MONMOUTH, Oregon --- The Western Oregon volleyball team closed out a successful day for Wolves athletics in Monmouth as the Wolves defeated Saint Martin's 3-1 (25-22, 25-19, 20-25, 25-18) Saturday night at New PE Building.
WOU athletics had already picked up a win in women's soccer and football earlier in the day, and volleyball didn't disappoint as it came out strong with a strong first set - propelled by a 5-1 run in the middle of the set with kills from
Bella MacLellan,
Sarah Crowell and
Emily Olson to take an 18-13 lead and cruise to the 25-22 win.
In the second set, the Wolves (8-12 overall, 4-8 GNAC) trailed the Saints (12-10, 2-10) 15-12 before going on a 7-0 run capped by an SMU attack error to make it 19-15 WOU. SMU got within 21-19, but a kill by
Chloe Asciutto, a
Laney O'Neil ace and a kill by
Madison Hornback highlighted a 4-0 run to close out the set.
After dropping the third set, the fourth was at 18-16 WOU before the Wolves closed it out on a 7-2 run with the set and the match ended with a MacLellan kill.
Hornback paced WOU with 12 kills to go along with 17 digs, MacLellan had 11 kills and four blocks and
Bailee Hartsook had 10 kills.
Laney O'Neil finished with 31 assists while
Ally Henry had a team-high 23 digs.
The Wolves play a pair of home games next week , hosting Montana State Billings on Thursday and Seattle Pacific on Saturday.
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