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The University of Utah Athletics
Volleyball Downs Alumni in Four Sets
8/23/2014 12:00 AM | Volleyball
Aug. 23, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah volleyball team squared off against a team filled with former alumni on Saturday afternoon in the Utes' lone exhibition match prior to the start of the 2014 season and came away victorious in a match that went four sets.
"Today was a lot of fun," head coach Beth Launiere said. "It was good to see this team compete and it was great to see a lot of the former faces that I used to coach as well. It was fun and we enjoyed getting this opportunity today."
The Utes recorded a 5-0 run to take an early 10-4 advantage in the first set and then later won the set, 25-18, after closing out the game with a 7-2 run. Utah then used an early 6-0 run in the second set to take a commanding lead and then cruised to a 25-17 win and take a 2-0 lead in the match.
Utah led by as many as eight points midway through the third set, but an Alumni roster boasted with the talents of former All-American Lori Baird and All-Conference honorees Morgan Odale, Mikki Kane-Barton and Danielle Killpack, came all the way back to tie the set 22-22 and forced Utah to take a timeout on the other side of the court.
The Alumni squad and the Utes would go back-and-forth over the next 26 points, but Utah recorded back-to-back attack errors and the Alumni managed to take the third set, 36-34. Utah battled back though and closed out the fourth and final set with a 5-1 to take the game and match, 25-19 and 3-1.
"I was very happy with getting into a competitive match in the third set," Launiere said. "We had a chance to get a lot of our younger players in there and get into that type of situation, which you cannot really simulate in practice, so I was really happy to see that."
Launiere rotated lineups throughout the match and all 13 players that suited up managed to see action, including incoming freshmen Eliza Katoa, Adora Anae, Jessie Jorgensen and McCall Phillips who hit the floor for the first time as Utes.
Shelby Dalton (RS, SR, Moab, Utah) led the Utes with 13 kills on the afternoon, but both Chelsey Schofield-Olsen (OH, SR, Provo, Utah) and Bailey Bateman (MB, SR, Hooper, Utah) tallied double-digit kills as well, netting 12 and 11 kills, respectively.
Bateman led the offense with a .625 attacking percentage, while the entire team hit at a clip of .319 on the day and tallied just 18 attack errors in the four sets. Utah recorded 20 kills without an attacking error for a hitting percentage of .588 in the second set, alone.
Bateman and Carly Trueman (MB, RS-FR, Tucson, Ariz.) led the squad with four block assists, while Dalton, Schofield-Olsen and Makenzie Moea'I (OH, SR, American Fork, Utah) each tallied three block assists in the contest. Utah finished the match with 10.0 total team blocks.
Both setters, Kendall Cygan (S, JR, Orange, Calif.) and Jorgensen (S, FR, Provo, Utah), worked the offense on both sides of the net on Saturday. Cygan finished with a combined 30 assists and Jorgensen notched 48 assists in the four sets. Jorgensen tallied Utah's only double-double of the match with 25 of her assists coming while playing with the Utes and tallying 11 digs on that side of the net as well.
Odale led the way for the Alumni, netting a double-double with 12 kills and 16 digs. Cinthia Silva-Angus recorded eight kills for the Alumni and Adrianne Bradley-Shewell collected seven kills on the day.
The Utes will open its regular season next Friday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. MT, hosting Montana State inside Crimson Court in Match Two of the Utah Classic. Utah will close out the tournament on Saturday with matches against Missouri State (10 a.m. MT) and New Mexico State (7 p.m. MT).
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