Lady Hornets headed to Final Four
By C.J. Moore
Originally published 09:26 p.m., March 23, 2010
Updated 11:14 p.m., March 23, 2010
ST. JOSEPH, MO. — Emporia State is headed to the Final Four.
Alli Volkens scored a career-high 28 points to lead the Lady Hornets to a 91-85 win over third-ranked Michigan Tech on Tuesday night at the Elite Eight.
Sophia Lenard, like Volkens, came off the bench to scored 22 points, and Cassondra Boston scored 19 points.
ESU trailed 37-35 at half, and Volkens carried ESU for stretches in the second half, scoring 22 of her game-high 28. Volkens made 10 of 11 shots and 8 of 10 at the free throw line. As a team, the Lady Hornets shot 56.9 percent.
ESU is headed to the Final Four for the first time since 1999. The Lady Hornets will face undefeated and top-ranked Gannon on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.
Half
ST. JOSEPH, MO. — Emporia State and Michigan Tech have gone back and forth in the first half and Tech leads 37-35 at half.
The teams have traded leads 11 times, and Katie Zimmerman gave the Huskies the lead with a shot in traffic in the final minute of the half.
Sophia Lenard leads the Lady Hornets with 12 points. Brittney Miller has seven points, and ESU’s leading scorer Cassondra Boston has just four points and has only taken three shots.
Both teams started the game hot, and Tech is shooting 46.7 percent at half, while ESU is shooting 56.5 percent. The Lady Hornets have been plagued by 13 turnovers.
Danae Danen leads Tech with nine points in only five minutes. She picked up two quick fouls and sat most of the half.
Lucy2009 (anonymous) says...
WooHOO! Go ESU! I sure hope Emporia starts supporting these ladies a little better, there needs to be a lot of exposure on this, it's a HUGE deal for ESU!
March 24, 2010 at 8:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
karmadog (anonymous) says...
Way to go Lady Hornets. Yes, I agree with you, Lucy. This is a HUGE deal. It is so special to reach the Elite Eight. It is sad that the retired Emporia community does a better job supporting the team than the university does. How embarrassing for the school and the music department that the pep band couldn't make a two hour trip to St. Joe to support the team???? What's up with that? Truly embarrassing. I mean two hours away and we can't produce a band but the team we played is 3 states away and had a great band. So many folks asked us last night, "hey, where's your band?" Perhaps in these tight budget times if we can't bring the pep band then spend the band money on something else that we can do right and dismantle the band.
Well, GO HORNETS....you are so good, so special and fun to watch you don't need a stinking band anyway. GOOD LUCK TONIGHT
March 24, 2010 at 9:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
reddog (K. B. Thomas Jr.) says...
STRIKE UP THE BAND THE GANG'S ALL HERE!
March 24, 2010 at 10:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
goodjoss (anonymous) says...
The pep band was sorely missed, for sure....
March 24, 2010 at 11:22 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
goodjoss (anonymous) says...
Plus, they had great 'spirit'... absolutely captivating to watch and listen to - Kudos Michigan Tech Band.
They made our kids look like they don't know how to party.
Perhaps if the Hornet Revue can't show, we could hire Michigan Tech since they don't have a game to play for... plus they have the same colors!
GO HORNETS!
March 24, 2010 at 11:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Free4all (anonymous) says...
LETS GO ESU!!
ALWAYS A PROUD FAN HERE!
March 24, 2010 at 1 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
neighbor (anonymous) says...
Congrats Lady Hornets, best of luck to you!!!
March 24, 2010 at 8:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
karmadog (anonymous) says...
Thank You Band! You rocked the house last night.
March 25, 2010 at 9:08 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bobg (anonymous) says...
Congrats to the Lady Hornets on your OT win last night, good Luck in the Final.
You played a great game against us.
And yes OUR PEP band ROCKS!
Bob Gilreath
MTU Huskies
Cager Club President.
March 25, 2010 at 3:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )