Sept. 21, 2007

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OREM, Utah - Utah Valley wraps up the first half of nine straight road games this weekend when the Wolverines travel to Idaho State on Saturday and Montana State on Monday. Both matches are set to serve at 7pm MT.

Saturday's match against the Bengals can be heard live online via 91.1 KISU at KISU.org. A video webcast of both matches can be accessed via subscription at www.BigSkyTV.org.

The Wolverines have lost four straight matches after getting off to a record 5-1 start Utah Valley dropped three matches last weekend at the Michigan/Nike Invitational. The Wolverines lost to #10 Michigan (0-3) and Georgia Tech (0-3) before falling in a five-game match to Temple.

In the match against Temple, freshman Kathleen Stevens set her career-high with 26 digs while Allyce Wilson spent time at setter and finished with 40 assists and 22 digs.

Three Wolverines had at least 15 kills in the match with Jessica Endres and Camie Manwill both finishing with 16. Kayli Broadbent, who is averaging just under three kills per game in her freshman season, had 15 for UV.

After going a perfect 4-0 in 2006 in five-game matches, more than half of this season's matches have gone the distance with UV 3-3 in those.

Idaho State is 3-9 entering a Big Sky match on Friday against Weber State in Pocatello.

The Bengals are 0-2 in Big Sky action after losing at Portland State (3-0) and at Eastern Washington (3-1).

ISU will be in Orem to face UV on October 27th.

Montana State is 1-13 including an 0-3 mark in Big Sky action. The Bobcats' lone win came on September 8th against North Florida.

Camie Manwill has 963 kills and is set to become the second Wolverine player to reach 1,000 career kills after Jessica Endres did earlier in the season.

Manwill is averaging 4.30 kills per game this season and is on pace to reach the plateau in just over eight games but has a shot to reach it this weekend.

Head coach Sam Atoa entered the season with 194 career victories in eight-plus seasons. Add to that the five so far this season and Atoa is a win away from reaching 200 for his career.

The Wolverines will travel to the East Coast next weekend for the NJIT Invitational in Newark, New Jersey. The Wolverines will face Columbia, NJIT and St. Francis (New York).

Following the invitational, the Wolverines will travel to Chicago to face Chicago State.