Michigan
4-3
East Tennessee State
1-6
Michigan Cruises to Sweep Over East Tennessee State
9/12/2003 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
Site:Â Knoxville, Tenn. (Stokely Athletics Center)
Score:Â Michigan 3, East Tennessee State 0 (30-16, 30-15, 30-19)
Records:Â U-M (4-3), ETSU (1-6)
Next U-M Event:Â Saturday, Sept. 13 -- vs. Cal State-Fullerton at Toyota LV Classic (Knoxville, Tenn.), 11 a.m.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The University of Michigan volleyball team opened play in the Toyota LV Classic with an easy 3-0 victory over East Tennessee State on Friday (Sept. 12) evening at the Stokely Athletic Center on the campus of the University of Tennessee. Game scores were 30-16, 30-15, 30-19. Senior Erin Moore (Tiffin, Ohio/Columbian HS) led the Wolverines with a match-high 18 kills and hit a career-best .571 as U-M dominated in every facet of the match.
The Wolverines, who hit a season-high .465 in the match, out-blocked the Buccanners 15-1 and served up 10 aces, also a season high.
Michigan set the tone of the match in game one, taking 15 of a possible 19 points after the score was 14-11 to cruise to a 30-16 victory. In game two, the Wolverines built up a 15-5 lead and never looked back, scoring 10 of the game's final 12 points to win 30-15. The final stanza was no different at U-M led by as many as 10 during the game before finishing the match with a 30-19 victory.
Moore was the only Wolverine in double figures, topping 10 kills for the sixth consecutive match. She also registered a career-high .571 attack percentage, committing only two errors in her match-high 28 attempts. Freshman Megan Bowman (St. John, Ind./Lake Central HS) led Michigan's defensive efforts with a career-high eight blocks on two solos and six assists, also career highs, while redshirt freshman Erin Cobler (Dexter, Mich./Dexter HS) came off the bench to tally six blocks, including five assists. Junior Jennifer Gandolph (Greenwood, Ind./Center Grove HS) paced the squad in digs, recording seven.
Michigan will continue play in the Toyota LV Classic on Saturday (Sept. 13), taking on Cal State-Fullerton and the host Tennessee Lady Vols. U-M will meet the Titans at 11 a.m. before facing the Lady Vols at 7 p.m.
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Michigan Head Coach Mark Rosen
On the match "We looked good, although it's tough to judge that in this kind of match. We played well, served tough and blocked well, and it was nice to get a lot of our kids in and try some different stuff."
NOTES
• Erin Moore has hit double-figure kills in 54 of her 84 career matches, including six straight times this year. Her .571 attack percentage was a career high, topping the .500 (12-2-20) she hit on three occasions, with the last coming against Iowa on Nov. 16, 2002.
• Megan Bowman recorded a career-high eight blocks, including the first two block solos of her career. Bowman's six block assists also topped her previous high of five, set on four occasions this season.
• Twelve Wolverines -- which constitutes all of Michigan's healthy players -- saw action in the match. Senior Nicole Poquette (Grand Haven, Mich./Grand Haven HS) was pulled in the first game and will rest in tomorrow morning's match against Cal State-Fullerton. She is expected to start against Tennessee.
• Michigan's .465 attack percentage was a season high and its highest since hitting .512 against Eastern Michigan on Sept. 8, 2001.
