Volleyball tops Dallas Christian on Tuesday in 5 Sets
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas – The University of Dallas volleyball team (5-8) topped Dallas Christian College on Tuesday night in five sets. The victory snapped a four-game losing slide for the Crusaders.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Set Scores: W 3-2 | (22-25, 25-18, 25-16, 15-25, 15-10)
Dallas has dropped the opening set by three points. It started back-and-forth until UD clung to a couple point advantage that was no greater than three on two occasions (11-8 and 15-12). After the latter score, Dallas Christian rattled off a 7-1 run to swing the lead to three in favor of it. The largest edge for the home Crusaders was five (23-18).
UD countered with an early lead in the second frame. This included a 3-0 run and four of the first five points tallied for the navy and white Crusaders. The home side knotted the game twice, but never led in the set. Dallas posted consecutive points to go ahead 8-6 and gained control the rest of the way. At one juncture, the guests engineered four straight points with Diana Hassink (Tulsa, Okla.) earning back-to-back kills to push UD up 14-8. After three of the next four came on DCC's side of the board, the Navy and White surged with a 6-0 run and closed the set on a 10-7 stretch.
With the sets even 1-all, Dallas etched the first three points. The home Crusaders countered with an 8-2 run. UD responded with six unanswered and regained the lead 11-8 to force a DCC timeout. The home team knotted the score 12-12, but Mary Scholz (Fallon, Nev.) garnered a kill to keep Dallas on top. The road Crusaders took a 2-1 set edge by concluding the third with an 11-3 run.
A 10-1 run, which was sparked by three points in a row to start the match and followed by seven more after Mairin Guilfoyle's (Roanoke, Va.) kill gave Dallas Christian enough momentum to force a final set. UD closed the margin to six (11-5), but would be too far out to erase it.
In the final set, the road squad captured the lead again with and early 4-1 result. After DCC narrowed the score to one a pair of times, UD got consecutive points an attack error from the opponent and kill from Guilfoyle. A 7-2 run from the last juncture that the opposing Crusaders were within one resulted in the difference of this fifth frame.
Dallas won a five-set match for the first time since the season opener at Arlington Baptist College and improved to 2-3 in such contests. Four of the past five games have gone the full amount of frames.
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- Hassink led Dallas in kills with 10 and was loan player in double figures for that column. The junior earned a double-double with 19 digs. Guilfoyle was shy of a double-double with nine kills and 14 digs.
- Elizabeth Smith (Broken Arrow, Okla.) gave 31 assists and was third on the team with eight kills.
- Scholz contributed seven kills and Kennedy Bradley (Groesbeck, Texas) tied a season-high six kills. Half of Bradley's kills were in the fifth set and all came in the final two.
- Koster led the defense with 28 digs. Merit Paramo (Wasilla, Ark.) tied a season-high five blocks.
- Dallas Christian hit .280 (10-25) for a kill percentage in fourth set. Destinee' Branch pounded a game-high 20 kills and matched that total in digs for a double-double.
UP NEXT
Dallas returns to Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) action at a cross-divisional hosted at Austin College September 24-25. UD will oppose Schreiner University, Texas Lutheran University, Southwestern University, and Trinity University. This is the third time this month the Crusaders will pace at Sherman, Texas for a quartet of matches.