McNeese volleyball ends road trip with win

McNeese volleyball ends road trip with win

From Staff Reports
The Contraband

OXFORD, Miss.—After being on the road for the last six days taking part in boh the Arkansas Invitational and the Ole Miss Tri-Match, the McNeese volleyball team returns home with its first win of the season coming from a thrilling five set 3-2 (25-21, 25-15, 22-25, 22-25, 15-13) over Tennessee-Martin Tuesday.

“It was great to finish off this big road trip with a win,” said head coach Ashleigh Fitzgerald. “While we would have liked a sweep, winning in five is always pretty exciting. It was great to see us scraped out a win even though we weren’t at our sharpest,” Fitzgerald said.

After taking a 2-0 overall match lead, Tennessee-Martin avoided the sweep with a third set 25-22 win. Following the break, Tennessee-Martin stayed alive with another 25-22 win in the fourth set to send the match to a deciding fifth set. McNeese was able to come away with a 15-13 fifth set win to pick up its first win of the season to improve to 1-4 overall.

Earlier in the day, the Cowgirls dropped a four set (25-18, 25-19, 20-25, 25-16) match to host Ole Miss.

“We got a lot better on this trip. We could tell that today after we took a set from Ole Miss and beat a physical UT-Martin team made us earn our points,” said Fitzgerald.

Sophomore Rae Myers picked up where she left off at the Arkansas Invitational where she was named to the all-tournament team. Myers led all players with a match high 13 kills and junior Bridget Justis was credited with a match high 15 digs. Myers also ended the match with a .281 hitting percent. Kelly Graham continued her consistency by dishing out 32 assists.

McNeese will return to the court Sept. 11-12 when they will travel to Mobile, Alabama to take part in the South Alabama Jaguar Invitational.