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The Carthage College women's volleyball team (28-5, 7-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin), ranked eighth in the Nov. 3 American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III poll and third in the Oct. 28 NCAA Division III Midwest Regional poll, won a pair of matches on Saturday, Oct. 31 to go 3-1 at the Friday-Saturday, Oct. 30-31 Wisconsin-Whitewater Tournament IV at the Williams Center in Whitewater, Wis. 

On Saturday, Carthage defeated No. 29 Simpson College (19-12) and Wisconsin-Platteville (21-11), both by 3-1 scores. The Lady Reds' winning scores over the Storm were 25-22, 15-25, 25-16 and 25-22, and their winning scores over the Pioneers were 24-26, 25-17, 25-18 and 25-10.  On Friday, Oct. 30, Carthage split a pair of matches at the tournament.  The Lady Reds lost to St. Ambrose University (28-6), 3-1, before outlasting No. 6 Wisconsin-Whitewater (27-6) by a 3-2 margin.  The Fighting Bees' winning set scores over the Carthage were 28-30, 25-19, 25-23 and 25-23.  Carthage's winning scores over Wisconsin-Whitewater were 24-26, 25-21, 25-22, 16-25 and 15-13.

 

Carthage will be the top-seeded team in next week's CCIW Women's Volleyball Tournament, and the Lady Reds will play host to eighth-seeded North Park University in a tournament play-in match on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at the Tarble Arena in Kenosha, Wis., beginning at 7 p.m.  In the three other play-in matches, second-seeded North Central College plays host to seventh-seeded Augustana College (Ill.), third-seeded Illinois Wesleyan University entertains sixth-seeded Millikin University, and fourth-seeded Elmhurst College plays host to fifth-seeded Wheaton College (Ill.).  The highest-remaining seed after the Nov. 3 play-in matches, plays host to the four-team CCIW Women's Volleyball Tournament on Friday-Saturday, Nov. 6-7.