Sept. 27, 2003

UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. - The Warrior volleyball team ended a 20-match Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference losing streak with a 3-0 (31-29, 30-20, 30-17) win at Saginaw Valley State Saturday, Sept. 27. WSU's last league win was against the Cardinals (3-2) last year on Sept. 20. The win also broke a current five-match losing skid.

Down 26-19 in the first stanza, the Warriors rallied as Rebecca Hague (Leamington, Ont.) served out the last three points, including an ace, to give WSU the 31-29 win.

With the score tied at 14 in the second game, Wayne State outscored the 'Cards 16-6 the rest of the way for the win. WSU had 19 kills and just three errors for a .390 hitting percentage in the second. Junior Toni Purgatori (Yale, Mich./Lake-Sumter C.C.) had four kills in the final six points for the Warriors.

Wayne State then used a 13-point run with Sei Hee Hwang (Toronto, Ont./Cedarbrae) serving, including back-to-back aces, in the second game to win 30-20.

Hague, a senior co-captain, surpassed Laura Hayes (1986-87; 2,247) for fourth all-time in the WSU record books and now has 2,266 assists. She also had her 10th double-double of the season as Megan Smolen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) added her seventh of the 2003 with a match-high 13 kills and 13 digs.

BreAnne Detrick (Lambertville, Mich./Owens C.C.) and Hwang also recorded 13 digs, while Kristi Pieper (Roseville, Mich./Fraser) and Jeana Wiehl (Portage, Mich./Kalamazoo Central) added 10 apiece.

WSU returns home to host Findlay on Oct. 3 and Ashland on Oct. 4.