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Show SU spikers seek title V The team was without the services of regular Gloria Grover, a 5-10 sophomore setter-hitter, who injured a knee in a motorbike accident. Grover probably won't play either non-conference non-conference game, but could be ready for the KM AC title match or the NAIA District Seven championships November Nov-ember 6 and 7, -?r. . "We missed her some, but I'm pleased with the way we made the necessary adjustments and won anyways Part of our success was because of the superb blocking of Lori McCurdy," Peterson says. - , - Statistically, SUSC is beating opponents par- , . ticularly in attacking and blocking. The T-Birds average over 40 blocks per match, while opponents op-ponents average about 10 less per match. SUSC attacks with 88.9 percent efficiency and has a kill percentage of 29.0 CEDAR CITY - The women of the Southern Utah State College volleyball team will use a pair ol games in the next seven days to tune-up for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship match November 5. The lady Thunderbirds will host Ricks College Thursday at 7 p.m. in VY a r Memorial Fieldhouse. Monday, the Birds will seek a little revenge when Northern Arizona comes to town for a 3:30 p.m. match. "These two games will give us a good opportunity op-portunity to work out any kinks we have left in our game," Joy Peterson, SUSC coach, says. "Both of them are good volleyball teams and will provide very good competition for us as we Drei)are for the con- complex will be constructed near the new K-Mart site and should be opened soon after the first of the year. Some of the people involved in bringing the Court Club, a raquetball and health club, to Cedar City prepare to break ground for the facility. The fercnce title match, which will probably pit us against Regis College." Peterson is pleased with the team's performances per-formances last week at Grand Junction and Gunnison. Colorado, when the 'Birds wrapped up their fourth consecutive con-secutive Western Division RMAC championship cham-pionship and earned the right to host the Eastern Division champ in the November 5 playoff. "We played together very well Saturday when we beat Regis, a team which had beaten us just the day before, and then turned around to whip Western State, a vastly improved team, for the division title," Peterson smiles. |