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Volleyball: NNU's Terpstra Debuts With Triple-Double
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| Terpstra |
In the tournament's second match, Seattle Pacific swept past Chaminade, 25-18, 25-17, 25-15.
Elsewhere in the GNAC, Meg Ryan had a career-high 18 kills leading Central Washington to a 25-23, 25-16, 25-19 sweep of Humboldt State in the opening match of the Humboldt State Invitational at Arcata.
Western Oregon lost to Cal State San Bernardino, 25-18, 25-19, 25-22, in the CSU San Bernardino Invitational. Alaska Fairbanks fell victim to nationally 16th ranked Minnesota State, 25-23, 25-18, 25-19, at The Patty Center.
Terpstra, the daughter of former NNU men's basketball coach Mike Terpstra, had 11 kills, 25 assists and 10 digs.
It was the first triple-double for a GNAC volleyball athlete since SPU's Angie Wodrich had 12 kills, 15 digs and 10 blocks against UC San Diego on Aug. 24, 2007.
Joining Terpstra in double figure kills was freshman Kaitlyn Tuholski with 11 kills and Reisa Fessler with 10. Kailey Trautmann had 27 digs and Haley Abbott had nine blocks to key the Crusader defense.
Sonoma State, which was picked to finish third in the CCAA pre-season coaches poll, was led by Allyson Sather with 18 kills. Keala Peterson had 11 kills for the Seawolves.
Seattle Pacific got 12 kills from Boise State transfer Cailin Fellows in its win. Fellows hit for a .450 percentage as the Falcons outhit the Silverswords .298 to .054.
SPU was also led by Nikki Lowell with 11 kills and Lindsey Wodrich with nine. Lowell made just two errors and hit at a .643 clip. Angie Pricco led the Falcons at the net with six blocks.
Ryan had nearly half of CWU's team total of 38 kills and also nearly doubled CWU's hitting percentage of .154 swinging at a .304 clip.
Setter Carlee Marble had a double-double with 27 assists and 11 digs and also matched Cheltzie Williams for team honors with six blocks.
"Meg grinded out a ton of points for us," CWU head coach Mario Andaya said. "She showed great leadership as the match progressed.
"I'm glad to get a win under our belts with this group," Andaya said. "Defensively, we were strong, which ultimately determined the win. Offensively, we got better each set, so that was a positive."
CSU San Bernardino hit at a .301 pace in its win holding Western Oregon to a .071 percentage. Samantha Middlehorn led the Coyotes with 14 kills, while Danielle Reese had 10 for WOU.
Jill Storlie led Minnesota State to its win with 11 kills. The Nanooks, who fell to 0-5, were led by Reilly Stevens with nine kills. Jaxon Hill had five blocks for the Nanooks.
Women's Soccer: Falcons Debut With 2-1 victory
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| Jenkins |
The Falcons are now 8-1-2 all-time in season openers, including 10-0-1 on their home pitch at Interbay Stadium.
Elsewhere Thursday Northwest Nazarene blanked Eastern Oregon 4-0 and Western Oregon fell to Humboldt State 1-0 at Arcata in the head coaching debut of Steve Ancheta.
In evening matches, Western Washington earned a scoreless home draw with nationally second-ranked UC San Diego, Central Washington earned a 0-0 draw with Cal State Stanislaus and Saint Martin's lost 2-0 at Cal State L.A.
The goal by SPU's Jenkins was the finishing touch on a free kick taken by defender Andrea Chan, who earlier had scored the tying goal for the Falcons.
Chan's kick from just beyond the midfield stripe took one bounce in the penalty area in front of Chico goalkeeper Brianna Furner's 6-yard box. Jenkins went up and sent a header into the back left corner at 68:59.
Chan converted a penalty kick at 30:23 to tie the game for SPU after Chico State's Lisa Webster drilled a shot into the high right corner just 6:09 into the game to put the Wildcats on top.
Autumn Yturbe scored Northwest Nazarene's opening goal and Jenny Field added two more as the Crusaders won their home opener.
Yturbe opened the scoring in the 35th minute when her shot defected off EOU goalkeeper Chantal Schefers.
Schefers appeared to have control of the offering before the ball came off and rolled across. Julianne Steele earned an assist on the play, sending the ball up the sideline for Yturbe to finish.
Field scored her goals in the 69th and 89th minutes. Her second goal came off a deft crossing pass from Celina Mortensen.
NNU also got a goal in the 84th minute as defender Jessie Cahill took a four-yard shot just inside the right post after freshman Haley Steever served a ball up the middle.
The Crusaders outshot the Mountaineers 16-9 and held a 10-2 advantage in corner kicks. NNU goalkeeper Tanya Zickefoose recorded four saves.
Carly Kolpin's goal in the 26th minute lifted Humboldt State over Western Oregon.
Humboldt State outshot Western Oregon 10-4 in the contest as Wolf goalie Brittney Rigtrup had four saves.
Both Western Washington and Central Washington survived huge shot deficits in their contests.
The Vikings were outshot by UC San Diego 21-9 as Jamie Arthurs had eight saves to record the shutout. Triton goalkeeper Kristin Armstrong was called upon to make just one save.
UCSD also had an 11-4 advantage in corner kicks. In regulation, the CCAA squad outshot WWU 20-6. In the overtime periods, the Vikings took two of the three shots.
“I'm really proud,” said WWU coach Travis Connell . “We had a lot of injuries, some players out, others playing injured, half our team taped up, but we found a way.”
The Vikings even had the best chance of overtime. In the 101st minute, a shot by Alicia Patten deflected into the path of Emily Frankland , whose first-time strike from 10 yards grazed the outside of the right post.
“We were dangerous on the counter,” said Connell. “We gave ourselves some chances to win.”
Central Washington earned its draw despite being outshot 30-5 as Kori Butterfield had eight saves matching her career high. Corner kicks favored the Warriors by an 11-0 margin.
“Kori was amazing,” CWU head coach Michael Farrand said. “She was by far the player-of-the game for us tonight.”
Cal State L.A. got goals from Lisa Ohberg in the first period and Norie Pablo in the second period in its win as they outshot Saint Martin's 16-6. Gina Cardenas had six saves for the Saints.
Men's Soccer: SFU Opens Season With 2-0 Victory
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| Basso |
Seattle Pacific and Chico State battled to a scoreless draw in their season opener at Interbay Stadium in Seattle.
Meanwhile, Montana State Billings and Saint Martin's were both shutout as they opened their seasons on the road. The Yellowjackets lost 3-0 at Fort Lewis, while the Saints were blanked 6-0 by Cal State L.A.
Basso had an unassisted goal in the 59th minute and Hodnett completed the scoring in the 82nd minute for Simon Fraser, which outshot its Canadian opponent 24-7.
Sheldon Steenhuis was called upon to make just one save in registering the shutout.
Zach Johnson made four saves, including one at the left post midway through the second and final sudden-death overtime period as Seattle Pacific battled nationally No. 8-ranked Chico State to a scoreless deadlock.
The teams combined for 32 shots, only one of which went into the net, but was flagged offside.
The Wildcats thought they were the beneficiary of an own goal with 33:22 left in the game, but the offside flag went up to keep the game scoreless.
Fort Lewis scored three second-half goals to beat the Yellowjackets, including the eventually game-winner by Jordan Alexander who curled the ball into the upper left corner from just inside the 18.
“I thought we played really well in the first half and looked comfortable early,” said MSUB head coach Dan McNally.
“We were defending well, but we conceded a soft goal early in the second half, and they put us under a lot of pressure for the remainder of the match."
MSUB keeper Eoin Hurley was a wall early as he faced nine shots in the half and turned away two that were a threat. He also had help from the post as a shot by Fabian Kling at the 25:08 mark found the near post to keep the game all square.
The Yellowjackets were outshot 19-2. Hurley made four saves in taking his first loss at MSUB.
Cal State L.A., which outshot SMU 21-6 including 16-3 in the second period, scored five second-half goals to beat Saint Martin's.
Timo Schwar, who had two assists, was one of six players to find the back of the net for the Golden Eagles.
Cross Country: UAA Dominates Slippery Rock
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| Keino |
UAA's Ruth Keino won the women's five-kilometer event in 18 minutes, 00 seconds to lead the Seawolves to a perfect score 15-48 win over The Rock women.
Meanwhile the Seawolves' Micah Chelimo toured the same course in 15:09 to lead the UAA men to a 16-46 win.
The Seawolf women, which was ranked No. 5 nationally in a preseason poll, went 1-2-3-4-5 in it's victory.
Keino, UAA's 2011 Athlete of the Year, was followed in order by Susan Bick (18:46), Bryn Haebe (18:56), Miriam Kipng'eno (18:59) and Shoshana Keegan (19:01).
The UAA men, ranked No. 12 nationally in a preseason poll, went 1-2-3-4 in it's win over SLU. The Seawolves' Alfred Kangogo was second in 15:29, Yonatan Yilma was third in 15:34 and Dylan Anthony placed fourth in 15:41.
Falcons, Nanooks Record Cross Country Victories
Seattle Pacific's men and Alaska Fairbanks' women earned team wins Thursday in the UAF Cross Country Invitational at the UAF West Ridge Trails.
The Falcon men placed three runners in the Top 4 in outpointing MSU Billings 27-37. The Nanooks finished third with 59 team points.
UAF won the women's race with 33 team points compared to 42 by SPU and 51 by MSUB.
Individual winners included MSUB's Brian Potter in a time of 26:16.4 and SPU's Natty Plunkett in a time of 22:59.5.
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