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Post by skrapheap on Sept 3, 2019 14:45:03 GMT -6
On paper, the 2019 Panther Volleyball team should be much improved over the teams from the past few seasons. After several years of underclassmen-dominated rosters, upperclassmen outnumber underclassmen, ten to eight. That gives Coach Johnson more experience to work with.
The Panthers placed seventh (out of nine teams) in the 2019 pre-season poll, which is largely a reflection of their recent performance in league play.
One exhibition match and a three-match tournament on the books, the team has started the season much better. They are off to a 3-0 start, the first such since 2016.
The Panthers traveled to Bradley University for an exhibition match, and won, three sets to two. Bradley won the first two sets, but the Panthers got going, winning the next two sets to force a fifth set, which they won comfortably. Experienced players led the way, including Kleja Cerniauskaite, Kylie Wilks, Louise Kiekhofer and Shari Volpis. Allison Grzebien, a transfer who played sparingly in her first season as a Panther in 2018, and newcomer Ari Miller also played important roles in the victory.
The Panthers played in a tournament hosted by Belmont University last weekend, facing Arkansas State and North Alabama in addition to their hosts. The Panthers won all three matches, the latter two in sweeps.
Against Arkansas State, the Panthers won the first set, and then lost the second and third sets. The Panthers weathered the storm, winning set four to force a tiebreaker, which they won. Arkansas played tough defense, especially at the net, where they out-blocked Milwaukee eleven to four. The Panthers outdug the Red Wolves, 72-63, and the Panther service game was very strong as well; the Panthers had 10 aces to five errors; the Red Wolves had five aces to eight errors. Both teams finished with a .120 hitting percentage. Cerniauskaite led the Panthers with 12 kills (on an .081 hitting percentage); Wilks (.235 hitting) and Carmen Heilemann (.250 hitting) had 10 kills apiece. Jess Grabowski led the way with 19 digs, followed by Rylie Vaughn with 17 and newcomer Mati Jakscht with 13. Jenn Dore (21 assists) and Vaughn (18 assists, for a double double) ran the offense. The victory was the program's 500th in Division 1.
Next up was the hosting school, Belmont. The Panthers swept the Bruins, winning the first two sets 25-19 and 25-10, and fought off a determined Belmont team in the third set to win, 26-24. Miller (a team high .526 hitting percentage) and Volpis (.435) had 12 kills each to lead the way, followed by Miller with nine (on a .389 hitting percentage) and Wilks (.120) with six. Grabowski had 21 digs in match. The victory was Coach Johnson's 200th of her career.
The finale for the tournament was a match with the University of North Alabama, a team which has recently transitioned to Division 1 from a lower division. The Panthers swept the Lions, 25-17, 25-19 and 25-12. The Panthers were efficient in the sweep, with 48 kills and nine aces. Miller did it all, with eight kills, three aces, two blocks and two digs, on her way to the tournament MVP honor. Grabowski and Heilemann also made the all-tournament team.
Next on the Panthers's agenda is a weekend tournament hosted by Drake University. Also in the field are Saint Louis and Eastern Washington.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Sept 4, 2019 7:39:40 GMT -6
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 8, 2019 20:56:25 GMT -6
Weekend two of the season took the Panthers to Iowa to play in a tournament at Drake University, featuring Eastern Washington and Saint Louis University in addition to the host team.
Match one on Friday morning was against Eastern Washington. The Panthers won the first and third sets, but the Eagles overcame the Panthers's 2-1 advantage in the fourth set and then won the deciding fifth set. It was the first match loss of the season. The Panthers held the Eagles to negative hitting percentages in the sets they (Milwaukee) won; when the Eagles had a positive percentage, they won the set. The remaining scores of the sets Eastern Washington won were close: 26-24 in set two, 25-22 in set four, and 15-13 in set five. Coach Johnson pointed to consistency as the reason for the loss. The team never really got going on a consistent basis, and didn't execute as they had in previous matches. This might be due in part to some changes in the starting lineup. Coach Johnson has historically used the pre-season to experiment with various combinations of players, trying to find a lineup to rely on for league play. With a more experienced team this year, she may have been expecting more consistency than she got. Louise Kiekhofer and Carmen Heilemann were the only hitters to score in double digits, with 17 and 12 kills respectively. The service game was also not as strong as in previous matches: nine aces to eleven errors. Jess Grabowski, Rylie Vaugh, and Kylee Wilks had double-digit dig totals. The Panther net play was improved, with twelve blocks to seven for the Eagles.
The Panthers bounced back in a big way in the evening match on Friday, beating Saint Louis 3-1. The Panthers split the first two sets, winning 26-24 and losing 25-16. Milwaukee took set three 25-22, and won set four 25-18. The Panther attack was more balanced: Ari Miller led the way with 12 kills, followed by Wilks and Heilemann with 11 each. Shari Volpis contributed nine kills, and Kleja Cerniauskaite added eight. The service game was better, with seven aces to eight errors. The Billikns had three aces and four errors. Grabowski and Vaughn had 15 digs each, Wilks and Mati Jakscht contributed eight digs each. The Billikins outhit the Panthers .245 to .242 for the match, but the Panthers hit above .300 as they put the match away in the third and fourth sets.
For the first time in the matches that count, the Panthers dug themselves a 2-0 hole against the Drake squad. The Bulldogs won set one 25-19, and held on to win set two 26-24. The improvement in play continued from set two onward, ad the Panthers won sets three, four and five by scores of 25-19 and 25-18 before pulling out set five 15-13. Four Panthers reached double-digits in kills: Heilemann had 19 to lead the team; Cerniauskaite had 17 and Miller and Wilks added 10. Kiekofer finished with nine. The Panthers won despite being outserved (seven aces for the Bulldog (against eight errors) to three for the Panthers (against nine errors)) and out blocked 18-9. Coach Johnson commented on the strong team play, which Milwaukee needed to overcome the strength of the Drake defense. The Panthers had 18 more digs than the Bulldogs (95-77) in total. Grabowski had about a third of that total, with 32 digs in the five sets. Wilks (17), Jenn Dore (15), Jakscht (13) and Miller (12) also had double digit totals, accounting for 97 percent of the total.
Heilemann and Grabowski were named to the All-Tournament team.
The Panthers are now off to a 5-1 start to the season, having won 17 of 25 sets so far. Next up is the Panthers home debut, as they host Butler, Southeast Missouri State and Western Michigan. The Panthers play SEMO in the afternoon on Friday and Butler in the evening, finishing with Western Michigan on Saturday afternoon in the tournament finale.
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 13, 2019 21:08:06 GMT -6
The Panthers went 2-0 on the first day of their tournament, sweeping SE Missouri State and winning 3-1 over Butler in a much closer match than expected. The Panthers are 7-1 on the season, their best start since 2007.
The Panthers won the first two sets comfortably, 25-19 and 25-17. The Redhauks tightened their defense int the third set and stayed close, avoiding the long runs which the Panthers used to build leads in the first two sets. Kylie Wilks reached the 1000 mark for digs in her career during the match. She finished the match with seven kills on a .333 hitting percentage, with five digs to reach the milestone. Louise Kiekhofer and Carmen Heilemann also contributed seven kills to the victory; the Panthers were led by Ari Miller who pushed her career high to 13 kills during the match, and Kleja Cerniauskaite who had 12. Milwaukee started out hot, hitting .421 in set one, and .326 in set two. Tighter defense by SEMO and higher numbers of hitting and service errors limited the Panthers to a .080 percentage in the final set, but as the Redhawks hit .241, .139, and .032 in the three sets, the Panthers got the sweep. SEMO had a two to one advantage in service aces and an eight to two advantage in blocks. The Panther block remains a work in progress, but as the Panther defense continues to get plenty of digs, the team has continued to win.
In the second match of the day, the Panthera faced the Butler Bulldogs, who entered the match with one win and five losses. The Bulldogs had a height advantage, and used it to good effect throughout the match, enjoying a ten to four advantage at the net. The Panthers won the first, third and fourth sets, 25-16, 25-22, and 25-17. The Bulldogs won set two 25-23, and played the Panthers tough for the most part. The Panther service game was much better in the match, as the Panthers had nine aces to only one for the Bulldogs. The Panthers made up for the discrepancy at the net by outdigging the Bulldogs 80-67. Milwaukee once again had balanced scoring. Heilemann led with 12 kills, but Miller, Cerniauskaite and Shari Volpis had nine kills each, and Wilks had eight.
Tomorrow's tournament finale will be a distinct challenge. Western Michigan won both matches today, outlasting Butler in a five set match, and sweeping SEMO. The Broncos are also off to their best start since 2007, and will enter the match tomorrow afternoon unbeaten at 8-0 to the Panthers's 7-1 record.
Coach Johnson has been stressing getting off to goods starts, and the Panthers did that today. It will greatly increase the Panthers's chances against the Broncos if they can do so again tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 14, 2019 15:29:51 GMT -6
The Panthers dominated Western Michigan this afternoon, putting together a 25-18, 25-9, 25-15 sweep of the previously undefeated Broncos. The domination shows up and down the stats sheet: The Panthers outhit the Broncos .394 to .162, making 10 fewer errors to go with a 42-31 advantage in kills. Milwaukee had five service aces to one for Wetern Michigan. The Panthers had eight more digs and the only block of the match. Freshman Ari Miller led the scoring attack with ten kills, followed by Carmen Heilemann with nine, Shari Volpis with eight, and Kleja Cerniauskaite with seven. Rylie Vaughn has 27 assists to go with six digs; Jenn Dore has 11 assists and a kill.
I was expecting to watch a close match, and it started out that way, but it didn't stay close for long.. The teams tied the score eight times to an 8-8 tie in the first set, and then the Panthers did something which the Broncos never managed to do consistently; Milwaukee scored five consecutive points to open a 13-8 lead, then scored five of the next eight points to push the lead to 17-11. The Broncos strung together four points to narrow the lead to 17-15. The lead stayed at two to three points to 20-18, when the Panthers ran off five consecutive points to finish the set.
The Panthers never trailed in set two, jumping out to leads of 2-0 and 4-1. A five point run pushed the lead to 9-3, followed by a five point run which opened a ten point 15-5 lead. The lead reached 14 as 22-8, and the Panthers served for the set with 16 set points.
Set three was tied at 1-1, when the Panthers went on an eight point run, to a 9-1 lead. The claost the Broncos could get thereafter was four points at 12-8. The Panthers responded with a three point run, to reestablish the lead at seven. The lead reached eight at 22-14., and the Panthers scored three of the last four points of the match to finish the sweep.
The match win, the fifth in a row for Milwaukee, puts the Panthers record at 8-1, the best start to a season since 2006. The 2006 team won 14 consecutive matches and finished 26-3 for the year.
Next up is the Panthers's first single match of the season, hosting Northern Illinois University on Tuesday evening.
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 20, 2019 20:47:27 GMT -6
The Panthers played two matches today in South Dakota State's tournament.
Milwaukee opened the tournament against the University of Missouri Kansas City, and swept the Kangaroos, 25-20, 25-23. and 25-17. The Panthers dominated the match thoroughly, hitting .358 to .255 to Kanasa City (the third consecutive match in which they hit above .300), and finishing with seven aces in three sets to two for KC. The Panthers had 40 digs to 35 to for the Kangaroos. Ari Miller had a match-high 15 kills on a gaudy .565 hitting percentage. Shari Volpis contributed 11 and hit .429. The victory was the Panthers's seventh consecutive match win.
The evening match with the host South Dakota State Jackrabbits was a complete contrast. The Panthers played horribly in the first two sets, falling 25-22 and 25-18. Milwaukee hit .214 in the first set and .125 in the second. They gave away six points on service errors. The Jackrabbits hit .250 and .342 in the first two sets; they were not playing like a 3-7 team against a 10-1 team. The Panthers's downfall was their weakness in recent seasons: susceptibility to giving up runs coupled with an inability to string together points and sustain runs of their own. In the first set, South Dakota State got out to a lead from the start of the match, and the Panthers never recovered. They did manage to make the score respectable, but they could never string together enough points to take the lead. In set two, the Panthers started better, and had some early leads, but again they gave up runs which allowed the Jackrabbits to retake the lead, and then stretch the lead and maintain it to a seven point margin of victory.
After the poor showing of the first two sets, the Panthers recovered in the third sst. They led throughout the set, and won by four at 25-21. At its high point, the Panther lead was at seven points, at 17-10. The Jackrabbits fought back, but the Panthers managed to counter with enough points to take the set. Milwaukee hit a robust .333 in the set to .211 for South Dakota State. Set four was a nail-biter at the end, as the Jackrabbits chipped away at a 16-10 Panther lead and cut it to 19-17. The Panthers traded points to a 22-19 lead and a Jackrabbits time-out. The Panthers expanded the lead to 23-19 out of the time-out, and held on for a 25-21 win to force a fifth set. Milwaukee edged SD State in hitting for the set, .385 to .325. After four sets, Milwaukee was still being outhit .283 to .261.
Having fought hard to even the match, the Panthers had an easier time of it initially in the final set. They got out to a quick 5-2 lead into a SD State time-out, a lead which they held at 8-6 at the midpoint of the set when the teams changed sides. The Jackrabbits were not going to lose without a fight, and the Panthers took a time-out leading 9-7. The Jackrabbits got the lead down to one on a couple of occasions, but the Panthers pushed the lead back to 13-10 to force the final South Dakota State time-out. The final score of the set was 15-10 Panthers, to give them the match three sets to two. Jess Grabowski served an ace for the final point; one of three that the Panthers had against 11 service errors.
The Panthers are 11-1 on the season, 2-1 in five set matches. They have the best non-league record in the Horizon League to this point. Their final match of the tournament will be against Valparaiso. The Crusaders went 1-1 in today's action, sweepng South Dakota State but losing 3-1 to Kansas City; they are now 5-7 on the season. After facing Valpo on Saturday morning, the Panthers will host the Crusaders in their final non-league match on Tuesday night. Next Saturday night, the Panthers begin league play in Chicago, then travel to Green Bay on Sunday to face the Phoenix. The Panthers will play their first four league matches on the road, then play four of the next five at home.
I wasn't going to pay six bucks to watch a single match in the tournament, so I followed the match on LiveStats. While I was doing that, i watched Green Bay play Marquette in Milwaukee. Green Bay is the favorite in the pre-season league poll, and they were 7-1 going into the match. However, Marquette is nationally ranked, having beaten a couple of other ranked teams, including the Badgers in Madison. The Phoenix played tough, but Marquette swept the match, 25-19, 25-23, and 25-19. It was plain the Phoenix don't have the kind of athletes that the Golden Eagles have on their team. Marquette's defense was able to dig out the best hits the Phoenix could muster, time and again during the match. Balls that would register kills for the Phoenix against other teams were returned by the Golden Eagles. It had to be frustrating for the Phoenix hitters.
The Panthers won't have to face the Golden Eagles this year unless the teams meet in the NCAA tournament.
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 23, 2019 15:25:58 GMT -6
Swamped in all the other great sports news this weekend was the Panther Volleyball team winning another tournament. After two wins on Friday, the Panthers finished play in South Dakota State’s tournament Saturday morning by sweeping former league foe Valparaiso, 25-18, 25-21, and 25-17. The win gave the Panthers a 3-0 record for the tournament, making it the fourth tournament they’ve won this season. The match victory was the ninth in a row, and gave the Panthers a 12-1 record in non-league play.
Freshman Ari Miller was the MVP of the tournament. Jenna Miller and Carmen Heilemann also made the all-tournament team.
Ari Miller was also named HL Offensive Player of the Week.
The lone remaining non-league match is a rematch with Valpo, at home Tuesday night. League play begins Saturday night at UIC.
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 26, 2019 12:09:05 GMT -6
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 27, 2019 18:40:55 GMT -6
Heading into the beginning of league play tonight, here are the HL teams ranked by non-league record, with their pre-season poll rankings: # | School | Record | Poll | 1 | Milwaukee | 13-1 | 7 | 2 | Wright State | 11-1 | 6 | 3 | UIC | 11-3 | 3 | 4 | Green Bay | 8-4 | 1 | 5 | NKU | 7-5 | 2 | 6 | Oakland | 7-5 | 4 | 7 | YSU | 6-7 | 9 | 8 | CSU | 4-7 | 5 | 9 | IUPUI | 4-8 | 8 |
Tonight's Matches (Milwaukee was idle.): NKU swept YSU. Wright State swept Oakland. IUPUI beat Cleveland State in five sets. Green Bay outlasted UIC in five sets.
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 28, 2019 17:28:29 GMT -6
The win streak is at 11.
The Panthers had won their last 10 non-league matches heading into the league opener against UIC in Chicago. They left with a 3-0 sweep of the Flames, who were ranked third in the preseason poll.
Offensively, it was the Kleja Cerniauskaite show, as she lead all scorers with 17 kills. She added a solo block and a dig.Ari Miller had nine kills and Carmen Heilemann eight. Shari Volpis had six kills in just two sets played. Rylie Vaughn had a double-double with 23 assists and 18 digs.
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Post by skrapheap on Sept 29, 2019 16:12:09 GMT -6
When I looked at the schedule when it was released, I saw the Panthers had a tough opening weekend of league play ahead of them. UIC and Green Bay would be ranked third and first, respectively, in the pre-season poll when it came out, and the Panthers were slated to face both on the road.
My expectations were modified somewhat by the team’s performance in non-league play. The Panthers cruised through their non-league schedule with one loss, the best of any league team. 12-1 was a great start, compared to 11-3 for the Flames and 8-4 for the Phoenix. One of those Green Bay wins was against Ohio State, and Horizon League teams don’t beat Big Ten teams very often. I knew Coach Johnson has made a practice of scheduling talented teams in non-league play, to toughen her players for league play, but it appeared that UIC and Green Bay were both challenging themselves as well. And the league poll is voted on by the coaches themselves, and no voter predicted Milwaukee would win the league (coaches can’t vote for their own teams, so if Coach Johnson was confident in her veteran team, she couldn’t have put them first on her ballot.)
I would have been happy with the Panthers going 1-1 on the weekend. 0-2 would have been acceptable if they acquitted themselves well.
Yesterday the Panthers swept the Flames in Chicago, one day after UIC took Green Bay to five sets before the Phoenix won. Today the Panthers swept the Phoenix, 25-13, 25-21, and 28-26. Milwaukee is now 14-1 on the season; the last time they were 14-1, they set a season record for victories with 26, finishing 26-3. I won’t predict now that the 2019 Panthers will end up with that record, but the rest of the league has to have noticed that the Panthers are a force to be reckoned with.
Reigning POTY Taylor Wolf led the Phoenix (and all scorers) with 15 kills. Carmen Heilemann 12 kills to lead the Panthers, and Ari Miller had 11. The tale of this match is the tale of the hitting percentages. The Panthers outhit the Phoenix .199 to .096 overall. Milwaukee outhit Green Bay in the first two sets, but still managed to win the third set despite being outhit .184 to .164.
The first started according to a pattern familiar to this season, with the teams trading points to a tie at six-all. Then the Panthers went on a run, scoring three points to take a 9-6 lead and prompt a Phoenix time-out. Green Bay scored four of the next six points, to cut the lead to 11-10, and the Panthers called a time-out. Out of the break, the Panthers put the set away by scoring eight of the next nine points, including a run of seven straight which the second Phoenix time-out did not stop, giving the Panthers a 19-11 lead. The Panthers finished the set by outscoring the Phoenix 6-2 for the 25-13 win.
Green Bay would recover to play the Panthers much better in sets two and three, but the Panthers were in control most of the match. In set two the Panthers led 11-4 early and were up 18-12 when the Phoenix went on a run, narrowing the lead to 20-18, prompting a Panther time-out. The lead was 21-20 when the Panthers closed out the set by scoring four of the last five points, finishing the set with a kill by Miller.
Set three was a more tightly played affair, as the Panthers led until the Phoenix took a short-lived 23-22 lead. The Panthers retook the lead with kills by Kylie Wilks and Miller to reach match point. Green Bay then successfully fought off three match points before a kill by Kleja Cerniauskaite and a hitting error by Wolf won the match.
I had to follow play on LiveStats, but I will watch the replay as soon as possible, if only to hear Green Bay’s broadcast team’s expressions of disbelief and dismay.
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Post by skrapheap on Oct 3, 2019 17:25:31 GMT -6
Up next for the Panthers is a trip to Ohio to play Cleveland State (Friday night) and Youngstown State (Saturday afternoon).
Cleveland State has been a perennial contender in HL Volleyball, but has been having something of a down year. That perception affected their ranking in the pre-season poll, where they were ranked fifth. The perception has played out in the schedule, as the Vikings were 4-7 going into league play and lost two road matches last weekend. The Vikings took IUPUI to five sets before losing, and lost in four sets to NKU (picked to finish second in the poll). The Panthers will play in the Vikings home opener for league play. The Vikings have won the last nine matches with the Panthers overall. The last time Milwaukee won in Cleveland was in 2014.
YSU was 6-7 in non-league play heading into last weekend, and lost road matches to Northern Kentucky and Wright State. The Panthers swept the Penguins last year and have won six of the last seven matches between the two teams.
The Panthers are one of four teams in the league with a 2-0 record. Green Bay is 1-1, and four more teams, including Milwaukee's opponents for this weekend, are 0-2. The other 2-0 teams, NKU, IUPUI, and Wright State, all won their matches at home last weekend. Milwaukee won theirs on the road. Wright State is at home for the weekend, and NKU and IUPUI are on the road.
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Post by skrapheap on Oct 4, 2019 21:25:34 GMT -6
It took five sets to do it, but the Panthers snapped the Cleveland State Vikings’s nine match winning streak over the Panthers. The scores were 20-25, 25-21, 16-25, 25-13, 15-13.
The Vikings have a strong home record, 44-8 in the last five years, so the close scores were no surprise. The Vikings have lost all three league play but have not been swept. The match statistics were very even.
The Panthers had four players finish with double-digit kills: Ari Miller with 16, Carmen Heilemann with 14, and Kylie Wilks and Louise Kiekhofer with 11 each. Setters Rylie Vaughn (22 and 15) and Jenn Dore (26,and 10) both finished the match with double-doubles in assists and digs.
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Post by skrapheap on Oct 5, 2019 17:04:39 GMT -6
The Panthers made short work of winless Youngstown State, sweeping the Penguins, 25-14, 25-13, and 25-12.
Ari Miller led the way with 12 kills on a gaudy .611 hitting percentage. Kleja Cerniauskaite had 10 kills, and Carmen Heilemann and Louise Kiekhofer added eight kills each. Jenna Miller had six kills on a .429 hitting percentage. Milwaukee hit above .300 as a team for the sixth time this season; their .310 percentage was more than four times higher than YSU’s percentage of .073. This is the fourth time the Panthers have held an opponent below .100 in hitting.
Elsewhere Wright State remained unbeaten with a five-set victory over NKU (overcoming an 0-2 deficit), Oakland swept UIC, and Cleveland State came back two sets down to beat Green Bay in five sets. The Phoenix held a 21-16 lead in set four, but the Vikings fought their way into the lead and held on to force a fifth set. The Vikings dominated set five to get their first win in league play.
The weekend concludes tomorrow with IUPUI at NKU.
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Post by skrapheap on Oct 7, 2019 11:32:14 GMT -6
After four matches on the road, the Panthers play home Friday night against NKU, then travel to Michigan to play Oakland on Sunday. After that, the Panthers have four matches in a row at home: IUPUI on Friday, October 18th, Wright State on Saturday, October 19th, Youngstown State on Friday, October 25th, and Cleveland State on Saturday, October 26th, which will be the start of the second half of the league season.
After this weekend's play, Ari Miller picked up her second offensive POTW honors. She's currently leading the league in hitting percentage, and is seventh in kills per set. She's making a strong case for newcomer of the year in the league.
The Panthers and Wright State are the remaining teams undefeated in league play at 4-0. The Raiders were picked to finish sixth in the pre-season poll, and the Panthers were picked to finish seventh. The teams are currently on winning streaks that are among the longest in D1 this season: Milwaukee has won 14 consecutive matches, and Wright State 15 (the longest streak in 2019). The Raiders haven't lost since their season-opening match. They will host Cleveland State and then travel to UIC and Green Bay before coming to Milwaukee to play. On paper, at least, there is a decent chance that the match in Milwaukee on October 19th will feature two unbeaten teams.
NKU is alone in third place with a 3-1 record. They were picked to finish second in the preseason poll, and will provide a challenge on Friday night.
Green Bay and IUPUI are tied for fourth place with 2-2 records. UIC, Oakland and Cleveland State are tied for sixth with 1-3 records. Youngstown State is winless and in last place.
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