The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team bounced back from a midweek loss at Samford and a first-set loss Friday to beat The Citadel 3-1 in a Southern Conference match in Maclellan Gym.
The set scores were 23-25, 25-23, 25-16, 25-14 favoring the Mocs, who had three players with 14 kills – Kristy Wieser, Sarah Batterton and Briana Reid – to The Citadel’s one, Bailey Kernodle. Laura Greenspoon had 55 assists and 12 digs and Miranda Elpers and Catherine Chason had 19 and 17 digs for UTC (21-5, 10-3). Reid added 10 digs.
Samford won again Friday over Furman, 3-0, knocking the Paladins (16-7, 10-3) out of sole possession of first place. That makes Furman’s match tonight at UTC a showdown of co-leaders. UNC Greensboro shares the top spot.
At Cleveland, Tenn., Lee University beat visiting West Georgia 3-1 (23-25, 25-9, 25-23, 25-17) in a Gulf South Conference match as Silvia Sartori compiled 23 kills and 13 digs and Catherine Conley had 17 kills. Hillary Hoffpauir had 43 assists and Stephanie Hernandez made 26 digs. Blaire Beamer served three aces.
At Barbourville, Ky., first-place Bryan defeated second-place Union College 3-1 (20-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-15) in an Appalachian Athletic Conference showdown. That lifted the Lady Lions (23-13, 17-2) to a three-match lead in the standings with the regular season ending today. In another AAC match, Bluefield won 3-1 (25-20, 25-19, 20-25, 25-21) over visiting Tennessee Wesleyan, which now is 11-15 overall, 9-10 in the league.