Findlay to Take on #2 Ferris State
The Oilers are in Big Rapids, Michigan and will take on the #2 Ferris State Bulldogs in the semifinal round of the NCAA regional. The game is to be played at Ferris State University on Friday, December 4 and will begin at 5:00pm.
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Strength of Schedule
This will be the seventh time this season that the Oilers will take on a team ranked in the top 25 in Division II. In those games, Findlay has posted a 3-3 record with wins against #25 Saginaw Valley State, #24 Grand Valley State, and #6 Wheeling Jesuit. The Orange and Black beat SVSU and Wheeling Jesuit 3-1 and downer GVSU 3-2.
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The Oilers are 26-8 on the year with a 15-3 mark in GLIAC contests. They have won 11 of their last 13 matches.
With the Nov. 14 win over Ashland, the Oilers claimed back-to-back South Division titles, the first time they have done so since their stretch from 2001-2003 where they won three division titles in a row.
Junior Hannah Tong, who was named first team all-GLIAC, is leading the Oilers attack as she has collected 493 kills at 4.01kills per set. Both stats were second in the GLIAC in the regular season, but with postseason included, Tong now leads the conference in kills. In the Nov. 14 match against Ashland, Tong became just the ninth player in Findlay history to record 1,000 kills in a career. She now sits at 1,067.
Senior Julie Lyons, also a first team all-GLIAC performer, has contributed 266 kills while hitting a GLIAC leading .413. That percentage is good for eighth best in the country. She has also recorded 92 blocks.
Freshman Amanda Winner has racked up 403 kills, fourth best in the conference, and 198 digs while sophomore Nickyla Garverick, second team all-GLIAC, has produced 302 kills with a hitting percentage of .387 (second in the GLIAC) and a team-high 102 blocks.
Freshman Hailee Olson leads the GLIAC with 1,480 assists and 11.94 assists per set. She also has 157 digs, 56 kills and 52 blocks. Her assists per set are good for seventh in the country while her total assists place her in third. She now sits in fifth at UF for assists in a season behind Holly Foster's 2000 season where she totaled 1,603 assists. Olson also has 37 service aces.
Senior Becca Shoemaker has led the defense with 486 digs. She has 1,413 career digs good for second all-time at UF, needing 63 digs to move into first all-time, passing 2001 graduate, Jessica Luttfring. Shoemaker has played in 467 sets in her career, good for ninth all-time at UF.
#2 Ferris State
Highly decorated senior Megan Vander Meer, who was recently named GLIAC Player and Attacker of the Year and AVCA Midwest Regional Player of the Year, leads the Bulldogs with 367 kills while hitting .284. She also has 371 digs, 50 blocks, and 29 service aces. Seniors Alexis Huntey and Caroline Heitzman are the only other players who have reached the 300 kills mark for FSU as they have 320 and 300 kills, respectively. Heitzman is the leading blocker as she has racked up 90 total blocks this year.
Junior Stephanie Sikorski is the setter for the Bulldogs and has collected 1,142 assists so far this season.