BEARCAT VOLLEYBALL WEEKLY RELEASE - October 23, 2007

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The Bearcats return home on Tuesday to host MAAC opponent Siena (17-4, 12-0 MAAC) before hitting the road for a pair of conference matches on Friday, October 26 at Maine and Sunday, October 28 at New Hampshire.

Siena at Binghamton
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 7 p.m.
Live statistics

Matchup notes:
BU leads the all-time series 12-5 advantage and has won eight of the last nine meetings...The two teams met a year ago with the Saints capturing a five-game decision...The match included a 40-38 Siena game-two win, the highest scoring game Binghamton has been involved in since the NCAA went to a 30-point rally scoring format prior to the 2001 season...Siena dropped a 3-2 decision against Albany on Sunday. The loss snapped the Saints 16-match winning streak - the second longest in the nation. The Saints sit atop the MAAC volleyball standings with a perfect 12-0 conference mark...Siena has won the MAAC Championships and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons. Senior Nadiege Honore returns as one of the top two hitters in the league. The 2006 Preseason Player of the Year leads the MAAC with 4.24 kills per game. The 2006 MAAC Rookie of the Year, sophomore Burgandy McCurty is second in kills with 3.82 per game and a team-best hitting percentage of .440. Entering the week, McCurty held the fourth-highest hitting clip in the nation.

RECAP: Bearcats register two key league wins over UMBC
Binghamton (13-14, 5-2 America East) swept a pair of matches from UMBC over the weekend to move ahead of the Retrievers and into sole possession of second place in the league standings...Ashley Allen (Mill Creek, Was.) was the driving force averaging 4.57 kills per game and hitting .287 in the two Bearcat victories. Allen hit .409 with a match-high 17 kills to lead BU to a 3-0 sweep of UMBC on Sunday afternoon in Baltimore. She has now hit in double-digit kills 10 times this season...BU's play at the net proved to be a key factor in the two wins, as the Bearcats outblocked the Retrievers by a combined 30-10 margin and committed only 32 errors compared to UMBC's 72.

AMERICA EAST STANDINGS
Team	W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
Stony Brook	6	1	.857	18	7	.720
Binghamton	5	2	.714	13	14	.481
Albany	4	2	.666	15	7	.681
UMBC	4	3	.571	19	7	.730
New Hampshire	4	3	.571	15	7	.681
Maine	1	6	.142	2	18	.100
Hartford	0	7	.000	7	18	.280

*Includes all matches through October 22, 2007

NOTES, NUMBERS, STREAKS...
-The Bearcats have now won seven of nine matches and are a game within .500 on the season for the first time since September 14.

- Senior Jacki Kane averaged 2.43 kills per game at a team-high .341 hitting percentage, and 2.57 blocks per game. She continues to lead the America East Conference on the season with 141 total blocks (1.48/gm). This week, Kane moved into third on the all-time Bearcat block list and now has 566 career blocks.

TOTAL CAREER BLOCKS
1. Susan Rinde ‘84	613
2. Julie Van Schaick ‘87	601
3. Jacki Kane ‘08	566
4. Anne Crocus ‘04	548
5. Mitzi Livermore ‘87	476

- Freshman setter Lindsey Mueller (West Bend West, Wis.) recorded double-doubles in both matches and has now recorded double-doubles in four consecutive matches and 19 times this season. She averaged 12.14 assists per game over those two matches, as well as 3.57 digs per game and 1.29 blocks per game.

- Sophomore Dawn Lammert (Sussex, Wis.) leads the team with a .268 hitting percentage and is third in the conference with 1.28 blocks per game. Thus far in conference play, Lammert has hit at a .333 (64-17-141) clip.

- Junior libero Jaclyn Strader (Kettering, Ohio) was very active along the back row in BU's victories. Strader had a match-high 22 digs in Sunday afternoon's victory. She has recorded double-digit digs in 25 of 27 matches this season.

- With Sunday's victory over UMBC, Binghamton has swept the regular season series with the Retrievers in three straight seasons and has won nine of the team's last 10 matchups.

- Binghamton has now won 18 of its last 20 matches at the West Gym.

-The Bearcats posted team three-game match highs in kills (47) and assists (47) in Sunday's match.

WEEKEND OUTLOOK

Binghamton at Maine
Friday, October 26, 2007 at 7 p.m.

Matchup notes:
The Bearcats have won the last four meetings against the Black Bears and lead the all-time series by an 9-4 margin...Senior captain Kat Schauer (Littleton, Colo.) had a team-high 15 kills and senior Jacki Kane (Centennial, Colo.) added 11 kills and a match-high eight blocks to lead the Bearcats to a 3-1 win over Maine on September 30 in Vestal...Maine enters the week at 2-18 on the season and 1-6 in America East.

Binghamton at New Hampshire
Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 1 p.m.
Live statistics

Matchup notes:
New Hampshire leads the all-time series 7-4. However, BU has held the edge as of late, taking four of the last five meetings between the squads, including a 3-2 victory on September 28 in Vestal....Sophomore Dawn Lammert (Sussex, Wis.) had a team- and career-high 15 kills at a .500 clip (15-4-22) to lead five Bearcat hitters in double-digits...New Hampshire enters the week at 15-7 and 4-3 in America East.