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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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XU beats Belhaven, earns 1st regular-season tourney title
September 8, 2012
Box score
JACKSON, Miss. — Taylor Reuther had 21 kills,
a career high, and 20 digs Saturday to lead Xavier University of Louisiana
to a 25-23, 25-18, 13-25, 25-23 women's volleyball victory against Belhaven in
the championship match of the Belhaven Tournament.
The Gold Nuggets (5-2) were 4-0 in the event —
including a 25-16, 25-13, 25-10 victory against Rust earlier in the day —
and won a regular-season tournament for the first time in the program's five seasons.
Xavier rallied from deficits of 22-21 in the first set and
22-20 in the fourth to end a five-match losing streak against the Blazers and
beat Belhaven on its court for the first time. Xavier had four previous losses
at Belhaven,
including a five-set decision in the 2011 season opener.
Reuther produced the first 20-kill, 20-dig performance
by a Gold Nugget since Xavier resumed intercollegiate competition in 2010. She
was one of four with double-figure digs — Darian Harris had 20, and Chinedu
Echebelem and Franziska Pirkl had 10 apiece — and Pirkl, with 34 assists,
also had a double-double. Echebelem had eight kills, and Moira Kirk had five kills,
four blocks and two aces.
It was the second time this season that Reuther and Harris each had 20 digs in
the same match.
Reuther had a kill and an ace, then Kirk produced a solo block
and a match-clinching kill in the final six rallies. Belhaven (5-2) aided the Nuggets
with 15 fourth-set errors.
CeCe Williams' kill put Xavier ahead to stay in the
opening set, and Echebelem ended it with a kill. Xavier raced to a 13-5 lead in
the second set on Kirk's back-to-back aces and three Reuther kills.
Xavier finished with 43 kills. Thirty of them occurred in the first two sets, when the
Nuggets hit .309. Xavier hit minus-.052 over the final two sets.
Xavier will play its home opener at 7 p.m. Tuesday
against Spring Hill — a 40-match winner a year ago — at The Barn. Xavier will play host to Belhaven on Oct. 29.
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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
1 Drexel Drive
Campus Box 92
New Orleans, LA 70125
(504) 520-7329 phone
(504) 520-7934 fax
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