Chattanooga
Georgia Southern
Lady Mocs notch seventh straight victory with 3-1 win at Georgia Southern
9/29/2007 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
STATESBORO, Ga. ? Senior middle blocker Leslee Ball (Sycamore, Ill.) drilled a match-high 23 kills and senior setter Bethany Herndon (Richmond, Texas) recorded a match-high 38 assists to lead Chattanooga (9-6, 4-0) to a 3-1 victory over Georgia Southern (4-13, 1-4) Saturday afternoon at Hanner Fieldhouse in Statesboro, Ga. The Lady Mocs defeated the Eagles 30-19, 19-30, 30-25 and 30-18 to win their seventh consecutive match and remain tied with The College of Charleston atop the Southern Conference.
In
Game 2, it was a different story as the Eagles charged out of the gate
to take an early 10-5 lead. At that point, the Lady Mocs offense went
cold as
The
two teams battled through five lead changes and four ties early in Game
3 to knot the score at 6-6. At that point, the Lady Mocs put together a
10-3 run behind a pair of kills each from junior right side hitter Laura Nethery (
After
taking a narrow 5-4 lead at the start of Game 4, the Lady Mocs wasted
no time in taking care of business, pounding out another 10-3 run for a
15-7 advantage. After a 5-1 mini run by the Eagles closed the gap to
16-12,
Junior setter Mae Chabra led the way for the Eagles with a team-high 31 assists while junior outside hitter Bianca Julio paced the hitters with a team-high 11 kills along with seven digs. Junior outside hitter Christy Dowd added six kills to go along with her team-high 11 digs and freshman middle hitter Sara Gildersleeve contributed eight kills. Freshman libero Marissa Odom finished with nine digs.
For
aces to along with eight digs and five kills. Freshman outside hitter Aurore Kullak (
The Lady Mocs have now won seven consecutive matches. That is
The Lady Mocs will be back in action on Wednesday, October 3 when they host
Notes
With her 23 kills, Leslee Ball is now in fifth place on the Chattanooga all-time kills list with 1,154 ... Ball is 26 kills away from tying Carol Reedus (1997-00) for fourth place all-time at 1,180 kills ... the Game 2 loss snaps the Lady Mocs 17-game winning streak.
