Suns fall to Reddies

 

September 20, 2018



RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Greer Rogers turned in an 11-kill performance, hitting .304, Amanda Milnick dished out 27 assists and 15 digs in a double-double, while Meredith Darnell added 15 digs, but the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns volleyball team (8-7, 2-2 Great American Conference)was unable to ten blocks and virtually error-free play by Henderson State (14-2, 3-0) in a 3-0 loss to the Reddies on Tuesday evening at Tucker Coliseum.

NEXT UP

Arkansas Tech returns to action on Thursday, Sept. 20, facing UAM in Monticello. A 6 p.m. match is scheduled.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Henderson State jumped out to a 4-1 advantage in the opening set.

The Golden Suns fought back to tie the set at 8-8, and then pulled ahead 10-9 before the Reddies retied the set.

Tech scored six of eight points to jump ahead 16-12.

After Tech took a 17-13 advantage, the Reddies scored five straight points to reclaim the lead.

Arkansas Tech rallied again to jump ahead 22-19 and led 23-21 before Henderson State closed out the set with four consecutive points to win the opening set.

The Reddies jumped out to a 6-2 advantage in the second set,

Tech cut the deficit to one (8-7) after a 3-0 run, but HSU scored four straight to push its lead to 12-7.

Tech was able to again pull to within one (17-16) before the Reddies scored five of six to go ahead 22-17, and then later Tech narrowed the set to two (23-21) before HSU closed out the set with a 25-22 win to go up 2-0 in the match.

HSU scored the first six points of the third set and opened up an 8-1 advantage.

After the Reddies jumped ahead 11-3, Tech was unable to narrow the gap to less than five points and the Reddies held on for the match win.

NOTABLES

HSU outhit the Golden Suns .197 to .118. Tech had a positive hitting percentage in all three sets, hitting .171 in the second set.

HSU had ten blocks to Tech's six and five aces to Tech's three.

Tech had 37 assists to HSU's 34 and 59 digs to HSU's 57.

The 15 digs by Darnell and Milnick tied HSU's Courtney Bolf for a match-high.

Milnick's 27 assists led all players.

Mackenzie Eford had five blocks (one solo, four assisted).

Madison Grantham also reached double figures in digs with 11.

 

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