
JOLIET – University of St. Francis saw its 2011 volleyball season come to an end as visiting Robert Morris University advanced to the semifinals of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament with a four-set (25-21, 21-25, 25-13, 25-15) win over the Saints at the Sullivan Center Tuesday night.

JOLIET – University of St. Francis rallied to win sets four and five and wrapped up its 2011 regular season with a 21-25, 25-23, 21-25, 25-16 and 15-12 win on Senior Night over NCAA Division II Saint Joseph's College (IN) at the Sullivan Center.

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. – University of St. Francis put up a strong fight in two of thee sets Tuesday night but could not avoid a sweep as Olivet Nazarene University grabbed a share of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season championship and sewed up the league's first automatic berth in the NAIA National Volleyball Championship Tournament.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – University of St. Francis won twice on Friday and then fell twice on Saturday in a weekend NAIA volleyball tournament co-hosted by Cornerstone University and Aquinas College. The Saints swept both Siena Heights University (MI) and Daemen College (NY) on Friday and dropped a five-set match to Madonna University (MI) and a four-gamer to Aquinas on Saturday.

CHICAGO -- The front-line trio of Jazzmyne Robbins (La Salle-Peru H.S./Peru, IL), Sarah Ahline (Lemont H.S./Lemont, IL) and Kate McIlvanie (Lena-Winslow H.S./Eleroy, IL) combined for a total of 37 kills to lead University of St. Francis to a four-set victory over Illinois Institute of Technology Thursday night at the Keating Center on the IIT campus.

JOLIET – University of St. Francis rolled to an easy 25-8 win in the first set and then posted wins by scores of 25-19 and 25-23 to defeat Purdue University North Central (8-21, 2-9) in a Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference volleyball match Tuesday night at the Sullivan Center.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – University of St. Francis pushed NCAA Division II Eckerd College (FL) to four sets before dropping a non-conference volleyball match Thursday night at the McArthur Center on the Eckerd campus.

BABSON PARK, Fla. – University of St. Francis won a pair of Wednesday matches over Florida NAIA schools to start its fall break Florida trip with a 2-0 record. USF knocked off both Webber International University and Warner University in four games each in matches played at Webber's home gym.

JOLIET, Ill. - University of St. Francis junior outside hitter Jazzmyne Robbins (La Salle-Peru H.S./Peru, IL) was named the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Weekfor the week ending Oct. 15.

JOLIET – University of St. Francis rallied from a two-games-to-none deficit to win the final three sets and defeat Cornerstone University (MI) and earn a weekend split of four matches played at its own Big Guns Volleyball Classic at the Sullivan Center on Saturday.
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