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WMC Terror Volleyball: Tri-Centennial Champs dreamed of out there," felt Jensen. By JAY HILBERT If there is one moment that set this championship," said Molloy, who felt ace by freshman Carrie Shadrick that ex- Spons&Ii"" that as a result of the tri-champs scenario, tended tbe lead to 12-5. team on its second half rally, in whicb they could push for a new system at the they have won eight out of their last ten, With the game, match, and tri-title at Green Terror volleyball coach Carole next Centennial meeting (slated for the hand, it seemed only appropriate that Molloy and senior Tineka Byes know all the five-game win over Gettysburg end of November). Molloy placed her six seniors in the game. about being tied at the end of the Centen- would the exact place to start. As for the game itseIf, there wasn't A washington error made it 13-5, the nial Conference season. Last spring as "I think Gettysburg was the tum- much to it: Washington did not show up last of Spangler's nine kills on the night the softball assistant coach, Mol1oy around for us, it helped us going into the ready to play. put WM one point away from the game, watched as WM tied with Gettysburg Both teams went back and forth with 02-2} for the conference crown, while one good block after another, but Wasb- Ilyes was the team's starting ington earned the side-out and would centerfielder. tack on their sixth and final point. Jen Last Tuesday at borne, Molloy, Byes Keilholtz's kill ended the match and put and rest of rhe Green Terror (26-11, 9-1) the Green Terror in an incredible posi- squad bad little trouble knocking off a tion to earn the team's first NCAA birth slumping Washington team, 15-0, 15-6, in five years. 15-6, to become tri-Centennial champs Shadrick, only one of two non-seniors with Franklin and Marshall and to play, led with four service aces and 12 Gettysburg. set assists. The lone loss for the three teams In order for WM to get that bid, they came against one of the trt-champs. bad to have performed well last weekend Western Maryland beat Gettysburg, up at Elizabethtown. Gettysburg defeated F&M, and F&M "It's something I've looked forward got by Western Maryland. to since freshman year after coming in "It's a great conference round for us; and everyone telling me how great the being 9-1, that's a big thing to end up at trip to Nationals was and I really want to the top," says Molloy. go this year," said Spangler. What makes this even more special "If we play consistent, we have a team is that six big parts of the team's over the past four years played in their fi- = Heading into E-Town, the Green Ter- success ~~~§=~~=::~~==~~~~~=~~~~~I'that can go," adds Jensen. nal hornc game. Seniors Ilves, Jcn Jcnscn. ror was tied for third with Gettysburg in JI:I"I Kcilholtz, Anne Plunkett, and CO-GIj1- North/South (WM went4-:?:, losing in the Western Maryland ran off the first 20 the NCAA Middle Atlantic Regional tains Krista Strancr and Denise Spangler scmifin:ll!;). Since then.each time we've oormsormcrnarch. The nrst game was a R::nki[l~~. The top rOllI' teams from cacn 'II-s fun Lowincyen if the game wasn't as teen out on the 1'1001',we have been more t'ornhinuliollui" ercat Gn ..'en Terror -kilts reuioo earn J!!kplugs in the mid- pion label, Molloy thinks that it's not at leads of 5-0 and 8-2, but after two series With all of this on the lire. bow will the season resurgence of the team. all good to have-the-co- or a tri-label at= of side-outs, washington 05-19. 5-5) team go about preparing for the challenge tached with it. Jensen went from sixth on the team in gained momentum on the strength of ahead? "It's not really good for volleyball. hitting percentage tosecond (,210) in less two Green Terror errors to pull within Spangler. 'The pacnces have been p;ck- than a month. The kids play bard and if there is a tie, 8-5. Washington blew its chance. to ing up. At fItSt, it was "Oh! just another prac- you don't want to be stuck with someone "For me, it was the Juniata Tourna- close even further with six errors that tice. but everybody sees that at the end of the else. I think it would be best as a confer- ment. I got all of this energy, during the led to six WM points as the Green Ter- rood is Natiooa1s, so it has been picking up," ence, regionally, and nationally to have a second game vs. SUNY -Brockport, and ror won 15-6. Said Molloy of the team's current status championship at the end orthe year with we came back in that game and won 18- Early in the third game, WM started for the tournament "We needed to have a the tied teams," added Molloy, 16. I did things I never would have rough, but received two crucial kills by good weekend to SOlidify our chances," "We need to have a tiebreaker or a Spangler, one by lIyes, and a service Butch Shaffer: From Bench To Star was playing By HEAnIER REESE football, " a team effort, there are 11 players on StqQ'Wri,., the field and it takes all of them to Keating re- make a play work," said the counts his As Butch Schaffer climbs onto the Phillipsburg, New Jersey native. He b-us with a look of satisfaction, a pass- first impres- of also feels that the other receivers are a sion erby might assume that it was just an- Schaffer. tot of help. other Green Terror win, and to Butch He shows It would be hard to find someone that's all it was. But it was also a who is more of a team player than game in which Schaffer, a senior wide you can't Schaffer who says he doesn't really receiver, was not only named Centen- judge a book it's think about his personal accomplish- by nial Conference Offensive Player of ments, "I don't worry about that kind the Week, he also broke the school cover of stuff, I worry about winning and record for receiving yards, It wasn't losing." To Butch, the team's success until the This has been Schaffer's season to of ===============""' means more than his personal ones. " shine, and it has been a long time com- middle Ending the season 6-3 would mean ing. Up until the second half of last :~!~S~~::~~ Butch Schaffer,leading receiver in Cent Conf, more to me than anything individual," season he spent most of his time on the he says. sidelines or bench supporting the guys had the the credit While he hasn't really thougbt on the field. "I thought about quitting chance to play, and he caught that op- for his accomplishments. Aside from aboU! this be"ing his last season and last year about the fifth game into the portunity and ran with it. "Butch breaking the school's record for says that he probably won't until-it's season," he said. But luckily for the proved that he was up to the chal- single-season receivlOg yards over, he will miss being on the field Green Terror, he decided to stick it lenge. We realized that we don't (Schaffer is currently at 794 yards), he and playing on Saturdays. And he will out, and he credits his parents sup- have to have McCord in, we could put has 46 receptions for seven {ouch- be missed by the team too, ". ,. r wish port as influencing his decision to in Schaffer and not suffer at all," said downs, only one away from tying the 1 had him for another year," said stay. Keating. He feels it wasn't so much schools record ror receiving touch- Keating. Schaffer does add. "1 won't th