Volleyball team looks to bounce back

The ball is bouncing on both sides of the court for the Marshall women's volleyball team.

Marshall will enter the University of Denver Invi-tational in Colorado with a 2-6 record after a 2-1 showing this past weekend in the Adidas-Stone Loge Invitational at Cam Hender-son Center.

Marshall beat Wright State and UNC-Wilmington in the first two matches before falling to Wake Forest in three games.

Marshall started the match losing the first game 15-2, but pulled closer in the second game, losing by five.

"We were not playing with the intensity to win and the slow start didn't help us," Marshall Coach Steffi Legall said.

Before picking up the wins this past weekend, the Thundering Herd was on an 0-5 skid.

"I think we have played several games that maybe didn't turn out the we would have hoped, but we left with a lot of confidence," Legall said of her team's slow start.

Marshall's first win came against Wright State. The Thundering Herd won the first game 15-9, but fell in the second by the same score. The teams split the next two game, but Marshall bounced back in the fifth game, to defeat the Raiders 3-2.

"This is one that we needed," Legall said. "The team knew it and they responded. We finished, we stayed poised and executed towards the end."

The Thundering Herd volleyball team features six freshman, five sophomores, one junior and three seniors. Three of the six freshman start.

Marshall will open play at the University of Denver Invitational against Butler today and continue tomorrow against Denver.