Out & About: Concordia St. Paul/UM Duluth

#2 posting 10.24.2006
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Concordia St. Paul 3, UM Duluth 1
30-21, 25-30, 30-26, 30-26

Here are the press releases from CSP and UMD, they can tell their side. Of course it wouldn't be complete without the box.

With a clash of two top 10 teams (CSP #6, UMD #4) in D2 it was an easy decision to go to this confrontation tonight. Traffic was backed up going east on 94 so I just barely made it. But the energy, excitement in the gym got everyone's attention.
I also wanted to see the players of the week: Jessica Lucia and Maggie McNamara for CSP and Katie Gangelhoff and Vicky Braegelmann for UMD. Lucia had a better go of it in the match up with Braegelmann with 19 kills and a .277 %. Braegelmann checked in with only 8 kills and a negative .030 %.
I will later in future blogs look at the difference with D1 and D2, but the speed of action and athleticism of players should not be doubted.

Here is what isn't seen in the boxes.
NUMBER CRUNCHING
team, 1stso/serves--1stso%; pts scored, % earned, % allowed
Concordia St. Paul 30/58---.517; 115, .739; .350
UM Duluth 33/59---.559; 103; .650; .261
Odd fact: UMD had better first ball side out. However in every game they lost it was the long runs that doomed UMD. In game one they gave up six right off the bat to Monica McNamara, and later gave up five to sister Maggie. On those two serves CSP had 33% for their points.
Maggie had five points in a row in game three, and again sister Monica provided four in the very next serve. Again close to a third of the points for CSP.
In game four it was Kate Bennett that had the big run with six straight points. Maggie McNamara was also efficient with a run of four.
CSP also gave up runs but they only gave up one run of four or more and that was in game four on Rachel Jacobson's serve.

In comparing what the Gophers do: their average first ball side out % is .648; their points earned % is .805 and points allowed is .294, but that includes the game where they gave away .400 to Indiana.

ROTATION POINTS
CSP
1. Maggie McNamara, S 29-18 .617
2. Monica McNamara, OH 24-18 .571
3. Megan Graham, L 18-20 .474 for Maria Stinhagen MH
4. Jessica Lucia, RH 14-14 .500
5. Ashley Olson, OH 15-14 .517
6. Kate Bennett, serves 15-18 .455 for Kelsey Kyro MH

UMD
1. Katie Gangelhoff, S 18-23 .439
2. Kari Wolford, OH 20-28 .417
3. Chelsea Meierotto, L 21-17 .553 in for Lindsey Clairmont MH
4. Crystal Hoffrogge, DS 12-16 .429 in for Vicky Braegelmann RH
5. Whitney Meierotto, OH 16-17 .485
6. Rachel Jacobson, DS 16-13 .552 in for Rachel Langseth MH

The odd thing was that the MH spot in each teams rotation was a mirror opposite--CSP's MH spot was sub .500 while for UMD the MH spot was the only spot above .500. But Maggie McNamara's rotation was the only rotation north of .600.

Next up: tomorrow morning