All Entries Tagged With: "Kira Giles"
Volleyball Upsets Binghamton, 3-2
The volleyball team has not had a lot of luck against Binghamton in years past but this time UMBC got the best of them. Alyssa Lang lead all hitters with 20 while Ashley Oscars had a double-double with 13 kills and 12 digs. Naomi Bush also had 13 kills. Allie Spaay had a double-double with [...]
Volleyball Wins Second AEC Match, Beat New Hampshire, 3-2
It’s official- the Volleyball team is on fire. Without question the Volleyball team is playing great right now. After starting the season 2-6 and playing sloppy, the team has won eight of nine matches to improve to 10-7 and 2-0 in the America East. A big reason for the success of the team lately has [...]
Volleyball Downs Hartford 3-1 in Conference Opener
After falling to the Hawks in the first set in extra play (27-25) UMBC bounced back to take three straight sets in convincing fashion (25-19, 25-19, 25-15) to kick off the opening weekend of America East play with a win. With Ashley Oscars playing in her first full game back from injury it did not [...]
Volleyball Downs Towson in Four Set Match
In the volleyball team’s final non-conference game before America East play the team hit a few milestones. Alyssa Lang had a UMBC season high 22 Kills and Kira Giles’ 42 assists put her over 3,000 for her career, making her just the fourth Retriever to do so. Also on the offensive end Naomi Bush was [...]
Volleyball Beats James Madison 3-1
The volleyball team is hitting on all cylinders right now. Alyssa Lang and Naomi Bush are playing very well and even though Ashley Oscars was out of the game they found two players to step up and take over her offensive role. In four sets, which UMBC won 3-1 (25-16, 25-23, 16-15, 25-21) Alyssa Lang [...]
Giles Setter of the Week; Bush Rookie of the Week
For the third straight week a UMBC freshman has walked away from the week with the Rookie of the Week award. Naomi Bush earned her second Rookie of the Week award with 35 kills and a .261 hitting percentage. Against Howard she hit .500 with 15 kills and then has 10 kills, seven digs, and [...]
Volleyball Splits on Second Day of Maryland Invitational
Game One: UMBC 3, VCU 1 Alyssa Lang has been on fire since be inserted back into her starting role. She led all players with 17 kills and recorded a double-double with 13 digs. Her teammate Ashley Oscars and Naomi Bush also had fine games in UMBC’s victory over VCU. Oscars recorded 14 kills with [...]
Volleyball Splits On Second Day of Villanova Invitational
Game One: George Washington 3, UMBC 1 Starters: OH: Ashley Oscars OH: Alyssa Lang MB: Sarah Joy MB: Iman Kennedy RH: Ali Loynachan S: Kira Giles L: Pam Jarrett It was a sloppy game for both teams. UMBC committed 22 errors and hit .208 (George Washington had 23 erros and hit .199). While UMBC had [...]
Volleyball Falls to Villanova 3-0
Starters: OH: Ashley Oscars MB: Iman Kennedy MB: Sarah Joy RH: Ali Loynachan S: Kira Giles L: Pam Jarrett It was another sloppy game for the Retrievers. This time they recorded 20 errors and hit just .103. Ashley Oscars had a rare bad game, recording six errors and hitting .083. As for the rest of [...]
Volleyball vs. Villanova Preview
Shortened Preview…bit of a time crunch…sorry UMBC (2-4): OH: Ashley Oscars MB: Iman Kennedy MB: Sarah Joy RH: Ali Loynachan S: Kira Giles L: Pam Jarrett Key Reserves: OH: Sabrina Hoeks OH: Alyssa Lang S: Allie Spaay L: Helen Smith L: Brighid Casey UMBC is once again taking on a good team in the early [...]