CORALVILLE, Iowa – The Lindenwood women's volleyball team (4-3, 0-0 OVC) dropped a tough five set battle against East Texas A&M (1-9, 0-0 Southland) at the Hawkeye Invitational on Saturday afternoon. The loss comes despite LU out-hitting and out-blocking ETAMU in the contest.

Game Overview
The Lions never led in the opening frame, as East Texas A&M took a 25-21 win to go up 1-0 in the match. Jade Roth led the Lions with three kills in the set. Lindenwood responded in set two with a convincing 25-19 win to even the match. Ashley Geluck fronted the LU attack with six kills in the frame.

The Lions carried the momentum into set three and led by as many as six points before staving off a late ETAMU rally to take a 25-22 victory. Ashley Geluck continued to lead LU in scoring with five more kills while Meghan Donoghue dished out 14 assists in the set, helping the Lions to a team hitting percentage of .262.

However, East Texas A&M regrouped for set four and jumped out to an early 9-4 lead. Lindenwood answered back with an 11-4 run to even the match at 13 apiece, but ETAMU immediately countered with a 7-1 run that put them in the lead for good. Autumn Bax led the Lions with four kills on a .571 hitting percentage in the set.

In the deciding set, East Texas A&M pounced out to another early lead that Lindenwood was unable to overcome, as they fell 15-11 to drop the match in five.

Three Lions posted double digit kill performances, led by Ashley Geluck with a match-high 16 terminations. She was joined by Autumn Bax with 15 kills and Jade Roth with 12 kills.

Geluck also added four blocks and three service aces to bring her scoring total to 21.5 points.

Meghan Donoughue ended the match with 48 assists, averaging just under 10 assists per set (9.60). She added 14 digs for her third double-double performance of the season.

Dana Grib led Lindenwood in digs with a total of 27 for an average of 5.40 digs per set. Also with double digit digs were Alayna Rudebeck (14) and Izzy Herrbold (10).

Quotable
"We just couldn't find any consistent momentum. We had some moments. We together put together some good runs but nothing consistent enough to win the match. Our serve and pass game was not good enough. They did a good job of keeping us uncomfortable with the serves and we could not adjust." - Will Condon

Next Up
The Lions will be back in action on Sunday as they are set to take on Iowa at 2:00 p.m.