Gonzaga University Volleyball Weekly Notes FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NOVEMBER 1, 2004 GONZAGA VOLLEYBALL EMBARKS ON FINAL BIG ROAD TRIP OF 2004 SEASON GONZAGA UNIVERSITY FRIDAY - Nov. 5 BULLDOGS Gonzaga at San Francisco, 7 p.m. SPORTS INFORMATION SATURDAY - Nov. 6 2004 Record 502 E. Boone Gonzaga at No. 13 Saint Mary’s, 7 p.m. 4-19, 0-9 WCC Spokane, WA 99258-0066 GU SET FOR FINAL BIG ROADTRIP OF 2004: Gonzaga embarks on its final two-match roadtrip of the 2004 season this weekend with a trip to the Bay Oliver Pierce Area. Gonzaga will open play on Friday night at the University of San Sports Information Director Francisco before a Saturday night match at No. 13 Saint Mary’s College. The (509) 323-6373 Bulldogs lost to both opponents earlier in the season when both visited [email protected] Spokane. San Francisco knocked off Gonzaga 3-1 while Saint Mary’s downed the Bulldogs in three games. Following the trip to the Bay Area Gonzaga will Rich Moser have one more road match at the University of Portland to end the season on Assistant SID Nov. 20. Gonzaga hosts Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University Volleyball Contact and the University of Montana to close out home action starting on Nov. 12. (509) 323-5484 [email protected] HERRERA CONTINUES TO COLLECT DIGS: Junior libero Jessica Chris Loucks Herrera continues to rank among the WCC leaders for digs after posted double- digit performances against both the University of San Diego and Santa Clara Graduate Assistant SID (509) 323-4227 University over the weekend. Herrera has reached double-figures in digs in 22 [email protected] of Gonzaga’s 23 matches this season. She picked up 10 digs against San Diego on Friday night after she had a season low 8 digs earlier this year against the Toreros. Herrera’s season-high for digs is 26 against Portland in a four-game SID FAX loss. Herrera has 324 digs for the season and needs just 13 more over the Bulldogs final six matches to pass Britten Kimbell for 10th place on the (509) 323-5730 Gonzaga single-season list. Linda Bushinski holds the single-season Gonzaga record with 436 digs during the 1986 season. Last year libero Heather Signor PRESS BOX PHONE made a run at Bushinski’s record finishing with 406 digs to rank third on the sin- (509) 323-4224 gle-season list. THIRD CAMPAIGN FOR YOSHIMURA: Kip Yoshimura is in his third sea- son as the Bulldogs head coach and continues the rebuilding project of the Gonzaga volleyball program. Yoshimura produced an 8-50 record in his first two years as the Bulldogs head coach with hopes of improving that mark this year with his first true recruiting class in place. His career record is 263-141 during 11 seasons as a head coach including nine seasons at Lewis-Clark State College where he guided the Warriors to nine straight NAIA tournament appear- ances. A 1990 graduate of Long Beach State University, Yoshimura entered the coaching ranks as a student assistant on Long Beach State’s 1989 NCAA National Championship team. He then coached at Weber State before one sea- son as an assistant coach at Gonzaga during the 1992 season. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -NOVEMBER 1, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO LADY DONS: Gonzaga travels to San Francisco looking 2004 Record: for the Bulldogs first conference win of the year. 9-16, 2-7 WCC The Lady Dons are currently 9-16 overall, 2-7 in the 2004 Gonzaga Volleyball Schedule Series Record WCC with both wins coming over Gonzaga and GU 23-14 DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT Portland during an earlier Northwest swing. The Sept. 1 MONTANA STATE L 0-3 Lady Dons are led by transfer Stephanie Voelckers with 3.71 kills per game and # Double Tree Club Bronco Invitational @ Boise, ID Theresa Hart with 3.41 kills per game. San Francisco has lost five matches in Sept. 3 # Boise State L 1-3 a row after knocking Gonzaga in four games earlier this year. USF has now Sept. 4 # New Mexico State L 1-3 won four consecutive matches over the Bulldogs. Sept. 4 # Weber State W 3-1 Sept. 9 COLORADO STATE (10) L 3-0 No. 13 SAINT MARY’S GAELS: Gonzaga faces its third ranked team in a 2004 Record: four match span as the Bulldogs travel to 13th + Portland State Volleyball Showcase @ Portland, OR 19-2, 8-1 WCC Sept. 10 + Portland State W 3-1 ranked Saint Mary’s on Saturday night. The Gaels Sept. 11 + Northern Colorado W 3-2 Series Record have won four consecutive matches over Gonzaga GU 20-16 Sept. 11 + Oregon L 3-0 and are the highest ranked team in the West Coast Sept.14 Washington State L 3-0 Conference. Lindsey Bogason and Kaui Salzman pace the Gaels offense with Bogason averaging 3.71 kills per game and Salzman 3.56 kills per game. Saint & Idaho State Volleyball Classic @ Pocatello, ID Sept. 17 & Idaho State W 3-0 Mary’s has won 10 of its last 11 matches with the lone setback coming against Sept. 18 & New Mexico State L 3-0 WCC front-runner San Diego. Sept. 18 & Wyoming L 3-1 ZAGS MATCH UP WITH BRONCOS DESPITE LOSS: For the second Sept. 27 IDAHO L 3-0 consecutive year Gonzaga matched up well with the Santa Clara Broncos Oct. 1 * Santa Clara (13) L 3-2 despite coming out on the losing end in all four matches. Each time Gonzaga Oct. 2 * San Diego L 3-0 Oct. 8 * SAINT MARY’S (19) L 3-0 has pushed the nationally ranked Broncos to extra games before falling. Last Oct. 9 * SAN FRANCISCO L 3-1 season Gonzaga lost both matches in four games to Santa Clara with the Oct. 12 EASTERN WASHINGTON L 3-0 Broncos ranked 16th and 15th during those losses. This year Gonzaga pushed Oct. 15 * Pepperdine L 3-0 Oct. 16 * Loyola Marymount L 3-0 Santa Clara to five games on the road before falling to the 13th-ranked Broncos. Oct. 22 * PORTLAND L 3-1 During that game GU lost the services of senior outside hitter Christina Davis. Oct. 29 * SAN DIEGO (22) L 3-0 Without Davis in the line-up GU still pushed the 19th-ranked Broncos to four Oct. 30 * SANTA CLARA (19) L 3-1 games on Saturday night. In the match Becky Jones and Lacey Bell each fin- Nov. 5 * San Francisco 7 p.m. ished with nine kills to lead Gonzaga while Bell had a team-high 13 digs. Nov. 6 * Saint Mary’s (13) 7 p.m. Nov. 12 * LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 7 p.m. Nov. 13 * PEPPERDINE 7 p.m. BULLDOGS PASS 2003 ACE MARK: Gonzaga passed its 2003 total of 95 Nov. 15 MONTANA 6 p.m. service aces over the weekend as the Bulldogs dropped in four aces against San Nov. 20 * Portland 7 p.m. Diego and Santa Clara. In addition to picking up more service aces for the sea- * West Coast Conference Game son Gonzaga has also improved its service return allowing 70 less service aces HOME GAMES IN BOLD CAPS this year than last season. Senior Lauren Armas currently leads the team with ALL TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE 20 aces while Lacey Bell ranks second with 18. Jessica Herrera had 17 aces followed by freshman Alecia Douglas with 16. Setter Emilee Gihring rounds out the Gonzaga players with double-digit aces at 15. DUNN SEES INCREASED TIME: Freshman Heather 2004 WEST COAST CONFERENCE STANDINGS Dunn has seen increased playing time since the Bulldogs (THRU OCT. 31GAMES) entered WCC play. Dunn has played in 30 of 32 WCC WCC GAMES OVERALL GAMES games compared to just six out of 49 non-conference games. TEAM WL PCT WLPCT Dunn has served as a back row player and service sub with San Diego 9 0 1.000 16 4 .800 Saint Mary’s 8 1 .888 19 2 .905 1.53 digs per game in WCC action. Santa Clara 7 2 .777 16 4 .800 Loyola Marymount 5 4 .555 14 8 .636 BULLDOGS ANNOUNCE SENIOR NIGHT: Gonzaga Pepperdine 4 5 .444 7 12 .368 volleyball has announced that their senior night will take San Francisco 2 7 .222 9 16 .360 place on Saturday, Nov. 13 when the Bulldogs host Portland 1 8 .111 10 12 .454 GONZAGA 0 9 .000 4 19 .174 Pepperdine. Gonzaga’s last home match is two nights later against Montana on Monday, Nov. 15. 2004 Gonzaga Bulldogs Volleyball GONZAGA BULLDOGS Combined Team Statistics (as of Oct 30, 2004) All matches RECORD: OVERALL HOME AWAY NEUTRAL ALL MATCHES......... ( 4-19) ( 0-9 ) ( 2-6 ) ( 2-4 ) CONFERENCE.......... ( 0-9 ) ( 0-5 ) ( 0-4 ) ( 0-0 ) NON-CONFERENCE...... ( 4-10) ( 0-4 ) ( 2-2 ) ( 2-4 ) |---------ATTACK----------| |--SET---| |----SERVE----| |--DIG---| |------BLOCKING-------| ## STATS SUMMARY G K K/G E TA Pct A A/G SA SE SA/G RE DIG D/G BS BA Total B/G BE BHE Points ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 ARMAS, Lauren 81 236 2.91 79 548 .286 2 0.02 20 15 0.25 1 42 0.52 12 64 76 0.94 13 0 300.0 1 GIHRING, Emilee 81 87 1.07 27 251 .239 825 10.19 15 22 0.19 2 187 2.31 4 35 39 0.48 3 22 123.5 12 MUELLER, Briawna 81 127 1.57 50 359 .214 9 0.11 1 0 0.01 1 16 0.20 14 82 96 1.19 12 0 183.0 11 DAVIS, Christina 49 232 4.73 129 648 .159 11 0.22 7 12 0.14 9 134 2.73 5 29 34 0.69 5 2 258.5 9 WOOD, Rebecca 30 37 1.23 21 116 .138 9 0.30 0 3 0.00 4 7 0.23 2 14 16 0.53 2 0 46.0 17 BELL, Lacey 81 172 2.12 102 613 .114 47 0.58 18 15 0.22 46 193 2.38 0 44 44 0.54 3 6 212.0 2 JONES, Becky 76 149 1.96 95 542 .100 4 0.05 0 0 0.00 5 46 0.61 9 20 29 0.38 7 1 168.0 16 RYDBERG, Katy 6 6 1.00 5 30 .033 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 1 5 0.83 0 0 0 0.00 1 0 6.0 6 STEINHAUS, Kelly 2 0 0.00 0 0 .000 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.0 10 McGOVERN, Megan 2 0 0.00 0 0 .000 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 1 0 0.00 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.0 14 RENSHAW, Kim 9 4 0.44 5 14 -.071 1 0.11 0 0 0.00 0 2 0.22 1 4 5 0.56 2 0 7.0 5 DOUGLAS, Alecia 75 2 0.03 3 10 -.100 12 0.16 16 22 0.21 25 140 1.87 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 18.0 3 HERRERA, Jessica 76 2 0.03 8 33 -.182 33 0.43 17 15 0.22 55 324 4.26 0 0 0 0.00 0 1 19.0 7 NOBLE, Annalisa 13 1 0.08 2 5 -.200 1 0.08 2 1 0.15 2 17 1.31 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 3.0 4 DUNN, Heather 36 0 0.00 4 13 -.308 15 0.42 3 4 0.08 9 50 1.39 0 0 0 0.00 0 1 3.0 TEAM 3 GONZAGA BULLDOGS...