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Volleyball ACCtion: Saturday, September 1
Sept. 1, 2007 RICHMOND, Va. - At the close of Thursday afternoon's practice, Maryland head coach Janice Kruger stressed the importance of picking up an early-season win against a Southeast Conference opponent. The Terrapins must have taken the talk to heart, edging the South Carolina Gamecocks (26-30, 33-31, 30-28, 21-30, 15-11) Saturday afternoon in the VCU/Third Degree Sportswear Invitational. For the second straight match, the Terps appeared in serious trouble of leaving with a loss. Trailing two games to one, South Carolina won the fourth game and ran out to a 9-2 lead in the final frame. However, Maryland ripped off six straight points and eventually took the lead at 11-10 and held on from there. "This is a big win for us. This is another growth opportunity that we were able to capitalize on to get the win," Kruger said. "We had strong performances all the way around. The credit goes to all of them for just fighting and going for it." +Read More
RICHMOND, Va. - For the third time in as many matches, the University of Maryland volleyball team was forced to go the full five games in its attempt at victory and for the third time in as many matches, the Terrapins came through late to earn a hard-fought win. After edging Liberty on Friday and South Carolina Saturday afternoon, the Terps again staved off defeat against the host Virginia Commonwealth Rams in the final session of the VCU/Third Degree Sportswear Invitational Saturday evening, winning the invite championship 30-22, 25-30, 23-30, 30-22, 15-13 to improve to 5-1 early in the season. The Terps placed three players on the all-tournament team, including MVP Katie Usher (Vienna, Va.) as well as Beth Gillming (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Mary Beth Brown (Vienna, Va.). +Read More
QUEENS, N.Y. - Sophomore Betsy Horowitz led the Virginia Tech volleyball team to a 3-0 (30-25, 30-15, 30-16) sweep of New Jersey Institute of Technology to open day two of the St. John's Volleyball Invitational. Horowitz landed a career-high 10 kills to become the only player reaching double-digit kills on either team. Junior Kristen Cunningham also had a strong performance, hitting a .667 with nine kills in 12 attempts, committing only one error. Sophomore Rachel Fahlenkamp hit .538 with eight kills and collected seven blocks, two solo. Freshman Amy Wengrenovich led the defense with 12 kills and junior Sarah Muñoz chipped in 11. +Read More
Long Beach State 3, Virginia Tech 0 QUEENS, N.Y. - Senior libero Amanda Cloyd collected 14 defensive saves to become the program's all-time leader in digs, but the Virginia Tech volleyball team dropped a 3-0 (23-30, 25-30, 28-30) decision to No. 24 Long Beach State to close out play at the St. John's Volleyball Invitational Saturday afternoon. Cloyd has collected 1,712 digs throughout her time in Blacksburg to pass Heather Berglund, who set the record at 1,710 in 1993. Senior Jen Albrecht led all players with 14 kills in the match, and junior Kristen Cunningham contributed 10. Defensively, sophomore Jill Gergen led all players with 19 digs and freshman Amy Wengrenovich had 11. Sophomore Michelle Lang dished out 30 assists. +Read More
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The Virginia volleyball team (3-2, 0-0 ACC) swept Norfolk State 3-0 Saturday in the fourth match of the 2007 Marriott Jefferson Cup at Memorial Gymnasium. The Cavaliers won 30-21, 30-15 and 30-19 for their first sweep of the season. Fourth year Sarah Kirkwood inched closer to Virginia's kills record against Norfolk State. She needs 32 kills to break the mark after tallying a game-high 22 against the Spartans. The Cavaliers hit .314, with Kirkwood posting a .525 percentage with just one attack error to accompany her 22 kills. Beth Shelton paced UVa with 10 digs while third year Marlow Bruneau and rookie Kelly Irvin split the setting duties. Irvin finished with 22 helpers and Bruneau added 15. +Read More
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The Virginia volleyball team (4-2, 0-0 ACC) came back to beat Temple after dropping the first game Saturday, a 3-1 win in the final match of the 2007 Marriott Jefferson Cup. Fourth years Melissa Caldwell and Sarah Kirkwood were named to the All-Tournament team. Kirkwood dominated the attacking game. Her first eight attacking attempts were kills as the Tampa, Fla., native finished with a game-high 24, leaving her seven short of the program's all-time mark for career kills. Kirkwood had just four attacking errors for a .465 hitting percentage. +Read More
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - No. 14 Duke closed out the USC Classic with a 3-0 (30-23, 30-28, 30-21) sweep over Cal State Northridge Saturday evening in the Galen Center. Senior libero Jenny Shull and middle blocker Carrie DeMange were all named to the all-tournament team. Shull totaled 53 digs over the three-game spread while DeMange racked up 47 kills. Sophomore outside hitter Rachael Moss was also dominant at the tournament, recording two double-doubles that included 33 kills and 32 digs. +Read More
Texas-Arlington 3, Miami 2 MILWAUKEE, Wis. - The Miami volleyball team split two matches Saturday on the final day of the Marquette Kick-Off Tournament at the Al McGuire Center, losing to UT Arlington, 3-2, before rebounding to shutout Oakland, 3-0, later in the afternoon. In the Hurricanes' second match of the day, Ashley Woods and Bridget Bomhack led the team with 12 and 11 kills respectively as UM (3-3) won 30-15, 30-21 and 30-27. Katie Gallagher collected 25 assists and 13 digs, Cassie Loessberg led all `Canes with 18 digs and Ciara Michel finished with four block assists. +Read More
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Coming off its first loss of the season, the Florida State volleyball dominated the court against Big 12 opponent Kansas winning three games to one. The match brings the Seminoles to 3-1 on the season while the Jayhawks drop to 2-3. Game four proved to be the most intense of the afternoon as the Florida State went on a 12-point streak that included six Aces by junior Mira Djuric (Belgrade, Serbia). Djuric posted nine kills with 18 points. The match point came off another Ace by senior co-captain Summer Weissing (Boca Raton, Fla.) who had 13 digs and contributed two points. +Read More
Michigan State 3, Florida State 0 EAST LANSING, Mich. - With a tournament record of 1-1 at the Spartan Invitational, the Florida State volleyball team fell 3-0 in its final match against Michigan State on Saturday, Sept. 1. The Seminoles, who won the FSU Invitational last weekend, were unable to pull off a repeat this weekend to the Spartans who have gone undefeated in its home tournament for seven consecutive seasons. The last meeting between these teams was on Sept. 6, 1986, at the UCF Classic when Michigan State defeated FSU in another 3-0 match. +Read More
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The North Carolina volleyball team was within one game of claiming an upset over #17 Purdue at the Mortar Board Premier in West Lafayette, Ind. on Saturday as the Tar Heels held a 2-1 lead over the host Boilermakers before Purdue answered by taking the final two games for the 3-2 win. UNC will take on Dayton at 5 p.m. to wrap up the Mortar Board Premier. Games one and two were back and forth affairs as each team was able to claim a 30-28 victory. Purdue took game one by the two-point margin as neither team could pull away. The score was tied 15 times, including at 25-25, 26-26, 27-27 and 28-28 before Purdue tallied the final two points for the win. UNC picked up 15 kills in the game to go along with five blocks but were unable to take the opening game. +Read More
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The North Carolina volleyball team lost its second consecutive five game match Saturday evening in West Lafayette, Ind. falling to eventual tournament champion Dayton. Christine Vaughen picked up all-tournament honors on the weekend for the Tar Heels who will return home for the Carolina Volleyball Classic on September 7 & 8 against American, Villanova and Western Kentucky. Carolina opened its second match of the day very similar to how it opened the first dropping the first game by a slim 30-27 margin before claiming game two, 30-19. The Tar Heels took a 15-13 lead midway through game one but could not lengthen their lead past two as Dayton evened the tally at 18-18 before taking a lead and never looking back for the three point victory. +Read More
Georgia Southern 3, NC State 1 GAINESVILLE, Fla. - NC State ended its stay at the Campus USA Credit Union Invitational with a 3-1 (30-24, 25-30, 30-25, 30-19) loss to Georgia Southern on Saturday, Sept. 1, in Gainesville, Fla. In defeat the Pack moves to 3-4 on the year, while GSU improves to 3-4. Megan Rehmer led the Wolfpack with 14 kills, while Janay Yancey added nine and two service aces. Alex Smith and Chrissy Zirpolo each collected 11 digs, and Smith also recorded 41 assists. +Read More
Miami (Ohio) 3, Wake Forest 2 OXFORD, Ohio - Wake Forest dropped a pair of matches to Miami (Ohio) and Michigan Saturday afternoon to finish the weekend 0-3 at the Best Western/Sycamore Inn Classic. The Demon Deacons fell in five games to Miami and in three to No. 20-ranked Michigan. In Wake's first match of the day, the host RedHawks edged out the Deacons 28-30, 30-20, 30-24, 28-30, 15-11. Junior Jessica Furlong posted her second double-double of the weekend with 24 kills and 14 digs. Furlong also added three block assists. Sophomore Sara Uniacke led the Deacs with 15 digs, while classmate Abby Miller turned in 13 digs. +Read More
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