Chargers Get Rematch vs. Kirkwood in 1st Round of NJCAA Tourney
Aaron Frey
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 4:57 PM
Athletics, Campus News
Galesburg, IL
The Carl Sandburg College volleyball team will face a familiar foe in the first round of next week’s NJCAA Division II Championship.
The Chargers (26-17), making their second straight appearance at nationals, were awarded the 12th seed in the 16-team, double-elimination tournament and will take on fifth-seeded Kirkwood (Iowa) (32-8) at 2 p.m. Central on Nov. 15 in Charleston, W.Va.
The winner advances to the quarterfinals at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 15 against the winner of No. 4 South Mountain and No. 13 Moraine Valley. The losers will play in the ninth-place bracket at 11 a.m. Nov. 16.
Sandburg and Kirkwood faced each other Oct. 13 in the Iowa Central Invitational, with the Eagles sweeping the Chargers 25-15, 27-25, 25-17. Sandburg, though, played that match without freshman setter Cora Vyhnanek (Colchester, Ill./West Prairie), who was recovering from abdominal surgery. Vyhnanek ranks 13th in the nation in assists and eighth in assists per set despite missing three weeks because of the procedure.
NJCAA Division II Volleyball Championship Bracket
NJCAA Division II Volleyball Championship Tournament Central