Oct. 27, 2007
Box Score
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Outside hitter Jaime Anderson (Sr., SeaTac/Mount Rainier) had eight of her match-high 17 kills in the opening game and Western Washington University went on to a 30-16, 30-23, 30-16 victory over Montana State University Billings in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball contest Saturday on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium.
The Vikings, ranked No.2 in the NCAA Division II Pacific Region, improved to 17-4 overall and stayed atop the GNAC with their 12th consecutive victory. Ten of those 12 victories have been sweeps, including the last five.
MSUB fell to 15-9 overall and 8-7 in the GNAC. Jennifer Boe and Devon Crotteau each had 11 kills for the Yellowjackets, who have lost five of their last seven matches after a 13-4 start.
Anderson had eight kills and no errors in nine attacks in the opening game, helping the Vikings jump to a 13-5 lead and never be threatened. The second game was the closest of the three. Western led by as much as nine, but the Yellowjackets closed to within five, 28-23, before the Vikings closed out the game.
Libero Courtney Schneider (Sr., Snohomish) had a match-high 25 digs to move into the lead nationally in that category. Schneider is averaging 7.53 digs a contest, narrowly ahead of Mayssa Bazzi of Wayne State (Mich.), who is at 7.51.
Schneider also upped her school and GNAC career-record total to 2,401, which ranks sixth all-time in NCAA II.
Middle blocker Tiana Roma (Jr., Edmonds/Edmonds-Woodway) had 10 kills and six blocks for Western. The Vikings had an attack efficiency of .352, with 45 kills and seven errors on 108 attacks. It was the third straight match that the Vikings had single-digit attack errors.
Schneider's career per game average of 6.89 is national-record pace, well ahead of the current standard (6.06). She was the national leader in 2006 and placed fourth in 2005.
Western next travels to Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, Nov. 1 (7 p.m.) for a GNAC counter.
