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| 2006 Records: 3-7 MIAC, 10-18 Overall |
| Recent Results: St. Olaf 3, Saint Mary's 2 / Details U. of Dubuque Invitational Saint Mary's 3, Clarke 1 / Details St. Thomas 3, Saint Mary's 0/ Details Loras 3, Saint Mary's 0 / Details U. of Dubuque 3, Saint Mary's 0 / Details |
| Upcoming Events: Wed., Oct. 25: Gustavus at SMU, 7 p.m. |
| Cardinal News and Notes: Heading into the University of Dubuque Invitational, the Cardinals had won four of their last six matches. … SMU's back-to-back-to-back 3-0 losses last weekend was the second time the Cardinals have lost three straight 3-0 decisions and the ninth, 10th and 11th times this season they have been swept 3-0. … Molli Dant (Forest City, Iowa) collected 58 kills over the weekend and boasts a team-high 362 kills this season. … Theresa Perrini (Fairway, Kan.) picked up 81 digs at the Dubuque Invitational and is now the team's single-season dig leader with 563. … Perrini is one of seven SMU players with at least 100 digs. … Pam Stanton (Mundelein, Ill.) had 10 service aces last weekend, pushing her team-leading total to 45. … Wednesday's season final vs. Gustavus is the final collegiate match for SMU seniors Dant, Kaylene Mrozinski (North St. Paul, Minn.), Jessica Voight (Caledonia, Minn.) and Ashley Karl (Auburndale, Wis.). |
Cardinals go 1-3 at University of Dubuque Invite
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Perrini Single-season record 563 digs |
And so were the results.
Which was good news, and bad news, for the Saint Mary's University volleyball team.
The Cardinals opened the University of Dubuque Invitational last Friday with a 3-1 victory over Clarke — the second time SMU has dropped the Crusaders by a 3-1 score this season.
That was the good news.
The bad news? The second showdown against nationally ranked St. Thomas went about as good as the first, as the Tommies rolled to a 3-0 victory.
And after that up-and-down opening day during the two-day University of Dubuque Tournament, SMU coach Mike Lester was hoping for more up than down during his team's Day 2 matches against Loras and Dubuque.
Unfortunately, the Cardinals got things turned around in dropping a pair of 3-0 decisions to finish the tourney with a 1-3 record.,
"it was really an up-and-down weekend," said Lester, whose team closes out its season on Wednesday, playing host to Gustavus in a 7 p.m. conference match. "I thought we started the weekend out really strong (in the 3-1 win over Clarke), but then we ran into three very tough teams and just couldn't get it going."
After opening with that convincing 3-1 win over Clarke, the Cardinals struggled in back-to-back 3-0 losses to St. Thomas and Loras, while their 3-0, tournament-ending setback vs. Dubuque was much closer than the final score indicated.
"We had our chances in that final match, we just couldn't finish the job," said Lester, whose team led Dubuque 25-24 in all three games, only to come up empty each time. "That's been a problem for us all year — we've hung right with most teams, but right around the 20-point mark, we just seem to fall apart.
"This was a tough tournament, we faced some very good teams," added Lester, whose team fell to 10-18 overall. "We got some solid individual efforts, and in spurts, we played well as a team. We just didn't put it all together at the same time."