The volleyball team was able to repeat its sweep against Northern Illinois to advance to the semifinals in the Mid-American Conference tournament for the first time since 1996 Friday in Toledo.

“It was a big time match big time performance,” said coach Erik Olson. “We already knew each other so well and we played each other so recently that we knew exactly what they wanted to do and vice versa. But we were able to take advantage of it more.”

Senior quarterback Dan LeFevour was not coy about how tuned in he will be to Saturday’s Ohio-Northern Illinois game Saturday.

After the CMU football team cruised to a 35-3 win against Ball State, it put pressure on NIU to beat Ohio.

There was a time when CMU women’s basketball coach Sue Guevara doubted her ability to continue coaching at the collegiate level.

Guevara lost her mother in 2002 and later resigned as head coach at the University of Michigan on March 24, 2003, after a pair of losing seasons.

The CMU men’s basketball team seeks to beat Fairleigh Dickinson for the second consecutive season Saturday.

The teams play at 7 p.m. in Teaneck, N.J., in CMU’s first road game of the season.
The Chippewas defeated the Knights 68-62 on Feb. 21 in Rose Arena in the team’s Bracketbuster game.

The CMU volleyball team gets a rematch of its final regular-season match today in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.

The Chippewas play Northern Illinois at 11 a.m. in the Seagate Center in Toledo.
The Chippewas swept NIU in their last meeting Nov. 14. The winner of today’s match advances to the semifinal match.

The CMU women’s basketball team will open its home schedule after two consecutive road losses in Illinois to start the season.

CMU (0-2) plays Loyola-Chicago, a team that beat the Chippewas 87-82 on Dec. 18 last year, at 2 p.m. Saturday in Rose Arena.

CMU women’s basketball coach Sue Guevara has utilized the early signing period ­— Nov. 11-18 — to land three recruits for next season.

High school seniors Lauren Bellamy (Davison High School/Davison, Mich.), Nichole DiGuilio (Mount Vernon High School/Mount Vernon, Ohio) and Taylor Johnson (Belding High School/Belding, Mich.) have signed national letters of intent to play for CMU, beginning with the 2010-11 season.

Freshmen Jalisa Olive and twins Stefanie and Rachel Mauk could have their presence felt immediately in the backcourt of the CMU women’s basketball team.

With a blend of youth and experience at the guard positions, Olive said the group has yet to gel.