Explosive Offensive Night Leads JSU Past Tech in Opener

Wednesday, September 25

JACKSONVILLE

6 p.m.

Jax State

7-6

Tennessee Tech

4-9

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Tennessee Tech	15	18	23	0
Jacksonville State	25	25	25	3

9/25/2019 9:02:00 PM | Volleyball

Box Score

Chad Gray, JSU SMR, Public and Media Relations in Sport #LearnByDoing

JACKSONVILLE - The Jacksonville State volleyball team turned in a strong performance in its Ohio Valley Conference opener on Wednesday night, sweeping Tennessee Tech at home for its third consecutive win.

The Gamecocks were led by junior Lexie Libs with her 45 assists and 12 digs. Offensively, sophomore Lena Kinderman and Kaylee Frear led the Gamecocks with 14 and 12 kills, respectively, on a night Jax State bolstered a staggering .398 combined hitting clip. A trio of Gamecock posted plus-.500 nights in Kindermann, Sadie Anderson and freshman Taylor Pribyl, whose seven kills mark a new career-best. Across the net, senior Maddie Cloutier followed Libs recording her first double-digit dig total with 10.

The Gamecocks (7-6) defeated the Golden Eagles (4-10) in straight sets, having now won their last nine sets overall. The Gamecocks started the game on fire winning the first two sets handily while posting a hitting percentage above .400. The opening set ended 25-15, and took then led the match 2-0 at intermission following a 25-18 second set.

The Gamecocks did not win without some adversary, as the Jax State trailed 15–9 midway through the third set. After a JSU timeout, the Gamecocks stormed back to even the score at 18-18, before taking the final set by a score of 25–23.

Afterwards, senior middle blocker, Kaylee Frear, spoke on the team's resiliency in the third set saying, "We never really doubted ourselves during this game, whenever we get down it never really feels like we are down." The senior added that she didn't even know the Gamecocks were trailing by as many points in the third set until she ended her rotation.

After the game coach Garvey said that the team "still has a way to go, but [the win] was a great start to conference play." The Gamecocks take on UT Martin on Saturday, September 28 at 2 p.m. at Pete Matthews Coliseum.

Quote of the day: when asked about what mascot from the Ohio Valley Conference would win in a fight, head coach Todd Garvey was quick to say, "Cocky. No doubt."