MINNEAPOLIS -- The Augsburg University volleyball team swept Concordia College-Moorhead for the second time this season, in its first Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference home match of the abbreviated 2020-21 campaign on Wednesday afternoon.
THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Augsburg def. Concordia-Moorhead 3-0 (25-23, 25-15, 25-19)
LOCATION: Si Melby Hall, Minneapolis, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 3-1 overall (1-1 MIAC), Concordia-Moorhead 0-7 overall (0-0 MIAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
• Augsburg was able to make quick work of Concordia, sweeping the Cobbers in three sets while out-hitting them .252 to .174.
• The Auggies were led by two first-year athletes,
Mikayla Coops (FY, Belle Plaine, Minn./Belle Plaine HS) and
Bri Van Well (FY, Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury HS). Coops earned team-highs in digs and serve receptions with 21 and 25, respectively; while adding two aces, two assists and a kill. Van Well had a team-best eight kills, hitting at a .462 clip.
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Maddie Nierengarten (SR, Foley, Minn./Princeton HS),
Jade Fullerton (JR, Arden Hills, Minn./Mounds View HS) and
Jade Boysen (JR, Rochester, Minn./Mayo HS) all finished with six kills for Augsburg. Nierengarten also had seven digs, six service aces and a block assist. Boysen had three block assists, while Fullerton collected two assists and a block assist.
• Earning five Auggie kills each were
Corrina Evans (SR, Blaine, Minn./Blaine HS) and
Kayla Gjerde (JR, Afton, Minn./Stillwater HS). Evans added a match-best four block assists and two assists, while Gjerde had 16 digs.
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Lexie Lang (JR, Rochester, Minn./Mayo HS) finished with 12 assists, seven digs and four kills. Fellow setter,
Izzy Barr (JR, River Falls, Wis./River Falls HS), earned 18 assists, four digs and two aces.
FOR THE FOES
• Bailey Gronner led the Cobbers' offense with 10 kills. Anna Brakke finished with nine kills and a team-best 12 digs.
• Setter, Jill Klaphake had 18 assists for Concordia.
UP NEXT
• Augsburg hosts the University of St. Thomas in a MIAC match on Friday (4/16) at 7 p.m. in Si Melby Hall.
• Concordia hosts St. Catherine in a MIAC match on Wednesday (4/21) at 5 p.m. in Moorhead, Minn.
