{"id":1779,"date":"2015-10-16T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2015-10-16T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:59:51","slug":"volleyball-falls-short-in-close-contest-with-concordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/volleyball-falls-short-in-close-contest-with-concordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball falls short in close contest with Concordia"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jamal Smith \r\nFreelancer<\/pre>\n<p>The Western Oregon volleyball team lost at home in four sets on Oct. 13, 2015 to Concordia University (CU).  The set scores were 25-19, 25-22, 21-25 and 25-20, in favor of CU.<br \/>\nThe Wolves fell behind in the first set 5-12 but clawed their way back, eventually bringing the score to 14-19.  It would continue to go back and forth from there, but CU would eventually win the set 25-19.<br \/>\nCU won the second set after a tight battle, resulting in 25-21.<br \/>\nAfter the two-set break, the Wolves came out with great energy and determination, winning the third set 25-20.<br \/>\nThe fourth and final set was even at 13-13, but CU would outscore the Wolves 12-7 to close out the match.<br \/>\nFirst year player Amanda Short (OH), led the Wolves with 13 kills, and she also tallied 1 ace and 2 blocks. Junior Paige Kelsey (S\/OPP) had 9 kills, 1 ace and 6 blocks.<br \/>\nThe loss brings the Wolves\u2019 overall record to 4-14 and 1-8 in GNAC conference play.<br \/>\nThe Wolves\u2019 hit the road on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2015 to take on Montana State University, before heading home for a two game stand against Seattle Pacific University on Thursday Oct. 22, 2015 at 7 p.m. and then Saint Martin\u2019s University on Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the New P.E. Building.<br \/>\nFor more information about the game or to purchase tickets, please call 503-838-8917 or visit the New P.E. Building, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Oregon volleyball team lost at home in four sets on Oct. 13, 2015 to Concordia University (CU).  The set scores were 25-19, 25-22, 21-25 and 25-20, in favor of CU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}