The winner of the match earns an automatic berth to the National Collegiate Championship, hosted by Penn State on May 4 and 6.įor more information on the Penn State men?s volleyball team and the 2006 National Collegiate Championship, please visit Harrison (born March 20, 1990) is an American actress. Penn State will host the EIVA Championship Semifinals on Thursday, April 27, with the EIVA Championship Final taking place on Saturday, April 29. The EIVA-champion Nittany Lions earned the top seed in the EIVA Championship and will receive a bye in the championship quarterfinals, originally slated for April 22. 12 IPFW and Ball State on Friday and Saturday, April 14-15. Penn State takes to the road for its final weekend of regular-season play, traveling to No. The last meeting between the two teams at Rec Hall was a four-game Lewis win (30-21, 27-30, 21-30, 27-30) on Feb. 7, 2005 at the Outrigger Invitational in Honolulu, Hawaii. ? Penn State leads Lewis, 10-7, in a series that began in 1994. 336 and averaging 15.79 kills per game, 1.35 service aces per game, 8.24 digs per game, 3.24 blocks per game and 20.39 points per game. Holt leads the blocking front with an average of 1.31 blocks per game and Meerstein chips in 1.15 blocks per game.Īs a team, Penn State is hitting. Junior libero Ryan Walthall leads the team with 1.96 digs per game as Anderson and Wentzel record 1.28 and 1.08 digs per game, respectively. Senior setter Dan O?Dell is returning from knee surgery and is averaging 9.47 assists per game for the year. Sophomore setter Luke Murray directed a majority of the offense against the Buckeyes and is averaging 9.34 assists per game. Five other players record more than 2.00 kills per game, including junior outside hitter Alex Gutor (2.60 kpg), freshman outside hitter Matt Anderson (2.59 kpg), senior middle hitter Nate Meerstein (2.56 kpg), senior outside hitter Kevin Wentzel (2.45 kpg) and freshman middle hitter Max Holt (2.09 kpg). Senior opposite Matt Proper, who collected a career-high 29 kills at Ohio State, leads the squad with an average of 4.23 kills per game. Penn State, the outright Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) champion, is in the midst of taking on four consecutive Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) opponents before the EIVA Championship starts. The Nittany Lions enter Saturday?s contest with a 16-7 overall record after outlasting Ohio State in five games on Tuesday night in Columbus (30-24, 30-21, 28-30, 34-36, 15-12). During the break between games two and three, fans will have the chance to win t-shirts or tickets to the National Collegiate Championship during the serving contest. GameTracker will also be available at Admission to the contest is free and the first 500 fans will receive a 2006 Men?s Volleyball National Collegiate Championship shirt. The contest can be seen live in the State College area on WPSU-TV and on a tape delay basis on CSTV at a date yet to be determined. The contest will also be Senior Night, honoring Dan O?Dell, Matt Proper, Kevin Wentzel, Andrew Price, Nate Meerstein and manager Dong Kim prior to the match. in the Nittany Lions? regular-season finale at Rec Hall. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., ApThe 11th-ranked Penn State men?s volleyball team (16-7) hosts Lewis (9-15) on Saturday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m.
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