GAME #17
Tuesday October 12, 2010, 7:00 PM
ART U Urban Knights (9-5) vs. University of Hawaii Vulcans (8-2)

GAME# 18
Thursday October 14, 7:00 PM
ART U Urban Knights (9-5) vs. Chaminade University Silverswords (5-5)

TWO IN A ROW
ART U women's volleyball has dropped their last two matches, following a seven game win streak. The Urban Knights opened conference play with five straight victories. ART U has since dropped from first to third place behind BYU-Hawaii.

WEEKLY TOP TEN
Dan Yang was nominated to the PacWest Weekly Top 10 for the fourth time this season. The honor was announced by the PacWest Media Office in Phoenix, AZ, on Monday, Oct. 11, for matches played Oct. 4-10.

Yang has been nominated to the PacWest weekly Top 10 every week thus far and has two player of the week honors.

"Phooey" ranked second in points per game (5.25) and kills per game (4.75) for the week in the PacWest. Yang totaled 42 points on 38 kills, an ace, a block solo and four block assists.

Yang led the Urban Knights in their 3-1 loss to HPU with 21 kills, eight digs, a block solo, and two block assists. She followed the match with a 17 kill performance on Friday evening in ART U's second conference loss to BYU-Hawaii.

SCOUTING THE VULCANS
University of Hawaii Hilo is in first place of the PacWest conference coming into their match with the Urban Knights. After dropping their first conference match to BYU-Hawaii the Vulcans have won their last five matches. The Vulcans are led by Hillary Hurley who has 213 kills on the season, and has played in all 13 matches. Hurley is second on the team with 30 blocks and 90 digs. Katie Swenson has dished out 476 assists.

SCOUTING THE SILVERSWORDS
Chaminade is 4-9 coming into their match against ART U. They won their first conference match against Grand Canyon Univ. on Oct 90. Poerava Gantt leads the team with 97 kills. Kylee Pedro is right behind her with 90, while Crystal Powell adds 89. Tanya Alvino has 382 assist and 110 digs on the season. Powell and Gnatt have served up 13 and 12 aces respectively.

LAST MATCH RECAP
Despite dropping the first two sets (23-25, 15-25) to the Seasiders, a sparkle of the team that once was emerged. In the third set when it looked as if the Urban Knights would receive their fifth sweep of the season, ART U dug deep and pulled out a win.

The Seasiders opened the set on a 5-0 run. But, a kill by Camille Board, who was a solid for the Knights all game, gave ART U their first point of the set, which sparked a 4-0 run. With BYU-Hawaii six points away from victory, 19-14, the Urban Knights scored nine of the next 11 points to tie the game at 22 a piece. On the very next play the Urban Knights took their first lead of the set, 23-22. With the crowd on their feet ART U rallied past the Seasiders to take the set, 25-23.

"The way the girls responded to the position changes I made in the third set was great," said Magner. "I am really proud of the way they played [in that set]," she added.