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Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Bryan Shepherd, Assistant Sports Information Director

WVSU Volleyball falls to Red Leafs in Hawai’i Classic Opener

HONOLULU – West Virginia State's volleyball team took the first set, but then dropped the next three in a 3-1 loss to the Simon Fraser Red Leafs in the Hawai'i Classic on Thursday night. State falls to 0-1 on the young season while Simon Fraser improves to 1-0.

The first set was back and forth with SFU taking a maximum of a five point lead then WVSU closing that gap to two on several occasions. It came to a head at 24-20 with SFU holding onto four set points. A couple of slams by Jacklyn Simms bookending a kill by Diamond'nique Young and a Valencia Wilder service ace tied the set up at 24-all. A Wilder service error gave SFU another set point but kills by Kaitlyn Cabral and Larisa Lehtoranta forced an SFU timeout followed by a Peri Martin ace to seal set one. The Jackets hit .276 in the set compared to the Red Leafs .196.

The Red Leafs tied the match up with a vengeance. A seven-point run that made the score 21-7 in favor of SFU was broken by a Young slam, but SFU coasted to a 25-13 set two win. State hit sub-zero in the set at -.028, while the Leafs put together a .300 hitting percentage.

Set three looked to be a repeat of set two when SFU went on a 9-4 tear, but WVSU made it interesting in the latter stages of the set with a 9-2 run with six SFU attacking miscues, a ball handling error, a service error and a single Simms slam to bring State to within two points of the Red Leafs at 23-21, but SFU took the last two points of the set to go up 2-1 in the match. Neither team hit well in the set, with SFU hitting .133 compared to State's .095.

The fourth set started off tight with each team netting five points and then another 9-1 SFU run put the Jackets behind the eight-ball, 13-6. A service ace by Alex Darby, a kill by Young and three separate SFU errors brought State to within two points at 20-18, then again at 22-20, and finally 24-22 before SFU finally put away the Jackets with one final kill.

Simms nearly had a double-double with 10 kills and nine digs. Darby moved back to libero after vacating it for a year and led the team with 14 digs. Kiersten Eggleton led the team in assists with 17.

State will take on Cal Poly Pomona in game two of the Hawai'i Classic on Friday, Sept. 1. The match is scheduled for a 4:00 pm EDT first serve. The Broncos defeated American International College in straight sets in their Hawai'i Challenge opener.
 
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