TUESDAY'S SCORES
Tennessee State 3, @Eastern Illinois 0
Lindenwood 3, @Little Rock 2
@Southeast Missouri 3, SIUE 1
Morehead State 3, @Southern Indiana 0
Tennessee Tech 3, @UT Martin 0
TENNESSEE STATE 3, EASTERN ILLINOIS 0
CHARLESTON, Ill. - The Tennessee State volleyball team racked up 14 blocks en route to a three-set win (25-20, 25-22, 25-21) against Eastern Illinois on Tuesday.
The win boosted the Lady Tigers' record to 10-20 overall and 6-11 in OVC play.
Jayla Holcombe finished with 12 kills on the day to lead the Lady Tigers offense while finishing with a hitting percentage of .381. got 20 digs from Hadley Pride along with seven blocks from Maggie Keenan and five rejections from Storm White to lead them defensively.
The Lady Tigers grabbed control of the set-one lead at 2-1 and never looked back to win 25-20. Tennessee State led by as many as five points at 6-1 before finishing off the set. got a solid defensive performance from a front row that blocked five Eastern Illinois attacks in the stanza.
Tennessee State continued to roll after a set-one win by earning a 25-22 victory in set number two. The Lady Tigers rallied after being down as many as seven points at 14-7 to win the set. Tennessee State grabbed the lead at 16-15 and hung on for the victory. The Tennessee State offense also got a boost from four aces in the stanza. Tennessee State's front row had a standout defensive performance, blocking eight Eastern Illinois attacks in the stanza and capitalizing on 12 Eastern Illinois attacking errors on the way to victory.
Tennessee State then capped the three-set sweep with a victory in set number three. The Lady Tigers the set set three 25-21. Tennessee State took the lead for good at 16-15 in a set that showcased four lead changes before the Lady Tigers took over in the second half of the stanza.
LINDENWOOD 3, LITTLE ROCK 2
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Lindenwood women's volleyball (19-10, 13-4 OVC) clinched at least the #2 at the Ohio Valley Conference tournament with a five-set win over Little Rock (16-14, 11-6 OVC) on Tuesday. The Lions can still clinch a least a share of the OVC with a win tomorrow over LR and a SEMO loss.
Four Lions cracked double-digit kills as Lindenwood posted 63 total kills for the match. Rebecca Janke led the way with a team-high 16 kills on a .342 hitting percentage. Nyah Wilson added 15 kills and 21 digs for her 12th double-double of the season. As a team, LU hit .176 thanks to setter Allie Otten who had 53 assists which marked her fourth straight match with at least 50 assists. Otten also added three aces to lead the team.
Ashley Geluck continues her double-digit kills streak with 13 tonight on 33 attempts (.273 HP%). She also led the team with seven total blocks including six block assists. Lindenwood tied their season-best with 11.0 total blocks tonight. Autumn Bax (11 kills) posted her 290th kill this season which ties the LU Freshman record for kills in a season set by Bailey Dvoark in 2015.
Jessie Seidel led a defense that had 102 digs which marked the team's season best. Seidel added 26 digs on Tuesday to lead the team. Otten also chipped in 16 for another double-double while defensive specialists Dana Grib (13) and Izzy Herrbold (10) added double figure digs.
The first set was controlled by the Trojans as they took a 1-0 set lead with a score of 25-19. Lindenwood's offense was held to .103 hitting percentage with 11 kills. Janke had a team best three kills in set one while Seidel added seven digs. LR hit .275 with 15 kills in set one.
Lindenwood responded in the second with a 26-24 set victory to tie the match at 1-1. The Lions had a match-high 17 kills while hitting .292. Janke continued to punish the Trojan's defense with six kills while Wilson added four. LR made a run late in the set to tie it at 24 all but LU pulled away with a kill from Bax and Janke.
After Little Rock took the lead in the third (25-18), Lindenwood came right back in the fourth with a tightly contested 25-21 set win. Condon's squad had a different lineup for the final two sets including Emma Johnson who recorded a kill in the fourth. Wilson had four kills and four digs in the fourth while LU's defense had three blocks.
Lindenwood was victorious in the fifth set after starting the set on a 5-2 run. The Lions had help on offense scoring eight of their points off of kills in the fifth. Wilson and Janke both had three kills in the fifth and Herrbold collected three digs and an ace.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 3, SIUE 1
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Southeast Missouri Volleyball (17-12, 14-3 OVC) downed SIUE (12-16, 7-10 OVC) on Tuesday night by a final score of 3-1. The Redhawks won by scores of 25-16, 15-25, 25-17, and 27-25 to win their seventh game of the season inside Houck Field House.
SEMO Volleyball wrapped-up a share of the 2024 Ohio Valley Conference Regular Season Championship with the victory, needing just one more win tomorrow night to claim the outright title and the tournament's number one overall seed.
The Redhawks were led offensively by a trio of hitters that finished in double figures. Lucy Arndt led the way with 18 kills on 53 attempts with just five errors. She finished the match with a .245 hitting-percentage. Arndt finished with 26 digs to add another double-double to her season tally (15).
Abby Johnson and Avery Torrey recorded 13 and 10 kills, respectively, as the Redhawks hit .225 as a team. For Torrey, her 10 kills were a season-high as she finished with 20 total attacks for an impressive .450 hitting-percentage (one error).
Reigning OVC Co-Defensive Player of the Week NIna Schuberth turned in 26 digs in the match. She finished with a perfect 1.000 reception percentage on 13 total attempts.
SEMO opened the match on fire, outhitting SIUE with a .282 to .086 hitting advantage. Three-straight Arndt kills made it 11-6 followed by a kill from Torrey to make it 12-6 as the visitors were forced into a timeout.
From there it was all SEMO as the Redhawks closed the set on a 8-4 run capped off by a SIUE attack error to take it 25-16.
SIUE stormed back in the second set with a team-high .349 hitting mark for the Cougars as they took set two, 25-15.
The Cougars started the set on a 7-0 run and cruised their way to a set two victory capped off by a kill from Sydney Hummert. Hummert finished the match with 13 kills (.114).
SEMO rebounded in the third set with an offensive attack that finished as a game-high .350. Late in the set, SEMO led 16-12 following a kill from senior Lexi Morse but then weathered a 3-0 run from the Cougars to make it 16-15 SEMO.
The Redhawks responded with a 3-0 run of their own thanks to a pair of kills from Arndt and a solo block by Alaina Lester. SEMO would close on a 4-0 run, finished off by a kill from A. Johnson to take the second set, 25-17.
SEMO jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the fourth and final set after back-to-back blocks by Lester and Arndt. The duo paired for a block assist before Arndt denied one by herself.
Winning 9-5 after a kill from Marin Johnson, SIUE went on a 5-0 run to force the Redhawks into a timeout trailing 10-9.
Back-to-back kills from Torrey and Arndt tied the set at 12. The sides would trade points, all the way up to 17-17 before SEMO could grab a two-point lead following a kill by Abby Johnson to make it 19-17.
Both teams would take final timeouts and after SIUE's final timeout, the set was tied at 24-24 after a kill from Bree Schreimann.
Two kills from Lucy Arndt and a block assist from Abby Johnson and Alaina Lester finished off the Cougars as SEMO took the fourth and final set, 27-25.
Middle blocker Lexi Morse made just her third start of the season in Tuesday night's match. The graduate student from Tampa, Florida turned in six kills on 19 total attacks for a .263 hitting-percentage (one error).
MOREHEAD STATE 3, SOUTHERN INDIANA 0
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Led by a career-high 10 blocks from Sydney Wyman, Morehead State Volleyball put forth a dominating effort at Southern Indiana Tuesday night. The Eagles held the Screaming Eagles to a negative hitting percentage while displaying a .333 hitting efficiency themselves in a 3-0 sweep.
MSU won 25-18, 25-12, 25-14, including finishing off the second set on a 14-0 run. The Eagles improved to 11-6 in the Ohio Valley Conference with their third straight victory and moved to 15-13 overall with one match left in the regular season.
Wyman turned back 10 blocks, and the Eagles had 11 total team blocks - the 15th match this fall with 10+ team rejections. USI ended hitting -.009 with 25 kills but 26 errors.
On offense, MSU was led by M.E. Hargan with 12 kills on 34 swings. Irene Wogenstahl landed eight kills with just one mistake for a .438 hitting percentage. Wogenstahl added five blocks, and Hargan had four.
The opening set was tied 8-8 until the Eagles had an 8-2 scoring flurry that set the tone for the match. Set two saw USI lead 12-11, but Wyman's kill set off the 14-0 run (which was MSU's highest scoring run this year without a point on the other side). Six of the points came via USI errors, with four on MSU blocks.
MSU raced out to a 6-1 lead in the finale and had a 10-2 margin. Another 7-1 run later put the visitors up 19-7.
TENNESSEE TECH 3, UT MARTIN 0
MARTIN, Tenn. - Spectacular serving, incredibly efficient offense, and timely blocking was all the Tennessee Tech volleyball team needed to deliver its third consecutive sweep Tuesday evening, as the Golden Eagles took down UT Martin at Skyhawk Fieldhouse, 3-0.
The team's sixth straight victory was chock-full of more milestones, starting with Tech's 22nd win of the season, which tied for the most dubs for the Golden Eagles (22-7, 11-6) since 1998, when the program finished 22-7.
While the purple and gold dominated the Skyhawks (5-21, 3-14) at the service line as a unit, it was senior Madolyn Isringhausen shining the brightest on the night. The outside hitter set a new single-match record for service aces in the rally-scoring era, regardless of how many sets, by landing eight attempts for points.
The Tech veteran tied for the team lead with 13 kills, smashing .367 while picking up her ninth double-double of the year with 13 digs. She also added four block assists to the effort. In the contest, Isringhausen passed TTU Sports Hall of Famer Rachel Melchiorre for second place on Tech's career charts for kills and for 11th place on the Ohio Valley Conference's all-time list with 1,667.
Her eight aces in the match provided her with 53 for the year, breaking Cody Dodd's single-season, rally-scoring era record set back in 2015.
Freshman outside Alayna Pierce tied Isringhausen with 13 terminations on the night, hitting an impressive .312 while contributing five digs and an ace. Senior outside Bella Powell made it three Golden Eagles in double figures, crushing .429 with 11 kills and three blocks assists.
Junior setter Jordan Karlen racked up 34 assists in the contest to pair with two blocks, eight digs, and an ace. Senior libero McKenna Young paced the Cookeville crew with 15 digs while defensive specialist Aleeya Jones chipped in five scoops and two aces.
Middle blockers Elena Wallace and Mallory Jenkins each accounted for four blocks for good measure.
The Golden Eagles hit .348 in the opening set, needing just 10 kills to get the job done thanks to an eye-popping seven aces. Six came off the hand of Isringhausen, who accounted for 11 of Tech's points alone while leading the team to a 25-13 victory to set the tone.
In set two, the offense outplayed a feisty Skyhawk attack, edging the home squad 17-16 in the termination department while racking up 4.0 blocks. Tech pulled away late, breaking a 20-20 tie with a 5-1 run for the win.
The third and final set saw the Golden Eagles dominate once again, hitting an absurd .423 with 13 kills, just two attack errors, four more aces, and 4.0 more blocks. Tech cruised to a 25-16 victory to complete the sweep.