Women's Volleyball | 9/7/2016 4:29:00 PM
Ellensburg, Wash. (Sept. 7) – The Central Washington University volleyball team heads to San Diego, California for the Division II West Region Volleyball Showcase, hosted by UC San Diego. The Wildcats will be looking for redemption after a rough weekend at the Flyer Festival.
"We felt that last week gave us a lot of information to help us prepare for region and conference play," CWU Head Coach
Mario Andaya said. "We've been working hard from day one, but we are now concentrating on smaller things that will help us be more productive offensively. I like our defensive progress, but we need to score more points. We'll see how that plays out this week."
Central opens the tournament against Point Loma on Thursday, before taking on both BYU-Hawaii and Cal Poly Pomona on Friday. The Wildcats close the tournament against UC San Diego on Saturday.
"The crossover has been a great opportunity for teams to establish some early ground for a regional berth," Andaya added. "We're hoping to not only improve on our play from last week, but to see how we stack up in the West. "
Point Loma is 1-3 on the season after the Seaside Invitational. The Sea Lions recorded their only victory against Saginaw Valley in a 3-1 contest.
Leading the Sea Lions in kills Is Brianna Sizemore with 53. Sizemore is averaging 4.08 kills per set. Cara Keturakis handles the setting duties and has recorded 123 assists in four matches.
Central defeated Point Loma 3-2 last season in the GNAC/PacWest Crossover.
BYU-Hawaii enters the Showcase with a 2-3 record. The Seasiders defeated San Francisco State and Cal Poly Pomona in the Hawaii Invitational.
Last season, the Wildcats defeated BYU-Hawaii 3-0.
Junior Leilani Adolpho leads the Seasiders with 61 kills, averaging 3.05 per set. Sydney Bunker has dished out a team high 91 assists, however Sinamoni Tonga has recorded 50.
Cal Poly Pomona sits at 2-2 entering the week. The Broncos have won back-to-back matches against Hawaii Hilo and Hawaii Pacific.
Deanna Blaine and Andrea Bosnic lead the Broncos' offense with 47 and 46 kills respectively. Alina Smith handles the setting duties for Pomona. She has dished out 135 assists in 18 sets thus far.
The Wildcats then take on the host school, UC San Diego to close the Showcase. The Tritons are 2-2 after beating both Azusa Pacific and Seattle Pacific in their last two matches of the CUI Eagles Labor Day Classic.
Megan Wright has taken 238 swings and recorded 83 kills. Marie Paris is the setter for the Broncos. She has picked up 178 assists.
After their first four matches of the season, sophomore
Madison Weg leads the Wildcats' offense with 41 kills. Following close behind is
Shelby Mauritson with 37.
Gaby Aihara and
Nikole Cook have split the setting duties and recorded 78 and 60 assists, respectively.
Sabrina Wheelhouse leads the Wildcats' blocking efforts with two solo blocks and 20 block assists.
Erin Little has notched a team high three solo blocks.
First serve is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Thursday (Sept. 8), 12:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Friday (Sept. 9), and 10:00 a.m. on Saturday (Sept. 10).
