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Mountaineer
go five before falling to eagles
September 26, 2003
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LA GRANDE - For a place in which they
had not won since 2000, the Northwest College Eagle felt pretty lucky
to escape from La Grande with a hard-fought, five-game victory over a
much improved Eastern Oregon University Mountaineer squad; 30-27,
28-30, 26-30, 30-21, 15-13.
Eastern led the match two games to one
after three, but hitting errors led Northwest back into the match
winning the fourth to even the match and go into a fifth and final
game.
In game five, Northwest jumped out to a
5-2 led, but the Mountaineers fought back to even the score at 8-8 and
13-13, but a kill by the Eagle's Emily Marquez and a fortunate hit
that went astray by EOU's Kaki McLean ended Eastern's upset hopes.
McLean and Jana Brotherton ended up
with 13 kills apiece for the Mountaineers, while McLean and and Misty
Jenkin were topin digs with 12 and 11, respectively.
The Mountaineers ended the night with
11 team blocks; led by five apiece from Brotherton and Jamie Russell.
The Eagles' Marquez led everyone with a
match-high 17 kills, a .394 hitting percentage and five blocks.
Both teams combined to commit 37
serving errors in the match that lasted 2 hours and 14 minutes in
front of 220 at Quinn Coliseum.
Eastern will return to the hardwood,
when the entertain the Geoducks of Evergreen State College tomorrow at
7 pm.
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