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2014 Schedule I
WCC Standings PORTLAND PILOTS (5-10, 0-4 WCC) at SANTA CLARA BRONCOS (12-5, 2-2 WCC)Date: Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014
Location: Santa Clara, Calif.
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Arena: Leavey Center
Live Video/Stats:
SantaClaraBroncos.com POR vs. SCUOverall Series: 7-49
Here: 4-23
There: 3-25
Neutral: 0-1
Last: @ POR 1, SCU 3, Nov. 2, 2013
PORTLAND PILOTS (5-10, 0-4 WCC)at SAN FRANCISCO DONS (9-7, 2-2 WCC)Date: Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014
Location: San Francisco, Calif.
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Arena: War Memorial Gym
Live Stats:
USFDons.comLive Video:
TheW.tv POR vs. USFOverall Series: 23-36
Here: 13-14
There: 10-22
Neutral: 0-0
Last: @ POR 1, USF 3, Oct. 31, 2013
THIS WEEK • The Pilots are back on the road with a trip down to the Bay Area.
• Portland will first take on Santa Clara on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. in the Leavey Center.
• The Pilots then head up the bay to face San Francisco at 1:00 p.m. in the War Memorial Gym.
• Both matches will have live stats and free video, the San Francisco match will be featured on TheW.tv.
• This will be the 57th meeting between the Pilots and the Broncos. The last match-up went in favor of Santa Clara 3-1 last November at the Chiles Center.
• Portland and San Francisco have played each other 59 times in program history. The Dons won the most recently 3-1 on Halloween last year in Portland, Ore.
LAST WEEK• The Pilots were home for the first time this semester playing a pair of Southern California teams in Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine.
• On Thursday, Portland faced their third ranked opponent in a row in No. 22 LMU. The Pilots played the Lions a tough match, taking the third set and pushing the fourth set to extra points, but LMU escaped with the 3-1 win.
• Portland ended the weekend with a four set match against Pepperdine. The Pilots took the first set convincingly, but the Waves were able to come back and win the match 3-1.
ABOUT THE PILOTS • Portland started out the season strong by winning the Baylor Tournament. Emily Liger was named offensive MVP and Katie Mardesich received defensive MVP honors, while also being named to the All-Tournament team.
• Liger recorded a career high 29 kills in the Pilots Sept. 6 match against San Jose State. This tally puts her at the top of the total kills in four sets WCC ranking. The program record number of kills in a four set match is 32 and was set by Cathy Cook in 1998 against Memphis. Liger currently sits at 21st in the nation in points per set with 4.96 and is also 22nd in the nation in kills per set at 4.32.
• Portland ranks second in digs in the conference with 884 and is led by Mardesich who has the second highest individual mark for digs per set in the conference with 4.47.
• Freshman setter Ali Koumelis was named to the all-tournament team after completing 68 assists during the Idaho Nike Invitational.
• Sophomore Makayla Lindburg received all-tournament recognition at the La Quinta Inn & Suites Invitational.
• Portland leads all WCC teams in service aces during conference play with a tally of 28, with an average of 2.00 per set. Sophomore Djurdjina Milovic and Liger are also at the top of the list for the same category with eight aces total and .57 per set average.
• The Pilots are coached by first-year head coach Brent Crouch. Crouch comes to Portland by way of WCC foe Saint Mary's, where he was an assistant coach. Also new to the program are assistant coaches Nate Ngo and Nellie Coleman.
• Portland returned 10 letterwinners from the 2013 team while only losing three seniors. Five newcomers joined the 2014 team to round out the roster at 15 players.
• Ali Koumelis, Maddy Mandon, Morgan Robinson, Sarah Savoca, and Emily Singleton are the newcomers on The Bluff.
• 11 of Portland's 15 players are either freshmen or sophomores.
• The Pilots were on the road for the first five weeks of the season with trips to Texas, California, Idaho, Utah, and California/Utah accumulating over 6,000 total travel miles.
