courtney niesen
Urbana Athletics
0
Fairmont St. FairSt 4-7
3
Winner Urbana Urbana 4-5
Fairmont St. FairSt
4-7
0
Final
3
Urbana Urbana
4-5
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Fairmont St. FairSt 15 20 13 (0)
Urbana Urbana 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Chad Hensley

UU Glides Past Fairmont State in Straight Sets

URBANA, Ohio – The Urbana University women's volleyball team attacked at a phenomenal .372 clip en route to a straight-set victory (25-15, 25-20, 25-13) over the Fairmont State Fighting Falcons.

UU (5-7, 2-0 MEC) captured back-to-back wins to begin league play 2-0 for the third time in seven years. 

Head coach Kara Hellmann's squad blitzed out to an early 9-2 lead in the first set thanks to a few attack errors by Fairmont State (6-8, 0-2 MEC) and play at the net by Lexi Reinert, Natalie Perez, and Hannah Delor.

The Fighting Falcons would indeed live up to their moniker as they fought back to cut the Blue Knight lead down to 17-13, but an 8-2 run by Urbana was littered with five Fairmont State errors. Fairmont State ended the first set hitting just .103 (11-7-39) while Urbana attacked at a .258 percentage (12-4-31).

Set two would see Fairmont State go from a 4-3 deficit to a 10-4 lead. Urbana would then begin their fight back on their own with two huge scoring runs, the first being an 8-2 run to claw back into the match at 16-15 with Fairmont State leading, and then 6-1 to close out the set capped off with a Maggie Burns kill.

Urbana had just two attack errors the entire second set coupled with 16 kills to hit at an astounding .424 rate compared to Fairmont State's .290 percentage.

The third and final set would be all Urbana, as it hit better than the second set with a .433 percentage. Fairmont State would end the third with more errors than kills for a -.034 attack rate.

Reinert led the way in the match with 12 kills followed closely by Burns, Perez and Delor with nine each. Reinert would hit .550 (12-1-20) for the match while Perez (.500), Delor (.438), and Anna Davis (.571) all tallied high percentages as well.

Kaitlin Trace, who is the tallest player for Urbana, was a monster at the net causing trouble all night for the Fighting Falcons. Trace led the team with four blocks (one solo and three block assists) with Reinert and Perez tallying three block assists each. Davis dished out a team-high 33 assists while Courtney Niesen led the way with 15 digs.

UP NEXT: The Blue Knights will step out of the Mountain East Conference for a midweek match with in-state foe Tiffin University on Tuesday, Oct. 1. First serve is slated for 6 p.m. inside the Grimes Center.



 
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