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Volleyball: Seniors Finish Season on High Note – Photo Gallery IncludedLAFAYETTE – Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns sent their seniors off in style, with a 3-1 win over visiting ULM by scores of 25-22, 20-25, 25-17 and 25-22.
The Cajuns will finish the season at 8-21 overall, 5-13 in the Sun Belt Conference. The win total doubles that of the 2007 season, and equals the best mark in the last six years.
Departing the team are seniors Elizabeth Inman, Tracie Knowlton, Carly Payan and Sonora Edwards. Inman and Knowlton both leave behind several appearances in the Cajun leader charts in categories like kills and blocks.
Inman, the senior squad’s lone four-year athlete, led the team against the Warhawks with 12 kills on two errors in attempts for a .500 percentage. Freshman Lesley Mirarchi struck for seven kills, followed by Knowlton with six. Edwards had five kills, and Payan added four.
Mirarchi added four block assists, while Knowlton put up two solo blocks and two block assists. Kendra Hall helped out with 39 assists.
Libero Lindsay Brown tallied 21 digs, her sixth 20-plus match of the season and 22nd double-digit total. With her 21 digs, Brown became the conference’s digs leader in SBC matches. View Photo Gallery:http://www.ragincajuns.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?SPID=7574&SPSID=67305&DB_OEM_ID=15400&PALBID=24324
The first three sets saw no lead changes and few ties, each team taking charge of the set and holding on to win it. In the first, the Cajuns hit .290 on 13 kills, four errors and 31 attempts, but stumbled in the second frame and hit just nine kills with six errors in 39 attempts for a percentage of .077.
They returned to form in the third, and hit .269 with 11 kills in 26 attempts with just four errors.
The fourth was different from the rest in that there were 17 tie scores and 11 lead changes. Both teams suffered from errors of all varieties, including seven attack errors, three service errors, and two reception errors for ULM, and seven attack errors and two reception errors for the Cajuns.
Despite the errors, Louisiana held on to win from a 21-21 tie thanks to a ULM attack error, two consecutive Lindsay Brown aces, and a kill from Mirarchi to seal the deal and end the season.
Head Coach Heather Mazeitis begins her first full offseason as a Cajun with the end of the match, and will begin her second season at the helm in August of 2009. Louisiana def. ULM 25-22,20-25,25-17,25-22
ULM (1-31, 0-18 Sun Belt) (Kills-aces-blocks) – O’Neal, Mari Louisiana (8-20, 5-13 Sun Belt) (Kills-aces-blocks) – Inman, Site: Lafayette, La. (Earl K. Long Gym) Date: Nov 16, 2008 Attend: 347 Time: 1:45 Referees: Thomas Hoy, Doug Couvillon -www.ragincajuns.com- John L. Strawn
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