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Alex Hill
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Senior captain Alex Hill

Illinois Wesleyan Volleyball Splits Saturday Matches

10/27/2012 8:55:00 PM

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TOURNAMENT SCORES, ALL-TOURNEY TEAM

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Senior Alex Hill was named to the all-tournament team as the Illinois Wesleyan Titans split a pair of matches at the Barker Classic III on Saturday (Oct. 27) at the Shirk Center.

The Titans are 18-14 overall after losing to Webster in five sets by scores of 25-22, 17-25, 25-18, 20-25, 12-15, then beating Central of Iowa, 25-20, 27-25, 25-23.

"In the past week and a half, we have played five 5-set matches plus several very close sets," said IWU head coach Kim Nelson-Brown. "Today's matches were very close and I was proud of our team's fight in the last match.  We were down in both the second and third set but fought back hard to win both. I'm hoping we can continue this into our match on Tuesday."

Illinois Wesleyan plays at Millikin in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin play-in match on Tuesday (Oct. 30) at 7 p.m.

Against Webster, sophomore Maddie Greybar had a team-highs of 18 kills with 23 digs while Hill had 11 kills. Senior Katie Rhoades had 14 digs and senior Stephanie Polich made 22 digs. Junior Erin Wachtel had 51 set assists and sophomore Morgan Howard had a team-leading three  blocks.

In the win over Central, Hill had 13 kills and four blocks. Polich made 23 digs and Greybar had 20 digs and eight kills, and Wachtel had 33 set assists.

Senior Eryn Finet made three blocks.

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