Monday, November 5, 2007 , Updated
UT Arlington volleyball sweeps matches in Louisiana
UTA 3, Southeastern Louisiana 0
UT Arlington won in straight games (30-23, 30-22, 30-20) in a Southland Conference volleyball match at Southeastern Louisiana on Friday night. The Mavericks improve to 17-9 overall and 10-3 in the league while the Lady Lions fall to 10-15 and 1-12.
The Mavericks and Lady Lions traded leads early in game one until UTA went on a 10-2 run to lead 23-15 and force SLU to burn their second timeout. The Mavs held on to win, 30-23 despite a 9-7 run by the Lions to close the game.
UTA opened the second game with 5-3 run before SLU scored three straight points to take a one-point lead. From there, the Mavs went on a 13-4 run for the eight-point advantage (18-10). Behind a solo block from Emily Nedderman and kills from Liz Curry and Gina Kalb, UTA led 23-16. Freshman Katie Utecht came in to serve, setting up game point with an ace and the Mavs went on to win 30-22.
With kill from Torie Dacus, a block assist from Murray and Bianca Sauls and an ace from senior Dani Johnson the Mavs took the early 6-2 lead in game three. UTA went on to win 30-20 after Johnson set up match point with her second ace of the game.
UTA 3, Nicholls State 0
UT Arlington volleyball won 3-0 (30-21, 30-14, 30-16) at Nicholls State on Saturday for its second sweep of the week. The Mavs improve to 18-9 overall and 11-3 in SLC action while the Colonels drop to 8-22 and 2-12 on the season.
Sophomore Liz Curry led the Mavs with ten kills for a .375 hitting percentage. As a team the Mavs only had seven hitting errors leading to a .368 hitting percentage.
With an early ace from senior Dani Johnson, the Mavs jumped out to 5-2 lead in game one. Emily Nedderman with an ace of her own, a big block from Gina Kalb and Torie Dacus and a pair of kills from Curry drove the Mavs lead to seven. From there UTA used a 17-14 run to take game one 30-21.
UTA won game two 30-14 after outside hitter Teena Sobczak opened the game serving three straight points for the Mavs. After two points from the Colonels Johnson served seven straight points including an ace to build the Mavs lead to ten (12-2). From there, UTA used an 18-12 run to closeout the game and take a 2-0 lead into the locker room.
In game three, the Mavs jumped out to a 7-2 lead and forced Nicholls to burn its first timeout. Michelle Schwartz came in and served a pair of points to give UTA the 19-11 advantage. A pair of blocks from Dacus and Chelsea Taylor and an ace from setter Raegan Daniels helped the Mavs closeout game three with the 30-16 win.
The Mavs will closeout conference play on the road at Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday and Sam Houston State on Saturday.
Source: UTA
