NIU Invitational - Season Opening Weekend

[WuDrWu]

Good service from Gabby and Emily gets us a 17-12 lead, timeout Aggies.

[WuDrWu]

Just can't have points like that.....EVER. 20-16

[WuDrWu]

Gotta have a point here.......

[WuDrWu]

Damn it!

[WuDrWu]

Absolutely falling apart here.

[WuDrWu]

Tied at 20....just can't do ANYTHING right.

[WuDrWu]

It's going to take a minor miracle to win now.....come on girls!

[WuDrWu]

BIG.

[WuDrWu]

The Aggie slide is killing us....we can't seem to defend it. 23-21 Shocks

[WuDrWu]

Jeez....off the freaking tape for an ace. 23-23

[WuDrWu]

You just knew when we blew the 20-14 lead we were dead in the water.

[WuDrWu]

I thought Jackie played well, but the rest of our littles have some work to do.

We saw a lot more of Katie than Ashlyn which stunned me but both seemed in a little deep.

We aren't going to be able to ride Adney, Feekin and Andrade the entire season...someone else is going to have to step up and we just CAN'T have that many service errors when we are just floater serving. If we're going to serve soft, they ALL have to go in.

[1972Shocker]

I will give NMS some credit they have a solid team. But the Shocks have more work to do than I had hoped they would.

We'll see how it goes the rest of this weekend and next weekend, but I may very well have to dial back my expectations for this team a little.

Based on what I saw this evening I will be very happy with a 3rd place finish in the Valley this year. We do have some youth and inexperience on this team so I am hopeful the learning curve will be pretty steep. We will see.

[flyingMoose]

GT link for the match against Northern Illinois on Saturday at 2pm.

[1972Shocker]

Northern Illinois beat North Dakota State Friday night in 5 sets.
Scores were 25-23, 27-25, 18-25, 20-25, 15-10.

In today's 1st match New Mexico State defeated North Dakota State in 4 sets.
Scores were 28-26, 12-25, 25-17, 25-22.