Friday, October 28
Memphis 3, Cincinnati – Box Score
Tulane 3, East Carolina 2 – Box Score
Houston 3, Temple 0 – Box Score
UCF 3, Tulsa 1 – Box Score
Wichita State 3, South Florida 0 – Box Score
Recaps
Memphis 3, Cincinnati 0 – Box Score
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Tigers moved to (16-8,6-5) on Friday night after sweeping the Cincinnati Bearcats (25-22,25-21,25-13) and completing the seasons sweep.
In the first set, Memphis and Cincinnati went back-and-forth until the set sat at 19-al. Memphis finished the set on a 7-3 run. Set two was more of the same has the Bearcats kept pace with Memphis until the Tigers pulled away again.
The final frame was all Memphis. The Tigers led by as many as 12 points and never let the Bearcats get within striking distance winning the third 25-13.
Tulane 3, East Carolina 2 – Box Score
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Tulane Green Wave held off a late East Carolina rally to defeat the Pirates in five sets 25-17, 25-22, 26-28, 22-25, 20-18.
Mackenzie Martin (15), Melissa Kolurbasi (14) and Amarachi Osuji (13) all had double-digit kills in the win for the Green Wave. Kate Van Houten paced the match with 51 assists. Jillian Dits had 26 digs defensively, while Skyler Bumpers had five blocks.
For the Pirates, Angeles Alderete had a match-high 26 kills, while Izzy Marinelli (14) and Carlia Northcross (11) both had double-digit kills. Julianna Askew (30) and Payton Evenstad (27) paced the match, leading East Carolina in assists. Angeles Alderete added 22 digs to her 26 kills.
Houston 3, Temple 0 – Box Score
HOUSTON, Texas – The No. 23 University of Houston volleyball team clinched its second consecutive 20-win season after its fourth sweep in the last five games with a three-set win over Temple on Friday night in the Fertitta Center.
Houston (20-2, 11-0 The American) has now won its last 12 games with five coming in straight-set victories. The win extends the Cougars' winning streak to four games against the Owls in its last match together as conference foes.
The program notched back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time since 1999-2000 and tied the fastest pace to 20 wins in program history (22 games), originally set in 1975. Posting a second-consecutive three-set sweep, the Cougars have recorded back-to-back straight-set victories for the third time this season.
Houston's .330 hitting percentage on the night marked the fifth time the Cougars hit over .300 this season while also holding their opponent to under .100 hitting percentage for the second time this season.
Senior Abbie Jackson and graduate Isabel Theut tied for a team-leading 10 kills on the night while senior Morgan Janda recorded 19 assists with eight in the first set. Graduate Kortlyn Henderson tallied a .429 hitting percentage with six kills in 14 attempts. Junior Kate Georgiades' 12 digs mark her 62nd career game with 10-or-more digs while Jackson reached 73 career games with 10-or-more kills with 10 on the night.
UCF 3, Tulsa 1 – Box Score
TULSA, Okla.- The UCF volleyball team picked up its sixth consecutive victory with a 3-1 (25-19, 25-8, 25-21, 25-20) win at Tulsa on Friday night in the Reynolds Center.
The Knights (18-1, 10-1 AAC) put down 65 kills, while limiting the Golden Hurricane (10-12, 3-7) to 37 kills with a .120 attacking percentage.
The Knights started off slow in set one as Tulsa jumped out to a 5-2 lead before UCF battled back to even the set at 6-6 after a kill from McKenna Melville. After the Golden Hurricane pulled ahead, UCF tied it up 16-16 with a kill from Kari Zumach. After a few lead changes, UCF took the lead at 20-19 and closed out the set on a 6-0 scoring run to take a 1-0 lead in the match.
Set two started out much different with the Black and Gold racing out to a 5-0 lead. A kill from Heidi Bonde ignited a 9-0 scoring run for the Knights with Katelyn Grimes serving and UCF cruised to the 25-8 second-set win. The Knights tallied an astounding .700 attacking percentage in the set with 14 kills on 20 attempts without an error.
Tulsa opened the third set by winning five of the first six rallies to take a 5-1 lead, but UCF quickly answered to trim the score to 8-7 following a kill from Claudia Dillon. After an attacking error to make it 22-21, the Golden Hurricane scored three consecutive points to earn the first set win against the Knights since Oct. 7 – a span of five matches without dropping a set.
The Knights had a rocky start to set four but quickly rebounded after a timeout to even the set at eight apiece following consecutive kills from Bonde. Tulsa looked to make a comeback in the set with a 3-0 run to make it 19-17, but UCF countered with three consecutive points to pull away 22-17 and win the set, 25-20.
Melville led the offense with a game-high 24 kills. Bonde recorded another stellar performance with a season-high 19 kills on 33 swings with a .455 attacking percentage.
On the defensive side, Chloe Scheer tied her season-high with 21 digs, while setter Amber Olson tallied 57 assists and 14 digs to record her ninth double-double of the season.
Wichita State 3, South Florida 0 – Box Score
WICHITA, Kan. - Wichita State hit a season-best .353 and recorded 11 blocks, smothering South Florida 25-15, 25-19, 25-7 on Friday night at Charles Koch Arena.
Three Shockers reached double-digit kills, as Brylee Kelly and Natalie Foster each notched 11 and Sophia Rohling chipped in with ten. The trio hit .450, .611 and .529, respectively, helping the Shockers to a season-best .738 (31-42) sideout percentage.
Wichita State (11-10, 6-4) steadily built a comfortable cushion in the opening set, using a trio of mini 3-0 runs to extend the lead to 17-10. The Bulls (7-14, 1-8) crawled back to within 18-14, but kills from Foster, Kayce Litzau and Brylee Kelly, combined with a South Florida setting error, ballooned the advantage to 22-14. A Litzau ace a few points later secured the set for the Black and Yellow.
Rohling's five kills in the second set were pivotal in fending off a late charge from South Florida, who fell into a 16-7 hole but trimmed the Wichita State lead to 20-17 on a kill from Marta Cvitkovic. Following a WSU timeout, the Shockers got a kill from Kelly and a Foster service ace to reestablish command of the set, then put the Bulls away after a Cvitkovic error and another Rohling kill.
The third stanza was perhaps the most dominant set of the season for Wichita State, holding an opponent to single-digits for the first time this season outside of the fifth set. Kelly, Foster and Rohling combined for 11 kills without making an attack error, and the Shockers tacked on four more blocks to equal their season-high in a three-set match this season. Leading 6-4, Wichita State exploded for an 11-0 run that two South Florida timeouts failed to squelch. The flurry included three kills from Foster, two from Kelly, and three consecutive Cvitkovic errors to provide WSU with a commanding 17-4 lead. Morgan Stout put the exclamation point on the proceedings with a highlight-reel double block late in the set, and Rohling polished it off with her tenth kill for a 25-7 win.
Litzau handed out 27 assists to go along with eight digs and two service aces, while Morgan Weber led the Shockers with 13 digs to go along with four kills.