Jacket VB Crushes Aggies on Senior Night (10/20/06)
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BILLINGS, MT – The Montana
State-Billings volleyball needed just 55 minutes Friday night to
wrap up a three-game sweep of visiting Oklahoma Panhandle State
on Senior Night at Alterowitz Gym. The Yellowjackets remained
perfect in the Heartland Conference at 7-0 and pushed their
overall record to 20-4. The Aggies fell to 0-5 in the
conference and 2-26 overall.
The Yellowjackets overwhelmed
the Aggies from the start and never trailed in the match,
winning 30-10, 30-14, 30-13. MSUB had a blistering .400 team
attack percentage for the match, including percentages above
.500 in the first and third games. The Aggies, meanwhile, had
just one player with a positive attack percentage and hit -.087
for the night.
The Jackets’ Jessica Bratton (Casper, WY) led all players with 14 kills
on a .400 attack percentage. Alicia Cazemier (Vauxhall, AB) added 13 kills with just two
errors for a .550 attack percentage. Cazemier was also in on
four blocks. Ali Watson (Calgary, AB) added nine kills on a .400 attack percentage, and Jessica Lechner (Pompeys Pillar, MT) finished with eight kills on a .583 percentage. In all,
eight different Yellowjackets recorded kills in the match.
Natalie
Bills (Provo, UT) handed out 41 assists to go with seven
digs. Watson, Alexis
Sandru (Twin Bridges, MT) and Nicole
Kruse (Huntley, MT) each had nine digs apiece. Taylor
Faught (Billings, MT) punched in four of the Jackets’ 13
service aces. Bills had three aces, and Kruse and Jill
Trabing (Buffalo, WY) each had two.
The Aggies were led by four
kills from Amber McKinney. Cheryl Coldwell had 13 digs to lead
the OPSU defense. Alisa Byers had three solo blocks.
The Yellowjackets and Aggies
will meet again at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday in MSUB’s final home
match of the regular season. They will close out the season
with two matches at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX,
next weekend before hosting the Heartland Conference
Championship Tournament at Alterowitz Gym on November 3 and 4. |
