Record: 4-0 Overall
Current Streak: Won 4
CBS College Sports Network/AVCA National Ranking: No. 2

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Missouri-St. Louis Invitational

Day	Date	Opponent	Time	Location	Arena	Series Record	Video	Live Stats
Fri	Sept. 5	vs Southern Indiana (2-2)	10 a.m.	St. Louis, Mo.	Mark Twain Building	WU leads 2-1	None	None
Fri	Sept. 5	vs Colorado School of Mines (3-1)	3 p.m.	St. Louis, Mo.	Mark Twain Building	WU leads 1-0	None	None
Sat	Sept. 6	at Missouri-St. Louis (4-1)	11:30 a.m.	St. Louis, Mo.	Mark Twain Building	UMSL leads 9-3	None	None
Sat	Sept. 6	vs Quincy (2-2)	2 p.m.	St. Louis, Mo.	Mark Twain Building	WU leads 3-0	None	None

No. 2 Lady Blues stay on the road for four matches at UMSL Invitational
After starting the year 4-0 for the seventh straight time, the Lady Blues will play four more matches Friday and Saturday at the Missouri-St. Louis Invitational. Friday Washburn will play Southern Indiana at 10 a.m. and then Colorado Mines at 3 p.m. and on Saturday the Lady Blues will play UMSL at 11:30 a.m. and then Quincy at 2 p.m.
   
All four opponents on Washburn's schedule went at least .500 during their season-opening tournaments. CSM and the host Tritons went 3-1 while USI and Quincy went 2-2.
   
Washburn remained No. 2 in the nation in Monday's national poll and earned first-place votes. None of the UMSL Invitational opponents received votes.

Notes of Interest:
• Chris Herron has gone 4-0 in all seven of his season-opening tournaments at Washburn for a 28-0 record.
• Trent Jones, an assistant coach at Washburn for four years who left last year, is now the head coach at UMSL.
• Four different players led the Lady Blues in kills in the four matches last week.
• Monica Miesner is 27 digs away from moving into the top five in Washburn career history.

About the Missouri-St. Louis Invitational teams
Washburn will face four opponents that went at least .500 in their opening weekend. Southern Indiana went 2-2 at the Missouri S&T Middle of Everywhere Classic with a win over MIAA team Missouri Western while Colorado Mines hosted the Oredigger Classic and went 3-1. UMSL went 3-1 at the Missouri S&T tournament after a loss to Truman and a win over MWSU while Quincy went 2-2 at a tournament at St. Ambrose (Iowa).
   
UMSL outside hitter Elizabeth Cook earned Great Lakes Valley Conference player of the week honors after averaging 3.76 kills and 3.00 digs per set. She reached double figures in kills in all four matches and had three double-doubles.

Wrapping up the Colorado State-Pueblo Fall Classic
Washburn went 4-0 last weekend to open the season at the Colorado State-Pueblo Fall Classic. The Lady Blues beat Dixie State in four sets to start the action and then they swept Colorado-Colorado Springs, CSUP and then Angelo State to finish action. Monica Miesner led the Lady Blues with 2.77 kills per set and she was second with 3.15 digs. Freshman Mollie Lacey was second on the team with 2.64 kills and she led the hitters with a .345 attack percentage. Those two, along with Ashley Shepard and Stephanie Nitz, each led the team in scoring in separate matches.

Lady Blues remain No. 2, earn first-place votes
The Lady Blues remained second in the CBS College Sports Network/AVCA Division II coaches top 25 poll released Monday. Preseason No. 1 Concordia-St. Paul went 3-1 in its opening weekend and fell into a tie for third while former No. 4 team Cal State-San Bernadino jumped to No. 1 in the poll with 29 first-place votes.
   
Washburn went 4-0 in its opening weekend and earned two first-place votes while Tampa (4) and Western Washington (1) shared the other top votes.
   
The Lady Blues and Truman were the only MIAA teams to go 4-0 in their opening weekend. Truman tied for third in the nation. Pittsburg State, Emporia State and Central Missouri all lost once and remained in the top 20.
   
The No. 2 ranking is the highest in school history after WU climbed as high as third last year. This is the 14th straight week WU has been in the top 10 and the 56th straight time being in the top 25, dating back to week one of the 2004 season.

Lady Blues set to face former assistant Trent Jones
Washburn head coach Chris Herron will take on his former assistant, Trent Jones, as the two face off during the Washburn-UMSL match Saturday. Jones left Washburn last year after four seasons as a WU assistant to become the Tritons head coach. Jones will also be coaching against his younger sister, Washburn student assistant coach and three-time All-American Tessa Jones.

Miesner moves up digs chart, eyes school's fifth best record
Monica Miesner began the year ranked ninth in career digs and she moved to seventh after getting 41 in the opening four matches. She now has 1,440 and needs 23 to tie Susan Waller (1988-90) for sixth and 27 to tie Debbie McCormick (1992-95) with 1,467 in fifth.
   
Miesner is sixth in school history with 3.39 digs per set and 10th with 1,229 kills in her career. She is also third in school history with 75 double-figure dig matches and she needs four more to tie assistant coach and former player Dani McHenry (2002-04) with 79.
   
She is a two-time All-American, earning AVCA second team honors in both 2007 and 2005. She also earned first team all-MIAA honors those two years.

Washburn loses senior after opening weekend
Senior defensive specialist Stephanie Holub left the team for personal reasons after playing in the first match this year. In her previous three years she totaled 357 digs and averaged 1.38 per set while playing in 92 matches. Her departure leaves Washburn with 15 on the roster.

Net Notes
• Ashley Shepard had a career-high six blocks against Dixie State in the opener to lead the team. Her previous high was four, reached twice.
• Freshman Mollie Lacey has started all four matches and freshman Breanna Lewis has started three. Lacey is second on the team with 2.64 kills per set and Lewis leads the team with 0.73 blocks per set.
• The win over Dixie State in the season-opener was the 11th straight win for Washburn in openers.

Coming up next
The Lady Blues will play three more matches on the road and complete an 11-match season-opening road trip when they play at a tournament at Dowling in Oakdale, N.Y.

Washburn plays Adelphi and Dowling on September 12 and then Bentley on September 13.