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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Auburn volleyball team went into intermission trailing No. 21 Louisville, 0-2, and came out of it swinging, using tough serves and solid defense to pull off a 3-2 (15-25, 17-25, 25-14, 25-22, 15-8) comeback victory over the Cardinals Saturday night. The match was the final one of the Active Ankle Challenge in the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky.Louisville is a really good team and were very efficient the first two sets, head coach Rick Nold said. We came out with a new mentality in set three and started really fighting for points. When you do that, things start working out in your favor and thats what happened to us tonight.The Tiger servers took care of business beginning in the third set, putting the Cardinals (4-2) out of system on a consistence basis and allowing the Auburn offense to capitalize on free balls.We really tightened up our serving after the break and got them out of system a lot, Nold added. That forced Louisville into some errors and we took advantage of it.The win moved Auburn to 3-4 on the season. Santa Clara captured the tournament title after going 3-0 on the weekend.Sophomore Brenna McIlroy and junior Alexa Filley were placed on the All-Tournament team for the Tigers. McIlroy led the Auburn offense with a season-high 18 kills, while Filley finished with another double-double of 48 assists and 19 digs. Senior Emily Klitzke added 13 kills and freshman Gwyn Jones had 11 with two blocks.Defensively, junior Jesse Earl put together a 16-dig performance, while sophomore Abigail Miller had a career-best 10 digs. Junior Tate Pember added six digs and a team-best two service aces.The Cardinals (4-2) were led by Melanie McHenry with 14 kills and 16 digs. Tess Clark and Janelle Jenkins added 12 kills apiece and libero Molly Sauer had a match-high 20 digs.Kills from Filley and McIlroy put the Tigers up early at 4-3 in the first set. Tied at seven, the Cardinals pushed a five-point run to go up 12-7. Another long Louisville run lifted the home squad to a 17-9 advantage and the Cards took the set, 25-15.Louisville took a quick 4-2 lead in set two and held its slim margin until a handful of Cardinal errors pushed Auburn ahead at 9-8. The Cards responded with a run to go up at 16-11, forcing a Tiger timeout. Louisville went into intermission with a 25-17 win.Auburn used tough serving to take a 7-4 lead in the third stanza and Cardinal errors lifted the Tigers to a 12-9 lead. The Auburn service line continued to put Louisville out system and more Cardinal miscues pushed the Tigers up 17-12. A trio of Klitzke kills made it 20-13 and kills from Stephanie Campbell and McIlroy gave Auburn a 25-14 victory.The Tigers maintained momentum in set four and pushed a 7-5 lead. A pair of Campbell/Filley blocks followed by a trio of Louisville attack errors made it 14-9 Auburn. A kill from Klitzke put the Tigers up 19-15 before the Cardinals regained some energy to take a 20-19 lead. Back-to-back swings by Jones gave Auburn its lead back at 22-21 and the Tigers forced the deciding set with a 25-22 win.The visiting team opened the fifth with a 5-1 run highlighted by trio of kills from McIlroy. The Cardinals battled back and cut the Tiger lead at 6-5. Three Louisville errors put Auburn up 10-7 and a kill from McIlroy gave the visitors match point at 14-8. Pember sealed the Tiger win with a service ace, 15-8.The Tigers return to Auburn Arena, Sept. 9-10, and host the Auburn Invitational. The team opens with a pair of matches vs. Memphis and Miami (OH) Friday and close out the weekend with a 1:30 p.m. match vs. Jacksonville.Scarpe Nike Ingrosso . Ashley Youngs cross was inadvertently headed by Chester into his own net in the 66th minute, allowing United to claim a third straight league win. 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Air Max 1 Scontate . -- Linebacker Myles Jack ran for four touchdowns, defensive end Cassius Marsh caught a scoring pass, and No.RIO DE JANEIRO -- For Sale: One elite athlete, lightly used. Will swap citizenship, move to your country and even marry to compete for your Olympic team if the price is right. (Note: All marriage proposals must include a photo.)---When it comes to the Olympics, a lot more mercenaries -- er, athletes -- change allegiances than youd think.Here at the Rio Games, Bahrains delegation of 30 athletes includes exactly four Bahraini natives. Twenty-three of Qatars 39 athletes were born somewhere else. Its handball team of 14 players includes 11 foreign-borns, including Marko Bagaric, who helped lead the Qataris to an upset win over Croatia, the land of his birth.He felt bad for Croatia but got over it soon enough.The worst feeling was during the national anthem, Bagaric said. Ah, but what can I do?While oil-rich, Gulf states game the system most often, theyre hardly the only nations that seek to flip athletes like used-car dealers. The 550-plus strong U.S. delegation includes 46 athletes -- about 8 percent -- born elsewhere. China is so dominant in table tennis that one in five of the 140 competitors spread across 55 teams were born in the worlds most populous nation.The reasons for what noted Olympic historian David Wallechinsky calls a braun drain and others a passport swap or transfer of allegiance are varied. In some cases, like Chinas table-tennis players, American basketball and baseball athletes, or Kenyas long-distance runners, the talent pool at home is so deep that reserves with no chance to make the first team are still better than any other countrys best.Some athletes take advantage of their ancestry and others gain citizenship through marriage or relocation. But the International Olympic Committee rules governing such moves are so laughably lax that mercenaries in the games are every bit as prominent as in other big-time, big-money sports like soccer. All such moves require is agreement by both nations Olympic committees, some of that consensus no doubt influenced by cash.Qatar, for example, bought the entire Bulgarian weightlifting team in 2000 for a reported $1 million, awarding citizenship and new names to all eight athletes involved.But only one of them, Angel Popov -- renamed Said Saif Assad just in time for the Sydney Games -- returned to his new home with aa bronze medal.dddddddddddd That left some Qataris wondering whether the money would have been better spent making sure Bulgarias notorious doping program was included in the deal.Undaunted, the Qataris bought Kenyan long-distance runners Stephen Cherono and Albert Chepkurui three years later. That didnt work out much better.Nation shopping, yet another name for the practice, has become prevalent enough in track and field competitions that when the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) convenes Saturday, finding a way to tighten up the eligibility for the movement of athletes is near the top of their agenda.Soccers worldwide governing body, FIFA, may be the most corrupt outfit in sports, but their rules on nation shopping are both simple and effective: Once an athlete has played for a country in an internationally sanctioned tournament at the senior level, hes bound to that country for life. No exceptions.Both Wallechinsky and Bill Mallon, a historian and statistician with the U.S. Olympic Committee, would like to see the IOC adopt a similar measure. Wallechinsky also thinks a limit on foreign-born athletes on each national team, or the number allowed to compete in any given sport, might work as well.Mallon also said removing the exception allowing the national Olympic committees involved to override the rule already on the IOC books might turn the trick. It currently states athletes can switch countries provided at least three years have passed since the competitor last represented his former country.I think you could make very specific exceptions, for examples, like marriages, he said.But a moment later, Mallon pulls up a file on his computer screen and notes that of the 952 married couples that have competed in the games over the years, 190 have involved a couple where the husband or wife hails from a different country.He had no idea what the divorce rate for the group might be. But it seems someone who would walk away from his or her country wouldnt find it much harder to walk out on a spouse.---Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org or Twitter.com/JimLitkenational sports columnist for The As