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SpoRTSVolleyball: 7 p.m., Oct. 10, Pittsburg State;2:30 p.m., Oct. 11, Christian Brothers; 7p.m., Oct. 11, Northern Colorado; 7 p.m.,Oct. 17, Emporia State; 5 p.m., Oct. 18,Wasburn (Homecoming)

Football: 2 p.m., Oct. 18, Missouri Western(Homecoming)Soccer: 12 p.m., Oct. 18, Gannon(Homecoming); 3 p.m., Oct. 22, Missouri-St. Louis

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Soccer off to record start

Volleyball’s win streak reaches a dozen

Tennis tumblesin finale

Brian GaffneyStaff Reporter

A rough finish Tuesday wasthe exception to a strong fallseason for women’s tennis.

The Bulldogs lost 5-4 toCentral College (Pella, Iowa) intheir last match until the springseason starts in mid-February.

Head coach Pete Kendall saidhe had never seen his playersmiss so many easy points.During one match, Kendall saidthe women looked like two littlekids hitting the ball back andforth to each other.

Sophomore Erin Sadzewiczlost her singles match 3-7. Shesaid the two teams had differentstyles of play and that troubledthe Bulldogs.

“[Truman players] are all hit-ters,” she said. “We hit throughthe ball and they just push itback. It has been screwing usup.”

Prior to its loss againstCentral, the women’s team was3-0 in dual meets. Not oneTruman player had lost a match.

“Our fall competition isnever as strong as our springcompetition,” Kendall said.

Just last weekend, the womentraveled to Maryville, Mo., forthe ITA regional tournament.Kendall said the ITA is alwaysthe toughest tournament on thefall schedule and included 62players from 10 other schools.He said the ’Dogs had one of thebest ITA regionals they have hadin years.

Junior Melissa Dudak went3-1. She advanced to the quar-terfinals where she was beatenby a University of NorthernColorado (Greeley) player whoended up winning the singlesbracket.

Doubles partners Dudak andsophomore Becky Dinsick were2-1 at the ITA regional tourna-ment. The pair also advanced tothe quarterfinals, where the

Colleen DrazenStaff Reporter

The victories continue to pileup for the Truman men’s andwomen’s soccer teams as eachadded two more wins to itsrecords last weekend.

The men’s team maintained itsflawless record, which is now tiedfor the best starting record in theschool’s history. A 2-1 win overColorado School of Mines(Golden) on Saturday and a 4-0victory over Colorado ChristianUniversity (Lakewood) improvedthe team’s record to 10-0-0.

Saturday’s match againstColorado School of Mines threat-ened the team’s undefeatedrecord. The Bulldogs trailed 1-0before sending the game intoovertime.

Sophomore midfielder MartinClayes said the team played welland showed a lot of charactercoming back from being down agoal.

“We knew we were going towin it in overtime,” Clayes said.“The other team was dead, and wewanted it more.”

Senior fullback Bryan DeFoesaid the team knew it was going tobe a tough game but was confi-dent about winning.

“Looking at the other team’seyes, we knew we were going towin it once we got into overtime,”DeFoe said. “We just had to keepworking it and finish our scoringchances.”

Head men’s coach Alf Bilbaosaid Colorado School of Mineswas a tough team to play, but the’Dogs put forth a great effort.

“Mines came out at 100 mph,”Bilbao said. “We knew, as long aswe could match their effort level,our fitness and endurance levelswould take over. We were able towear them down.”

Bilbao said the team’s 4-0 vic-tory over Colorado Christian wasnot an easy win.

“The altitude got to us a bit,and we were a little tired fromovertime the other night,” Bilbaosaid. “Once we got going andmade a couple of changes, weplayed pretty well.”

The ’Dogs have two regionalgames coming up this weekend.They will take on the Universityof Southern Indiana (Evansville)on Saturday and Oakland CityUniversity (Ind.) on Sunday.

Clayes said the team should gettwo victories out of the matches.

“Southern Indiana is a toughteam, but we are confident that weare better than them,” Clayes said.“Oakland City is crap, so weshould win that.”

The women’s team had similarresults, adding another regionalwin and conference win to theteam’s record.

The ’Dogs defeated regionalrivals Rockhurst University(Kansas City, Mo.) 1-0 Sundayand Missouri Southern StateUniversity (Joplin) 5-1 Monday.

Head women’s coach MikeCannon said it was difficult toplay Rockhurst. He said therewere few scoring chances foreither side.

“It didn’t help things for ourteam by coming out and playingflat in the first half, but in the sec-ond half we raised our level of

play,” Cannon said. “There werenot a lot of shots or scoring oppor-tunities for either team, so wewere happy to still get a goal andshut them out.”

Freshman goalkeeper LaurenDavis recorded her fifth shutoutof the season against Rockhurst.She had three saves in the gameand received MIAA Player of theWeek honors.

In the ’Dogs’ victory over theLady Lions on Monday, the teamscored the first four goals within18 minutes of each other. Juniorforward Sara Murray scored threeof the team’s five goals, and jun-ior forward/midfielder EllenWright had one goal and twoassists.

Cannon said the ’Dogs startedout strong, which helped get thevictory.

“They were a good team, butwe jumped on them early, and the

other team was obviously notvery happy with that,” Cannonsaid. “Being up four goals, we letup a bit in the second half. Wedidn’t want to, but it happened,and they scored.”

Wright said it was good tocome out strong so quickly, espe-cially after beginning poorly inthe Rockhurst match.

“We didn’t have the pressureto score late in the game,” Wrightsaid. “The goals were huge, agood pick-me-up, and it made it alot more fun.”

This weekend, the team willface two conference teams,University of Missouri-Rolla andSouthwest Baptist University(Bolivar, Mo.). The womendefeated Rolla earlier this season4-3. Southwest Baptist, like the’Dogs, is undefeated in MIAAaction but only has a .500 overallrecord. The Bearcats enter the

weekend with a 5-5 record.Wright said the team hopes to

tear Rolla apart.“We want to move the ball

around and take it to them earlyand not give them any chances,”she said. “We are pumped to walkall over them.”

She said the team also is excit-ed to play Southwest Baptist.

“They are physical, and themajority of them are bigger thanus, so we know it will be tough,”Wright said. “Our intensity has tobe high, and we have to be therementally. We are going to give itall we have, and hopefully thatwill be enough to beat them.”

Cannon said this weekend willbe more difficult than many of theteam’s past games.

“Teams are jacked to play us,”Cannon said. “It is one of thetoughest weekends we have left inthe season.”See TTEENNNNIISS, page 19

Adrian Lorincz/IndexFreshman goalkeeper Nate Gibson hones in on a ball in a drill earlier this week. Gibson helped the men’s soccer team to two morewins over the weekend and allowed just one goal while making eight saves. The team plays two matches in Indiana this weekend.

Aaron Hawes/IndexJunior middle hitter Annie Nickolai moves in for one of her twodigs against Rockhurst University (Kansas City, Mo.) on FamilyDay. Truman bested the Hawks 3-11 in front of about 1,300 fans.

Senior Rachael Shedd led thevolleyball team on a successfulthree-match winning streak, set-ting a new Truman record alongthe way.

Shedd set the record by posting69 assists in the match againstRockhurst University (KansasCity, Mo.) on Saturday.

Although Shedd is settingrecords, she said the individualrecognition does not mean muchto her.

“Individual stats and awardsare nice, but I don’t want them atthe team’s expense,” Shedd said.“It’s not going toruin my day if Idon’t set records.”

A crowd ofabout 1,300 peoplewatched Sheddand the Bulldogsdown the LadyHawks, taking thematch in fourgames.

Junior JessicaSears said she wasa little bit surprisedby the largeturnout on Family Day.

“It was one of the largestcrowds I have seen for a volley-ball game,” Sears said.“Sometimes, it’s hard to havehome court advantage whenthere’s hardly anyone coming tothe games.”

Sears picked up a double-dou-ble, scoring a career-best 28 kills

After a close first game thatTruman took 30-27, the ’Dogscontrolled the next two games onthe way to a 3-0 victory, extend-ing their winning streak to 12matches in the process. BothShedd and Sears picked up dou-ble-doubles in the match.

The team will participate in itsown tournament this weekend,the Days Inn Classic. Fridaynight pits the ’Dogs againstMIAA rival Pittsburg StateUniversity (Kan.), whileChristian Brothers University(Memphis, Tenn.) and Universityof Northern Colorado (Greeley,Col.) will challenge the teamSaturday. Truman is looking forrevenge against Northern

Colorado, who bested the squad3-0 in early September at theDivision II Colorado PremierChallenge.

Wang said the match againstPittsburg State will be a good testfor the ‘Dogs.

“For players, it might be apressure match,” he said. “Butfrom a coach’s perspective, it’s agood way to test a high-levelpressure situation for the team.”

Sears said the play at this tour-nament will be more challengingthan in previous tournaments thisyear.

“There are a lot of good teamscoming here,” she said. “It’sgoing to be a good test to deter-mine where we are.”

Aaron Hawes/IndexOutside hitter Jessica Sears goes up for one of her 60 killattempts against Rockhurst University (Mo.) on Saturday. Searsknocked down a career-hhigh 28 kills to go with her 10 digs.

and contributing 10 digs, whilefreshman outside hitter SarahShearman threw in a double-dou-ble of her own with 19 kills and22 digs.

Head coach Qi Wang said heexpected a hard-fought matchagainst Rockhurst.

“It was a good, tough match,”Wang said. “We haven’t had a lotof good matches where we have tofight for pride and key points.”

The ’Dogs hosted SouthwestBaptist University (Bolivar, Mo.)on Oct. 2 at Pershing Arena. Thesquad swept the Bearcats in threegames, as Shedd led the ’Dogswith 24 assists. As a team, the’Dogs held the Bearcats to a .029attack percentage.

Just one day later, Trumanentertained Missouri SouthernState University (Joplin) on

Friday in a matchthat lasted onlyone hour and 20minutes. The’Dogs demolishedthe Lady Lions inthree games.Shearman led the’Dogs with 19kills, and Searspicked up yetanother double-double, contribut-ing 14 kills and 16digs.

Shedd said that playing threematches in three days will onlyhelp the team in the future.

“We have to play three in a rowat the conference tournament,three in a row at regionals, andthree at nationals,” she said.

The squad traveled to QuincyUniversity (Ill.) for a non-confer-ence matchup Tuesday night.

5-4 dual loss to CentralCollege ends otherwiseimpressive fall season

About 1,300 see ’Dogsdefeat Rockhurst infour games Saturday

“[Rockhurst] was agood, tough match.We haven’t had a

lot of good matcheswhere we have tofight for pride and

key points.”

Qi WangVolleyball head coach

John ScognamiglioStaff Reporter