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BALTIMORE – (Nov. 19. 2012) –<\/strong> The UMES women’s volleyball team is the 2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament champion for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A tense, five-set victory over Florida A&M Sunday afternoon earned the Lady Hawks another automatic invitation to the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “As a senior, you always wonder if this is the last time you’ll be out there,” first-team All-MEAC performer Ndidi Ibe said after the match, “but it was a great feeling to be out there and win it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a scenario identical to a year ago, Saitaua Iosiadelivered a championship-winning kill – her 25th<\/sup> of the 2012 title match – to seal the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By sweeping the tournament held at Coppin State, UMES improved its 2012 season record to 28-5, the most victories a volleyball team has had in a season since 2003 when the Hawks went 26-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iosia earned Most Outstanding Performer honors after recording 60 kills, 10 aces and 32 digs during the title run. It was the sophomore’s second “MOP” award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She overcame an early season knee injury that threatened to sideline her from MEAC play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I was told I wasn’t going to play this season,” Iosia said, “I was devastated, and [when I learned I would play] it was a big motivation, and it was great to be out there.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joining Iosia on the all-tournament team was her classmate, Victoria Williams, who delivered15 kills against FAMU and a total of 48 during the tournament for a .513 hitting percentage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “[Victoria] is a fantastic player,” head coach Don Metil said, “And we needed her to be successful this weekend, and she did. We had more than one Most Outstanding Player.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metil was named the Most Outstanding Coach in the 2012 tournament after leading UMES to its second straight MEAC Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n UMES came into the championship match perfect in five-set matches this year, something that Metil relayed to his team before the tiebreaker set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The girls believe, no matter what,” Metil said. “In years past, I have had teams that get down, but this team adapted quickly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n This abbreviated report was compiled with the help of the UMES athletics department. For a more detailed version, visit the <\/em>UMES athletics site<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, November 19, 2012 BALTIMORE – (Nov. 19. 2012) – The UMES women’s volleyball team is the 2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament champion for the second year in a row. A tense, five-set victory over Florida A&M Sunday afternoon earned the Lady Hawks another automatic invitation to the NCAA tournament. “As a senior, you always wonder if…Read more Hawks repeat as MEAC VB champions<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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