Jackrabbit volleyball sweeps North Dakota

BROOKINGS, S.D. (Dakota Information Now) – The South Dakota State volleyball squad grabbed a three-set victory over North Dakota in Frost Area on Thursday throughout their penultimate residence match of the season.

SDSU is now on a six-match win streak whereas additionally notching 4 straight sweeps.

The Jackrabbits (16-13, 10-7 Summit) hit .444 on assaults with 51 tallied kills whereas the Preventing Hawks (12-16, 9-8 Summit) hit .092 for 26 kills. SDSU additionally recorded 45 digs and 10 blocks.

Masa Scheierman led the way in which with a career-high 16 kills on a scorching .517 clip. Crystal Burk made headlines with 11 kills on the night time, which formally earned her the title of SDSU’s season-single kills chief.

Sydney Andrews and Elyse Winter every smacked down seven kills whereas Raegen Reilly gave out 36 assists. Jadyn Makovicka led with 12 digs and Religion Saewert recorded two aces.

North Dakota was led by Katy Riviere’s seven kills and Izzy McCormick’s 12 digs.

Motion kicked off within the first set in a decent battle, however assaults from Burk and Scheierman quickly constructed as much as a 15-9 lead for the Jacks on the halfway level. Regardless of a 4 level rally from North Dakota, SDSU was capable of proceed to construct off of the lead till taking the set 25-17.

The second set began off scorching for the Jacks, as back-to-back kills from Winter set the rating at 10-3. Scorching swinging paired with just a few blocks finally helped seal a second set win with a rating of 25-12.

Domination continued into the third set as SDSU burst out to a 7-1 lead, which rapidly became a 17-6 benefit off of a kill from Ella Thompson. Regardless of finest effort from the Preventing Hawks to shut the hole, the Jacks got here away within the third 25-15 for the sweep.

NOTES

• SDSU’s six consecutive wins is its longest win streak of the season
• SDSU is 4 serving aces shy of the single-season report
• Crystal Burk is now SDSU’s single-season kills chief with 505 kills
• Masa Scheierman set a brand new career-high in kills with 16

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SDSU will face North Dakota State on Saturday at Frost Area for Senior Day. The match is ready to begin at 1 p.m.

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