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Show EDITOR BACK PACE r' Thursday, October 21, 2010 rzri U I , U tips. ivjvL i By JEHNA VOGT jvogtsuunews com The SUU volleyball team, which took the lead within The Summit League last week, ventured out of conference to battle Utah Valley, but lost in five sets trailed throughout The the first set until a kill by freshman outsiJe hitter Kylie Schofield put SUl1 on track and pulled them ahead late in the set w hich led will; a score of 3-- 2. 21-2- ; i n r?.T n' l i to a Wolverine timeout. scored three Utah Valley sti night points after its timeout and bounced back till SUU countered with a timeout and came back and tied the it r t i- - Carter Williams. 23-2- The teams swapped points until SUU wrapped up the set and shut down the Wolverines Utah Valley then got off to a quick start in the second set and pulled ahead quickly with the score of 27-2- 7-- 2. SUU began to close the gap to but the the couldn't stop them a 19-1- Wolverines momentum and they took the win with a score of SUU started out the third set strong, jumping ahead of the Wolverines with a score of ! f l nn. 'a,i lead heading into the fourth set. SUU was able to keep the lead throughout the fourth set until Utah Valley was able to catch up late in the set by 20-2w hich ty ing it up timeout. a led to 2-- 1 5 W 25-1- Wolverine's The came back after the Pelaez timeout and clinched the fourth set 29-2- 7 and tied the game 9-- The kept the drive and took the third 7 set with a score of and gained another point 25-1- 2-- I f 1 l 586-548- 8 nn H rF:, i t j ;,- - ! ; t Li t U oQaOuD ; kansas City. UMKC is ranked No.7 in the Summit League Conference and has two players, junior Demetria Williams and junior Christiana McQuin. ranked in the top two of the four leaders in the most average blocks in a game in the conference. hitter outside Sophomore UMKC's record is 7 in the Analaine Pelaez led SUU with conference and its last match up 23 kills. 19 digs and a hitting against the resulted in a loss in a game. percentage of .206. SUU was ahead in the fust part of the fifth match until Utah Valley gained momentum and to w in clinched the fifth set the game the onthit The Wolverines .177-- . 161 in attacking percentage during the game. 19-1- 7 2. 4-- et will On Friday, the take on University of Missouri- - The first serve is set to start at 7 p.m. inside the Centrum Arena. SUU travels east, searchi ng for wins are, he said. We know that and our players know that, but cwilliamssuunews.com now we have to go out there and show it again. ALer a heartbreaking pair of With four games left on the losses to South Dakota State are not the schedule, the and North Dakota State, from eliminated postseason soccer team will travel even with just three to Oral Rooerts and Centenary play has the possibility SUU points. this week for a pivotal series 12 points in the to score within The Summit League. Despite playing well in each standings. SDSU and Western Oakland, home matchup last week, Illinois currently lead the SDSU walked away with a 3 with 13 points, while victory Thursday and NDSU standings in double Indiana defeated SUU has control of the fourth spot overtime. Its really hard (to lose both with 12 points. The top-fo-make schools games) because we all played Summit League really well, junior midfielder the postseason. Brinkman said the team is Elyse Alexander said. I think we all felt like we had the last aware that the games are the most important theyve played tw o games for sure. She said the pair of defeats this season. I think it's crucial for us now makes the team's trip to Oral Roberts and Centenary to come out and be ready to she said. even more important. play, These are ' qmi (This week) is 1 games in important really CCCEH order to make the because we have to sjp tournament. win the rest of our Stock said the team needs to games to even have focus on one game at a time, a shot (for the postseason), Alexander said. starting with Oral Roberts SUU remains at three points Friday. There's 12 points for us to be in the conference standings, conference record. had, but the only way to earn with a four those are three (points) at a Three of the conference losses have been time, he said. Youre only as games, while all four have good as the game in hand, so we have to come out and be ready been decided by just one goal. we have to battle like to play forward Stacey Sophomore Brinkman said that the losses crazy on the road. Stock said he didn't feel like dont show how well the team is playing and the results dont his team needed to do anything match to how hard the team has different this week to win games. He said they were going played in games. It's hard to practice as hard to run the same game plan they as we do and work that hard always run. Were not sitting here in a game and not have it go our way, she said. It just saying we have to (devise) a sucks because we work so hard completely new game plan, Stock said. We have to get the and we should win games especially when were better ball to our dangerous players, than most of the teams were we have to allow them to create (plays) and we have to playing talent-wisStock said his players know take advantage of our (scoring how good they are as a team opportunities). First kick against Oral Roberts this season and that they have the ability to show the other is slated for 7 p.m. Central teams in the conference this Friday in Tulsa, Okla., while week. opening kick at Centenary is We have to prove to ourselves scheduled for noon Central in again how good of a team we Shreveport. La. By CARTER WILLIAMS 4-- Purdue-Indianapol- is have-to-w- in V e. . UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, ASHER SWAN A Sophomore wide receiver Justin Brown leaps over junior defensive back Marlon Hogains to haul in a pass during Tuesdays practice at the football teams practice field. SUUs football team will host South Dakota this week itr hopes of improving to 0 in the Great West Conference.; Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m. at Eccles Coliseum. 3-- Football team looks to remain unbeaten in conference play; By BROOKE CERSOSIMO bcersosimosuunews.com football team will host the The South Dakota Coyotes, another Great West Conference rival. Saturday at p m. in Eccles Coliseum. 4 The Coyotes are coming off of a loss to No. 22 Northern Iowa. USD had the early lead before UNI scored 3 unanswered points in the second half to secure the win. The Coyotes moved to 4 and remained at in conference play. Lart weekend. SUU defeated then-N13 Cal Poly Mustangs 20-breaking a nine game losing streak and winning its homecoming game. The win dropped the Mustangs to No. 21 in the FCS poll The gained 346 total yards on offense, and the defense shut down the option offense of Cal Poly. SUU is now 4 this season and 0 in Great West 1 19-1- 3-- . Junior midfielder Elyse Alexander dribbles the bail during Mondays practice at Thunderbird Soccer Field. SUU travels to ORU and Centenary this week. 3-- 2-- Conference games. Football head coach Ed Lamb said he was pleased with the way the defense handled the tricky Mustang offense. If you try to make a play that's really not yours to make, the option offense will find that weakness." Lamb said. I thought our defensive guys did a great job taking care of their particular assignments and trusting the guy next to them. It w'as just a total team effort. The Coyotes have dominated SUU in the past two meetings. Last year USD beat the in 2008. The 1 and again 45-2- 0 gave up over 800 rushing yards in those two games alone. Lamb said the team is aware of these statistics. SUU has not given up more than 800 rushing yards in their first seven games combined. He said the offensive attack will depend on what the USD defense brings. 45-2- We want to prepare the pass and run games efficiently, Lamb said. Then we will take a look at what their defense wants to give us, and we need to be ready to takd on w'hat they put up against us. Sophomore quarterback Brad Sorensen said the Coyotes are a talented team, but the have found their swagger these ; past few weeks. In the past. South Dakota has taken the jump on us early in the game, and w'eve; had to fight from behind, Sorensen said. We're going to try to establish the run game early, and that will set up the pass game for us. We're feeling confident going into this game, so we just need to keep moving the football like we have been the past tw'o weeks. Earlier this season, the Coyotes beat Big Ten Conference's Minnesota 8 on the road. Kickoff is set for p.m. at Eccles Coliseum. 41-31 |