COLORADO PREVAILS IN FIVE FOR SECOND STRAIGHT MATCH

Wednesday, October 29

Ames, Iowa

6:00 p.m.

Colorado

Iowa State

October 29, 2003 | Volleyball

By: Troy Andre, Assistant SID

AMES, Iowa ? For the second time five days the University of Colorado was stretched to the limit but came away with a five-game Big 12 Conference victory over Iowa State University Wednesday night at Hilton Coliseum. Game scores were 29-31, 30-18, 18-30, 30-27, 15-10.

CU improves to 15-7 overall, matching its win total for the entire 2002 season (15-15). The Buffs move to 7-5 in the Big 12, just two wins shy of last season's league total of nine. ISU falls to 10-13 overall, 2-10 in the Big 12. Colorado needed five games to put away the University of Kansas, Saturday, in Boulder.

Down 2-1 in the match, CU fought back from a 24-18 deficit in game four to force the fifth and deciding game. CU trailed 7-6 in game five, but scored seven of the next eight points to go up 13-8. Sophomore Maragda Santillana forced match-point with a kill and freshman setter Ashley Nu'u closed the match with a block.

Much like the KU match, Santillana was the offensive star for CU. Santillana led all players in kills with 20, hit .432 (20 kills-four errors-37 attempts) and recorded the double-double by notching 11 digs. Against KU, Santillana netted a career-best 24 kills.

Sophomores Nicole Carr and Allie Griffin each had double-doubles. Carr, who notched her team high 12^th double-double, had 13 kills and a team-high 13 digs. Griffin had 11 kills and 10 digs. The Buffs had 74 digs all together and held ISU to a .134 hitting percentage (64k-39e-187att).}

Freshman Austin Zimmerman tied a career-high with seven blocks, which she ironically recorded against Iowa State in Boulder on Sept. 27. CU had 13 total blocks, its highest mark in the Big 12 this season and best mark since a 14 block performance against Colorado State University on Sept. 9.