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By Steve Carpenter
HCC Sports Information Director
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Going 2-0 last week,
the Hutchinson Community College volleyball team remained No. 14 in
this week’s NJCAA Division I volleyball poll, released on Tuesday.
Hutchinson is 10-4
heading into its home volleyball tournament, the Caribbean Tan
Invitational on Friday and Saturday at the Sports Arena.
This is the 52nd
time in the last 54 polls dating back to 2003 that the Lady Dragons
have been ranked in the NJCAA Division I national poll.
Hutchinson had two
3-0 victories during the last rankings period, sweeping Dodge City
in a Jayhawk Conference battle that evened HCC’s league record to
2-2. Hutch also dispatched of winless Hesston College on the road in
three easy sets.
Hutchinson and
Seward County continue to be the only ranked Division I Jayhawk
Conference teams. Seward County dropped 3 of 4 matches over the
weekend and slips two spots to No. 13.
Five of the eight
teams in this weekend’s’ Caribbean Tan Invitational are ranked
teams, a sixth is receiving notes and the seventh was ranked as high
as No. 13 in an earlier poll this season before falling out.
Hutchinson will open
with perennial Missouri junior college volleyball power Jefferson
College (6-6) at Noon on Friday and will close the day with No. 15
New Mexico Military Institute (16-2) at 4 p.m. on Friday. No. 10
Frank Phillips College (10-8) and Seminole State (10-6) are HCC’s
Saturday opponents at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday. Seminole State
is receiving votes.
Rounding out the
field is No. 5 Iowa Western (14-2), No. 8 Missouri State
University-West Plains (8-5) and Pratt (8-6).
Three Lady Dragons
continue to be ranked in the Top 50 of the NJCAA Division I
statistical categories. Sophomore right side/middle blocker Debbie
Ohl is second in the NJCAA in blocking at 1.43 blocks per set and is
45th in kills at 2.65 per set.
Freshman Kate
Morrell is No. 4 in blocking at 1.27 blocks per set. Freshman setter
Lindsay Dusin is 35th in set assists at 6.51 per set.
NJCAA DIVISION I
VOLLEYBALL POLL
Record
Points Last Week
1. College of
Southern Idaho 16-2 60 1
2. North Idaho
College 17-3
57 3
3. Blinn
College 17-3
54 2
4. Western Nebraska
CC 14-2 51 4
5. Iowa Western
CC 18-1 48
5
6. Salt Lake
CC 16-5
45 6
7. Miami-Dade
College 12-2
42 8
8. Missouri
State-West Plains
8-5 39 7
9. San Jacinto
College 17-4 36
10
10. Hillsborough
CC 13-3 33
9
11. Eastern Arizona
College 11-1
30 13
12. Northeastern
Junior College 11-7 27 12
13. Seward County
CC 14-4 24 11
14. Hutchinson
CC
10-4 21 14
15. New Mexico
Military Institute 16-2 18 15
16. Florida St.
College/Jacksonville 11-1
15 16
17. Laramie County
CC 14-2 12 18
18. Casper
College
14-5 9 NR
19. Pasco-Hernando
CC 13-4 6 NR
20. Frank Phillips
College 10-8 3
17
OTHERS RECEIVING
VOTES: Arizona Western
College (8-7); Indian Hills CC (7-5); Lake Land College (11-7);
Midland College (14-7); Northwest College (8-3); Panola College
(10-4); Seminole State College (10-6); St. Petersburg College (7-3);
Yavapai College (9-8). |
