GOLDEN, Colo. – It was Senior Night on Saturday for the Colorado School of Mines Volleyball team and the guests of honors closed their careers with a 3-0 win against Western Colorado at Lockridge Arena.
Madison Glassco,
Chase Kluna,
Emily Knight,
Veronique Magnan,
Shannon Perna, and
Rose Stuewe made up the 2023 senior class recognized after the match. All six veterans saw action as well. Knight led the way for her peers with 11 kills on .364 hitting with five total blocks and two digs. Perna was right behind, notching 10 kills and a .300 attack percentage along with five digs and one block. Stuewe and Glassco knocked out eight kills each. Glassco also had nine digs and four total blocks. Magnan and Kluna turned in one error-free set apiece.
To be noted was the star of the show in the box score. That was
Allison Jansen. She hammered down 13 kills on 18 attempts and committed zero attack errors to post a .722 attack percentage. Joining Jansen as a star of the match, was setter
Presley Powell. Her final resume featured a 44-assist, 10-dig double-double. The true freshman spun three service aces and recorded one block as well. Rounding out the highlights was
Renata Bolado Corona who had two service aces.
The win pushed Mines (14-12, 7-7 RMAC) into a three-way tie for seventh place in the RMAC standings. However, conference tiebreaker protocols pushed the Orediggers outside of the top eight and ended their season. Western Colorado (5-21, 2-12 RMAC) had already been mathematically eliminated from the posteason. Even so, the Mountaineers found a bright spot in four service aces and four total blocks. The Orediggers responded with six aces, seven blocks, and 50 kills on the way to a team attack percentage of .333. Mines held WCU to .178 on the attack.
HOW IT HAPPENED
While Western Colorado tied the opening set at 23-23, the entire match was all Mines. The Orediggers closed out a 25-23 win in the first frame thanks to a Knight kill followed by Knight teaming up with Glassco on an assisted block. That gave Knight six kills for the game while Jansen went 5-of-7. Four more kills from Jansen, 13 assists from Powell, and four digs apiece by
Meghan Slaninka, Glassoc, and Powell spurred a 25-15, set-two victory. Mines never trailed and the score was never tied in the final set. The Orediggers clinched the match with a 25-16 win. Jansen was 4-for-4 in game three.
NOTABLES
- Mines extended its win streak against Western Colorado to 12 matches. That makes the Orediggers 39-36-1 in the all-time series.
- Mines has swept WCU eight of the last 10 times the two teams have met.
- Jansen's 13-of-18 night put her #6 in the program record book for hitting percentage in a match on 15-19 attempts.
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Jada Price now boasts exactly 500 digs in two seasons as an Oredigger.
- Head Coach
Jamie Magalei owns a career record of 354-122 after 16 full seasons at the helm for Mines.
WHAT'S NEXT
Mines now enters the offseason. All postseason awards and signing information will be published at www.minesathletics.com.
Fans can keep up with Mines volleyball on "X" (formerly Twitter) at @MinesVolleyball and on Instagram at @mines.volleyball. They can also keep up with Colorado School of Mines Athletics all year long on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the handle @MinesAthletics.
