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INDIANAPOLIS – After a 0-4 start the Summit League play, the IUPUI volleyball team has reeled off four consecutive league wins and it will be in search for its fifth straight win on Tuesday, Oct. 11, when it hosts Oakland at 7 p.m. at The Jungle for its ‘Pack the House’ Night.
LAST TIME OUT
Behind a strong defensive effort and timely kills, IUPUI downed Western Illinois, 3-0, on Oct. 8, to pick up its fourth consecutive win. The victory evened the Jaguars conference record at 4-4 after starting conference play at 0-4.
The Jags hurt themselves early in set one with a host of errors, but the group slowly chipped away at its deficit until a
Shari Bernhardt ace and a solo block and kill from
Moriah Fair evened things at 22. From that point, two more Fair kills and kill by
Bethany Fogler capped off the comeback giving IUPUI the 25-22 opening-set win.
A tight second-set ensued that saw IUPUI eke out a 25-23 win to take a 2-0 lead, before a decisive 25-20 third-set victory closed out the Leathernecks.
Kelsey Hoefer led all players with 14 kills, while
Kalyse Reimbold added 13 kills en route to hitting .323. Defensively, the Jaguars tallied 64 digs highlighted by a career-high 19 digs from Fair in addition to 17 digs from Bernhardt.
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IUPUI LEADERS
SCOUTING THE GOLDEN GRIZZLIES
Oakland enters the mid-point of the conference season with an 11-7 overall record and a 5-3 conference mark following a pair of wins over UMKC and South Dakota last weekend.
Meghan Bray leads the Golden Grizzlies offensive attack averaging 3.80 kills per set and as a unit, Oakland is one of the more efficient hitting squads in the league posting a .212 team hitting percentage.
Alli Kirk anchors the back row defense averaging 4.90 digs per set, while the duo of Jessica Lange and Brittany Holbrook average 0.93 and 0.92 bps, respectively, giving OU one of the top blocking duos in the conference.
STATISTICAL COMPARISON
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Oakland (11-7; 5-3 SL) |
Category |
IUPUI (9-10; 4-4 SL) |
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13.05 |
Kills Per Set |
11.75 |
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.212 |
Hitting Percentage |
.175 |
|
12.11 |
Assists Per Set |
10.87 |
|
1.08 |
Service Aces Per Set |
1.19 |
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17.08 |
Digs Per Set |
16.22 |
|
1.93 |
Blocks Per Set |
2.30 |
|
8.77 |
Total Errors Per Set |
8.36 |
ODDS AND ENDS
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Kalyse Reimbold is approaching the No. 2 spot on IUPUI’s all-time kills chart. She needs 100 kills to pass Marcy Bixler for second in program history.
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Shari Bernhardt is approaching IUPUI’s all-time digs record. She needs 216 more digs to break Erin Jones’ record of 2,067 career digs.
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Bethany Fogler needs one solo blocks to move into the Top 10 on the IUPUI single-season solo blocks chart. Fogler needs just two block assists and three total blocks to break into the Top 10 on both respective charts.
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The Jaguars recently announced that their annual Dig Pink game will be on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in The Jungle against South Dakota State. This year, the Dig Pink has extra meaning for the IUPUI volleyball family as former player Jen (Mertz) Will was diagnosed with breast cancer in April, 2011 (read story here).
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The volleyball team has teamed up with the Side Out Foundation in efforts to help reach their fundraising goal for the event. Fans looking to help the Jaguars reach their donation goal can do so by clicking here.
