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November 2006 Volleyball
| Taju Earns
All-Region Honor |
| November 11, 2006 |
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RUSSELLVILLE, AR
--- Less than two weeks
after being named the Gulf South Conference-West Division
Player of the Year, University of Arkansas at Monticello
outside hitter Katherine
Taju (Sr., Panama City, Panama) has been named to
the Daktronics All-South Central Region First Team.
The senior
and North Alabama’s Laura Bellinger are the only two Gulf
South Conference players to earn a first team selection.
All first
team players will have their names forwarded to the national
ballot for All-America voting. Daktronics All-America teams
will be released on Wednesday, November 15.
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| Blossoms Drop
3-2 Heartbreaker In Opening Round Of GSC Tournament |
| November 3, 2006 |
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FLORENCE, AL --- The
University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms (17-15)
came up just short in their Gulf South Conference Tournament
opening-round contest against tournament host North Alabama,
dropping a 3-2 decision to the Lions on Friday night in
Florence. The loss eliminates the Cotton Blossoms from the GSC
tournament.
After the
Blossoms picked up a 30-22 victory in game one, UNA knotted the
match in the second game with a 30-19 victory. UAM pulled ahead
2-1 with a 30-25 victory in the third game, but once again the
Lions tied the match after a 30-23 win in game four.
The Lions
won a back-and-forth 15-13 decision in the fifth game to seal
their victory.
Katherine Taju (Sr., Panama City, Panama) led all players with 22 kills. Amanda Sayre
(Sr., Del City, Okla.) added 17 kills and Kameshia Melton
(Sr., Grapevine, Texas) added 13. Maegan Martin (So.,
Burnet, Texas) dished out 50 assists, while Taju led UAM with 26
digs.
Also
notching double-digit digs were Sayre (19), Amie Kronk
(Sr., San Antonio, Texas) (18), Martin (17), and Courtney
Fletcher (Fr., Eddy, Texas) (12).
The loss
likely ends the season for the Cotton Blossoms, who are not
expected to earn a berth in the NCAA tournament.
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| Three
Blossoms Earn All-GSC Honors, Taju Named GSC-West Player of the
Year |
| November 2, 2006 |
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BIRMINGHAM, AL --- Three
University of Arkansas at Monticello Cotton Blossoms volleyball
players earned All-Gulf South Conference honors, highlighted by
the selection of Katherine Taju (Sr., Panama City,
Panama) as Gulf South Conference-West Division Player of the
Year.
Taju was also a selection to the All-Gulf South Conference First
Team, and was joined by Second Team selections Kameshia
Melton (Jr., Grapevine, Texas) and Amanda Sayre (Sr.,
Del City, Okla.). Taju becomes the first Cotton Blossoms player
to win Player of the Year honors, earning the nod in the
program’s second year of existence.
Taju was an offensive force for the Blossoms this season,
leading the GSC and ranking 14th nationally in kills per game
(4.74). Taju earned three GSC Player of the Week selections,
holds four of the top ten, including the three highest kill
marks in the GSC this season, going over 30 kills in a match
twice this season.
Sayre becomes the Blossoms’ first two-time honoree after earning
her second Second Team nod. Sayre ranked seventh in the GSC in
kills per game (3.79), and second on the team in the same
category. Sayre is UAM’s all-time kills leader, with 864 total
for her career.
Melton earns her first selection after averaging 3.12 kills per
game, third on the team, and finishing second on the team with
0.98 blocks per game and a team-best 115 total blocks on the
season (36 solo, 79 assisted).
“It’s pretty exciting to be a second-year program and have three
players make all conference,” said Cotton Blossoms head coach
Nicole Smith. “It’s an honor and it speaks well for the program
that as a second year program we were able to have the Player of
the Year on our team. We knew all along what (Katherine’s)
ability was and what she was capable of doing.”
The Cotton Blossoms will return to the court Friday, November 3
in the opening round of the Gulf South Conference tournament
with a 7:30 p.m. match against tournament host North Alabama.
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