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BATON ROUGE, La. - Led by double-doubles from redshirt sophomore setter Allie Monserez and junior outside hitter Carli Snyder, the No. 9 Gators notched their second consecutive sweep of an SEC foe, topping LSU, 25-15, 25-20, and 25-11.Monserez logged a match-high 32 assists and a career-high 16 digs for her third double-double performance of the year. Snyder collected her team-best sixth double-double of the 2016 campaign with 12 kills and 10 digs.Junior defensive specialist Caroline Knop (16 digs) also played a major role in UFs well-rounded passing performance. The Gators totaled 58 digs on the night, their highest total in a 3-set match this season.Floridas effective passing led to yet another efficient hitting night (.314), while its defense held the Tigers to an .067 clip, marking the eighth time this season and second consecutive match in which it held an opponent under a .100 clip.Freshman middle blocker Rachael Kramer (6 kills, .455 clip) and redshirt junior outside hitter Shainah Joseph (9 kills, .381 clip) posted UFs top performances of the evening in terms of hitting percentage.WORDS FROM THE GATORSFlorida head coach Mary Wises overall thoughts on the sweep...The story of the match was the serve-pass game, and our serve receive team did a tremendous job. From an offensive standpoint, it was the night of our left sides. Both Shainah (Joseph) and Carli (Snyder) had terrific nights.Florida redshirt sophomore setter Allie Monserez on the Gators sweep tonight....We had a good night. We passed really well. We worked on that a lot this week during practice, and we really did a great job of transferring it over. With the great passes, it made my job easy and just allowed me to distribute the ball. We got into more of a groove as the match went on, and everyone was working really well together.Monserez on setting up Carli Snyder and Shainah Joseph so often tonight....With the great passes it was so easy to get the ball out to Shainah and Carli. They did a great job of putting it down. We were really working on our rhythm this week, and that really showed with the outsides tonight.THE RECORDSNo. 9 Florida: 15-2, 5-1 SECLSU: 7-11, 2-5 SECNOTABLES AND TRENDS* Florida is now 40-13 all-time against LSU, and boasts a 17-6 mark in Baton Rouge following Fridays victory* The Gators hit .300 or above for the 13th time this season* UFs 58 digs accounted for its second-best total in any match this season* Floridas seven aces tied its second-best total of the year, and amounted to its highest total since a Sep. 11 sweep of LIU Brooklyn* LSUs 11 points in the final set were the fewest the Gators allowed in any set of their six SEC matches this year* Redshirt sophomore Allie Monserezs career-high 16 digs topped her previous career high of 15 from a Sep. 19, 2014 match against Eastern Kentucky as a freshman at South Carolina* Redshirt junior outside hitter Shainah Josephs nine kills matched her season high, previously set against Tennessee (Oct. 2)* Freshman defensive specialist Chanelle Hargreaves set a new career high with five kills* Freshman defensive specialist Allie Gregory matched her career high with two service acesNEXT OPPONENTFlorida caps its three-game SEC road stint with a trip to College Station, Texas for a televised showdown with reigning conference champion Texas A&M. 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The recently retired Stern was elected Friday to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and will be enshrined with the class of 2014 on Aug. SEOUL, South Korea -- South Koreas top female table tennis player, China-born Jeon Ji-hee, has an easy explanation for why she had to leave her homeland to compete in the game she loves.There are way too many good players in China, Jeon said after a pre-Olympics practice session. Its extremely hard to make it to the national team.This simple recognition has led to an exodus of Chinese talent -- and to worries that it will take more than the wanderings of Chinas second-tier athletes to save a sport so thoroughly dominated by one nation.At the Rio Olympics, China will not only have the worlds best table tennis players, but also will have produced the best players on the rosters of many other national squads.Unrelenting dominance by one country of a sport isnt unusual, of course, but Chinas table tennis supremacy is on a different level. Some believe that for the sport to thrive other nations must have some hope of winning on an international stage every now and then -- and not just with outside Chinese talent.Table tennis in China, despite what some see as a dip in its popularity, remains a source of national pride. A highly developed infrastructure scouts talented young athletes, often in kindergarten, and then grooms them into world beaters.The success of this system is reflected in Olympic gold: China has won all but four gold medals since table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988.Before the 2012 Olympics in London, a rule change allowed each country to only put forward two players for singles. China rolled on regardless, winning all the golds and silvers for singles, and leaving bronze for the rest of the world.The exodus of Chinese players is partly explained by the intense competition to make the national team. Current world No. 1 Liu Shiwen, for instance, didnt get one of Chinas two spots for singles.With so much talent, many Chinese players must contemplate a move abroad for a shot at the Olympics.The United States has two players who started their careers in China, including Yue Jennifer Wu. Three of the players on Australias six-person team were born in China and a fourth was born in Melbourne to Chinese parents.Only three nations in the womens competition in 2012 were without a China-born player, or a player with Chinese roots -- Egypt, North Korea and Japan.A major reason for Chinas success in table tennis is an intense, some might say obsessive, dedication to training; it also partially explains why some players leave.One of the Australian team members, Jian Fang Lay, used to run away after school to avoid her coaching sessions in China, according to the Australian Olympic Committees website.Kai Zhang, a China-born player hoping to mmake the 2020 U.ddddddddddddS. Olympics team, said coaches in China required even the sick and injured to train.If you want to be a world champion, it is better to train in China, Zhang said in an interview posted on the USA Table Tennis website last year. But if you want to have a balanced life and want to be happy and free, then training in the U.S. is better.Chinas talent identification system is also more advanced than other countries.China trains a huge number of players from a young age. South Korea simply waits for a talented one to be found, said Kim Taeksoo, a South Korean former Olympic player. If there are no talented young players that are being nurtured, the chances of beating Chinese players are very low.China seems to recognize a need to help the rest of the world catch up.Officials have made efforts to try to nurture talent in other countries, allowing foreign players to attend table tennis schools in Chinese provinces, for example, and sending Chinese coaches abroad, Zhao Xia, a Chinese Table Tennis Association official said.Far from resenting the exodus of talented players, China encourages and supports them, said a national table tennis association official who would only give his surname, Wang, because he wasnt authorized to speak to the media.Its possible that those players might beat Chinese national team players, but still, it is in China that they acquired their skills and tactics, Wang said.From a purely athletic perspective, watching two world-class athletes compete in long rallies that often seem to test the laws of physics with chopping spin shots and powerful smashes can be entertainment enough, even if both players happen to be Chinese.But the Olympics are often a nationalistic affair, and many people wont tune in unless their country has a chance at winning.One country being far too good ruins the sportsmanship and the fun part of it, Kim, the South Korean Olympian, said. Most European and Asian countries are losing table tennis fans.For the players who leave China to compete for new countries, there can also be psychological strain.When you dont know the opponent, you dont feel anything emotionally, said Jeon, the China-born ace for South Korea. But because I know (the Chinese players) and have trained there ... my thoughts become complicated.---AP journalists Jungho Choi in Seoul, Dennis Passa in Australia and Yu Bing in Beijing contributed to this report.---Foster Klug, APs bureau chief in Seoul, South Korea, is covering table tennis and badminton in Rio. Follow him at www.twitter/apklug ' ' '