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Four Named NAIA Scholar-Athletes for Volleyball Volleyball - Fri, Nov. 30, 2012 NAIA Scholar-Athletes PORTSMOUTH – Four members of the Shawnee State volleyball team have been named NAIA Scholar- Athletes. Janine Grey, Holly Tobias, Hannah Gephart and Kirsti Yates were all honored with the academic award. This award comes on top of all four being named Academic All-MSC. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be in their junior year and have maintained a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5. Each of these four student-athletes are earning the award for the first time in their careers. Grey and Tobias are the two seniors to earn the award. Grey is majoring in Photography, while Tobias is majoring in exercise science. Two juniors, Gephart and Yates, also earned the award. Gephart is an exercise science major, while Yates is majoring in biology. Three Honored as All-MSC Selections for Volleyball Volleyball - Sun, Nov. 11, 2012 MSC Release PORTSMOUTH – Following a complete team turnaround that saw volleyball double its win total from 11 to 22 this season, three individuals were honored as All-MSC selections at the conference banquet. Alex Pohl and Kirsti Yates were named first-team All-MSC selections, while Paige Zelich earned honorable mention All-MSC honors. For Pohl, the honor was the first time she was selected to the first team after earning honorable mention accolades in each of her past two seasons. Shawnee State's all-time leading blocker finished with 385 blocks for her career. This broke the previous mark by 10. This past season, Pohl finished second on the team with 85 blocks, including a team- high 31 solo blocks. She also finished with the second-highest hitting percentage on the team (.294) and was third in digs (181). Yates' honor marks the second straight season that she has been named first-team All-MSC. The team's libero, she finished with 574 digs, which was the fourth-most in the conference. She also was second on the team in service aces (41) and helped assist on 53 kills, the third-best mark on the team. With her second career honor, the junior becomes just the third player in program history to be named first-team all-conference, joining Haley Halcomb and Heather Koehler. No player has ever been a three-time first-team all-conference selection in program history. Zelich, a sophomore, was named All-MSC for the first team in her career with the honorable mention nod. She finished the year with a team-best 247 kills. She also had a team-high 655 attacks on her way to a .247 hitting mark. In 12 different matches Zelich recorded double-digit kills, averaging 2.5 kills per game over the season. She was even better in conference, hitting over. 300 in seven of those matches and had a .265 hitting mark against MSC competition. Five Named Academic All-MSC for Volleyball Volleyball - Fri, Nov. 9, 2012 MSC Release PORTSMOUTH – Five members of the Shawnee State volleyball team have been named Academic All-MSC. Janine Grey, Holly Tobias, Hannah Gephart, Kirsti Yates andAbbi Morrow were all honored with the academic award. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be in their sophomore year and have maintained a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25. Each of these five student-athletes are earning the award for the first time in their Shawnee State careers. Grey and Tobias are the two seniors to earn the award. Grey is majoring in Photography, while Tobias is majoring in exercise science. Two juniors, Gephart and Yates, also earned the award. Gephart is an exercise science major, while Yates is majoring in biology. The lone sophomore to earn the award, Morrow, is majoring in athletic training. Volleyball Downed by Fourth-Seeded Campbellsville in MSC Quarterfinals Volleyball - Fri, Nov. 9, 2012 Box Score LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Volleyball saw its turnaround season come to a halt Friday afternoon in the Mid-South Tournament as the fifth-seeded Bears (22-13) were eliminated in the quarterfinals by fourth-seeded Campbellsville (25-9) in three games (25-18, 25-16, 25-20). Despite the loss, the Bears still finished the year with 22 wins. This marked an 11-win improvement from last season despite playing in two less matches. Shawnee State had its chances in each and every set but late rallies by Campbellsville proved to be the difference in each of the three sets. The Bears found themselves down 7-2 early in the opening game but battled back to 9-6. The Bears would inch a little closer but the Tigers would then go on a run stretching their lead to 20-12 before closing out the opening game. In that opening set, the Bears were held to a .235 hitting percentage. However,Devan Scarberry and Paige Zelich each picked up three kills in the opening game. However, SSU committed five attack errors and was called for three ball handling errors and one net infraction on a block attempt that they were not able to overcome. Campbellsville limited the Bears to just a .053 hitting mark in the second. In the middle game, the Bears killed 10 of their attack efforts, including three from Tiffany Jackson. However, eight attack errors would hamper their effort. Despite their struggles, the Bears were in the set at 10-9, but Campbellsville again closed the set strong. With their backs up against the walls, Shawnee State gave Campbellsville its best effort of the day in the final game, hitting .317 with 14 kills and just one attack error. The Bears had the score knotted at 15-all but the Tigers ran off six straight points before closing out the quarterfinal match. In that final set, Zelich killed five of her attempts with no errors, while three other players killed two attempts in the game. In the end, the Tigers were just slightly better, hitting .356 for the game and .314 for the match. In the final match of the year, Zelich finished with a team-high 10 kills in 17 attempts and did not commit an error on the afternoon. Jackson and Scarberry finished with seven and six kills, respectively. Alex Pohl and Kelsey Bielanow finished with five kills apiece in the match.Hannah Gephart tallied 17 assists for the match, while Carly Mazza finished with 14. Kirsti Yates finished with a match-high 19 digs, while Pohl came up with 10 more. Yates was also the only Bears' player to tally two service aces, as Mazza, Zelich and Scarberry each added one. Volleyball Set to Play in the Mid-South Conference Tournament Volleyball - Wed, Nov. 7, 2012 PORTSMOUTH — A year removed from an opening round lost to the Georgetown Tigers, volleyball will look to dig themselves through a tough Mid-South Conference Tournament and return to the NAIA National Tournament since 2010. The Bears, who finished the season with a 22-12 overall record and 10-4 in the conference, earned the fifth seed and will play the fourth-seeded Campbellsville. The two teams met only once during the regular season in the Mid-South Crossover Weekend hosted by Shawnee State. The Tigers prevailed in three sets, besting the Bears 25-14, 25-21, 25-23. Georgetown, ranked 11th in the NAIA, received the No. 1 overall seed in the MSC Tournament after finishing the regular season 31-3 and 15-0 in the conference. The Tigers will take on Bluefield in the opening round as the Rams finished 16-21 overall and 4-10 in the conference. Lindsey Wilson drew the No. 2 overall seed in the MSC Tournament with a 25-12 overall record and finishing 12-3 in the conference. The Blue Raiders will take on the seventh-seeded St. Catharine. Finally, the third-seeded Rio Grande Red Storm will battle sixth-seeded University of Cumberlands in the opening round. Junior Kirsti Yates led the team in digs with 555 and averaged 4.7 per set for the Bears. Freshman Madison Smith helped Yates with 299 of her own, averaging 2.6 per set. Kelsey Bielanow led all Bears in blocks for the season with 99 total. Senior Alex Pohl, the school's all-time career leader, also chipped in with 84 blocks and 171 digs of her own. The Bears also witnessed two players, Paige Zelich and Ashley Galbraith, each finish with over 200 kills on the season, racking up 237 and 228, respectively. Pohl also finished with 191 kills on the season giving Shawnee State three players that averaged at least two kills per game. The Bears quarterfinal will against Campbellsville will be Friday, November 9 at 1:00 p.m. at the MidAmerican Sports Center in Louisville, Ky. Volleyball Sweeps Bluefield in Regular Season Finale, 3-0 Volleyball - Mon, Nov. 5, 2012 Box Score BLUEFIELD, Va. – Volleyball wrapped up a very successful regular season with a three-set win (25-14, 25-22, 25- 16) over Bluefield (16-21, 4-10 MSC) Monday night. The Bears (22-12, 10-4 MSC) win was there second straight set win of the season over Bluefield. They will now get ready for the MSC Tournament where they will play in the No. 4/5 matchup on Friday against an opponent yet to be determined. The Bears hit .280 in the regular season finale, while holding Bluefield to just a .154 hitting mark. Paige Zelich led all players with a match-high 10 kills. She recorded those kills on 25 swings with just one error to hit .360 for the match. Kelsey Bielanow and Tiffany Jacksoneach finished the match with seven kills on the night.