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
MEDFORD,
Mass. -- 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 12 kills and she also added one service
ace. Sophomore Audrey Kuan's (Los Altos, CA) 16 digs were a team
high as were her two service aces. Senior co-captain Dena Feiger
(Long Grove, IL) added a match-high 39 assists, while junior Dawson
Joyce-Mendive (Minden, NV) had 11 kills.
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," Tufts coach Cora
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.