{"id":2198,"date":"2015-11-14T21:02:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2015-11-14T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:03:09","slug":"tough-loss-for-a-young-team-simon-frasier-edges-out-western-in-four-nail-biting-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/tough-loss-for-a-young-team-simon-frasier-edges-out-western-in-four-nail-biting-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough loss for a young team Simon Frasier edges out Western in four nail-biting sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Grace Knapp \r\nFreelance Writer<\/pre>\n<p>The young WOU volleyball team faced Simon Frasier University on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015.  <\/p>\n<p>Battling for every point, the 7-18 Wolves eventually succumbed to the 12-12 Clan after four hotly contested sets.  The set scores were 26-24, 25-23, 25-15, and 25-22. <\/p>\n<p>In the opening set, the score difference between the teams never exceeded three points, and the Wolves secured four aces.<\/p>\n<p>However, this wasn\u2019t enough to win the set, and WOU fell to SFU 26-24. <\/p>\n<p>Motivated by the close set, the Wolves rallied their efforts in the second.  Although the Clan took an early lead of 20-15, the pack overtook the five point deficit and tied the score 22-22, eventually winning the set with a kill by Sydney Blankinship (MB).<\/p>\n<p>Western quickly fell behind, leading to a disappointing set loss of 25-15. Fighting to stay in the game, WOU secured an early lead of 15-20 in the final set, but ultimately fell to SFU 25-22. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Brad Saindon feels like the close battle with SFU shows the true potential of the Wolves. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team continues to improve daily. We put ourselves in position to win regularly, and I believe if we continue to work and stay on course that the wins will start coming,\u201d Saindon said. \u201cWe are so close, and our games show that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A strong contributor to the team\u2019s potential is junior Christie Colasurdo (L) who leads the GNAC in digs, and is currently ranked fourth in the nation in digs per set.<\/p>\n<p>Colasurdo does everything she can to help her team on defense in the hope that they can finish out the season with some wins.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, the Wolves face Montana State-Billings at home on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. For tickets and game information, visit the ticket office during regular business hours in the New P.E. Building, or call 503-838\u20138917.<\/p>\n<p>Update: On Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015 the Wolves lost in three sets to Concordia University at home.  The set scores were 25-23, 26-24 and 25-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Grace Knapp Freelance Writer The young WOU volleyball team faced Simon Frasier University on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015. Battling for every point, the 7-18 Wolves eventually succumbed to the 12-12 Clan after four hotly contested sets. The set scores were 26-24, 25-23, 25-15, and 25-22. In the opening set, the score difference between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"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-2198","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\/2198","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\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}