DURANGO, Colo. – Coming off their fifth sweep of the season with a 3-0 win at Western Colorado University Friday night, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs volleyball team fell in three sets on the road Saturday night to Fort Lewis College.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP
- Final: 0-3 (11-25, 24-26, 20-25)
- Records: UCCS (8-10, 3-7 RMAC) | FLC (6-10, 4-6 RMAC)
- Facility | Location: Whalen Gymnasium | Durango, Colo.
- All-Time Series vs. FLC: UCCS leads the all-time series over Fort Lewis, 28-24.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Mountain Lions were unable to overcome a slow start to open tonight's match. Fort Lewis forced UCCS to commit three attacking errors and added two of their own kills to jump to a 5-0 lead. After trailing by as many as 13 points, 16-3, the Mountain Lions called their second timeout of the set and added eight more points to the scoreboard. UCCS went on a 4-0 run behind a kill from Raegen Emery, a FLC attack error, a block from Tori Perduk and Emery and an ace from Reilly Babcock, but the Skyhawks held onto their lead to take set one, 25-11.
- The second stanza started similar to the first with UCCS down 5-1, but the Mountain Lions bounced back from two FLC attacking errors and a kill from Julia Geiger to bring UCCS within one, 5-4. With set two tied for the third time, the Mountain Lions came out of a timeout to take their first lead of the night off a Nicole Medlin kill followed immediately by an ace from Babcock for a 19-17 lead. Down 23-20, the Mountain Lions battled back again to knot the set at 23-all from a Hannah Ammerman kill, a Skyhawk error and a block from Ammerman and Geiger. Both teams traded kills to tie the set again, 24-24, but the Skyhawks put down a kill and forced an attack error to take the set, 26-24, and a 2-0 match lead.
- Set three was tightly contested from start to finish. Neither team led by more than one point in the early action before the Mountain Lions snagged their largest lead of the night, 6-3. With the set tied at 8-8, the home team broke open the set and went on a 10-1 run to take an 18-9 lead. UCCS responded as Jordyn Kinsey led a 9-0 run to knot the action at 19-19. Kinsey served up three aces during the run paired with three Mountain Lion kills and three Skyhawk errors. Fort Lewis had the last say, finishing the set on a 6-1 run to win the final stanza, 25-20.
MATCH STATISTICS
- Ammerman finished the night with eight kills, seven digs and two blocks. Geiger and Emery each accounted for seven kills, and Medlin chipped in six kills and two blocks.
- Babcock tallied 21 of the Mountain Lions 27 set assists and Joei Barela added five assists.
- Kinsey notched three aces and led the back row with 13 digs.
- As a team, UCCS finished with 30 kills, a .040 hitting mark, 5.5 blocks and 49 digs.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- The Mountain Lions .040 hitting percentage is the third lowest of the season and the 30 kills are the fourth fewest.
- Kinsey has notched double digit digs in 14 matches this season.
- Kinsey's 219 digs this season brings her career total to 1,582 digs. She is inching closer to third all-time and is 107 digs away from taking sole possession of third place in the career record books (Laura Meeter, 1,688 digs).
UP NEXT
- The Mountain Lions will stay on the road for the third straight week when they head back West. UCCS will play at Colorado Mesa University on Oct. 14 at 6 p.m., followed by a 4 p.m. match on Saturday at Westminster College.
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As a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs competes in 16 varsity sports in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics.
