Tuesday’s MEAC Women’s Volleyball Results
Gardner-Webb 3, North Carolina Central 0
La Salle 3, Delaware State 0
Jacksonville 3, Bethune-Cookman 1
Gardner-Webb 3, North Carolina Central 0
BOILING SPRING, N.C. – The Lady Eagles were held to a negative hitting percentage as host Gardner-Webb University handed the North Carolina Central University volleyball team its fourth consecutive straight-set loss on Tuesday.
The Runnin’ Bulldogs cruised to a 25-10 win in the first set and then completed the sweep with a pair of matching 25-17 sets. Gardner-Webb (11-12) ended a six-match losing streak in completing the season series sweep of NCCU (3-12).
Senior Casey Curran and Kelsey Murphy accounted four nine of the Lady Eagles’ season-low 16 team kills. Curran paced NCCU with five spikes and Murphy logged four kills.
Junior setter Paige Phillips chipped in 13 kills and seven digs. Sophomore libero Bree Simmons tallied a team-high 10 digs. Murphy and Curran followed with six and five digs, respectively.
Junior Nicole Celarek led the victors with 12 kills on 25 attempts and a .280 hitting percentage.
Sophomore setters Amanda Sahm and Tinsley Fain recorded 22 and 16 assists, correspondingly.
Freshman libero Emma Milstead led the Runnin’ Bulldogs defensive efforts with 20 digs.
La Salle 3, Delaware State 0
DOVER, Del. --- The Delaware State volleyball team gave La Salle a tough fight in two sets, but came up empty in a 3-0 loss to the Explorers in Memorial Hall.
The scores were 25-19, 25-9 and 25-22.
Bryanna Davis had team-highs of 11 kills and 10 digs to lead La Salle to its 10th victory of the season (10-13). Kathryn Wood topped all players with 31 assists for the Explorers.
NaKia Jones led Delaware State with seven kills, while teammate Aaliyah McBean had a match-high 15 digs. Morgan Tennant recorded 18 assists to lead the Hornets.