Women's Volleyball Weekly Release #11

Oct. 30, 2006

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Offensive Player of the Week

Cheryl Hegemann

UW-Milwaukee

Senior, Middle Blocker, Waterford, Wis.

Hegemann was the offensive spark the Panthers were looking for in their three-game sweep at UW-Green Bay Friday night. Hegemann led the way with 16 kills while hitting a season-best .424 for the match. She also added seven digs and three blocks.

Defensive Player of the Week

Ann Deelo

Loyola

Senior, Libero, St. Louis, Mo.

Deelo continues to set new standards for future Loyola back-row players, reaching the 500-digs mark for the season with 20 digs apiece in wins over Youngstown State and Cleveland State. Deelo already holds the top three spots on Loyola's single-season digs chart and is the Ramblers' career digs leader. Shehas recorded 20 or more digs in 12 of Loyola's 26 matches this season and continues to lead the Horizon League in digs with 5.00 dpg.

Other Top Performances for the Week

Leanne Felsing

UW-Milwaukee

Jr., Setter/Outside Hitter, Germantown, Wis.

Felsing was particularly strong on defense in posting another strong all-around effort for the Panthers. She collected 19 digs in a three-game win at UW-Green Bay, averaging 6.33 digs per game. She also added three kills, 26 assists and two blocks. Her defense was part of another strong effort by the Panthers, who limited UW-Green Bay to a .099 hitting percentage.

Krystal Hendrix

Butler

Sr., Middle Blocker, Salt Lake City, Utah

Hendrix was the Bulldogs top scorer last weekend, hitting .226 (9-2-31) against IPFW on Thursday before posting a career-high 23 kills against Wright State on Friday while recording a .271 attack percentage (23-7-59). She also added four service aces for the week, including three against the Mastodons.

Katarina Nedeljkovic

UIC

Jr., Right Side, Kragujevac, Serbia

In a 1-1 week, Nedeljkovic paced the Flames, recording a team-high 31 kills and seven service aces. She averaged 4.43 kills per game and one service ace per game against Cleveland State and Youngstown State.

Despite a four-game loss to Cleveland State on Friday, Nedeljkovic recorded her 13th double-double with a team-high 16 kills and 13 digs. In a sweep over Youngstown State the following day, Nedeljkovic led the Flames with 15 kills, totaled seven digs and picked up a season-high six service aces against the Penguins.

Liz Fazio

Cleveland State

Fr., Outside Hitter, Akron, Ohio

Fazio had a pair of outstanding performances for the Vikings en route to averaging 4.44 kills per game on the week. On Friday in a four-game win at UIC, she tallied a match-high 17 kills, an ace and six digs. In the fourth game, she had seven kills on 13 swings without an error. The next day at Loyola, she once again led all players with 23 kills, while adding seven digs.

Kaitlin O'Hara

Youngstown State

Fr., Middle Blocker, Canandaigua, N.Y.

After sitting out a few weeks nursing a shoulder injury, O'Hara came back strong for the Penguins, averaging 2.29 kills, 2.79 points and 0.86 blocks per game. Against both Loyola and UIC, O'Hara pounded eight kills. She also netted three blocks in each match against the Ramblers and Flames

Keily Zins

Loyola

Jr., Outside Hitter, Barrington, Ill.

Zins finished with 29 kills (3.22 kils per game) and 29 digs (3.22 digs per game) as Loyola picked up a pair of key Horizon League wins over Cleveland State and Youngstown State over the weekend. Zins opened the weekend with 12 kills and seven digs in a win over Youngstown State before turning in a sterling performance on Saturday against Cleveland State. Her all-around game was on display against the Vikings, as she totaled a team-high 17 kills and a match-best 22 digs to lead the Ramblers to a vital five-game win.

Alisha Kimbro

Wright State

Jr., Outside Hitter, Lisle, Ill.

Kimbro collected 19 digs and seven block assists as the Raiders won in five games at Butler. She also had 14 kills and two aces against the Bulldogs.

News From Around the League

UW-Milwaukee (17-5, 9-1 HL)

Senior Cheryl Hegemann is nearing a number of career milestones. She is just six kills shy of 1,000 for her career and just 10 blocks shy of moving into the top spot in school history for career blocks.

UWM finished the month of October with an 8-1 mark and has now gone 84-7 in October over the last 10 seasons. The Panthers have continued their strong play away from home this season. UWM has now won 29 of its last 33 Horizon League regular-season road matches and the Panthers are 9-4 on the road overall this season.

Loyola (13-13, 6-5 HL)

Senior libero Ann Deelo extended her single-season school record for digs, reaching exactly 500 digs on the nose after digging 20 balls in the win over Cleveland State on Saturday. She currently sits 57 digs behind Megan Knightly's (Butler 2002-05) Horizon League record of 1,737 career digs.

Wright State (13-12, 7-3 HL)

With the win at Butler Friday, the Raiders surpassed their entire win total of 2005. The 13 wins are the most since WSU went 16-13 in 2003. The victory moved Wright State over the .500 mark for the first time this season and for the first time since the end of that 2003 campaign. The decision also gave WSU seven wins in the Horizon League, marking just the third time that the Raiders have won more than six League contests since joining the circuit in 1994 (9-5 in 1995, 11-3 in 2001).

The Raiders recorded 12 blocks in the road win against Butler, stretching their double-figure block streak to three. WSU has had 11 double-figure block matches overall this season, five of those coming in Horizon League play.

After a light schedule last week, Wright State has three matches on the slate this week as the Raiders host IPFW in the final non-League match of the year on Tuesday followed by trips to Cleveland State on Friday and Youngstown State on Saturday.

Cleveland State (16-7, 6-5 HL)

Cleveland State returns home for a pair of matches on the next-to-last weekend of the regular season. The Vikings will face Wright State on Friday (Nov. 3) at 7:00 p.m. followed by a 4:00 p.m. Alumni Day affair with Butler the next afternoon.

The Vikings, who have earned a split in each of the five League weekends featuring a pair of matches, currently stand in a tie for fourth with Loyola. CSU is 9-1 on Fridays this season.

With 33 digs last week, sophomore libero Jordan Bateman improved her team-best total to 355. In her first year as a starter, she is 29 digs away from moving into the top 10 on the CSU single- season charts.

UIC (15-13, 8-3 HL)

UIC posted a 1-1 week at home versus Cleveland State and Youngstown State. The Flames fell in four games to the Vikings on Friday followed by an impressive sweep over the Penguins on Saturday.

Junior Katarina Nedeljkovic paced UIC on offense, averaging 4.43 kills per game in two matches. Senior Katie Kozak owned a team-high .391 attack percentage with 83 assists and 21 digs. Senior Maura McCarthy recorded her first double-double of the season versus YSU with ten kills and 13 digs.

Senior Ambria Springer guided UIC at the net with nine blocks and junior Amanda Kenny provided a steady outing in two matches with 24 kills, 16 digs and three blocks.

The Flames take their final three regular season matches on the road, tangling with UW-Milwaukee on Nov. 3 and UW-Green Bay on Nov. 4. UIC then wraps up the schedule across town against League foe Loyola on Nov. 9.

Butler (7-18, 2-8 HL)

The 2006 Bulldogs climbed into the record books with their blocking performance against Wright State on Friday, totaling 367 this season for the 10th-highest single season mark in school history.

Senior Krystal Hendrix touts 397 career block assists and stands just 16 block assists away from reaching Amy Pickett's  Butler career record of 413.

Sophomore libero Nina Inic continues to be one of the top defensive players In the Horizon League, leading the Bulldogs with 312 digs overall and 209 in conference play.

UW-Green Bay (10-14, 4-6 HL)

Phoenix senior Sarah Rauen enters play this weekend with a shot at becoming UW-Green Bay's career leader in digs. Rauen comes into Friday's match against Loyola with 1,406 career digs, just 29 shy of the school record of 1,435 held by Janelle Tomlinson (2000-03).

UW-Green Bay will be out to snap a four-match skid as it closes out its home season this Friday and Saturday when it takes on Loyola and UIC, respectively. Saturday afternoon's match against the Flames will also be Senior Day as the team will honor Sarah Rauen.

With a pair of wins this weekend, the Phoenix can match the 2005 team's total of eight home wins, a mark that ranks second in the program's Division I history.

Youngstown State (9-19, 0-11 HL)

With six blocks over the weekend, Ruth Boscaljon moved into 10th place on the single-season top-10 blocks chart. She currently has 118 total blocks and passed Dina Hartman (1989) with 117. Sophomore Karla Everhart needs 29 more assists to reach the 1,000 assist mark for the season. She would become the seventh player in school history to reach at least 1,000 assists in a single season. Freshman Ruth Boscaljon became the second YSU freshman in the last three years to record at least 300 kills in a season. The last to do so was Jessica Fraley with 360 in 2004.