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UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS ATHLETICS
Crusaders have concluded the 2017 Season.
Crusaders have concluded the 2017 Season.
Posted: Oct 28, 2017

Volleyball unable to Overcome UC Santa Cruz on Saturday

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – The University of Dallas volleyball team dropped a three-set match at University of California-Santa Cruz on Saturday. After falling 25-16, the Crusaders battled their opponent to a thrilling extra-point second set. The highest scoring combined set of the season favored the home squad 31-29. The Banana Slugs then closed out the triumph with another 25-16 final.

Down 1-0 in the contest, the Crusaders ended up posting 14 kills in the next set. That number equaled the first and third set amounts combined. UC Santa Cruz edged the Crusaders 48-28 in kills overall and had at least 14 per set. That included 19 in that wild second frame.

With the early stages going back-and-forth, the Banana Slugs rolled out to a 13-7 advantage on a five straight points. Four of those points come on kills. Rylee Davis (Lampasas, Texas) posted a kill for UD that started three unanswered points and cut the score to 17-16.

Dallas swung the momentum with a game-tying kill by Samantha Garza (Richmond, Texas) to even it at 21. After a service error, Mary Scholz (Fallon, Nev.) knotted the game again on a kill. Fellow senior teammate Diana Hassink (Tulsa, Okla.) hit consecutive service aces after that.

UCSC responded with three points to go up 25-24. Garza and Scholz kept the Crusaders alive with kills for their next scoring plays. Dallas went up 27-26 on an attack error by the Banana Slugs, but Claire Okerlund got the crucial kill to extend the set. After UD fell to 28-27, two straight miscues swung the score back to 29-28. Sierra Yuen tied the match with a kill and then Okerlund swung with the remaining kills to take the 2-0 lead.

From there the Banana Slugs never trailed the rest of the match climbing out in the last set with the first four points. UD answered with the next three but never got any closer, as its opponent pulled away and moved to 6-21 overall.

Scholz earned her third straight double-double and 15th of the season with 12 kills and 10 digs. Both of those categories led the Crusaders. Garza added six kills, and Sarah Hughes (Fair Oaks, Calif.) delivered five. Mary Goodykoontz (Chandler, Ariz.) tallied 19 assists and had 37 combined in the two-day California trip.

Kallan Bedard boasted a game-high 16 kills, while Okerlund reached a double-digit performance of 10. Krysti Photias and Alana Susbilla combined for 37 assists with 19 and 18, respectively. Yuen produced seven kills and was part of five blocks. The team compiled 14 altogether.

Dallas concluded the 2017 season with a 10-20 record under first-year head coach Kelli Trautmann.

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