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Volleyball opens AAC play with 3-1 win over Tulane

Postby PonyPride » Sun Sep 24, 2017 2:55 pm

From SMUMustangs.com:

Seniors Lead SMU To 3-1 Win Against Tulane To Start AAC Play
Mills scored 23 kills; Hegarty added 19

DALLAS (SMU) – SMU's two seniors accounted for 41 of 66 kills as the volleyball team defeated Tulane, 3-1, in the first American Athletic Conference match of the season in Moody Coliseum Friday night. Lauren Millsscored 23 kills with 12 digs for her eighth double-double of the season. Playing in her first match since opening weekend, Katie Hegarty blasted 19 kills in 37 attempts.

After Tulane won the first set, SMU won the next three to get the four-set win, ending the night with a 25-18 victory to improve to 7-5 overall. The Mustangs hit .251 as a team, with both seniors hitting at least .350, combining for 10 errors in 89 attacks. Montana Wattshad 15 digs, and Kendall Patterson added 13 digs and 45 assists for her fifth double-double of the season. Brittany Adams also reached double figures on the attack, scoring 10 kills.

SMU took a 2-1 lead in the match with a 25-22 victory in the third set. The Mustangs scored 21 kills, getting 10 from Mills. The senior scored two of SMU's three kills in a 3-1 stretch, keeping SMU in front, 19-16, after Tulane had scored three straight to cut the lead to one, 16-15. The Green Wave eventually tied the score, 20-20, but SMU outscored the visitors 5-2 down the stretch for the win.

Hegarty scored five kills in the first set, but the Green Wave earned a 25-21 win for a 1-0 lead in the match. SMU took a three-point lead early, 6-3, but Tulane kept the score tight throughout the first half of the set. Tulane took its first lead at 11-10, and pushed it to four as part of an 8-3 run, 17-13. SMU rallied to cut the lead to one, 22-21, on a kill by Hegarty and a block by Kennedy and Adams, but Tulane scored three straight out of a timeout to end the set.

Lexi Nordmann had just one kill in the second set, but it came on a ball deflected by Tulane above the tape. The freshman smashed it down with two hands for SMU's 25th point of the set, evening the match at one apiece. Hegarty paced the SMU offense with six kills as the Mustangs hit .282 with 15 kills as a team. Trailing 15-13, SMU scored five of the next six points for an 18-16 lead. Tulane answered with three of the next four to knot it at 19, but the Mustangs scored the next three, holding on for a 25-21 win to keep the Green Wave from taking a 2-0 lead in the match.

SMU hosts Houston Sunday at 1 p.m. before the Mustangs travel to East Carolina and Cincinnati on the first road trip of the conference slate.
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