Virginia Volleyball Beats Florida State in Five Sets for First ACC Win

It required a hard-fought comeback and a five-set thriller, however for the primary time since September twenty sixth, 2021, the Virginia volleyball workforce defeated an ACC opponent. 

After falling behind 2-1, the Cavaliers rallied to win units 4 and 5 to beat the Seminoles 21-25, 30-28, 11-25, 25-22, 15-12, capturing their first ACC victory of the season on Friday evening at Memorial Gymnasium.

Virginia raced out to a 15-6 lead within the opening set behind sturdy early hitting from Grace Turner and Abby Tadder. The Cavaliers led 17-8, however the Seminoles staged a livid comeback, successful 11 of the following 12 factors to take the lead. UVA was unable to regain momentum and FSU took the primary set 25-21. 

The second set was a closely-contested affair with neither workforce main by greater than three factors. Florida State had 4 set factors, needing to clinch solely certainly one of them to safe a commanding 2-0 lead within the match. As an alternative, behind three kills from Grace Turner and one from Brooklyn Borum, the UVA denied every of the 4 set factors. After squandering their first probability to win the set at 28-27, the Cavaliers got here again and received the set on an ace by Madison Morey to even the match at 1-1. 

The third set acquired out of hand shortly with the Seminoles constructing a 14-4 lead and cruising to a straightforward 25-11 victory behind a .480 workforce hitting share and eight errors from the Cavaliers. 

The Hoos bounced again from their struggles within the third set and used 4 service aces to construct a robust 18-10 result in begin the fourth. Florida State responded with five-consecutive factors, decided to make Virginia work for the set. After FSU narrowed the hole to 20-18, the Cavaliers scored four-straight factors as Abby Tadder registered three-consecutive kills adopted by a block to make it 24-18. The Seminoles didn’t roll over, although, defending 4 of these set factors earlier than UVA was lastly in a position to clinch the set on a kill from Grace Turner to power the deciding fifth set. 

Twice in ACC play this season, the Cavaliers had gone to a fifth set solely to lose in heartbreaking trend as they searched for his or her first ACC victory. This time, the Hoos wouldn’t be denied. 

Florida State scored three of the primary 4 factors of the fifth set, however Virginia responded properly earlier than the set acquired out of hand. Kills from Veresia Yon and Mary Shaffer and an ace from Madison Morey helped the Cavaliers go up 13-8. FSU rattled off three-straight factors to make it 13-11, earlier than committing a service error to offer UVA a match level. Audrey Koenig recorded her team-leading seventeenth kill of the match to fend off one of many match factors, however then her swing on the following level went lengthy and Memorial Gymnasium went wild as Virginia celebrated its first ACC win in over a 12 months. 

Abby Tadder led the Cavaliers with 18 kills to only three errors and likewise had 4 blocks. Grace Turner had a powerful statline of 15 kills, 5 digs, three aces, and two blocks. Brooklyn Borum added 12 digs and 4 aces and Gabby Easton was regular on the setter spot with 35 assists and 7 digs. 

Virginia snapped a seven-match dropping streak with the win and improved to 9-9 total and 1-6 in ACC play. The Cavaliers will look to make it two in a row on Sunday at 1pm once they host Miami at Mem Fitness center. 

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