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Volleyball team gets first "W" against Bennies
By Bobby Hart
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Thursday, September 11, 2003
After sweeping St. Benedicts 30-16, 30-28, 30-20 before a crowd of 752 for its home opener at Halenbeck Hall, the Huskies found themselves with a 4-5 record. That means that in only its ninth game of the season, the SCSU Volleyball team had as many wins as it had all of last year. If that fact impresses anyone, it's not the Huskies.
"It's a completely different program and I don't like to compare what we have now to the past," said senior Cara Bartolic. "Yeah, it's great that we're improving but we have to think of ourselves as a whole new team with a whole new start."
The Huskies had a tough start in the Southwest Minnesota State Burger King Classic in Marshall, Minnesota last weekend where they were 1-3 over. SCSU dropped three games in a row to Concordia-St. Paul (30-17, 30-26, 30-23), Southwest State (30-28, 30-19, 30-24, 25-30 and 15-10), and Northern State (31-33, 30-20, 33-31 and 30-19). However, the Huskies put everything together in their last game Saturday when they beat Northwest Missouri State in three games (30-24, 30-25 and 30-11).
SCSU ran into some familiar and costly errors in their three game losing stint.
"I thought we were capable of winning all the games but we didn't because of some of the errors we're making," said senior captain Kari Turkowski. "We have to learn how to finish a game. We took SW State to five games and then we gave up seven points right off the bat in the fifth game. That costed us our first game on Friday and our last game on Saturday. We need to make sure that we have a tough block so our defense isn't running around so much. "
The Huskies did find some bright spots over the weekend such as Turkowski's outstanding performance that included a hat trick of triple-doubles, 55 kills, 141 sets, and 54 digs. Jane Backes also recorded 49 kills for SCSU. "Our intensity level was a vast improvement and I thought we played better as a team," Bartolic said. "We really came out and figured things out in our last match and looked at it and said 'okay this is how you play.'"
In that win over Northwest State the Huskies hit a season high .339. Turkowski recorded 11 kills, 32 sets, and 13 digs. Leah Herrboldt delivered a team-high 15 digs, and Backes had another huge offensive game with 17 kills. The Huskies followed up the weekend's high note with another impressive performance over St. Benedicts Tuesday where they hit .257 in their first home game.
Now that the Huskies have their second two-game win streak of the season, things seem to be coming together slowly but surely.
"This is my last year and I know we want to change things around right away, but of course we know it's going to take some time," Bartolic said. "The games we lost were really close and you can't complain about the effort. If you look at our scores, a lot of them went to five games and were around 30. So that's decent volleyball."
The Huskies will play in the NCC/NSIC Crossover Tournament this weekend in Omaha Nebraska.
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