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DURANT, Okla. – The SWOSU Volleyball team saw their three-match conference winning streak halted on Tuesday night in Durant, falling in four sets to Southeastern Oklahoma State. The loss drops the Bulldogs to 6-5 on the year and 3-1 in Great American Conference play.
Paige Holt led the Dawgs with 10 kills while
Carly Zak had seven, but both players hit near the .100 mark as the team combined for a .162 hitting percentage with 22 errors. Conversely, Southeastern hit .313 for the match with a combined 34 kills from their two top hitters, Arianna Baker and Abby Jameson.
The Bulldogs best effort came in the second set as they hit .333 and used a five-point run on the serve of
Kodee Avery to take a 21-17 lead late in the set. Kills by
Jill Green and
Kelsi Schmidtberger along with a pair of attack errors from Southeastern helped the Bulldogs finish off the set and head to the intermission tied at 1-1.
Following the break, the Savage Storm came out aggressive again and hit .367 and .324 in the final two sets to finish off the Bulldogs in four sets. The fourth set was tied on four occasions, but SWOSU never regained the lead after scoring the opening point, although they did pull within one late in the set at 21-20. Southeastern regrouped after a timeout and scored four of the final five points to win the set 25-21 and the match 3-1.
Southeastern had 21 more digs than SWOSU, who finished with 45 in the match, and the Storm had six blocks to a season-low one for the Bulldogs.
Kayla Hebert had five kills without an error and 39 assists but just two digs while
Kaila Lancaster had 14 digs to lead SWOSU.
DeLayni Fine and
Kelsi Schmidtberger had seven kills apiece while Hebert and Green had five.
Blair Dressendorfer entered the match in the fourth set and recorded three kills with one hitting error on eight attempts.
The loss snaps a three-match conference winning streak by the Bulldogs and drops them to 3-1 in league play heading into a matchup with co-conference leader Oklahoma Baptist on Thursday night at the Pioneer Cellular Event Center.
