The Northern State volleyball team will look to get back on track when the Wolves meet Wayne State in the opening round of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament on Thursday. The two teams meet at 5 p.m. at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls.
Wayne swept a previous matchup on its home court earlier this season.
Northern had won six straight matches prior to a regular-season setback to Winona State last Saturday. That prompted Wolves coach Brent Aldridge to say it really doesn't matter who the opponent in the conference tourney is if his team doesn't play better.
"I don’t know whether there is a great matchup," Aldridge said. "If we can’t side out, there isn’t a great matchup for us."
Wayne enters the match as the fourth seed, while the Wolves are the fifth seed. The winner meets the winner of the St. Cloud State-Southwest Minnesota State in the semifinals on Friday.
The Wolves lost hitter Natalia Szybinska to an injury last weekend, but Aldridge sa
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