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The Wichitan October 21, 2009
On Deck this week... Thursday October 22 Volleyball
Tuesday
@ Abilene Christian 7 p.m.
Friday October 23 Men’s Soccer @Eastern New Mexico Noon Women’s Soccer @ Southwestern Oklahoma 3 p.m. Saturday October 24 Cross Country @Lone Star Conference Championships (Canyon, TX) Volleyball @Angelo State 2 p.m.
Sports
Volleyball drops to 5-2 in Lone Star Conference play Kaitlin Morrison Sports Editor
Midwestern State used a very well played offensive and nearly flawless defensive game to pick up an easy Lone Star Conference win over Eastern New Mexico Thursday at D.L. Ligon Coliseum. It only took three sets, 25-14, 25-9, 25-14, for the Mustangs to improve to 9-17 on the season and 5-1 in conference play. Junior middle blocker Lauren Bayer had seven kills and helped the Mustangs to 10 total team blocks, notching four solos of her own. Six MSU players recorded multiple blocks including Sesley Graves (4), Kari Damjanovic (3), Hillary White (2), Miranda
Byrd (2) and Shelbi Stewart (2). Byrd paced the Mustangs with eight kills and three service aces while hitting .429, while Damjanovic and Graves added fives kills each. Kiara Jordan led a stellar back row performance as she finished the night with 17 digs, while White added 14 more. MSU limited Eastern New Mexico to a season-low -.010 team attack percentage as the Zias finished with only 22 kills and committed 23 attack errors in 98 total attempts, while falling to 5-17 and 0-7 on the season. It was a little different story on Saturday when the Mustangs took the court at D.L. Ligon Coliseum for the Dig Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness game against West Texas A&M.
Natalie Johnson and Melissa Harper combined for 22 kills to lift the No. 6 Lady Buffs to a 3-0 win. MSU fought back from a 14-8 deficit in the opening set to claim and 23-21 lead after forcing WT into consecutive attack errors, but the Lady Buffs responded after a timeout to close the set by taking four of the final points to claim a 25-23 win. Sophomore outside hitter Hillary White led the Mustangs attack with six kills and added 12 digs and two blocks. Freshman Shelbi Stewart added six kills as well, while Sesley Graves, Lauren Bayer and Miranda Byrd all finished with five kills. Bayer paced MSU at the net with three blocks while Kiara
Jordan led the back row efforts with 14 digs. The Mustangs dropped to 9-18 on the season and 5-2 in conference play, while West Texas A&M improved to 22-3 and 8-0 after claiming its 58th-straight win against a Lone Star Conference opponent. On Tuesday, the Mustangs traveled to Dallas to play a nonconference match against Dallas Baptist. The Patriots got the best of MSU, winning in three sets- 2513, 25-18, 25-23. Sesley Graves led the offensive attack with 10 kills. Miranda Byrd added five, while Lauren Bayer had four. Hillary White led the Mustang defense with 22 digs, while sophomore libero Kiara Jordan
finished the match with 12. Midwestern had a total of seven team blocks. Karolina Damjanovic, Bayer and Graves all had one block each. The setting duo of Dimery Michaels and Kimberly Jeffrey finished with 22 set assists. Michaels had 14, while Jeffrey had eight. The loss dropped the Mustangs to 9-19 on the season. The Mustangs hit the road for two Lone Star Conference matches. On Thursday, they will take on Abilene Christian at Moody Coliseum at 7 p.m. On Saturday they will take on Angelo State at the Junell Center at 2 p.m.
Mustangs to watch... Men’s Soccer Midwestern State moved ahead seven spots to No. 11 in the latest National Soccer Coaches’ Association of America/adidas national poll released Tuesday afternoon. Midwestern State is one of six teams in the South Central/Midwest Region to receive a national ranking joining No. 4 Fort Lewis (Colo.), No. 6 West Texas A&M, No. 16 Colorado Mines, No. 17 Truman (Mo.) and No. 25 Metro State (Colo.).
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Football vs. University of Central Oklahoma 7 p.m. Sunday October 25 Men’s Soccer @University of Central Oklahoma 1 p.m. Women’s Soccer @ West Texas A&M 3 p.m.
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Cross Country Midwestern State remained at eighth in the NCAA Division II South Central Region Tuesday afternoon when the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Association released its weekly rankings. MSU was idle last week as the Mustangs prepare to defend their Lone Star Conference championship Saturday morning in Canyon, Texas. MSU will compete in the NCAA Division II South Central Regional meet on Nov. 7 in Abilene.
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