COLLEGE
VOLLEYBALL FINAL SCORE
2009 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship - Tufts
Regional
Tufts 3, Maine Maritime 0 (25-14, 25-10, 25-16)
At Medford, MA
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Match
Statistics
MEDFORD -- The top-seed Tufts University Jumbos dispatched of
the Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 3-0 (25-14, 25-10, 25-16) to
win in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Division III Women's
Volleyball Championship on Thursday evening at their own Cousens
Gymnasium.
Maine Maritime battled hard in the first set and kept it close.
In fact, the Mariners held a lead at 11-10 before the Jumbos began
to assert their dominance. Tufts would tally 15 of the final 20
points en route to a 25-14 first set win.
Tufts would jump out to a 10-1 advantage in the second set as
Maine Maritime was no match for them. Once the Jumbos went up by
ten points at 12-2, the lead would never drop back down into single
digits as Tufts won by a set-high margin of 15 points, 25-10.
The Mariners were able to hang around in the third set as there
were two ties at 1-1 and 5-5. The Jumbos would use a run in which
they scored ten of 11 points to gain a nine-point advantage at
15-6. The final margin of victory in the third set would be nine as
well with Tufts sweeping the match, 25-16.
Junior Caitlin Updike (Manhattan Beach, CA) led
the way for the Jumbos (29-4) with a match-high 11 kills and she
also added one service ace. Sophomore Audrey Kuan's (Los
Altos, CA) 13 digs tied for the team high and she led the
Jumbos with two service aces. Senior co-captain Dena Feiger
(Long Grove, IL) added a match-high 40 assists, while
junior Dawson Joyce-Mendive (Minden, NV) had 10
kills. The Jumbos are now 4-3 overall in NCAA Tournament play,
including 4-2 in three appearances under Coach Cora Thompson.
Eleven kills by sophomore Chelsea Ward (Homer, AK) led the way
for the Mariners (22-6), and sophomore Lauren Sakahara (Bellevue,
WA) tallied a match-high 17 digs. First-year Jennifer Dixon
(Woodstock, MD) chipped in with 16 assists and one service ace.
Senior Amy Young (Cumberland, ME) recorded two services aces and
seven digs.
"We wanted to serve tough and do the little things right on our
side no matter what was happening on the other side," Coach
Thompson said. "We really worked hard to force the tempo on our
side of the net in terms of getting our middles established and
having our outside hitters and our right sides running some faster
tempo sets. I think we needed to pass well and play great defense
and that's what we did. We stayed solid on our side and that's
important."
The Jumbos will play Wellesley in the New England Regional
semifinals of the 2009 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball
Championship on Friday evening at 7 pm.
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