Wednesday College Volleyball W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse Jamestown DEF VCSU 25-12,25-18,25-16.
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (UJ) — The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball team hit a season-best .441 Wednesday night in a sweep of Valley City State University in non-conference action. Set scores were 25-12, 25-18, and 25-16.
Jamestown, now 4-0 this season, returns to Great Plains Athletic Conference action on Saturday, hosting Briar Cliff (Iowa) University at 12:30 p.m. The Jimmies will also play an exhibition match Saturday at 6 p.m. against University of Northwestern-St. Paul.
UJ made just one attack error while hitting .500 on 30 attempts in the first set, building leads of 17-7 and 24-10 for a 1-0 match advantage.
The Jimmies trailed 10-8 in the second set before a pair of kills by Kalli Hegerle (JR/West Fargo, N.D.) and single kills from Taylor Sabinash (JR/Kensal, N.D.) and Corina Huff (SR/Breezy Point, Minn.) put the Orange and Black ahead 13-11. After the Vikings scored the next two points, UJ went on a 9-0 run for a 22-13 lead and a huge momentum shift.
Set three saw Jamestown hit .519 with no errors on 27 attempts as the Jimmies raced out to leads of 9-3 and 19-6, and did not allow VCSU to get within seven points the rest of the set.
Hegerle hit .500 for the match on 11 kills in 20 attempts. Jayla Ritter (JR/Forest Lake, Minn.) added nine kills while hitting .643, and Sabinash hit a team-best .700 with seven kills. Anna Holen (JR/LaMoure, N.D.) added seven kills, followed by Nicole Schmitz (FR/Oakes, N.D.) with six, and Huff with five.
Jackie Meiklejohn (JR/Dickey, N.D.) passed out 27 assists and had a pair of service aces. Megan Gaffaney (JR/Jamestown, N.D.) finished with 11 assists and also had two aces.
Hannah Schiele (JR/Jamestown, N.D.) had a season-high 19 digs. Ritter had three total blocks.
UJ had the advantage in kills (47-25), assists (42-22), digs (51-36), and aces (6-4).
