Stats & coverage
Oct. 10, 2001
Huskers sweep Kansas
Lincoln -- The
No. 2 Nebraska volleyball team produced its best hitting percentage in
35 matches to defeat Kansas, 30-16, 30-16, 30-17, Wednesday night before
4,109 fans at the NU Coliseum. The Huskers pounded 52 kills and posted
just six errors in 88 swings for a season-high .523 mark at the net, their
best since recording a .567 hitting percentage against Creighton Oct.
3, 2000.
Five Huskers hit
.429 or better, led by sophomore middle blocker Sara Westling’s
.889 mark. Westling posted eight kills on nine attacks. Laura Pilakowski
totaled a match-high 12 kills on a .579 hitting percentage, and Jenny
Kropp had 10 kills while swinging at a .714 clip. Sophomore outside
hitter Anna Schrad was errorless with seven kills on 11 attacks (.636
pct.), and Nancy Metcalf recorded seven kills on a .429 hitting percentage.
Junior setter Greichaly
Cepero posted 43 assists, six digs and four kills in helping the Huskers
improve to 14-1 overall and 7-0 in the Big 12 Conference.
Kansas (11-6, 2-6)
was led by senior setter Molly LaMere (Papillion, Neb.), who posted
27 assists and a team-best six digs.
“Before the
match started, Coach Cook told us that he wasn’t going to be as
tense on the bench. He just wanted us to go out and have fun, and I
think this is the best we’ve played all season,” Kropp said.
“It was so much fun. We played with more passion and with more
joy than we have all year. It was the first time that we all really
went out there together. We were out there for each other.”
The Huskers were
all smiles in game one. Nebraska slammed 18 kills on 27 attacks with
no errors to hit .667 as a team in the first period. A 16-11 lead ballooned
to 25-11, as Cepero reeled off nine straight points from the service
line. Kropp accounted for three points during the run, tallying three
of her game-high six kills.
Nebraska Coach John
Cook said that ball-handling was the difference in game one.
“We were getting
Greicha the ball right where she needed to be -- she never left the
net, and she set great,” Cook said. “Ball-handling is our
greatest challenge on this team. But when we get Greicha the ball where
she needs it, it’s hard to stop us.”
The Huskers continued
to cruise in games two and three. NU held the Jayhawks to .000 in the
second game, and Westling posted all eight of her kills in the third
game.
Nebraska returns
to action Sunday at 2 p.m. when it faces No. 17 Texas A&M in College
Station, Texas. The match will be televised live on Fox Sports Midwest
and Fox Sports Southwest.
Source: University of Nebraska Athletic Dept.
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