Tuesday, October 9, 2001

Sports Briefs

Wajnberg to play at All-American tournament

Senior men’s tennis player Daniel Wajnberg will advance to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Tennis Championships held in Stone Mountain, Ga.

Wajnberg defeated Butler’s Brandon Currie, 6-2 and 6-1. Wajnberg took on Bowling Green’s Geoff Hiscox Sunday in qualifying play.

Keitany, Njubi win third consecutive tournament

For the third straight tournament, TCU runners Glady’s Keitany and Eliud Njubi finished first in at the UNT Invitational on Friday.

Njubi finished his race in a time of 24:29, 20 seconds ahead of the second place finisher, Texas-Arlington’s Eric Peterson. Keitany won her race in a time of 17:27.

Senior Cindy Dietrich finished sixth and junior Robin Schacht finished in ninth to help the women win the team title, their first title of the year. The men finished sixth in the field.

The Frogs’ next meet will be at the Chili Pepper Invitational Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.

Volley Frogs to take on Southwest Texas State

The TCU volleyball team looks for its second straight win when it plays Southwest Texas State 7 p.m. tonight at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.

The Volley Frogs (4-11, 2-4 Conference USA) are coming off a 3-1 win over Saint Louis Saturday. The win snapped a five-game losing streak.

Freshman outside hitter Dominika Szabo led the Frogs in kills (21) and attacks (49). Senior outside hitter Marci King led the team in digs (15).

Chang may start vs. UTEP this weekend

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii coach June Jones said Monday there’s a chance quarterback Timmy Chang will start in this weekend’s conference matchup against Texas-El Paso.

“If he’s OK, he’ll play,” Jones said. “He’ll start if he’s OK. We just have to see how he is.”

Chang missed Saturday’s game against Southern Methodist with a sprained wrist on his throwing arm. He injured his wrist Sept. 29 in the Warriors’ loss to Rice.

Jones said Chang, second in the nation in total offense with 349.7 yards per game, will start against UTEP (2-3, 1-1 Western Athletic Conference) if he’s able to throw in practice on Thursday or Friday. The sophomore is listed as questionable for Saturday’s game at Aloha Stadium.

If Chang isn’t able to throw this week, then backup Nick Rolovich will get the start for Hawaii (2-2, 1-2 WAC).

Rolovich threw for 325 yards and two touchdowns, including the game winner to Tafiti Uso, to help the Warriors defeat SMU 38-31 in overtime.

“I was happy for him,” Jones said. “He started out slow, but he kind of grew as the game went on and he made big plays.”

Despite Rolovich’s performance, Jones said there is no quarterback controversy brewing on the Manoa campus.

Timmy is still “the guy,” he said.

Jones said he was also pleased with the emergence of defensive lineman Travis LaBoy who named the WAC defensive player of the week.

LaBoy had five tackles, including three for a loss, and a forced fumble against SMU.

“Travis made some unbelievable plays that you can’t coach, it was just his athletic ability,” Jones said.