  I will be "enjoying" my new role of putting in credit card and personal loan applications while also doing my normal breaking change.  With Case past his exam and having recovered for a few weeks there is a slight chance he may find his way back down to Melwood Ave.  We'll have to wait on the Vegas odds to come out before making our bets on that.  Either way, make sure to continue keeping him in your thoughts as he works his way back to 100%.




What Day is it?

Well, besides Friday it's also a day to celebrate a couple favorites, so kick back and Eat Whatever You Want while you watch The Twilight Zone, a personal favorite of mine in terms of throwback TV shows.

Make sure to take you medicine as allergy season is in full force in the second-worst allergen city in the United States only behind McAllen, TX, per Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

Happy Friday and Go Cards!

- Jared -

Spring Sports Galore -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Spring Events in Full Swing

Normally, on a Saturday morning in the spring, you'll find I've written about Friday evening's softball game. That's usually enough to get through an article, but it often puts the other sports in action to the side, not giving all of the women's sports we cover here the recognition they deserve. UofL has had a busy start to the weekend, in women's sports especially, so I figured that I would give a quick recognition to all of these teams as best as I could.

The aforementioned Louisville Softball team did play yesterday. They took on the Syracuse Orange twice, in fact. In the first game of the day, the Cards jumped on top with a 2 run lead in the top of the first inning. They would score one more run in the top of the fifth and hold on to win 3-2. The second game wasn't quite as fortunate. Syracuse took a 2-0 lead after back to back one run innings in the 3rd and 4th. Louisville got one run back in the top of the fifth, and then scored two runs in the top of the 7th to put themselves in position to win 3-2 again. Unfortunately, they could not hold up in the bottom half of the inning and Syracuse scored two runs to win the game. Louisville is now 24-17 on the season, having rebounded a bit with the series sweep over Virginia, and they'll finish the series against Syracuse tomorrow at noon.

Women's Tennis took on a top 50 ranked team yesterday when they traveled to Clemson. The Cards have been in an extreme rough patch during the conference season, and yesterday was no different. After starting the season 12-1 with a pair of conference wins over Notre Dame and Pittsburgh, Louisville hit the full conference stretch and stumbled mightily. Starting the stretch with a sweep loss at number 3 Georgia Tech, the Cards have since lost 6 straight and 7 of the last 8. Their lone win since starting the true conference schedule was a 4-3 squeaker over Virginia Tech at home. Despite the hard times the Cards have fallen on, there is still at least a little bit of time to recover before the post season. Louisville has a road match against Wake Forest on Sunday before returning home to take on Miami and Florida State next weekend. After that comes the ACC Tournament. If the Cards can recover just a bit in these last few matches, they may get a second wind going forward.

The Track and Field teams both took to Cardinal Park yesterday for the Louisville Invitational. It was an extremely successful meet for the Cards, with both the women's and men's teams taking first. The women topped Purdue and the men beat out Michigan State. With 10 wins on the day, the list of positive results for the Cards is long. Dorcas Wasike won the 5000m and set a UofL record in the process. All other results are available on the Louisville site, as Louisville T&F looks geared up for continued success.

Louisville Rowing got started at the Clemson Invitational yesterday and finished with a pair of top 4 finishes in the Varsity events. The Cards will continue that event this evening and look for additional success against a decent group of squads.

Women's Golf is at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic in Athens, Georgia, where Lauren Hartlage got off to a roaring start in her opening round. Hartlage shot 6 under par in the first round and currently sits tied for second after a 1 over second round. Louisville on the whole sits in 7th place in the event. They're 24 shots off of the leader, Alabama, but are much closer to other schools in the top 5. The event ends today, and Louisville will look for a strong finish in the last two rounds.

Louisville Swimming and Diving are at the TYR Pro Series Mesa event, where they've been since Thursday. Mallory Comerford, as she is wont to do, won the 100M freestyle for Louisville's second win of the event. The event wraps up today, starting at noon local time. Louisville has had significant individual success in swimming and diving recently, and it appears to be only a matter of time before the Cards can really put something together as a team. 

Women's Soccer was in action last night taking on their final spring opponent of the year at NKU. The game was originally supposed to be held in Louisville but was changed for unknown reasons. As is typical, there is no information available from last night's game, but I thought that I would mention it anyway so that you could all remember that I love soccer.

In addition to all of the games and events I've already mentioned, also in action today are Lacrosse  and Volleyball. The Lacrosse team is taking on Virginia at noon (weather permitting), trying desperately to recover from some of the lumps they've taken this season. Despite some disappointing results, Scott Teeter has definitely shown things to be optimistic about going forward with a program that was on the ropes. Volleyball is wrapping up their spring schedule with a match against Butler tonight at 6:30. This one is at Cardinal Arena and the exhibition is free.

Cardinal Couple Radio Hour

For a full hour devoted to chatter about all of the sports I've just mentioned, plus utter nonsense, be sure to tune into the Cardinal Couple Radio Hour on WCHQ FM. The CCRH is every Saturday (that's today!) from 11-Noon. Paulie will man the studio today, as normal, joined by Worldwide Jeff McAdams and Mike Gilpatrick from River City Cards. No phone call for me today, but the folks in the studio will have plenty to get you through your weekend. Check out 100.9 WCHQ FM, wchqfm.com, the WCHQ App, or WCHQ FM on Facebook to hear/watch the show.

Here's a link to the Facebook Live broadcast:
THE CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR 4/14/18

Until next time, Go Cards!

-CH-

Mondays Laundry List of This and That

MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. day to our CARDINAL COUPLE readers. The brilliant statesman and political activist's teachings and work still goes on long after his assassination in 1968. The human rights and basic freedoms for all are a
facet of the society we live in today. Unfortunately, there are still countries and
places in our world where these things we take for granted are denied to citizens.



With the Game on Tuesday against Marquette

Laundry Day has been Moved to Monday

BASKETBALL

Check in tomorrow to read Quentin’s basketball scouting report of the Tuesday’s Marquette game.  Our 15^th ranked Cardinals are reported to be shown on the CBS Sports Network with tip off at 9:00.

Jeff Walz Cincinnati post game quotes can be found at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/011813aac.html.  We again fell just short of the 10,000 attendance mark.    It would be great to break that mark at our next home game which is against St. Johns on Sunday the 27^th.  The team will need as big of a send off as possible as they will then leave for a contest against the formidable University of South Florida on the 30^th.

 

BASKETBALL ON THE AIR THIS WEEK
 

Monday 21-Jan Duke at Connecticut Duke at Connecticut Atlantic Coast Big East ESPN2 7 p.m.

Monday 21-Jan Duke at Connecticut Duke at Connecticut Atlantic Coast Big East ESPN2 7 p.m.

Monday 21-Jan Penn St. at Michigan Penn St. at Michigan Big Ten Big Ten BTN 6:30 p.m./7:30 p.m.

Monday 21-Jan Creighton at Missouri St. Creighton at Missouri St. Missouri Valley Missouri Valley FSN Midwest 9 p.m.

Tuesday 22-Jan Georgetown at Rutgers Georgetown at Rutgers Big East Big East CBS SN 7 p.m.

Tuesday 22-Jan Louisville at Marquette Louisville at Marquette Big East Big East CBS SN 9 p.m.

Tuesday 22-Jan Texas Tech at West Virginia Texas Tech at West Virginia Big 12 Big 12 WVUSports.com 7 p.m.

Friday 23-Jan Stony Brook at UMBC Stony Brook at UMBC America East America East ESPN3 12 p.m.

Wednesday 23-Jan Baylor at Iowa St. Baylor at Iowa St. Big 12 Big 12 Cyclones TV 8 p.m.

Wednesday 23-Jan Oklahoma St. at Kansas St. Oklahoma St. at Kansas St. Big 12 Big 12 K-StateHD. TV 8 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Miami (FL) at Wake Forest Miami (FL) at Wake Forest Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast RSN 6:30 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Duke at Clemson Duke at Clemson Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast ESPN3 7 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan North Carolina at Maryland North Carolina at Maryland Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast RSN 8:30 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Wisconsin at Iowa Wisconsin at Iowa Big Ten Big Ten BTN.com 8 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Michigan at Indiana Michigan at Indiana Big Ten Big Ten BTN.com 7 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Michigan St. at Nebraska Michigan St. at Nebraska Big Ten Big Ten BTN.com 8 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Minnesota at Penn St. Minnesota at Penn St. Big Ten Big Ten BTN 6:30 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Northwestern at Purdue Northwestern at Purdue Big Ten Big Ten BTN 8:30 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Ill.-Chicago at Wright St. Ill.-Chicago at Wright St. Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 7 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Youngstown St. at Cleveland St. Youngstown St. at Cleveland St. Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 7 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Loyola Chicago at Detroit Loyola Chicago at Detroit Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 7 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Valparaiso at Milwaukee Valparaiso at Milwaukee Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 8 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Kentucky at South Carolina Kentucky at South Carolina Southeastern Southeastern SPSO 7 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Ole Miss at Florida Ole Miss at Florida Southeastern Southeastern CSS 7 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Tennessee at Vanderbilt Tennessee at Vanderbilt Southeastern Southeastern SPSO 9 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Auburn at Alabama Auburn at Alabama Southeastern Southeastern CSS 9 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Lamar at Oral Roberts Lamar at Oral Roberts Southland Southland ESPN3 6 p.m.

Thursday 24-Jan Loyola Marymount at BYU Loyola Marymount at BYU West Coast West Coast BYUtv 9 p.m.

Friday 25-Jan Georgia Tech at Florida St. Georgia Tech at Florida St. Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast ACCDN/YT 7 p.m.

Friday 25-Jan Marist at Manhattan Marist at Manhattan Metro Atlantic Metro Atlantic ESPN3 4 p.m.

Friday 25-Jan UNI at Creighton UNI at Creighton Missouri Valley Missouri Valley FSN Midwest 9 p.m.

Friday 25-Jan Arizona vs. UCLA Arizona vs. UCLA Pac-12 Pac-12 Pac-12 Network 9 p.m.

Friday 25-Jan Colorado vs. California Colorado vs. California Pac-12 Pac-12 Pac-12 Network 11 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Vermont at Albany (NY) Vermont at Albany (NY) America East America East ESPN3 5 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Marquette at South Fla. Marquette at South Fla. Big East Big East BETV 6 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan UNC Asheville at Coastal Caro. UNC Asheville at Coastal Caro. Big South Big South ESPN3 4 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Oklahoma at Baylor Oklahoma at Baylor Big 12 Big 12 FSN 12 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Kansas St. at Texas Kansas St. at Texas Big 12 Big 12 LHN 2 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Iowa St. at West Virginia Iowa St. at West Virginia Big 12 Big 12 Root Sports 7 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Ill.-Chicago at Detroit Ill.-Chicago at Detroit Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 2 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Green Bay at Valparaiso Green Bay at Valparaiso Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 2:35 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Loyola Chicago at Youngstown St. Loyola Chicago at Youngstown St. Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 4:35 p.m.

Saturday 26-Jan Fla. Atlantic at Arkansas St. Fla. Atlantic at Arkansas St. Sun Belt Sun Belt Sun Belt Network 6 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Boston College at Duke Boston College at Duke Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast RSN 1 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan North Carolina at Miami (FL) North Carolina at Miami (FL) Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast ESPN2 2 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan North Carolina St. at Georgia Tech North Carolina St. at Georgia Tech Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast ESPN3 2 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Virginia Tech at Florida St. Virginia Tech at Florida St. Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast ESPN3 2 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Maryland at Clemson Maryland at Clemson Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast ACCDN/YT 5 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Xavier at Richmond Xavier at Richmond Atlantic 10 Atlantic 10 CBS SN 2 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan St. John's (NY) at Louisville St. John's (NY) at Louisville Big East Big East ESPNU 1:30 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Purdue at Northwestern Purdue at Northwestern Big Ten Big Ten ESPN2 4 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Penn St. at Ohio St. Penn St. at Ohio St. Big Ten Big Ten BTN 1 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan TCU at Texas Tech TCU at Texas Tech Big 12 Big 12 FSN 1 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Hofstra at James Madison Hofstra at James Madison Colonial Colonial CSN-MA, CSN-NE, MSG, TCN-P 5:30 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Niagara at Canisius Niagara at Canisius Metro Atlantic Metro Atlantic ESPN3 1 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Fresno St. at Colorado St. Fresno St. at Colorado St. Mountain West Mountain West CBS SN 5 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Oregon vs. Washington Oregon vs. Washington Pac-12 Pac-12 Pac-12 Network 5 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Colorado vs. Stanford Colorado vs. Stanford Pac-12 Pac-12 Pac-12 Network 7 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Florida at Georgia Florida at Georgia Southeastern Southeastern CSS 1 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Vanderbilt at Alabama Vanderbilt at Alabama Southeastern Southeastern SEC Network 2 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan LSU at Kentucky LSU at Kentucky Southeastern Southeastern SPSO 3 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Missouri at Texas A&M Missouri at Texas A&M Southeastern Southeastern ESPNU 3:30 p.m.

Sunday 27-Jan Western Ky. at Middle Tenn. Western Ky. at Middle Tenn. Sun Belt Sun Belt ESPN3 3 p.m.

Monday 28-Jan Notre Dame at Tennessee Notre Dame at Tennessee Big East Southeastern ESPN2 7 p.m.

Monday 28-Jan Illinois at Minnesota Illinois at Minnesota Big Ten Big Ten BTN 9 p.m.

Monday 28-Jan Indiana at Northwestern Indiana at Northwestern Big Ten Big Ten BTN 7 p.m.

Monday 28-Jan Green Bay at Wright St. Green Bay at Wright St. Horizon Horizon horizonleague.com 7 p.m.

Monday 28-Jan Notre Dame at Tennessee Notre Dame at Tennessee Big East Southeastern ESPN2 7 p.m.

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LACROSSE

This year the Cardinal Couple crew have decided to dedicate ourselves to increasing our pitiful level of knowledge about Lacrosse.  This dedication included a trip to Lacrosse boot camp which resulted in this writer already down with a knee injury when Timmy decided to run warm-up drills for the group which included everyone playing with the sticks.   Timmy has now been recalled from camp and is now on desk duty at the Cardinal Couple worldwide offices.

(Editor's note: In fairness and keeping with our long-standing policy of 'mea culpa' administration, none of our writers or staff were forced to take part in the lacrosse camp. Sandy was attempting to score from the top of the YUM! practice facility when Bill the Goat cross-checked her and the two fell off the structure and directly on Co-Co mudpie stand.) 

In the meantime Louisville’s team:

NO	NAME	POS	CL	HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL)
1	Carissa Corbett	M	SO	Wilmington, N.C. (John T. Hoggard)
2	Hillary Bushway	A	JR	Norfolk, Mass. (King Philip Regional)
3	Jamie Redding	A	JR	Victor, N.Y. (Victor Senior)
4	Erika Eipp	M	FR	Groton, Mass. (Groton-Dunstable)
5	Kelli Gerding	M	FR	Jarrettsville, Md. (North Harford)
6	Kaylin Morissette	M	FR	Bowmanville, Ontario (Bowmanville)
7	Courtney Boyd	D	FR	Bayville, N.Y. (Locust Valley)
8	Janaye Dzikewich	D	GS	Whitby, Ontario (Sinclair Secondary)
9	Nikki Boltja	M	JR	Medina, Ohio (Medina)
11	Katie Oliverio	M	RS SR	Silver Spring, Md. (Georgetown Visitation Prep)
12	Kayla Sleece	M	FR	Ashburn, Va. (Stone Bridge)
13	Kelsey Garraty	D	JR	Ridley Park, Pa. (Ridley)
14	Kendall Gordon	D	SO	Worthington, Ohio (Thomas Worthington)
15	Faye Brust	A	SO	Bel Air, Md. (John Carroll)
16	Taylor Hagin	M	SO	Cumming, Ga. (West Forsyth)
17	Laura Patterson	M	FR	Severna Park, Md. (Severna Park)
18	Blair Bernhardt	D	FR	Annapolis, Md. (Broadneck)
19	Ashley Herbst	GK	JR	Pittsford, N.Y. (Pittsford Sutherland)
20	Monica Negron	D	JR	Bel Air, Md. (Patterson Mill)
21	Cortnee Daley	M	FR	Hatboro, Pa. (Hatboro-Horsham)
22	Leslee Hefner	D	JR	Forest Hill, Md. (St. Paul's School for Girls)
24	Danielle Pawliw	GK	SR	Plainview, N.Y. (St. Anthony's)
25	Anna Kopecka	A	JR	Prague, Czech Republic (George Mason)
26	Colleen O'Malley	M	JR	Malvern, Pa. (Great Valley)
27	Amy Poteet	M	RS SO	Whiteford, Md. (North Harford)
33	Emily Kolsevich	A	SO	Pottstown, Pa. (Owen J. Roberts)

continues to prepare for their home opener on February 10 verses Canisius at the U of L Lacrosse stadium.  It is a red out game for everyone wearing their long johns to the match.  Coco has acquired plenty of red dye for anyone who needs it.  Hopefully the rest of the writers will spend the time studying their newly distributed rule books.  A brief history of the development of the game can be found at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-lacros/spec-rel/081506aac.html.

 

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VOLLEYBALL NEWS

Outside hitter Lola Arslanbekova was named to Volleyball Magazine's All-American Second Team.  She graduated last month and is currently playing professionally in Puerto Rico.   The complete story can be found at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/011513aaa.html.

Javonni Faucette has joined the Cardinals volleyball program as an early enrollee.  The 6-1 outside hitter is from St. Louis, Mo., and played her high school volleyball for head coach Justin Young at Francis Howell High School.   As an outside hitter and six rotation player it is presumed that she will be asked to fill the shoes of 4 year super star Lola Arslanbekova.   Additional information can be found at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/011713aaa.html.

 

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TRACK AND FIELD

The Track and Field team just wrapped up the Bloomington, Indiana Gladstein Invitational where Amashi Kendall scored her second win of the season in the weight throw with a season.  CardsTV has posted the video of head Coach Ron Mann’s weekly show.  The non-subscriber accessed video can be found at http://www.gocards.com/allaccess/?media=363125.

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