BILLINGS, Mont. – The Montana State University Billings volleyball team will be looking to end their 2011 season with a Great Northwest Athletic Conference match when the Yellowjackets host the nationally 25
th-ranked Falcons of Seattle Pacific University on Saturday, Nov. 12.
The season finale will serve as MSUB's senior day as head coach Steve Smith and the rest of the team will look to end
Brittney Keele,
Melissa Porter and
Brooke Tolman's senior campaign on a high note.
The Yellowjackets enter their final match of the season having split their last two GNAC matches, defeating Simon Fraser University 3-0 on Thursday, Nov. 3 before dropping a Saturday, Nov. 5 match to Western Washington University by a similar mark. MSUB is currently 11-15 overall for the 2011 season and holds a 5-12 mark in league action.
Freshman middle blocker
Monica Grimsrud had another solid week on the court as she recorded her fifth kills-digs double-double against the Vikings of Western Washington. She recorded team-highs in both kills (16) and digs (15) in the 0-3 loss to the Vikings.
A couple of days earlier, Grimsrud tallied a match-high 12 kills while hitting a solid .346 (12-3-26) to go along with six digs and a team-high three service aces against the Clan of Simon Fraser as the Yellowjackets rolled to the 3-0 victory.
In Thursday's match at SFU,
Taylor Adams led the team with a .455 hitting percentage (6-1-11). She also had two service aces and is currently third on the squad with nine service winners over the course of the season.
In the match at WWU, Porter led the team with a .333 hitting percentage (5-1-12) against a solid Vikings' squad.
Tolman enters Saturday's match just eight assists shy of entering the top-10 for assists in a single season as she already has 956 assists this season. She recorded 64 assists between the two matches last week.
Saturday's match will also serve as the regular-season finale for the Falcons who enter Saturday's match with a record of 20-6 overall and 14-3 in league action. They are currently leading the GNAC standings over Western Washington and the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Lindsey Wodrich currently leads the Falcons with 356 kills while hitting .194 for the year. The Falcons have six players with triple-digit digs this season and have 208 total team blocks while hitting .219; holding their opponents to a .151 hitting percentage over the season.