The Sandspur

Issue date: 10/23/06 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Courtesy of Jim Hogue

After going undefeated in the first day of play at the Carson-Newman Invitational in Jefferson City, Tennessee on Friday, October thirteenth the Tars split their matches on Saturday the fourteenth to finish 3-1.

On Friday, Rollins overpowered host Carson-Newman in their first match 3-1 thanks to outstanding play by junior Piper Young, Rollins' athlete of the week, who tallied twenty-eight kills in that match alone.
Libero Kim Cline had seven digs in the first part of an impressive defensive effort. Kline had twenty digs in the second match against Newberry College, where Piper Young again put in an extraordinary display of hitting with twelve more kills. The Tars beat their second opponent 3-0.

They continued these winning ways Saturday against their first opponent, Lenoir-Rhyne, taking them 3-2. Young once again led the Tars on the offense, with twenty-one kills and an impressive ten digs on defense. But although she added twenty-two more kills to her offensive total in the second match the Tars fell to University of South Carolina-Aiken 3-1. Setter Lacey Malarky tallied her usual forty-six assists in the losing effort.

Rollins' have a match against Florida Southern College at home on Wednesday, October 18. Then they go on the road for games against Florida Tech on October twentieth and Barry on the twenty-fourth.

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