Volleyball
Volleyball Reaping Awards for Stellar Season
WINTERVILLE—After guiding Pitt Community College to a 28-8 overall mark, Volleyball coach Tom Marsh was named the 2011 Region X Conference Coach of the Year this month while freshman Megan Mansfield took home Region X Player of the Year honors.
Since returning to the sidelines in 2009, Marsh has led the Bulldogs to a 71-31 overall mark and 32-7 conference record. This year’s team went 14-2 in Region X action to win the regular-season title outright.
Mansfield, a 5-10 middle hitter from Morehead City, averaged 2.78 kills per set with a 39 percent hitting efficiency this season. She finished with 54 aces for the year to go along with 347 kills.
In addition to being named POY, Mansfield was named to the 2011 All-Region X Conference Team along with teammates Catherine Barber and Stephanie Zampini.
Barber, an outside hitter from Apex, recorded 321 kills for the Bulldogs with a 28.8 percent hitting efficiency while Zampini, a libero from Wilmington (Del.), led the team in digs with 457, or 3.9 per set.
Volleyball Wins Region X Conference Title
With a 14-2 record, PCC Volleyball has won the Region X Conference regular-season title for the first time since 2006 and will seek a conference tournament championship this weekend in Dobson, N.C.
The Bulldogs closed out regular-season play Oct. 28 with a 3-0 victory over Johnston Community College to go 27-7 overall in 2011. Megan Mansfield had 10 kills for PCC, which blanked the Jaguars, 25-0, in the first set before taking the next two, 25-9 and 25-21.
Earlier in the day, Pitt fell to Brunswick Community College, 3-1. The Bulldogs won the first set, 25-21, but proceeded to lose the next three, 25-19, 26-24 and 27-25, for only their second Region X loss this season.
Catherine Barber had 10 kills for the Bulldogs while Mansfield and Taylor Norris finished with nine kills each. Leah Mackley recorded 19 assists, and Stephanie Zampini had 18 digs.
Next up for Pitt is the Region X Conference Tournament Nov. 4-6 at Surry Community College.
If the Bulldogs are to win the conference tourney this weekend and move on to the national championship in Wisconsin later this month, they will most likely have to go through Florida's Pasco Hernando College—last year's national champion. Since the Region X Tournament also serves as a district tourney, Pasco Hernando will participate along with PCC and six other Region X colleges.
Bulldogs Finish 2011 a Perfect 11-0 at Home
The Pitt Community College volleyball team recorded three more wins over Region X Conference foes before eventually dropping its first conference match of the 2011 season to Cape Fear Community College on Sunday in Wilmington.
The Bulldogs, who are 26-6 overall, 13-1 in Region X play, dropped set one to the Sea Devils, 26-24, before drawing even with a 25-22 victory in set two. But after narrowly winning the third frame, 25-23, Cape Fear managed to avenge a pair of earlier-season losses to Pitt with a 25-17 victory in the fourth to close out the match.
Catherine Barber tallied 18 kills, 13 digs and two aces for PCC. Taylor Norris finished with 11 kills and five blocks, and Megan Mansfield added 10 kills. Angele Landry and Leah Mackley each had 23 assists, and Stephanie Zampini led the way in digs with 16.
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