Bills Leads Five Yellowjackets in NCAA Volleyball Stats Rankings (Sept. 13, 2004)

BILLINGS, MT – Sophomore setter Natalie Bills was ranked eighth in the nation for assists in the first NCAA II volleyball statistical rankings.  Bills (Provo, UT) averaged 13.43 assists per game in the season’s opening matches.  The rankings were based on matches played through September 5.  Bills now averages 13.61 assists per game.  The next NCAA rankings will be released on September 22.

Also ranked in the top 30 in the nation were Alicia Cazemier (Fr., MB, Vauxhall, Alberta), Jessica Bratton (So., OH, Casper, WY), Andrea Donahue (Sr., MB, Whitefish, MT) and Olivia Munro (Sr., OH, Toronto, Ontario). 

Cazemier ranked twelfth in the nation for blocks per game at 1.58.  Following last weekend’s matches, she is averaging 1.33 bpg.  Bratton ranked fourteenth for kills per game at 4.79.  She is now averaging 4.83 kpg.  Donahue ranked twenty-eighth for hitting percentage at .406.  She has improved her average to .438.  Munro ranked twenty-ninth for kills per game at 4.43.  She has also improved on that number, moving to 4.52.

As a team, the Yellowjackets (6-1) were ranked in three categories.  The were fifth for assists per game (15.5), ninth for kills per game (16.86) and twenty-second for digs per game (19.79). 

MSU Billings is back in action this Friday and Saturday when the Yellowjackets host Western New Mexico (10-3) at 7:00 p.m. each night.  Friday’s match will be the PacWest Conference season opener for each team.