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No. 17 Volleyball Dominates Northern Iowa in 3-0 Sweep – Creighton University Athletics
OMAHA, Neb. – No. 17 Creighton Volleyball closed out the Bluejay Invitational Introduced by Hilton Omaha with a 3-0 sweep of Northern Iowa on Saturday evening inside D.J. Sokol Enviornment.
Scores in favor of the Bluejays had been 25-17, 25-15, 25-21. It is Creighton’s 14th all-time win over UNI because the Bluejays are actually 11-2 in its final 13 conferences with UNI after beginning 3-40 towards the Panthers.
With the win the Bluejays moved to 5-1 on the season, whereas Northern Iowa dropped to 1-5 general.
Sophomore Norah Sis led the Bluejays with a match excessive 13 kills, whereas Kiana Schmitt contributed 9 kills respectfully. Sophomore Kendra Wait dished out 32 assists, and senior Allison Whitten collected a team-high 12 digs. Junior Ellie Bolton recorded a career-high 4 aces because the Bluejays served up a season-high 11 aces. As a workforce, the Bluejays completed with 41 kills, 46 digs and 7 blocks on .327 hitting.
Northern Iowa was led by 11 kills from Emily Holterhaus. Inga Rotto and Carly Spies added eight kills apiece as Sydney Petersen had a match-high 16 digs. The Panthers closed out the match with 33 kills, 5 aces, two blocks and 47 digs on .152 hitting.
Creighton wasted no time constructing an early benefit, surging out to an 8-4 lead on a service ace by Wait. The lead grew to 14-6 on back-to-back aces from Whitten. UNI would use a 6-1 run to shut the deficit to 15-12 earlier than a trio of kills from Sis and Schmitt pushed the lead again out to 19-12. The Panthers as soon as towards closed to inside three at 19-16 on a pair of kills from Holterhaus, however Creighton responded with a 5-0 run on Bolton’s serve earlier than Wait closed out the set with a kill. In all, Creighton had seven service aces and 10 kills within the opening body.
Creighton by no means trailed within the second set, racing out to leads of 6-1, 10-3 and 17-5 within the 25-15 set victory. Sis had six kills on 9 swings and Davis added 4 kills because the Bluejays hit .531 within the set.
Down 4-1 early within the third body, the Bluejays used slams from Schmitt and Sis in addition to a pair of blocks to knot issues up at 6-all. A 5-0 serving surge by Davis that featured kills from freshman Ave Martin and Sis gave the Bluejays their first lead at 12-7. The Bluejays wouldn’t path once more, extending their lead out to 17-10 on a double-stuff block by Davis and Schmitt forcing a Panther timeout. The Bluejays lead would develop to 22-12 earlier than UNI used a 6-0 burst to shut to with 4 at 22-18. One other set of kills from Davis and Schmitt closed out the match and gave the Bluejays a 25-21 set win and 3-0 sweep.
Creighton returns to motion on Wednesday, Sept. 7, when it hosts No. 2 Nebraska in a 5 p.m. match that can be televised nationally on FS1 at CHI Well being Middle Omaha.
Each Davis and Wait earned a spot on the All-Event Crew for the Bluejays. Led by Bluejay Invitational MVP Reagan Rutherford, No. 16 Kentucky gained the round-robin event for the primary time within the eight years its been hosted. The Wildcats dropped only one set in three matches en path to the title.
NOTES: Creighton’s 11 wins over UNI since 2012 are tied for essentially the most of any workforce nationally with Northern Iowa’s MVC rival Illinois State … Creighton’s 57 conferences vs. UNI are its most towards any opponent … Creighton and UNI have performed all however one season (2013) since 1994 … Creighton completed this eight-year event with a collective 14-10 document and three titles, whereas USC went 16-8 with 4 titles, Kentucky went 13-11 with one title and UNI 5-19 … Creighton improved to 31-17 all-time in 17 years of Bluejay Invitational motion, together with titles in 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2021 … Creighton improved to 21-2 in its final 23 matches, and 36-5 for the reason that begin of final fall’s season … The win was Creighton’s one hundred and fiftieth all-time in 186 matches as a top-25 program.
2022 Bluejay Invitational Abstract
September 2-3, 2022 – Omaha, Neb.
Last Standings
1. #16 Kentucky 3-0
2. #17 Creighton 2-1
3. #25 USC 1-2
4. Northern Iowa 0-3
Match Scores
Friday, September 2, 2022
#25 USC def. Northern Iowa, 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-21, 25-21)
#16 Kentucky def. Northern Iowa, 3-0 (25-16, 25-22, 25-14)
#17 Creighton def. #25 USC, 3-1 (25-21, 25-21, 23-25, 25-17)
Saturday, September 3, 2022
#16 Kentucky def. #17 Creighton, 3-1 (19-25, 25-16, 25-5, 25-21)
#16 Kentucky def. #25 USC, 3-0 (25-17,2 5-16, 25-14)
#17 Creighton def. Northern Iowa, 3-0 (25-17, 25-15, 25-21)
All-Event Crew
Reagan Rutherford, Kentucky (MVP)
Emma Grome, Kentucky
Elise Goetzinger, Kentucky
Kendra Wait, Creighton
Keeley Davis, Creighton
Gala Trubint, USC
Carly Spies, Northern Iowa
