No. 11 Volleyball Falls to No. 2 Hawaii in Regional Final in Four Games
Jackets finish their season with a 34-4 record

Dec. 14, 2003

Despite Lynnette Moster recording 25 kills and 22 digs while hitting .404
the No. 11 Georgia Tech volleyball team dropped its final match of the
season in front of 9,412 fans to No. 2 Hawaii in four games, 34-32, 31-33,
30-24, 30-25. With the loss, the Yellow Jackets end their season with a 34-4
record while Hawaii improves to 36-1 and advances to the Final Four in
Dallas, Texas next week.

"This was a fantastic match," said head coach Bond Shymansky, who in 77
games as a head coach has yet to fall to a team in three games. "We
appreciate so much everything the Hawaii volleyball program put together,
they are a first-class operation. There was tremendous fan support tonight
from their crowd, and I thought the spirit of their fans was absolutely
tremendous. We are so proud of effort that we gave. We said in the beginning
of the season that we give our best effort and we go out and see what
happens. It might not have been our best execution tonight, some players had
it, some didn't, but the bottom line was that nobody gave up and that
attitude is what got us here to this point in the season. I couldn't be
prouder of our team and the things that they accomplished this season."

Both team's had offensive success, as Tech posted a .297 hitting percentage
and Hawaii had a .320 percentage. For the Jackets, Alexandra Preiss had 22
kills and hit .420 for the night, while Sauer added 15 kills, Gergen nine
and Laura Kuhn added six. Eveland, who finished her career with 6,464 and
ranked 4th on the NCAA career assist list, dished out 70 assists in the
match.

In addition to Moster, defensively the Jackets were led by Marisa Aston who
had 19 digs and Keight Vincent who posted a season-high 15 digs in the
match. At the net, Preiss led Tech with three blocks, Sauer posted two solo
blocks and Kuhn added two block assists.

The difference in the match was outside hitter all-American Kim Willoughby
who played sensational. In the four games, she posted 36 kills while hitting
.394 and hit 13 digs while Lily Kahumoku added 25 kills and 19 digs.

The first game was tight, with neither team holding more than a three point
lead throughout the game. When the first television timeout was allotted,
the Rainbows held a 15-14 lead on a kill from Kahumoku. After the timeout,
the Jackets responded with a kill from Eveland to tie it at 15-15. The teams
battled back and forth before Hawaii built a 25-22 lead on kills from
Willoughby and Duggins. The Jackets fought back and tied it at 28-28 on
kills from Preiss and Moster. After a service error by Gergen, a kill from
Preiss made the score 33-32 and the Jackets scored the final point on a
stuff block from Eveland and Gergen on a Kahumoku attempt. In the game,
Preiss recorded 10 kills and hit .714 while Moster had 7 kills and hit .429.
The Jackets outhit Hawaii .338 to .268 in the game, as Eveland racked up 25
assists in the game. Defensively, Vincent posted 10 digs in the game while
Moster had seven.

The second game was just as exciting, with the team's battling back and
forth throughout. Hawaii built a 8-4 lead early in the game, but Tech fought
back on two kills from Preiss and a kill from Eveland, along with a hitting
error from Duggins to close the score to 9-10. Tech tied the game at 12-12
on a kill crosscourt from Sauer and from then the two teams traded points
with six ties. The Jackets fell behind 21-24 on two kills from Willoughby,
but a service error from Willoughby gave Tech the point and the serve at
22-24. Tech then took a 25-24 lead on a service ace from Gergen, a kill from
Sauer and a hitting error from Tano forcing Hawaii to call its last timeout.
Kahumoku responded with a kill after the timeout tying the score once again
at 25-25. The Jackets then scored on a kill from Preiss and one from Moster
taking a 29-28 lead. Tech had three game points before Willoughby recorded a
kill and then served two bullets, causing Aston and Moster to send
overpasses back over the net, which allowed Kahumoku to record two kills,
giving Hawaii the game, 33-31.

In the third game, Hawaii built a 5-2 lead on three Tech hitting errors
before the Jackets responded with a kill from Moster to make it 5-3. The
Rainbows increased their lead to 17-11 on a pounding kill from Willoughby
before a kill from Moster and a hitting error from Kahumoku made the score
19-17, Hawaii. After a Hawaii timeout, Willoughby recorded one of her eight
kills in the game to give her team a 20-17 lead. Tech kept the deficit at no
more than three points before two blocking errors from the Jackets and a
hitting error by Moster gave Hawaii a 27-22 lead. The Jackets scored on a
kill from Moster, but after a kill from Lundqvist, Willoughby recorded a
solo stuff block on an attack from Kuhn, giving Hawaii the game, 30-24.

Tech built a 3-2 lead in game three on a kill from Gergen, but Hawaii
responded with two kills from Willoughby and a kill from Tano to take a 5-3
lead. The Jackets came back and tied the score at 9-9 but again two kills
from Willoughby gave the Rainbows a quick 11-9 advantage. At the television
timeout, Tech was down 11-15, but Sauer blasted a kill down the line to make
the score 12-15. With the Jackets trailing 17-13, Tech got three straight
kills from Moster, Kuhn and Preiss and a hitting error from Kahumoku to tie
the score at 17-17. Tech then took a 21-19 lead on a kill from Gergen and a
hitting error from Willoughby, but the Rainbows answered with a kill from
Kahumoku and Willoughby and tied the score at 21-21. With the Jackets
trailing 24-22, Sauer recorded a kill to make it 24-23. It would be as close
as Tech would get, as Hawaii had two kills from Kahumoku and the Jackets
recorded hitting errors from Eveland and Moster to give the Rainbows a 29-25
lead. The final point of the match ended as Preiss was called for a ball
handling error.

2003 Georgia Tech Women's Volleyball Roster

ALPHABETICAL
No. Name Pos. Ht. Cl. Hometown (High School/Club Team)
33 Marisa Aston ** DS 5-8 Jr. Huntington Beach, Calif. (Huntington
Beach/Golden West)
1 Jacqui Beebe DS/L 5-6 Fr. Marietta, Ga. (Marietta/Atlanta Juniors)
16 Kele Eveland *** S 5-11 Sr. Grand Rapids, Mich. (East
Kentwood/Kentwood VBC)
4 Jayme Gergen ** MB 6-0 Jr. Topeka, Kansas (Washburn Rural/Mid-America)
11 Sarah Hale MB 6-3 Fr. Athens, Ga. (Athens Academy/Atlanta Juniors)
9 Laura Kuhn ** MB 6-1 Jr. Tiffin, Ohio (Calvert/Black Swamp)
15 Lindsey Laband * S 5-11 So. Monument, Colo. (Lewis Palmer/Colorado
Juniors)
7 Katie Mohs DS/L 5-7 Soph. Roswell, Ga. (Pope/Atlanta Juniors/Wingate)
2 Lynnette Moster ** OH 5-10 Jr. Liberty, Indiana (Union County/Munciana)
22 Nicole Pierce * MB 5-11 So. Horse Shoe, NC (West Henderson/Biltmore)
13 Alexandra Preiss *** MB 6-3 Sr. Berlin, Germany (Coubertin/VCO Olympian
Club)
21 Jennifer Randall * OH 5-10 So. Long Beach, Calif. (Long Beach
Poly/California Juniors)
12 Lauren Sauer ** OH 6-4 Jr. Huntsville, Ala.(Grissom/Rocket City)
3 Abby Showers OH/S 6-0 Fr. Vandalia, OH (Vandalia-Butler/Dayton Juniors)
8 Keight Vincent *** DS 5-8 Sr. Duluth, Ga. (Woodward Academy/Atlanta
Jrs.)

Head Coach: Bond Shymansky
Assistant Coach Ben Bodipo-Memba
Assistant Coach Sally Schulte

* Denotes letters earned

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