PENSACOLA, Fla. - UWF volleyball (21-5, 16-0 GSC) took control early and never lost it in its 16th straight win, its fifth straight sweep (25-11, 25-18, 25-17) and its sixth regular season conference sweep at UWF Field House on Wednesday night over Auburn Montgomery (8-17, 5-11 GSC). The result is the Argos' 13th win in 14 meetings with AUM and their 11th sweep of the Warhawks.
 
It was complete and total domination by the Argos as they hit .364 while holding the Warhawks to .052 and under .100 in each frame. UWF tallied 51 kills while holding AUM to just 21 and forcing the latter into 16 offensive errors. The Argos took every statistical category, with points 64-25, errors 11-16, blocks 9-1, assists 48-20 and digs 55-41. 
 
Jenna Zydlo had her highest offensive output of the season, hitting .700 with 14 kills on 20 swings. She also tallied four blocks, two solo and two assisted, to tie the all-time career block record in program history of 354. Annie Monaco hit 10 kills on 18 swings for a .389 night. Emily Breazeale contributed nine kills with 16 digs, a pair of blocks and an ace. Kumara Flanagain scored seven kills on a .375 night. Gabi Moulton racked up 38 assists with seven digs, four kills on a .571 night and an ace. Meg Brackhan scored 15 digs and four assists. Camryn Brooks added eight digs and an ace. Damyah Joyner and Delaney Hanowell each scored three total blocks, while Hanowell scored three kills on five swings for a .600 percentage. 

The Argos completely left the Warhawks with no answers in the opening set, racking up a .531 hitting percentage to just a .037 percentage for the visitors. Moulton and Breazeale provided the opening points via kill before AUM pulled within one at 3-2. Flanagain responded with a kill off the serve of AUM's lone native of the Florida Panhandle, Pensacola State transfer Carly Cooper. Flanagain's score led to another, and they both started a 12-0 UWF run and a 12-point service run by Brackhan. When the Argos took a 15-2 lead, Flanagain had scored a total of four kills in the span, Breazeale had three kills and a solo block and Zydlo added two kills. When the match became more back-and-forth afterward, points 16, 17 and 19 came from Zydlo kills and points 20 and 21 were Monaco kills. A 3-0 run ensued with kills by Breazeale and Brooks and a solo Zydlo block to get to set point, and it was decided via service error.
 
After 2-0 and 3-2 leads in the second, AUM stormed back to take a 6-3 lead. However, a kill from Magdalena Vongkasemsiri and two from Zydlo tied it back before a 5-0 run with a Zydlo kill, two from Breazeale and a block by Zydlo and Breazeale made the score 11-7 in UWF's favor. Following a UWF service error, an AUM error, a Breazeale ace and two more Zydlo kills put the Argos up 15-8 to wrap up a 12-2 run. A 5-1 run made it 21-13 with kills from Monaco and Flanagain and aces by Moulton and Brooks. Zydlo and Monaco provided the set-sealing kills at points 24 and 25.
 
Breazeale put her stamp on another set tonight with a kill to open the third set ahead of a Taylor Teaman ace. The freshly checked-in Joyner scored a kill and split a block with Hanowell for points seven and eight, and after a kill by Monaco, Joyner came up with a solo block to put her team up 10-4. Breazeale kills provided points 11, 12 and 13 around a UWF service error and a Cooper ace. Zydlo and Moulton split a block after the last Breazeale point, and following two points from AUM, UWF opened up a 7-1 run. Moulton and Monaco scored kills, Zydlo added two kills and a solo block and Monaco and Hanowell split a block. Later on, Joyner and Hanowell split another block and Hanowell scored a kill to make it match point, and after three Warhawk points, she ended it with another kill.  
 
With the win and its season sweeps of second-place Alabama Huntsville and third-place Valdosta State, UWF has locked up the No. 1 seed and hosting rights in the GSC Championship, its 16th total and ninth consecutive GSC regular season title. The last time another program hosted the GSC Championship was 2014 when Shorter, who left the conference this past summer, won the regular season title.

UWF travels this weekend for its last road matches of the 2024 regular season as it makes the return trip to Mississippi College, playing the Choctaws at 6 pm on Friday. 

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