Oct. 9, 2007

This weekend was a bit of a disappointing weekend in that we did beat Southern Indiana on Friday night, we lost to SIUE on Saturday afternoon. In both games there were things that we did well and there are things that we know we need to work on. We knew coming into the weekend that we had great competition ahead of us and that especially SIUE was going to come out with a passion to beat us because last year we beat them in the conference championship.

The Friday night match against Southern Indiana went well and we beat them in three. We played with our energy and came out on top. I thought we came prepared and knew who to look out for and who to shut down. Though we did get two less blocks then Southern Indiana we picked it up on the offensive side and hit .266 while we kept them at .119. Overall, it was a good win for us but we knew we had to get refocused for the next days match.

The game against SIUE was definitely the more difficult of our two games this weekend and I feel like we did our best to get prepared for the match. We knew that their setter often attacked the ball and that they had some big hitters so we picked up our blocking and got our season high of 14 blocks. The first game of the match we came out with our high energy that we are known for and then as the match continued, when we got down a run of points, we let that energy level go down. I thought we did a good job coming back even if we got behind a couple points but didn't get enough of a lead the next three games to push ahead and win. It was definitely a very frustrating loss and as a team we know what we have to continue to work on and we'll just come out stronger because of it. I know that we look forward to seeing them in the conference tournament.