On Sweeps and Stephanie

The Miners arrived in Greenville, North Carolina around 3 am early Friday morning. They left El Paso around 11 am Thursday morning. Welcome to the CUSA travel schedule. This weekend they will travel to Houston to play Rice on Friday, then return to play Houston in El Paso on Sunday. At the end of the season, the Miners get to travel all the way out to Orlando for game one versus UCF only to turn around and hustle back to host UCF in El Paso days later. Killed our plans to make the most out of week at Disney.

We were able to watch both ECU matches on CSTV and it wasn't a bad connection. Stephanie Figueroa was outstanding, and the dummies at CUSA HQ in Irving are finally noticing. Stephanie was selected CUSA Defensive Player of the Week. What an honor it must be for Stephanie to be allowed a spot in the Friends of Tulsa-Tyler Henderson admiration society.

Jax had a great weekend as well. She logged 13 kills and zero errors during the Saturday's match. ECU made an adjustment on Sunday moving ECU 6'3" Brittany Roper to front her. On Saturday, ECU had no answer for Jax. On Sunday, they had no answer for Jeane Horton. Even on the constantly lagging CSTV video stream, Jeane still looked incredibly quick and powerful.

Great opening weekend. Tough weekend awaits with conference tournament champs Rice on Friday night. Ashleigh McCord crushes the ball, but she's a low-ball, seam-splitter. Close up the block and you can shut down McCord. Tracey Lam used to be the best Libero in the conference...used to be now that Stephanie Figueroa anchors the Miners big D. Imagine how great Stephanie's dig numbers would be if the Miners didn't block so well.