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Chippewas Gear Up For MAC Tournament Run

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Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Everything is history. Now, it’s about what is immediately in front that counts for the Central Michigan volleyball team.

The Chippewas will square off with Western Michigan on Thursday (7 p.m. ESPN3) in a Mid-American Conference Tournament opener at Millett Hall on the campus of Miami (Ohio) University in Oxford, Ohio.

It is CMU’s first league-tournament berth under second-year coach Mike Gawlik and the program’s first since 2012.

The Chippewas made a late-season surge, winning five of their final seven matches, to reach the tournament as the No.