CLINTON, Miss. - UWF volleyball (22-5, 17-0 GSC) claimed another sweep (25-20, 25-19, 25-13), in terms of both score and season record, on Friday night over Mississippi College (12-13, 10-7 GSC) at A.E. Wood Coliseum.
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The Argos hit .239 as a team while holding the Choctaws to .083, with just one set above .100. They scored 40 kills to the hosts' 33 on 15 less attacks with 10 less errors. They also took the categories of aces 4-0, assists 38-28 and digs 55-48 while forcing Mississippi College's all-time career kills leader, Lydia Paulette, into 12 errors to just nine kills for a -.064 stat line.Â
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The match saw a historic moment in the opening set, as senior middle
Jenna Zydlo collected her 355th block as an Argo, breaking the all-time program career record set by Lindsay Homme in 2013. The moment came on a solo block that gave her team a 20-12 lead. She would go on to split a block with
Emily Breazeale, while scoring six kills on a team-leading .455 output, as well as two consecutive aces that she also did in the first frame.Â
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No player for either team had more than nine kills, as the Argos once again showcased a selfless offensive identity with stifling defense. Breazeale had eight digs and five kills.
Kumara Flanagain scored a team-high nine kills with three solo blocks.
Magdalena Vongkasemsiri tallied her seventh match of the season with a .500 or higher hitting percentage with eight kills on 14 swings.
Annie Monaco added six kills.
Meg Brackhan put up 20 digs and five assists.
Camryn Brooks and
Taylor Teaman had 10 and five scoops, respectively.
Gabi Moulton added nine while racking up 32 assists. She, Brooks and
Caiden Largent each contributed two kills.Â
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While scoring a kill, Paulette also committed three errors in the first eight rallies of a first set in which her team would score one more kill than UWF but also commit four more errors. The Argos took the hitting battle .182 to .075 in the frame and led 6-2 with the three offensive errors, a service error and kills by Zydlo and Moulton. Breazeale would get a point back after a UWF error, leading to the back-to-back aces from the senior from Basehor, Kansas. The squads went back and forth before MC went on a 4-0 run to narrow the score to 14-12. However, the next seven points went to the Argos. Brooks, Monaco and Zydlo scored kills with three Choctaw errors, as well as the record-breaking block by the Kansan. The Choctaws responded to every score by UWF from here with two points until a service error ended the set in favor of the Argos.
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Another 4-0 span for the hosts put them ahead 7-4 in the second set. Monaco scored a kill that was answered by Meg Paparella of MC. At this time, UWF responded with a 4-0 run of its own via a Vongkasemsiri kill, a Moulton ace and a pair of miscues that gave it a 9-8 lead. The Choctaws tied it back before the Argos took four of the next five points for a 14-11 lead with a Flanagain kill, a Paulette error, a Breazeale kill and Zydlo and Breazeale's block on Paulette to force another error. The teams went back and forth before a 5-1 UWF run put more distance between the teams with kills from Flanagain and Monaco, a service error after a UWF miscue and kills from Flanagain and Vongkasemsiri. The teams went back and forth once again to end the set as Breazeale provided the clinching kill. The Argos had 16 kills to MC's 13 in the set and took the hitting battle .261 to .163.
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With victory in sight, the Blue and Green responded with its most dominant set of the night, scoring five more kills with five less errors than the hosts to outhit MC .263 to 0.0 in the final frame. Tied 3-3, Zydlo and Breazeale scored kills off Moulton assists before Teaman fired an ace. A pair of bad sets brought the lead to 8-4 before a Breazeale kill, a Paulette error and another bad set made it 11-5. The Choctaws scratched a point back before a 6-0 Argo run that included a kill from Moulton, two kills by Vongkasemsiri and three solo blocks by Flanagain in five rallies. The next three points went to MC, to which UWF consecutively scored two points and the hosts one in response. Largent scored points 21 and 23 and Zydlo made it match point with one last kill before one last error finished off the sweep.Â
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The Argos travel to Livingston, Ala., in the return trip to West Alabama in its last road match of the regular season this afternoon at 1 pm.Â
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