PENSACOLA, Fla. - UWF volleyball (12-5, 7-0 GSC) earned another 3-0 win (25-9, 25-13, 25-23) tonight at UWF Field House over West Alabama (2-15, 0-7 GSC) to celebrate its 17th annual Pack It Pink night in honor of breast cancer victims and survivors. The result is the Argonauts' fifth sweep in their last six Pack It Pink matches, as the program furthers the tradition started in 2007 over a year after Coach Melissa Wolter was diagnosed with the disease and shortly following her final treatments, making this also 17 years in remission for Wolter. 
 
The Argos completely dominated the stat sheet with a .297 offense while holding the Tigers to a stifling -.012 and only one frame, the first, with a positive output at just .1. Unfortunately for the visitors, that was the hosts' most productive set on offense with 12 kills on just 21 swings for a .476 clip. UWF went on to total 17 kills between the second and third frames with offensive percentages of .278 and .160, respectively. UWA scored the same amount of kills in the final two sets but committed 20 errors, 12 more than the Argos in that time frame and 10 more than they had the entire match.
 
For the fourth time in five contests, Kumara Flanagain led UWF, scoring eight kills on a .400 performance with five total blocks. Annie Monaco and Jenna Zydlo were next with three kills apiece, as 13 Argos registered a kill, with Zydlo doing so on as many attacks. Camryn Brooks, Nikki Deslatte, Emily Breazeale, Magdalena Vongkasemsiri and Tylah Yeomans each scored two while Damyah Joyner, Izabelle Sanchez, Gabi Moulton, Liberty McLean and Delaney Hanowell each added one. 
 
Moulton and Brooks each fired three aces and Taylor Teaman had two. Moulton put up 16 assists with four each from Sanchez and Olivia Kelly and three from Teaman. Vongkasemsiri assisted four blocks and Caiden Largent, Deslatte and Hanowell did so for two. Teaman headed the back line with eight digs as Teaman scooped seven attacks and Breazeale four.
 
Though West Alabama made the margin close at times and especially in the final set, the outcome was never truly in doubt. The Tigers scored three of the first four points, but the Argos were ready with runs of 5-0, 6-0 and 7-0 to run away with the frame and get to set point, where Flanagain scored her fourth kill of the set to move the match to the second period. 
 
Entering for the first time in the contest, Deslatte the second with a bang via a kill to kick, providing UWF a lead that ballooned with a bad set, a Flanagain kill and a Moulton ace. Later, after a service error put the ball in her hands, Brooks tallied an ace and a kill from the back line to put her team up 12-5. After going back and forth for a time, another kill from Flanagain started a 4-0 run with a bad set following and McLean's kill on her lone attack of the day to stretch the lead to 21-11. Breazeale gave her team the two-set lead with a kill.
 
The Tigers refused to make the next frame easy on the hosts, determined to steal a set on the highly favored Argos. Sure enough, the former led 4-1 before three consecutive miscues tied it back. Trailing 5-4, Hanowell stepped up to the occasion in three of the next four points with a kill and two blocks assisted by Flanagain and Monaco. Five of the next six points went right back to UWA, three of them via ace, before its luck ran out with three more straight errors, one service and two attack. Kills by Sanchez and Deslatte followed to put UWF up 14-11. When the Tigers pulled back within one at 18-17, Monaco scored back-to-back kills ahead of an error that increased the lead to 21-17. The visitors still wouldn't go away, tying it back at 21 and 22, but Joyner, in her first action after suffering an injury four weeks ago against Northwest Missouri State, came up big with a kill. Teaman followed with an ace before Yeomans provided the winning kill.
 
UWF is back home tomorrow at noon against Mississippi College on the last day of Homecoming Week. Fans can bring pre-purchased tickets to tomorrow afternoon's football game to receive free admission to the Field House. 
 
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