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VOLLEYBALL NEWS AND NOTES

11/1/2004


Junior Megan Gross is on track to become the third Retriever to reach 3,000 career assists.

Baltimore, Md. – News and Notes this week puts a watch on Megan Gross to reach 3,000 career assists, revisits the Retrievers come-from-behind thrilling win over Stony Brook and Christine Skala’s career single-game high of 26 digs against New Hampshire plus much more.  


 


LOOKING AHEAD


RETRIEVERS NEED TO MAKE A MOVE WITH REGULAR SEASON WINDING DOWN


With four regular season games left the UMBC Women’s Volleyball team needs to make a move to reach the top-four in the conference and advance to the America East Tournament.  With only the top-four entered in the conference championship tournament, the Retrievers will need to upset their counterparts in the coming weeks with three of their final four opponents ahead of them in the standings.  The Retrievers are currently tied for sixth with a 3-7 conference mark, two games behind Stony Brook and Binghamton who are tied for fourth with 5-5 league records.  UMBC this week travels to Binghamton and Albany to face the Bearcats, who downed the Retrievers in three sets, and the Great Danes, who are at the top of the conference charts with a 10-0 league mark.  Albany defeated UMBC in three sets earlier this year.  UMBC will play their remaining to regular season games at home with Northeastern and Hartford coming to UMBC on Nov. 12 and 13.


 


WEEKLY WRAP


 


UMBC COMES FROM BEHIND TO DEFEAT STONY BROOK IN FIVE SET THRILLER


The UMBC Women’s Volleyball team rallied from a two set deficit to defeat Stony Brook by a final of 3-2 (15-30, 26-30, 30-28, 30-20, 15-13) at UMBC RAC Arena last Tuesday night.  The game marked the first time the Retrievers have rallied from a two-set deficit to come-from-behind and win the five-set match since the Retrievers defeated the University of Pennsylvania on Sept. 20, 2003 at the Villanova Invitational.  Four Retrievers hit double-figure kills and junior setter Megan Gross handed out a season-high 56 assists to lead the Retrievers.  Four Retrievers hit double figures as Jocelyn Teoh tallied 20 kills, Emily Berman 19, Julia Hood 15 and Jessie Folk 11.  Gross grabbed her 10th double-double of the year with 56 assists and 11 digs while Teoh added 12 digs for her 17th double-double of the year.  Brittany Hodson finished with six block assists and a solo block.


 


RETRIEVERS FALL TO MAINE AND NEW HAMSHIRE IN CRITICAL WEEKEND MATCH-UPS


UMBC lost to America East Conference foe Maine, 3-0 (30-28, 30-28, 30-26) on Friday night at UMBC RAC Arena and dropped a 3-1 (30-20, 25-30, 31-29, 30-27) decision to New Hampshire on Saturday night at home as UMBC fell to a 3-7 league mark heading into the final two weeks of the season.  Against Maine the Retrievers were led by Jocelyn Teoh and Julia Hood with match-highs of 14 kills each.  Megan Gross recorded 31 assists and Christine Skala tallied 11 digs.  Against New Hampshire Skala recorded a career single-game high of 26 digs and Teoh recorded 20 kills and 12 digs while Gross handed out 41 assists and tallied 15 digs. 


 


DAWG BITES


 


CHRISTINE SKALA RECORDS CAREER-HIGH FOR SINGLE GAME DIGS


Junior Christine Skala (Hinsdale, Ill./South Hinsdale) showed why she on the USA Select Team last spring as the junior libero recorded 26 digs in a four-game match against New Hampshire last weekend.  Skala’s 24 digs is a career-high for her in a single game, topping her previous career-high of 22 digs set in her collegiate career debut against Binghamton on Aug. 30, 2002.


 


 


GROSS AND TEOH COMBINE FOR FIVE DOUBLE-DOUBLES IN THREE MATCHES LAST WEEK       


Megan Gross (Montclair, Va./Forest Park) recorded two double-doubles and Jocelyn Teoh (Puchong, Maylasia/Bukit Jalil Sports Academy) tallied three as the two combined for five double-doubles on the week.  Gross now has 11 double-doubles on the year and Teoh is up to 17 to date this season.  Gross’ double-doubles came with 56 assists and 11 digs against Stony Brook and 41 assists and 15 digs against New Hampshire.  Teoh’s double-doubles included a 20-kill and 12-dig performance against Stony Brook, 14 kills and 11 digs against Maine and 20 kills and 12 digs against New Hampshire.  Teoh came close to a triple-double with eight assists against Stony Brook 


                                                                    


2004 Double-Doubles


Name                                           Total 1         Total 2                                       Opponent


Jocelyn Teoh                              20 Kills        12 Digs                                      New Hampshire (10-30-04)


Megan Gross                              41 Assists  15 Digs                                      New Hampshire (10-30-04)


Jocelyn Toeh                              14 Kills        11 Digs                                      Maine (10-29-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              20 Kills        12 Digs                                      Stony Brook (10-26-04)


Megan Gross                              56 Assists  11 Digs                                      Stony Brook (10-26-04)


Megan Gross                              44 Assists  14 Digs                                      Albany (10-22-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              10 Kills        12 Digs                                      at Northeastern (10-16-04)


Megan Gross                              53 Assists  24 Digs                                      at Northeastern (10-16-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              10 Kills        14 Digs                                      at Maine (10-9-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              18 Kills        19 Digs                                      at New Hampshire (10-8-04)


Megan Gross                              55 Assists  16 Digs                                      at New Hampshire (10-8-04)           


Jocelyn Teoh                              14 Kills        11 Digs                                      at Manhattan (10-3-04)


Megan Gross                              31 Assists  19 Digs                                      at Manhattan (10-3-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              12 Kills        14 Digs                                      at VCU (9-28-04)


Megan Gross                              21 Assists  17 Digs                                      at VCU (9-28-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              13 Kills        11 Digs                                      Loyola (Md.) (9-25-04)


Megan Gross                              38 Assists  19 Digs                                      Loyola (Md.) (9-25-04)


Jessie Folk                                 11 Kills        12 Digs                                      vs. Yale (9-18-04)


Megan Gross                              49 Assists  22 Digs                                      vs. Yale (9-18-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              20 Kills        11 Digs                                      vs. Yale (9-18-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              10 Kills        11 Digs                                      vs. West Virginia (9-18-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              12 Kills        10 Digs                                      at Morgan State (9-15-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              17 Kills        14 Digs                                      at William & Mary (9-11-04)


Megan Gross                              44 Assists  12 Digs                                      vs. Loyola (Md.) (9-11-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              19 Kills        10 Digs                                      vs. Loyola (Md.) (9-11-04)


Jocelyn Teoh                              12 Kills        14 Digs                                      St. Francis (Pa.) 9-7-04)


Jocleyn Teoh                              12 Kills        14 Digs                                      vs. Bradley (9-4-04)


Megan Gross                              46 Assists  10 Digs                                      vs. Kent State (9-3-04)


Jocleyn Teoh                              18 Kills        18 Digs                                      vs. Kent State (9-3-04)


 


 


GROSS ON 3,000 CAREER ASSISTS WATCH


Megan Gross (Montclair, Va./Forest Park) is officially on 3,000 career assists watch as the junior setter handed out 128 assists last weekend and has 2,938 for her career.  Gross is 62 assists away from becoming the third Retriever ever to reach 3,000 career assists.  Gross this past week against Stony Brook distributed a season-high 56 assists and went past 2,900 with her 41 assists against New Hampshire.  Gross holds a single-game career high of 67 assists set in a five-game match against Central Connecticut State in 2002.  Gross is also under 100-assists from taking over third place all-time which is currently held by Heather Hollidge with 3,034.  Gross is averaging 10.05 assists per game this season.   


 


UMBC Career Assists Chart


    Name                                 Assists


1. Lanae Baker                    4,722


2. Heather Hollidge             3,034


3. Megan Gross                   2,938


4. Joy Figueredo                  2,501


5. Judy Jackson                   2,481


    -bold denotes active player


 


TEOH GOES OVER 1,200 CAREER KILLS


Senior Jocelyn Teoh (Puchong, Maylaysia/Bujit Jalil Sports Academy), who became the sixth member of the UMBC Volleyball 1,000 Career Kills Club earlier this season, went over 1,200 career kills, becoming the fourth Retriever ever to reach at least 1,200 career kills.  Teoh went past he mark last week in the Retrievers match against Maine.  For the week the senior outside hitter dropped 56 kills.   Teoh, who started the season with 881 career kills, has scored 342 to date this season and holds a career kills mark of 1,223.  Dana Eberly ranks fourth with 1,311 career kills.


 


UMBC 1,000 Kill Club


    Name                                 Kills


1. Kelly O’Brien                    2,161


2. Lisa Cline                         1,869


3. Megan McNamara           1,536


4. Dana Eberly                      1,311


5. Jocelyn Teoh                   1,223


6. Rehena Rentuma           1,064


    -bold denotes active player


 


 


RETRIEVERS RANK SECOND AS A TEAM IN SERVICE ACES ON AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE CHARTS


The Retrievers as a squad rank second behind Albany in service aces per game with 2.03 and 193 on the season.  Emily Berman (Towson, Md./Towson), with 42 on the season ranks second to Eileen Rodrigues of Albany with an averaged of 0.48 this season.  Jocelyn Teoh (Puchong, Maylasia/Bukit Jalil Sports Academy) ranks fifth with 0.44 per game.  As of games through Oct. 24 the Retrievers ranked 29th in the NCAA Charts as a team for service aces per game. 


 


RETRIEVERS ON AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE CHARTS


Emily Berman (Towson, Md./Towson) and Jocelyn Teoh (Puchong, Maylasia/Bukit Jalil Sports Academy) rank fourth and fifth on the America East kills chart with Berman averaging 3.65 kills per game and Teoh with 3.60 kpg.  A number of other Retrievers are showing up in various categories as well with Megan Gross (Montclair, Va./Forest Park) ranking fifth in assists per game at 10.05, Christine Skala (Hinsdale, Ill/Hinsdale South) ranking eighth in digs per game at 3.43 and Teoh in 10th with 3.09 digs per game. 


 


GROSS ONE-BACK OF SEVENTH ALL-TIME ON ASSISTED BLOCKS CHART


Junior Megan Gross (Montclair, Va./Forest Park) moved one assisted block behind seventh place and six assisted blocks behind sixth place all-time on the Retrievers’ career assisted block charts.  Sophomore Jessie Folk (S. Elgin, Ill./St. Charles North) and senior Jocelyn Teoh (Punchong, Malaysia/Bukit Jalil Sports Academy) also rank on the Retrievers top-10 chart for career assisted blocks.  Folk has 139 career blocks and ranks fifth while Teoh leads all active players in career assisted blocks with 164 and is fourth all-time. 


 


UMBC Career Assisted Blocks Chart


        Name                             Assisted Blocks


3.     Dana Eberly                  191


4.     Jocelyn Teoh               166


5.     Jessie Folk                   139


6.     Rehena Rentuma       129


7.     Anna Gibbs                   124


        Lisa Cline                     124


9.     Megan Gross               123


    -bold denotes active player


                                                                                                                                                               


TEOH TAKES OVER SIXTH ALL-TIME ON CAREER TOTAL BLOCKS CHART


Jocelyn Teoh (Punchong, Malaysia/Bukit Jalil Sports Academy) recorded eight total blocks to jump past three Retrievers and take sixth place all-time on the Retrievers career total blocks chart last week.  Teoh earlier this year became the fourth Retriever to achieve, 1,000 kills, 200 blocks and 100 service aces.  The others are Kelly O’Brien (2,161 kills, 251 blocks, 174 aces), Lisa Cline (1,869 kills, 208 blocks, 160 aces) and Rehena Rentuma (1,064 kills, 365 blocks, 189 aces). 


 


 UMBC Career Total Blocks Chart


        Name                             Total Blocks


5.     Kelly O’Brien                 251


6.     Jocelyn Teoh               210


7.     Lisa Cline                     208


8.     Loreta Saurusaitis      205


9.     Anna Gibbs                   204


        -bold denotes active player


 


WACLAWIAK IN SEVENTH PLACE ALL-TIME FOR CAREER SERVICE ACES


Senior Julia Waclawiak (San Antonio, Texas/Ronald Regan) moved past Lisa Cline for seventh all-time on the Retrievers career Service Aces Chart.  Waclawiak two weekends ago dropped four service aces against Albany and BInghamton.  The senior outside hitter last season recorded the Retrievers eighth best individual serving season with 65 aces, ranking 24th in the nation at 0.59 per game.  Waclawiak this season has 21 aces and needs six to move past Tracey Cullins for sixth all-time.


 


UMBC Career Service Aces Chart


        Name                             Aces


4.     Joy Figueredo              177


5.     Kelly O’Brien                 174


6.     Tracey Cullins              167


7.     Julia Waclawiak         162


    -bold denotes active player


 


SKALA CLOSING IN ON 1,000 CAREER DIGS, TEOH AND GROSS JOIN TOP-10 STATUS


Christine Skala (Hinsdale, Ill./Hindsdale South) is looking to become the seventh Retriever in program’s history to reach 1,000 career digs as she continued her climb last week with 48 digs, including a career-single game high 26 against New Hampshire.  Skala is averaging 3.43 digs per game, needing 41 to reach the 1,000 digs plateau.  Jocelyn Teoh (Puchong, Malaysia/Bukit Jalil Sports Academy) and Megan Gross (Montclair, Va./Forest Park) joined the top-10 list last week as Teoh had 35 digs and Gross 31.   


 


UMBC Career Digs Chart


        Name                             Digs


6.     Lisa Cline                     1,197


7.     Christine Skala           959


8.     Jocelyn Teoh               854


9.     Megan Gross               847


10.  Heather Hollidge         842


Julia Waclawiak         795


 


FOLK THE FIRST RETRIEVER TO JOIN SINGLE-SEASON CHART.


With four regular season games left Jessie Folk (S. Elgin, Ill./St. Charles North) became the first Retriever this season to join a top-10 single season chart.  Folk currently ranks sixth with 64 to date this season.  Megan Gross (Montclair, Va./Forest Park) is averaging 10.05 assists per game, good enough to rank on the Retrievers’ single-season assists per game chart, but needs at least 1,000 assists to make the chart (currently has 955 to date this season).  Folk this season has 64 assisted blocks.  In her freshman campaign she assisted in 75 blocks with a No. 4 all-time ranking.


 


UMBC Single-Season Assisted Blocks Chart


        Name                             Year       Assisted Blocks


4.     Jessie Folk                   2003       75


5.     Dana Eberly                  1994       69


6.     Jessie Folk                   2004       64


7.     Jocelyn Teoh               2003       63


        Megan Gross               2003       63


        Kara Welniak                2000       63


 


  


 


 


CHASING SINGLE-SEASON TOP-10 RANKINGS


With four regular season games left, a number of Retrievers are looking towards owning single-season top-10 status.  Below is a look at how the top Retrievers in their respective categories are in comparison to a top-10 ranking.


 


SINGLE-SEASON KILLS


        Name                             Kills


                                                434


        Jocelyn Teoh                342


        Emily Berman              321


 


SINGLE-SEASON ASSISTS


        Name                             Assists


                                                1069


        Megan Gross               955


 


SINGLE-SEASON DIGS


        Name                             Digs


                                                414


        Christine Skala            326


        Jocelyn Teoh                294


        Megan Gross               286


 


SINGLE-SEASON Total Blocks


        Name                             Total Blocks


                                                89


        Jessie Folk                   69