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Blake O'Brien celebrating
Pedro Fernandez
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Winner Methodist MUVB 8-1
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St. Mary's (MD) SMC 3-5
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Methodist MUVB
8-1
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Final
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St. Mary's (MD) SMC
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Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Methodist MUVB 25 20 25 25 (3)
St. Mary's (MD) SMC 16 25 19 18 (1)
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Winner Methodist MUVB 9-1
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Shenandoah SU 6-4
Winner
Methodist MUVB
9-1
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Final
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Shenandoah SU
6-4
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Team 1 2 3 4 F
Methodist MUVB 23 25 25 25 (3)
Shenandoah SU 25 21 19 19 (1)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Matthew Shealy

Methodist Sweeps at St. Mary’s Tri–Match

St. Mary's City, Md.  In its final non–conference trip of the season, the Methodist women's volleyball team picked up a pair of wins, defeating St. Mary's College (Md.) and Shenandoah University. The Monarchs move to 9–1, which is their best 10–game start to a season since Eddie Matthews assumed the role of head coach in 2001.

Final scores: Methodist def. St. Mary's, 3–1 (25–16, 20–25, 25–19, 25–18); Methodist def. Shenandoah, 3–1 (23–25, 25–21, 25–19, 25–19)
Records: Methodist 9–1, St. Mary's 4–5, Shenandoah 6–5
Event: St. Mary's College Tri–Match
Host: St. Mary's College (Maryland)
Location: O'Brien Arena; St. Mary's City, Md.
 
GAME ONE
  • The Monarchs started their match against St. Mary's with a statement, taking a 4–1 lead after kills by Savannah Hovander (1) and Jamie Holton (3). Methodist began to take two points for every one point the Seahawks earned, reaching a 23–12 advantage. Holton and Caryln Tanis contributed the final two kills of the set.
  • The Seahawks showed fight in the second set, winning the first four points and marching out to an 11–5 lead. The Monarchs responded with a huge momentum shift, taking 10 of the next 12 points to go up 15–13. Almost identically, St. Mary's won 10 of the next 12 points, surging ahead by six, which allowed them to reach 25 first.
  • Methodist captured an early lead in the third set, and a kill by Jeanana Fowler made the score 10–7. Up 14–12, the Monarchs earned eight of the next ten points (including four service aces) to push ahead by eight, setting them up nicely to win the set.
  • A 3–0 run to start the fourth set benefited Methodist, but the Monarchs found themselves trailing 15–13 midway through the set. Winning the next six points, Methodist kept its foot on the gas, with Fowler recording kills on two of the final three points to help secure the win.
GAME TWO
  • The Monarchs could hardly catch their breath from the first match before Shenandoah had captured a 7–2 lead over them, prompting Eddie Matthews to call timeout. Methodist settled in, fighting to within one point (11–10) after back–to–back kills by Fowler and Holton, but a four–point streak for the Hornets led to another timeout for the Monarchs. With Shenandoah leading 21–15, the Monarchs produced eight of the next nine points to pull ahead 23–22, but the Hornets stifled Methodist's comeback attempt and scored the final three points of the set.
  • Methodist jumped out in from 6–2 to start the second set, but Shenandoah took the lead with a six–point run. The Monarchs remained poised and after assuming a 12–11 lead, they produced an eight–point run to push ahead 20–11. With seven of the next nine points, Shenandoah fought back, but Methodist's Caryln Tanis finished the set with two final kills.
  • A back–and–forth start to the third set was followed by a six–point Methodist run, putting the Monarchs in front 14–9. Fueled by several Jamie Holton kills, the Monarchs maintained the advantage, pushing ahead 18–14. The Hornets challenged, Methodist won the race to 25 with help from a couple of Hornets attack errors.
  • The fourth set proved to be Methodist's most efficient of the day, with the Monarchs recording 17 kills and a .412 hitting percentage. A Hovander–Tanis–Hovander kill streak gave the Monarchs a 14–8 advantage for their largest lead of the set. Fowler, Holton and Mahala Carter all chipped in to help push Methodist to victory.
 
MORE TO IT
  • Despite Methodist not attacking with great accuracy, the Monarchs played terrific defense and benefited from their opponents' poor hitting percentages. St. Mary's posted a team hitting percentage of .125, while Shenandoah's was even lower (.101).
  • Jeanana Fowler led the team in total kills across the two matches, recording 16 in the first match and 13 in the second.
  • Hannah Hewett totaled 89 assists on the day, for an average of 11.12 per set, while Blake O'Brien averaged exactly seven digs per set, including a season–high 32 digs against the Hornets.
 
UP NEXT
The Monarchs make their long–awaited home debut on Tuesday at 7 p.m. when they host Salem College in their first USA South Athletic Conference match of the season.
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