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ALMA MATER
In the Mississippi Valley,
In the Crescent Bend
Stands our loved and noble Xavier,
Far her praises send.
Refrain:
Wave her colors bear them onward
Gold and white so true
Hail to thee, all hail, dear Xavier
Hail, all hail, X.U.!
Xavier, ever be our guide
And lead us on the way,
Through life's journey, onward, upward
To the eternal day. (Refrain)
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Nuggets defeat MC for 2-0 start in Belhaven Tournament
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XU coach Christabell Hamilton (white shirt) talks to her players before
their Belhaven Tournament match against Mississippi College.
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September 7, 2012
Box score
JACKSON, Miss. — Taylor Reuther had 14 kills and
10 digs Friday, and Xavier University of Louisiana climbed out of a third-set hole
to earn a 25-20, 25-22, 28-26 women's volleyball victory against Mississippi
College in the Belhaven Tournament.
It was the third consecutive victory for the Gold
Nuggets (3-2) and their second of the day in this event. It's the first time in
the program's five-year history that Xavier was 2-0 in one day against
non-conference opponents.
Reuther, a sophomore, produced her third consecutive
double-double
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and, for the first time in her Xavier career, had two in one day. Teammate Chinedu Echebelem
barely missed her third double-double of the season, finishing with 11 kills and
nine digs.
The Gold Nuggets built nine-point leads and held off
late Mississippi College rallies in each of the first two sets. Then the Lady Choctaws (3-3)
seized the momentum in the third set, scoring the first
nine points and leading 16-4 after five XU attack errors and a combined seven kills
from Rachel Janssen and Rachel Farmer.
But Xavier rallied to close the match, getting a combined
10 kills from Reuther and Echebelem and four aces from freshman setter Franziska Pirkl
in a stretch of six serves. Pirkl's serving was part of an 8-0 run which closed
MC's lead to 18-17. The Nuggets took their first lead at 23-22 on an Echebelem ace,
then they squandered three match points before Echebelem clinched with consecutive kills.
Xavier scored eight points on blocks
to compensate for a second set in which the Nuggets had more attack errors (12) than kills
(11). Freshman Claudia Haywood produced one solo block and six assists and had
two blocks in the final four rallies after MC reduced Xavier's 18-9 lead to 22-21.
Pirkl finished with five aces, the most by a Nugget in
a match this season. Freshmen produced half of Xavier's 48 digs, with Darian Harris
leading that class with eight.
Sarah Farmer had nine kills and Holly Tupper 18 digs for
Mississippi College, an NCAA Division III member.
Xavier and Belhaven, the only teams to go 2-0 Friday, will meet in the
final match of the tournament at 4 p.m. Saturday. Xavier will play Rust at noon.
NOTES: XU statistical leaders for the day included Reuther
with 24 kills and 24 digs and Pirkl with seven aces and 44 assists . . . Xavier
is 4-0 all-time against Mississippi College, but this was the teams' first meeting
since 2003, the Nuggets' first season . . . The Nuggets are 12-1 in
neutral-site matches since Christabell Hamilton became XU coach in 2011 . . .
It's the first time since 2004 that the Nuggets won twice in a regular-season
tournament and the first time that the Nuggets won their first two matches
of a regular-season tourney.
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The Xavier Gold Rush and Gold Nuggets compete in Division I of the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) as a member of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC).
Xavier fields men's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis and track and field and women's teams in basketball, cross country, tennis, track and field and volleyball.
Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
Xavier University of Louisiana
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Campus Box 92
New Orleans, LA 70125
(504) 520-7329 phone
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