MINNEAPOLIS — The Augsburg University volleyball team dropped a five-set Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match to Carleton College on Saturday at Si Melby Hall. The Auggies matched the Knights with 51 kills and held a 14-12 edge in service aces, but hit .125 to the Knights' .197.
THE BASICS
SCORE: Carleton def. Augsburg 3-2 (25-21, 19-25, 20-25, 25-18, 15-8)
LOCATION: Si Melby Hall, Minneapolis
RECORDS: Augsburg 4-9 overall (1-2 MIAC), Carleton 11-6 overall (2-1 MIAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Auggies opened the set with
Jovial King's service ace, but the Knights moved ahead 5-2 before kills by
Aloaha Ricke and
Ameerah Rogers helped the Auggies pull even at 6-6. The Knights rebuilt the lead to 16-11 before
Marley Mitchell put down two kills during a three-point Auggies push that made it 16-14. After the Knights went back up 17-14, Rogers had a kill,
Lola Pilon served an ace and a Knights attack error tied the set at 17-17. The Knights answered with the next point, stretched the margin to 23-18, and after the Auggies got back within 24-21, Alexis Ormsby's kill closed the set for the Knights, 25-21.
After the Knights tied the second set at 2-2, the Auggies won seven of the next eight points to move in front 9-3, with
Maggie Lile serving an ace during a four-point service turn and Mitchell and Pilon adding a kill and an ace. The Auggies were ahead 12-4 after an
Ava Carlson kill, an
Elise Uphoff ace and a
Taliah Triggs kill, but the Knights scored five straight points and later pulled within 13-12 on an Ellewyn Swafford service ace. King and
Gwynn Gorter delivered consecutive kills, Gorter and
Lilly Wynn combined on a block, and after a Knights point, Triggs' kill and Carlson's ace pushed the Auggies to 18-13. The Knights cut the margin to 18-16, but the Auggies moved to 22-17 with kills from Wynn, Mitchell and Rogers around a Pilon ace, then reached set point on a Knights attack error before Triggs closed the 25-19 set with a kill.
The Knights scored the first five points of the third set, but the Auggies answered with a Triggs kill and a Carlson service run that included two aces and kills by Wynn and
Gwynn Gorter to tie it 5-5. Carlson recorded a season-high total of four serve aces. The Auggies later moved in front 9-8 on consecutive Mitchell kills, and after the Knights went ahead 11-10, blocks by King and Rogers and then Triggs and
Gwynn Gorter, followed by a Rogers ace, helped the Auggies move to 13-11 before kills by Triggs and Wynn made it 15-12. The Knights pulled even at 15-15, but a service error and a Mitchell kill put the Auggies back ahead 17-15, and after the Knights got within 18-17, Mitchell's kill and Pilon's ace pushed the Auggies to 20-17. Pilon registered a career-high total of six serve aces. After the Knights made it 20-18, kills by Mitchell and Triggs and a Knights setting error moved the Auggies to 23-18, and King and Triggs supplied the final two Auggies points in a 25-20 set win.
The Auggies started the fourth set with a
Gwynn Gorter-Wynn block, a Gorter kill and a Mitchell kill from King for a 3-1 lead, but the Knights answered with six straight points, including two Alexis Ormsby service aces, to go in front 7-3. Ricke and King put down kills during a three-point Auggies response that brought the set to 7-6, but the Knights rebuilt the gap and later scored four straight points, capped by kills from Jennifer Bricker and Ormsby, to lead 16-9. The Auggies trimmed an 18-10 deficit to 18-13 on a Carlson kill, a Knights error and another Carlson kill, then got as close as 21-17 before the Knights took four of the final five points, with Ellewyn Swafford delivering the last kill in a 25-18 set.
The Knights scored the first two points of the fifth set before the Auggies answered with four straight, getting kills from
Gwynn Gorter and Triggs and a block by Gorter and Wynn to move ahead 4-2. The Knights tied it at 4-4, and the teams traded points to 6-6 with Carlson and Wynn putting down kills for the Auggies. The visitors created separation with three straight points to go up 9-6, including back-to-back service aces by Rachel Bingham, and later stretched the margin to 13-7 behind two Ellewyn Swafford kills and Auggies attack errors. A King block gave the Auggies one more point, but the Knights took the final two points to close the fifth set 15-8.
AUGSBURG TOP PERFORMERS
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Jovial King: Season-high 43 assists, 13 digs, 3 blocks, including 1 solo, 1 service ace
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Maggie Lile: 18 digs, 3 assists, 1 service ace
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Ava Carlson: 5 kills with no errors on 8 attempts, .625 hitting percentage, 4 service aces, 6 digs
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Lola Pilon: Career-high 6 service aces, 10 digs, 3 assists
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Marley Mitchell: Team-high 12 kills, 12 points
UP NEXT
The Auggies travel to Moorhead, Minn., to face Concordia College-Moorhead in MIAC play on Friday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m. at Memorial Auditorium.
