UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. - The Saginaw Valley
State University volleyball team opened Great Lakes Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference (GLIAC) play Friday (9/10) with a 3-1 victory
over the visiting Michigan Tech University Huskies. The
victory puts the Cardinals at 3-2 overall on the season with a 1-0
mark in the GLIAC while the Huskies fall to 1-4 overall and 0-1 in
conference play.
The Cardinals took the first set by a score of 25-19. Tech
bounced-back strong in the second frame, gaining a 25-15 victory to
even the match at one set apiece. SVSU would then close-out
the contest, winning the last two sets by scores of 25-16 and
25-18, respectively.
The Cardinal offense had a strong showing on the night, hitting
.314 as a squad, thanks to the great setting of Chili's "Player of
the Match" Sam
Breault (Bad Axe, Mich.), who posted a career-high 52 assists
in the match, besting her previous career-high by 11. Katie
Fitzgerald (Whitby, Ont./Sinclair SS) had a huge night as well,
making good on 15-of-21 attacks for a hitting percentage of .714 on
the night. Annie Buxton
(Aurora, Ont./Aurora SS) had 16 kills, three aces, seven digs and a
pair of blocks while hitting at a .375 clip in the contest.
Jessica
Treiber (Sebewaing, Mich./USA HS) also had double-digit kills,
posting 11. Laura Ward (White
Lake, Mich./Lakeland HS) had a match-high 17 digs defensively for
the Cards, who also had 14 total blocks against the
Huskies.
SVSU returns to action tomorrow, Sep. 11, to face the Northern
Michigan University Wildcats in a 2:00 pm match-up. The last
meeting between the teams came in last year's GLIAC Semifinals,
when the Cardinals defeated the Wildcats by a score of 3-0.
Northern entered play Friday with a 4-0 overall record.
