{"id":1973,"date":"2015-11-01T06:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2015-11-01T06:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:39:21","slug":"volleyball-secures-dramatic-four-set-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/volleyball-secures-dramatic-four-set-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball secures dramatic four set victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jamal Smith\r\nSports Editor<\/pre>\n<p>The women\u2019s volleyball team edged out Saint Martin\u2019s University (SMU) in a tense four sets on Saturday Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The scores for the four sets were 25-19, 25-23, 21-25 and 29-27.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the first two sets, WOU looked to sweep SMU with a win of the third set.<\/p>\n<p>With the score tied at 10-10, the Saints would go on a five point unanswered run and would pull away from the Wolves, eventually winning the set 25-23.<\/p>\n<p>SMU continued to build momentum in the fourth set, going up on WOU 11-5. But the Wolves clawed their way back, eventually tying the score at 23-23.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the score tied at 25-25, the Wolves buckled down and took their first lead of the fourth set at 26-25 on a long back-and-forth volley. SMU wouldn\u2019t go down without a fight though, and responded by leveling the score twice before the women would put SMU away with a kill from redshirt sophomore Sydney Blankinship. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really happy at how hard we fought today, especially in that last set,\u201d head coach Brad Saindon said. <\/p>\n<p>Redshirt sophomore Alisha Bettinson (OH) led the Wolves with 14 kills and 6 blocks, and redshirt sophomore Sydney Blankinship (MB) and redshirt freshman Amanda Short (OH) each added 9 kills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are improving each game and our confidence is coming around,\u201d added Saindon. \u201cI think we can be a really threatening team for the rest of the season, and the future looks bright for us as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conference victory improves Western Oregon\u2019s overall record to 7-14, and 4-8 in GNAC conference play, and is the Wolves\u2019 third consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves hit the road on Saturday, Oct. 31, to play Northwest Nazarene University before returning home to play Western Washington University on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women\u2019s volleyball team edged out Saint Martin\u2019s University (SMU) in a tense four sets on Saturday Oct. 24. <\/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-1973","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\/1973","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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}