Box score
BANNER ELK, N.C. --- Megan Mitchell (Minden,
Nev.) posted a double-double with a match-high 47 assists and 11
digs to lead the Lees-McRae College women's volleyball team to a
four-set victory over Queens University of Charlotte in Conference
Carolinas play on Friday night in Williams Gymnasium.
Lees-McRae (17-6, 12-0 CC) won the match by scores of 26-24,
21-25, 25-16, and 25-14, extending its winning streak to 15 matches
overall and 43 straight victories in league play. The Bobcats held
Queens (13-7, 7-2 CC) to a .072 hitting percentage on the night,
totaling seven blocks while attacking at a .197 clip of their own.
Queens posted 14 blocks and 50 digs in the match, while the Bobcats
recorded 67 digs and 10 service aces.
Megan Epperson (St. John, Ind.) paced the Bobcats with 17 kills,
while Mitchell added five kills and three service aces to her
double-double of 47 assists and 11 digs. Taylor Clendenin
(Statesville, N.C.) and Dana Oliver (Davie, Fla.) each chipped in a
double-double, as Clendenin recorded 12 kills and 12 digs, and
Oliver posted 10 kills and 14 digs. Sariah Suryadevara (Cincinnati,
Ohio) added match-highs of 23 digs and four service aces, while
Jessica Singewald (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) and Lauren Fox (Garland,
Texas) chipped in four and three blocks, respectively.
Brittany Harvey and Brittney Barren led the way for Queens with
seven kills each, as Lindsey Everhart and Anna Gibbs chipped in
five and four kills, respectively. Gibbs posted 11 blocks on the
night to pace the Royals, while Keri Kemp and Everhart chipped in
five stuffs each. Avery Moore also added a double-double with 12
assists and 11 digs.
Queens jumped out to an early 10-5 lead in the first set before
the Bobcats responded, launching a 13-5 run to claim an 18-15
advantage on a kill by Mitchell. After the Bobcats pushed the lead
to 21-16 and the Royals countered with a 6-2 run to cut the margin
to 23-22, Lees-McRae held on for a 26-24 victory in the frame as
Epperson closed out the set with back-to-back kills.
The second set proved to be a tightly contested affair, with
neither team claiming more than a two-point lead for much of the
frame. With the score knotted at 19-19 following a Royal miscue,
Queens went on a 6-2 run to close out the set on a block by Gibbs
and Everhart to even the match at 1-1.
Lees-McRae responded in the third set, taking an early 12-8 lead
on a Fox kill to force a Queens timeout. The Bobcats continued to
dictate proceeding when play resumed, opening a 20-13 advantage on
a Singewald kill before Clendenin closed out the 25-16 set win with
an emphatic smash to cap a 5-3 spurt.
The Bobcats carried the momentum into the fourth frame, opening
the set with a 12-5 run that was capped by a Clendenin kill. After
Queens trimmed the margin to 14-9 on a kill by Harvey, the Bobcats
answered with an 8-3 run to open a 22-12 lead following a Singewald
smash. Lees-McRae then closed out the set and the match on
back-to-back kills by Clendenin.
Lees-McRae returns to the court on Saturday when the Bobcats
travel to Misenheimer, N.C. to take on Pfeiffer University in a
conference tilt at 2 p.m.
- LMC -
