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BULLS END SEASON WITH 4-28 RECORD

The University at Buffalo women's volleyball team ended the season with a 4-28 overall record and an 0-18 conference record after losing matches at Stony Brook (10-15, 15-7, 16-14, 12-15, 5-15) on Wednesday, November 15 and against Bowling Green (7-15, 6-15, 1-15) on Saturday, November 18.

Against the Seawolves, freshman Lindsay Matikosh (North Tonawanda, NY/North Tonawanda) led the Bulls with 12 kills, and junior Larissa LaCour (West Islip, NY/West Islip) finished with 43 assists and a match-high 16 digs. Matikosh added 10 digs and three service aces, and junior Heather Barfuss (Huntington, NY/John H. Glenn) posted 11 digs, six kills and four service aces.

Junior Keri Shiels (Baldwin, NY/Baldwin) led UB against the Falcons with eight kills and seven digs, and LaCour added 26 assists and a team-high 14 digs. Matikosh ended her rookie campaign with a seven-kill, seven-dig performance.

Matikosh finished the season as UB's digs leader with 299 (2.65 per game). LaCour finished second with 267 digs (2.34 per game), and she led the Bulls with 1,040 assists (9.12 per game). Shiels had a team-leading 283 kills (2.80 per game) during the 2000 season.

SHIELS MOVES UP ON CAREER LISTS

Junior Keri Shiels (Baldwin, NY/Baldwin) led the Bulls in kills for the third straight season, posting 283 in 101 games for a 2.80 average. She also posted a team-high 855 attack attempts. For her career, Shiels now has 928 kills and 2,692 attack attempts, both of which rank her sixth all-time in school history. Shiels led the Bulls in kills in 15 of 32 matches during the season, and she posted a team-high 19 kills twice during the year, against Bucknell and Towson. Shiels also finished the 2000 season with 226 digs, third-best on the team, giving her 855 for her career. That career mark is just 30 away from tying Amy Burda (1995-98) for 10th place all-time at UB. Shiels finished the year with six double-doubles in kills and digs.

LACOUR LEADS BULLS IN 2000

Junior co-captain Larissa LaCour (West Islip, NY/West Islip) finished her first season as UB's starting setter with 1,040 assists, the sixth-highest single-season total in school history. Her 9.12 assists per game is the fourth-highest single-season average at UB. LaCour was the only Bull to start every match and to play in every game during the 2000 season. She also upped her career assists total to 1,372 for a 5.79 per game career average. Both of those numbers rank sixth all-time at UB. LaCour posted career highs in every statistical category this season, including assists with 63 against Bucknell, kills with seven against Cleveland State and digs with 23 against Akron.

MATIKOSH ENDS SUCCESSFUL ROOKIE CAMPAIGN

Freshman Lindsay Matikosh (North Tonawanda, NY/North Tonawanda) ended her rookie campaign with 2.46 kills per game and a team-leading 2.646 digs per game, both of which rank eighth on UB's career lists. Matikosh also finished second on the team in kills with 278 (2.46 per game), and she recorded seven double-doubles in kills and digs during the season. In UB's 32 matches, Matikosh recorded double figures in kills 12 times and in digs 10 times. Matikosh began her freshman season by being named the Most Valuable Player of the UB Invitational after posting 37 kills and 53 digs in UB's three matches (wins over Bucknell and Canisius and a loss to Providence).

A LOOK AHEAD NEXT SEASON

Despite enduring a 4-28 season in 2000, the Bulls can be exicted about the future knowing that they return all 11 of their players next season. Buffalo did not have any seniors on its roster this season, and everyone will benefit after having this year of experience under their belts.

2000 Schedule/results

September
        UB INVITATIONAL
Fri., 1    BUCKNELL     		  W, 3-2
Sat., 2    PROVIDENCE     		  L, 2-3
     	   CANISIUS     		  W, 3-1

        at Syracuse Orange Classic
Fri., 8    vs. Southern Illinois     	  L, 0-3
           at Syracuse     		  L, 0-3
Sat., 9    vs. Fordham     		  L, 0-3
           vs. Maryland-Baltimore County  L, 1-3

        at Northwestern Wildcat Classic
Fri., 15   vs. Cleveland State     	  L, 0-3
Sat., 16   at Northwestern     		  L, 1-3
           vs. Towson      		  W, 3-1

Fri., 22   CENTRAL MICHIGAN*     	  L, 0-3
Sat., 23   NORTHERN ILLINOIS*     	  L, 0-3
Wed., 27   at Canisius     		  W, 3-0
Fri., 29   at Eastern Michigan*     	  L, 0-3

October
Tue., 3    at Akron*     		  L, 0-3
Fri., 6    at Miami*     		  L, 1-3
Sat., 7    at Ball State*     		  L, 0-3
Fri., 13   at Bowling Green*     	  L, 0-3
Sun., 15   TOLEDO*     		   	  L, 1-3
Wed., 18   KENT STATE* 			  L, 0-3
Fri., 20   at Ohio*     		  L, 0-3
Sun., 22   at Marshall*     		  L, 1-3
Fri., 27   at Western Michigan*     	  L, 0-3
Sat., 28   at Kent State*     		  L, 1-3

November
Wed., 1    CORNELL    			  L, 0-3
Sat., 4    OHIO*     			  L, 1-3
Sun., 5    MIAMI*    			  L, 0-3
Wed., 8    SYRACUSE   			  L, 2-3
Fri., 10   AKRON*    			  L, 1-3
Sat., 11   MARSHALL*   		  	  L, 0-3
Wed., 15   at Stony Brook  		  L, 2-3
Sat., 18   BOWLING GREEN*     	  	  L, 0-3

*Mid-American Conference contests