Volleyball @ Home This Weekend

[NYC Pirate]

Let's see if the Volleyball team can take their play up a level as they get
deep into Conference play. Home this weekend against DePaul and Marquette.

Hopefully, they've gained some experience in the early part of the season and will be
able to make some noise in the BigEast Conference. It's important that they keep up
some type of momentum as a program after getting an at large bid into the NCAA's last season.

They are in a reloading mode without doubt. Qualifying for the BigEast Tournament would be a
good sign. You must win your home matches and Walsh is becoming a better venue for the program

 

[NYC Pirate]

Great start to the weekend by beating DePaul 3-0. That's
what you want to see.
Looked like a nice student turnout for the match. Nice job by the
PSN turning their cameras towards the students getting into it
at Walsh.

Saturday night is a tough match against conference rival Marquette
at 6pm in South Orange. Hopefully, another good turnout. Game available on the PSN.

The team needs to just keep getting better week by week. Tonight was a good start. They'll have to play well to beat Marquette.

 

[Vegas pj]

Great job ladies!

 

[Halldan1]

Freshmen Power Pirates to Sweep of DePaul

Coffey misses a triple-double by just three kills, while Hennigan matches her career-high with 16 kills.

Cherise Hennigan had 16 kills.

Oct. 2, 2015

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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. -- Freshman Sophia Coffey (Sierra Madre, Calif.) was three kills shy of a triple-double and classmate Cherise Hennigan (Corona, Calif.) matched a career-high with 16 kills as the Seton Hall volleyball team swept DePaul, 3-0 (25-17, 25-21, 25-22), on Friday.

Coffey finished with a match high 28 assists to go with seven kills and 11 digs. She also recorded a match-high .600 attack percentage.

DePaul (12-4, 1-3), fresh of a three-set sweep of previously undefeated Xavier on Wednesday, had few answers for Seton Hall's high-powered offense in set one. The Pirates had 17 kills and just two attack errors for an impressive .429 attack percentage in a 25-17 set one victory.

Turning Point:

The Blue Demons scored six of the first seven points of the second set and appeared poised to tie the match at one set apiece. The Pirates however, came back with a 9-3 run to take a 10-9 lead. Later in the set, Seton Hall scored four straight points to turn an 18-20 deficit into a 22-20 advantage. The Hall never looked back, winning set two, 25-21.

The third set was the closest of the set, featuring 12 ties and four lead changes, but ultimately the Pirates came out on top. With the score tied at 21, a kill by Amanda Hansen (Pewaukee, Wis.) started a 4-1 run to end the match for The Hall. Hansen recorded six of her eight kills in set three alone.

Notes & Numbers:

• • Junior Tessa Fournier (Redondo Beach, Calif.) tallied a match-high 19 digs.

• • Coffey's double-double is her team-leading fifth of the season.

• • Hansen finished with eight kills and no attack errors. She also had a team-best six blocks.

• • Junior Danielle Schroeder (Chicago, Ill.) recorded 10 kills. It's her fourth straight match reaching double-figures in kills, and sixth in her last seven matches.

• • Senior Sara Connell (Dousman, Wis.) reached double-figures in digs (10) for the first time this season.

• • Seton Hall improves to 8-0 in games that it wins the first set this season.

• • Seton Hall improves to 4-4 this season in three-set matches.

• • Seton Hall improves to 8-7 overall this season and 2-1 in BIG EAST Conference play.

• Seton Hall improves to a perfect 13-0 against DePaul all-time.

Next Up:
Seton Hall will return to action tomorrow, Oct. 3, when it hosts Marquette in a rematch of one of the 2014 BIG EAST Championship semifinals. Match time is 6:00 p.m.

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[NYC Pirate]

As Coach Yaeger pointed out on the PSN the BigEast is young
across the board. It's kind of wide open at this point. Our gals need
to keep building confidence. Tonight is a good test against Marquette. Coach also mentioned that the team looks forward to playing in Walsh
and playing in front of family and students this weekend. Hopefully, the
students can get back in there tonight on this crummy weather weekend.

This staff has proved more than any other that Seton Hall can recruit
anywhere in the United States. Hard to believe so many gals from California and the Midwest. In addition Walsh seems to be a perfect venue
for both the Volleyball team and Women's Basketball Program.

Cultivating Seton Hall "Sports" fans needs to be a priority moving forward. Pat Lyons and the Athletic Dept are doing a fine job. The spillover to basketball would be win/win. Hopefully, that situation will be corrected
and improved.

The Volleyball team is in a good place and they can approach this season
with reasonable expectations. Obviously, the coaching staff has to keep
working hard on the recruiting trail.

 

[hallgrad80]

NYCPirate
The rosters of all the women's teams show that recruiting for all of them is done from coast to coast with a significant number from California and Texas and a number of the teams have players from foreign counties. In order to have that wide a recruiting footprint the budget for recruiting has to be large enough for the teams to recruit wherever they need to go to find talent. I will say that the budget for recruiting has been substantially increased since Pat came here but is not as large as some of our conference peers . The more you can see a targeted player or see a player who you had not had as a target but want to follow the better your chance of signing them and that's why the recruiting budget has to be sufficient to do so.

 

[400SOAVE]

I agree that the coaches and players have done a great job and are steadily improving.

None, however, have managed to crack the local recruiting scene. There have been some excellent golf, tennis and volleyball players in N.J. Most of them seem to go away.

I hope that will change for all teams because, as mentioned above, it's very expensive to have to travel all over the country.

 

[NYC Pirate]

SHU loses to Marquette in 3 sets. Had a lead in the first game but Marquette came back to
win that one rather easily. Hall had their real chance at 22-22 in the second game. They could not
pull out that game. Marquette was a bit too much for the young Pirate team.

Once again a nice turnout by the SHU students. Now 8-8(2-2) for the 2015 team. A work in progress.

 

[Vegas pj]

Not bad for a team in rebuilding mode. Good sign for the future.

 

[Pirate6711]

The game on Friday was fun and the team looked good. I was at the Stillman event on Saturday, so I couldn't make that one.