 Blue
Hen Volleyball Sweeps Hofstra, 3-0, To
Advance To CAA Tournament
Championship
TOWSON, MD
(November 20, 2004) -- Blue Hen senior
Sarah Engle (Yorba Linda, VA/Esperanza)
-at right- recorded a team-high 17 kills
and hit .438 for the match to lead the
University of Delaware volleyball team to
a 3-0 win over Hofstra Saturday night in
the Colonial Athletic Association
Tournament Semifinals at the Towson
Center.
Delaware,
which won by game scores of 30-21, 30-25,
and 31-29 to improve to 23-8 this year,
advances to Sunday's 5 p.m. championship
match, when the Blue Hens will face
top-seed and league regular season
champion Towson. The Tigers won both
regular season meetings between the two
teams by scores of 3-0 and 3-1.
Delaware,
the third seed in the tournament, will be
making its first appearance in a league
tournament final since the Blue Hens fell
to Hofstra in the 1995 North Atlantic
Conference championship. UD has never
appeared in the NCAA Touranment, also
falling in the NAC final in 1993 and in
the East Coast Conference final in 1989,
1987, and 1982.
Sophomore
Claire McCormack (Downers Grove,
IL/Downers Grove South) helped lead the
Blue Hens into the championship by posting
a double-double with 10 kills and 12 digs,
while junior Niecy Taylor (Albuquerque,
NM/Cibola) added nine kills while hitting
.438 for the match. Freshman Allison Lutz
(Burnsville, MN/Burnsville) notched 45
assists, while sophomore Heather Ranck
(Chambersburg, PA/Chambersburg) and senior
Taylor Govaars (Balboa, CA/Newport Harbor)
each had 11 digs.
Senior
Valerie Murphy (Round Hill, VA/Loudoun
Valley) added eight kills and five blocks
for the Blue Hens, who have qualified for
the CAA Tournament in three of their first
four years in the league.
Delaware
jumped out to an 18-8 lead in the first
game and cruised from there, and did not
trail in the second after breaking an 8-8
tie. Hofstra scored five straight points t
take a 25-20 lead in game three, but the
Blue Hens rallied to tie the game at 29-29
and won the next two points to put the
match away.
The
second-seeded Pride, which ended its
season at 19-10, was led by Tessa Sphar
with 10 kills, while Shellane Ogoshi added
team-highs of 36 assists and 17
digs.
Towson,
which is undefeated at home this season
and has only lost one game at the Towson
Center all season - to the Blue Hens in
the teams' regular season meeting last
week - advanced to the championship with a
3-0 victory over fourth-seeded George
Mason in the other semifinal. The Tigers
defeated the Patriots by game scores of
30-19, 30-28, and 30-26.
AGATE:
Volleyball Box Score
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Volleyball Box Score
2004 Delaware Volleyball
Delaware vs Hofstra (Nov 20, 2004 at Towson,MD)
Delaware | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN
## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS
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1 Lutz, Allison....... 3| 1 2 3 -.333| 45| 1 0| 0| 7| 0 3 0| 0| 3.5
4 Walsh, Colleen...... 3| 9 2 26 .269| 1| 0 0| 0| 5| 1 2 0| 0| 11.0
6 Govaars, Taylor..... 3| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 1 0| 0| 11| 0 0 0| 0| 1.0
7 Stuka, Nicole....... 1| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0
8 Murphy, Valerie..... 3| 8 3 26 .192| 1| 0 0| 0| 2| 1 4 0| 0| 11.0
10 Engle, Sarah........ 3| 17 3 32 .438| 0| 0 2| 1| 6| 0 1 0| 0| 17.5
12 Taylor, Niecy....... 3| 9 2 16 .438| 1| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 2 0| 0| 10.0
16 Ranck, Heather...... 3| 0 1 1-1.000| 0| 2 1| 0| 11| 0 0 0| 0| 2.0
17 McCormack, Claire... 3| 10 6 25 .160| 1| 1 2| 0| 12| 0 0 0| 0| 11.0
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Totals.............. 3| 54 19 129 .271| 49| 5 5| 1| 55| 2 12 0| 0| 67.0
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 8.0
Game K E TA Pct
1 20 4 37 .432 GAME SCORES 1 2 3 TEAM RECORDS
2 17 7 46 .217 Delaware............ (3) 30 30 31 23-8
3 17 8 46 .196 Hofstra............. (0) 21 25 29 19-10
Hofstra | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN
## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS
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2 Durakis, Catherine.. 3| 0 1 1-1.000| 0| 0 0| 0| 8| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0
3 Beyersdorff, Amanda. 1| 0 2 2-1.000| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 1 0| 0| 0.5
4 Ogoshi, Shellane.... 3| 4 1 12 .250| 36| 0 0| 0| 17| 0 0 0| 0| 4.0
5 Sphar, Tessa........ 3| 10 5 31 .161| 1| 0 1| 3| 5| 0 0 0| 0| 10.0
6 Smith, Nicole....... 3| 4 4 14 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 1 1 1| 0| 5.5
7 Rivera, Beverly..... 3| 7 2 17 .294| 0| 0 0| 1| 3| 0 1 0| 0| 7.5
9 Levy, Jessica....... 1| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0
11 Schaefer, Dana...... 2| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 1 0| 0| 1| 0 0 0| 0| 1.0
12 Tatar, Julie........ 3| 7 3 23 .174| 3| 0 1| 1| 6| 1 0 0| 0| 8.0
15 Silva, Talita....... 2| 6 3 16 .188| 0| 0 2| 0| 4| 0 1 0| 0| 6.5
17 Curley, Elizabeth... 3| 6 3 22 .136| 0| 0 1| 0| 2| 1 0 0| 0| 7.0
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Totals.............. 3| 44 24 138 .145| 40| 1 5| 5| 48| 3 4 1| 0| 50.0
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 5.0
Game K E TA Pct
1 13 5 34 .235 Site: Towson,MD (Towson Center)
2 14 9 51 .098 Date: Nov 20, 2004 Attend: 425 Time: 1:27
3 17 10 53 .132 Referees: Terri Looney, Steve Burnsky
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