Friday, October 18, 2002

Marginas Leads North Texas Past FIU, 3-0

orina Marginas smashed a match-high 23 kills to lead the North Texas volleyball team (12-12, 6-1) to a 3-0 (30-27, 30-21, 30-19) victory over Florida International (6-15, 1-5), the defending Sun Belt Conference Champions, Friday in Denton, TX.

UNT's 12 victories this season tie its total for all of last season and its six wins in Sun Belt Conference play leaves the team only one conference win shy of tying its total victories in league play for all of 2001. North Texas picked up its sixth Sun Belt victory by handing the Golden Panthers their first shut-out loss of the year by a conference opponent.

FIU was held to just 31 kills on the night and failed to have anyone register double-figure kills. The Golden Panthers were led by Oskana Zabalueva with nine kills and Charlyn Ball-Llovera with a match-high six blocks.

FIU will next play at Louisiana-Lafayette on Sunday afternoon.