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Sinegal surges at right time for Cajuns

September 29, 2006 –
Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

Jamie Sinegal may have picked the best moment of UL’s volleyball season to play her best match.
The sophomore from Acadiana High dominated the Cajuns’ surprisingly-easy 30-21, 20-27, 33-31 Sun Belt Conference win at Florida Atlantic last Saturday. She finished with a season and career-high 19 kills and ended two of the three games with kills in UL’s first league victory.

“That was a big boost for our confidence,” said Sinegal, whose squad had lost its Sun Belt opener one night earlier at Florida International. “We were all confident in what we were doing and our ability to play together, and we’re sort of known for our energy.”

Sinegal had lots of help from her teammates in what coach Amy Kraljev called her best match of the season.
“The whole night, everyone else was shouting behind me, letting me know where the block was,” Sinegal said. “When someone’s telling you how to hit around the block, it’s cake. You couldn’t do it without them yelling to you.”

“Everything clicked for her,” Kraljev said. “She was able to get all her power shots, and that made FAU start guessing and she was able to get all her other shots going … tipping it just over the block or moving it around. Anything she wanted to do, she could have done.”

It wasn’t like they were playing a low-level opponent. FAU went 29-3 last year and won the Atlantic Sun Conference title before moving into the Sun Belt this season.

Sinegal is generously listed at 5-foot-9 on the roster, and most collegiate outside hitters are much taller.

“I’ve always played outside hitter,” she said. “I didn’t play at lot my freshman year, but I learned a lot by watching. The college game is so much quicker … it’s a totally different sport from high school just from the level and speed.”

Obviously, her adjustments have worked and her height hasn’t been a big factor. Her 19 kills Saturday is the league’s second-highest total in a three-game match, and she had only five errors on her 47 kill attempts along with 10 digs. She leads the Cajuns with a 3.00 average kills per game (147 total) and is one of three Cajuns averaging 2.3 or more kills per game.

Her squad plays two key Sun Belt matches at home at Long Gym this weekend, including a 7 p.m. match tonight against West Division leader Arkansas State, but Sinegal said she doesn’t look at the conference standings.

“I don’t really try to figure out teams,” she said. “We know who’s good and who’s not, and we try to play at the same level all the time no matter who we’re playing. Who we’re playing is kind of irrelevant to how we play.”

Originally published September 29, 2006