Weekend wrap up-volleyball

What a tough emotional ride for the girls so far.
Let's just start in the summer time, well just before school was out.
Their asst. coach Phil McDaniel left for Drake, but that was expected, but still prob. hurt.
Then a shocker when Andrew Palileo left for Washington State. What a crappy time to leave, in freaking spring! Then Emily Rooney, perhaps the best player on the team, then Annie Adams left and what's left?
The girls won their first match, and new head coach Nana Allison-Brewer was very happy. Then the Jacks played tough, tough teams and lost a school-record 12 matches in a row. You talk about tough times!
Then the Jacks did a 18- and won 6 matches in a row, during the streak it seemed a Summit League Tourney spot was a given(They had over a whole match over any team for the fourth and final spot).
Then the Jacks hit the road. They took the long bus ride to Tulsa to take on Oral Roberts. Oral Roberts creamed the Jacks at the wide open Aerobics Center(why did my font change?) at Oral Roberts(It is fun to type that!

so this is a lot better! SDSU then lost to NDSU at home and got swept. I heard Ohio took it hard(she cried). Poor girl.
This friday's game against IUPUI is really important for the girl's its at Indiana so the Jungle may give IUPUI the adv.

Last time out, the Jacks beat IUPUI in five sets. But that was at Frost, where the Jacks are 5-3 so far this year. On the road SDSU is 2-11 so far.
The Collegian Blog well be giving updates on friday about the vball matchup.

mens and women's cross country stories

Weekend wrap up-Football and Soccer

hello, this is Ariy-El Boynton and sorry for being away for so while, we're trying to get the best weekly paper we can, so without further delay, heres what happened in SDSU athletics this weekend:
The soccer team failed this weekend to win at Oakland. Too bad for the seniors on SDSU. The Farrell twins were at Frost Arena after the NDSU, win. I think it was the twin that scored(Kellyn) on NDSU. They were happy to get the win at NDSU and noted they had a lot of soccer left to play. Oakland beat them, 2-0.
The Jacks then went to Michigan State and tied the Spatans, 1-1. MSU has not lost at home all year, the Jacks were the only team to force the Spartans to less than a win at the old State Field.
With some time now in bewteen the Summit League championships at Western Illinois, one would wonder how much practice Lang W. gives his girls, or does he try to simulate real game situations?
On to football, the Jacks played a bad and I mean bad Indiana State squad. At the press game, most of the players from ISU had their heads up, well most of the time. Its tough when you know back in your mind, you'll never win a game this season? How do you go to practice and try your hardest every day?
A little tid bit, ISU's head coach Trent Mills, ex-boss at Wash. and Norte Dame was Tyrone Willingham. Bewteen the two of them, they have zero wins. Think they ever get on the phone with each other and just say "keep going" or "this is the week"! Prob. night, they both got familes to take over and one or both should be looking for a job next year.
The Jacks played good enough for a win, Duh! It wasn't a blowout in the first half, because ISU didnt turn the ball over. The Jacks are playing good football right now, despite losing two out of their last three. That defenese sure is good, the lb's and line are impressive.
Jimmy Rogers is the man. That No.3 he wears makes offenese not want to come to the line of scrimmage, sometimes. I expect a paper will do a feature on him... Check:
sdsucollegian.com
No one told me about Adam V., on the sidelines so I have no sorry about him, sorry about that.
Next up for the Jacks is Missouri State, its a winable game but the Jacks must have focus, I think they will.
By the way if you ever get a chance to come to Terre Haute, don't go. I would take my chances at Gary, Fort Wayne or Flint, Mich. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Were back and blogging!

Soccer update...

Breaking news:
Nicole Lograsso, SDSU's senior goalkeeper has been named to the Summit League Player of the Week for her performance last week. Lograsso started the week making 14 saves in a 2-0 loss to Minnesota on Aug. 26. Her 11th career shotout came against Darke and tied her for first all-time in SDSU’s history.
She had 26 saves and recorded a .897 save percentage.
Here are expanded capsules for last week.

Creighton 3, SDSU 2 2OT

The Jacks opened the season against Creighton on August 24 at Omaha. The Jacks found themselves down early after goals by Creighton’s Emily Orbell in the 20th minute of play and Mary Zapapas in the 32nd minute put the Jacks in a 2-0 deficit at half. The Jacks got on the board in the 46th minute as Erin Kasmarik netted her first goal of the season off a pass from Kellyn Farrell. The Jacks tied it up as Danni Healy picked up a rebound off the goalie in the 67th minute and slipped it past to tie it up at 2-all ending the scoring in regulation. It was not until the second overtime when Macy Mauer knocked in a header off a corner kick to give the Blue Jays a 3-2 victory in the 105th minute of play.

Offensively for the Jacks, Healy had four shots including two on goal. Kasmarik, Farrell and Chelsea Goosen had three shots a piece, with Farrell contributing the assist on both Jackrabbit goals. Nicole Lograsso faced five shots on goal and came up with three saves for the Jacks.

Minnesota 2, SDSU 0

The Jacks opened their home schedule on a windy August 26 against Minnesota at Fishback Soccer Park, in front 365 fans. Unfortunately for the Jacks, Minnesota took away the home field advantage from the Jacks by using the wind to put them on the scoreboard.

Tamara Strahota put the Gophers on the board in the 21st minute as her shot found the net giving Minnesota a 1-0 early lead. Minnesota’s Katie Bethke goal in the 85th minute put the game away giving Minnesota a 2-0 decision.

“Niki played a phenomenal game for us,” said head coach Lang Wedemeyer. “I just don’t think we played as smart as we needed to against Minnesota. Right now, I feel that a lot of our senior players are playing hesitant. Almost like they are sort of worried about this being their last year and they are almost trying too hard by not playing with a little bit of freedom.”

For the Jacks, the defense spent a majority of the team pressuring the Gophers. Lograsso was one save shy of her saves record stopping 14 shots in the game. Offensively, Farrell and Kaitlin Justice had shots-on-goal for the Jacks.

“Playing in the wind is always frustrating,” said senior defender Kelly Larson. “But we are used to it. We were not as organized as we are should have been. We were not as clean as we should have been. We make our mistakes and learn from them to get them out of our system. It’s business from here on out.”

SDSU 2, Iowa 1

The Jacks wrapped up a tough four game stretch on August 31 at the University of Iowa.

Iowa’s Keli McLaughlin started the scoring in the 8th minute of play on a shot that got past Lograsso in net putting Iowa up 1-0 early. Steph Peterson’s goal tied it at 1-all in the 64th minute of play. Kelsey Ferguson put the Jacks up 2-1 with her goal, assisted by Emily Quigley, in the 80th minute.

Lograsso and her defense only faced five shots on goal with four saves and is second place on SDSU’s all-time saves list with 205. Kellyn Farrell and Kayla Braffet lead the Jackrabbit offense with three shots and Kelly Larson had two shots for the Jacks. Vanessa Paswaters, Tory Schiltgen and Emily Quigley all had assists on Jackrabbit goals.

The Jacks finally got a taste of victory over a Big Ten Conference opponent as they had been 0-4-1 in the past against Big Ten competition. The Jacks record now stands at 2-2 on the season and host the Jackrabbit Invitational September 12 and 14.

Greatest 70s SDSU Athletes of all-time

The Collegian has look through the record books and asked around and we put together a short list of the greatest athletes to wear the yellow and blue of SDSU. Below is a list of the top players, did we miss anyone? At any rate we will be taking your vote and putting a shortlist in The Collegian.
Rick Resse-Football
Bill Matthews-Football
Dave Manke-Baseball
Garry Bentley-Cross-Country
Joel Brandt-Cross-Country
Mike Engels-Wrestling
Marty Johnson-Tennis
Jeff Hohertz-Wrestling
Lee Colburn-Basketball
Dave Thomas-Basketball
Lynn Boden-Football
Brad Reyonlds-Swimming
Beth Anderson-Swimming
Stan Opp-Wrestling
Dean Krogman-Baseball
Rolf Anderson-Baseball
Chuck Loewen-Football
Gary Maffett-Football

ISU vs. SDSU

By Ariy-El Boynton
Sports Editor
The SDSU football team intended to travel to a Big 12-school in order to "measure" themselves in their opening game of the Jacks’ first year of play in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. What Jackrabbits head coach John Stiegelmeier and company learned that additional measures are needed.
Iowa State scored off their first possession and led wire-to-wire and beat the Jackrabbits 44-17 in front of 46,617 fans at newly upgraded Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa on August 28.
Physically, the Jackrabbits defense played strong, allowing the game to be a contest until the end of the third quarter while the Jackrabbits’ offense struggled.
The game film of the offense will show some bright spots, which can be taken away from the nationally broadcasted contest. The offensive line allowed senior quarterback Ryan Berry plenty of time in the pocket, allowing only one sack and made way for running back Kyle Minnett's 111 yards a rushing touchdown. In addition, sophomore Peter Reifenrath's made a 35-yard field goal while the SDSU punt team forced a fumble in the first quarter.
But the mistakes out weighed the let downs, big time.
"We came down here to measure ourselves," Stiegelmeier said, " I think we're tremendously disappointed in two ways. Number 1 the loss and it's hard to measure yourself when you play so poorly at times."
In his first career start, ISU’s sophomore quarterback Austen Arnaud threw for a touchdown pass and had a 1 yard sneak on the Cyclones’ first offensive drive. Fellow sophomore quarterback Phillip Bates had a touchdown pass of his own. Freshmen wide outs Sedrick Johnson and Darius Darks each caught touchdown passes for Iowa State with each touchdown being highly contested by an SDSU defender.
The Cyclone offense was blessed by good fortune as 20 points came off of SDSU turnovers with the Jacks committing six turnovers in all. Not taking care of the ball is no way for a Football Championship Subdivision team to hope to pull off an upset against a BCS school, and thus the Jacks were treated to a long ride home and 0-1 on the season.
The longest ride back to Brookings for anybody on the team may be the Jackrabbits signal caller, Berry whose day got worse as the night went on, he ended with a school-record five interceptions. To put that in perspective Berry only threw nine interceptions in the whole season, last year.
"It was just one of those games," Berry said. "We just kept turning it over, and that's not how to win these games."
Cyclones’ defensive linemen, Kurtis Taylor and Austin Alburtis who weigh 530 pounds together both caught a Berry pass along with a “pick-six” from cornerback Derec Schmidgall whose 37-yard return put the game way out of the reach for the Jacks at 34-3 with less than 3 minutes in the third quarter. Berry ended up with 170 yards along with a extra point completion at the end of the game.
Stiegelmeier observed that the ISU players were faster than SDSU was used to playing. He was also quick to give the credit to the home team for their performance.
In a game, which showcased unique plays, including five turnovers in the first quarter got a little stranger in the fourth quarter. With more than six minutes left to go in the game, Minett took one of his game high-22 carries up the middle and fumbled the ball. Jacks wide-out JaRon Harris who was at the right place, at the right time scooped up the ball and got to showcase his “wheels,” to give at least one SDSU receiver a touchdown on the young season.
“Expect the unexpected in college football,” said ISU’s lineman Taylor who ended up with four tackles in the game.
Next up for the Jackrabbits are the Penguins of Youngstown State at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium at 6 p.m. on Sept. 6 The Jacks will look to avenge a 23-17 Penguin victory which took place last year in the second week of the season.

Volleyball Info.

The Jackrabbit Volleyball team will be in action on Friday at the Blue Raider Bash at Murfreesboro, Tenn. against Southeast Missouri State at 4: 30 p.m. You will be able listen on 910 AM and Go Jacks.com
The Jacks will be without the services of Annie Adams, Emily Rooney who followed Andrew Palileo to Washington State. If you would like to read his online chat, just hit this link:
http://wsucougars.cstv.com/chat/081908aaa.html.

With six freshmen and four upperclassman, head coach Nana Allison Brewer and staff could have long season. Repeating as Summit League Champs could be difficult without Tina Martin, Adams, Amy Anderson, Rooney and Samantha Pearson, but that is why they play the game!
Here is a quick season preview from Zach Anderson about the 2008 Summit League teams:

Oral Roberts received six out of nine first place votes from the Summit League’s head coaches as favorites to win the conference. The Golden Eagles return five starters plus the libero from last year’s team that went 16-14 overall, 11-5 in Summit League play. The Golden Eagles are led by first-team All-Summit League player, Jackie Oliveira, who currently ranks seventh all-time on ORU’s career kills list with 1,116 kills. ORU also returns senior JoJo Souza, a second-team All-Summit league pick, and sophomore Jocelyn Swier who earned All-Summit League freshman team.

The 2008 Preseason Poll ranks from first to last, Oral Roberts with 62 points, IPFW with 55 points (one first place vote), North Dakota State with 54 points (two first place votes), Western Illinois tallied 38 points, and SDSU came in fifth place with 36 votes. Sixth place was IUPUI with 30 points, Oakland 26 points, UMKC 14 points and Centenary nine points.

IPFW returns five starters from last year including top three kill leaders- Jessica Miller (442), Rebekah Roehm (409), and Mayara Schlindwein (298). The Mastodons have won 20 or more matches in each of the last five seasons.

NDSU returns five starters from last year, including the duo of Summit League Setter of the Year Mattie Johnson, newcomer of the Year Brooke VandenBergh. The Bison will have to replace Summit League Offensive Player of the Year Christy Stuewe and Defensive Player of the Year Kari Fagnan, who set every NDSU digs record her senior year.

Western Illinois returns seven letter winners, including senior setter Sarah Trimpe, who currently ranks second all-time in career assists with 3,075 and all-league selection Monique Houston. The Westerwinds also welcome six freshmen.

SDSU will have a tough time replacing all-time kills leader Kristina Martin, digs leader Samantha Pearson and blocks leader Amy Anderson. The Jackrabbits will replace 2007 Summit League Coach of the Year Andrew Palileo with new head coach Nana Allison-Brewer.

IUPUI returns Chelsea Bastin who led the team with 492 digs in 2007, and Danielle Goodnight who had a career-high 1, 099 assists in 2007. The Jaguars will have to find some offense after the graduations of Carol Newell and Devika Bellamy; they combined for nearly 49 percent of IUPUI’s kills last season.

Oakland returns it’s first ever first-team All-Summit League selection Lauren Duquette to a team that made great strides in 2007 going 8-21 improving from their 1-25 record in 2006. The Golden Grizzlies also return all-freshman team pick, Katy Wilson, and Leah Dupuie; Dupuie tied the single season record with a 1.25 blocks-per-game average.

UMKC returns four starters, the libero, and eight letter winners including junior Jamie Hagerman, the team’s Offensive Player of the Year in 2007. Hagerman finished with 277 kills and 96 blocks during her first year. The Kangaroos also return senior Mandy Tipton, who became just the fifth member of UMKC’s 1,000-dig club in 2007. Tipton needs just 144 digs this season to set a new school record.

Centenary will welcome 10 freshmen to the 12-spot roster with lone senior Ashlee Freeman returning from the 2007 squad.