NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lindenwood women's volleyball team (8-9, 4-5 OVC) completed a weekend sweep of Tennessee State (1-21, 0-9 OVC) on Saturday afternoon with their second consecutive 3-0 victory.
Match Overview
The opening set was tied 20-20 before the Lions closed out the frame on a 5-0 run to go ahead 1-0 in the match.
Kylee Richey paced LU with five kills in the set while
Jade Roth posted four terminations.
Lindenwood led for nearly the entire second set after using a 10-1 run to take a commanding 13-4 lead. The Lions led by as many as 10 points on the way to a 25-16 victory. Richey continued to lead the LU attack with five more kills.
The Lions pounced out to a 14-6 lead in the third frame before a 7-1 TSU run cut the difference to just two. However, Lindenwood outscored the Tigers 10-2 the rest of the was to secure the set and match.
Kylee Richey led Lindenwood on the afternoon with 13 kills on a .345 hitting percentage.
Autumn Bax also posted double digit kills with 11 on .321.
Amelia Thro bested her career-high for the fourth consecutive match with 37 assists to help the Lions to a team hitting percentage of .291.
Two Lions recorded double digit digs, led by
Dana Grib with 16. Meanwhile,
Shannon Monahan posted a career-high 11.
Quotable
"Any time you can go on the road and get two wins you have to be happy with the results. I think we did a good job of applying what we have been working onin practice and happy for the team that got to see the dividends of that work." -
Will Condon
Next Up
Lindenwood takes next week off before returning to action on Tuesday, October 28th at SIUE. The midweek contest is scheduled to get underway at 6:00 p.m.
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