PENSACOLA, Fla. – The No. 20-ranked University of West Florida volleyball team swept West Alabama 3-0 (25-21, 25-13, 25-12) to open Gulf South Conference play at home on Friday night. West Florida improves to 7-2 on the year and extends its winning streak against UWA to 13.
 
"I think it was a good 3-0 win on the first night of conference play," head coach Melissa Wolter said. "I think West Alabama is a very good team, I thought they had an excellent game plan and they really caught us off guard in that first set. I was pleased that we were able to play well at the end of that first set. I felt like after the first set I thought we started getting back into what our game plan was and I thought we played very well in the second and third set."
 
With the win, Wolter tallies her 299^th win as head coach at West Florida. Wolter earned her 300th career during the 2013 season, and has a 335-157 career record between UWF and Wisconsin-Parkside.
 
Senior Autumn Duyn (Venice, Fla./Venice HS) led the Argonauts offensively with 12 kills at .400 clip. Junior Cora Bidlack (Randolph, N.J./Randolph HS) was efficient on the offensive end with eight kills at a .571 clip and also had four blocks.
 
Junior Tori Martella (Jacksonville, Fla./Providence HS) led the team with 16 digs while sophomore Monique StCyr (Williamsburg, Va./Jamestown HS) tallied 28 assists and three service aces in the win, including back to back service aces to start the third set.
 
Junior Kathryn Torre (Highland, Ill./State College of Florida) tallied a team-high five blocks including a pair of solo blocks.
 
West Florida tallied a .337 team attacking percentage in the win and had an impressive .591 attacking percentage in the second set.
 
UWF will host GSC opponent West Georgia tomorrow at 1 p.m. CT before facing south region opponent Spring Hill at 6 p.m. CT.
 
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