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LUBBOCK, Texas – The SWOSU Volleyball team picked up their fifth straight victory on Thursday night with a 3-0 victory over Lubbock Christian in the first game of the LCU Chap Classic. The Bulldogs won the match by set scores of 25-23, 25-15, 25-20.
 
Neither team led by more than two points in the opening set, which saw SWOSU gain the advantage late in the set with a 4-1 run, capped by an assist block from Elizabeth McVicker and Emily Holm that made it 22-20 and force LCU to call a timeout. The Lady Chaps then committed a service error and Danusia Sipa Borgeaud put down the final two points with kills, allowing SWOSU to close it out at 25-23.
 
SWOSU seized control from the outset in the second set, pulling ahead and forcing LCU to call timeouts with the Dawgs up 7-3 and 15-7. Lubbock would get no closer the rest of the set and SWOSU put it away at 25-15 on a kill by Sofia Gruden.
 
After going back-and-forth in the early points of the third set, LCU pulled ahead 13-10 with a 5-0 run and forced SWOSU to play from behind as they looked to close out the match. The Bulldogs comeback would begin after Head Coach Josh Collins called a timeout trailing 16-12 as SWOSU scored eight of the next ten points and LCU burned both of their timeouts by the time the Dawgs took a 20-17 lead. Kills by Borgeaud, Holm and Gruden, combined with two hitting errors by the Lady Chaps helped SWOSU finish off the set 25-20 and the match in straight sets.
 
Gruden led the Bulldogs with nine kills and no hitting errors, hitting .474 for the match while also recording seven blocks (one solo, six assist) on the night. Borgeaud put down a team-leading 11 kills while McVicker was credited with 10 kills and two blocks and Holm added eight kills and hit .207 for the match.
 
Kaitlyn Dillon anchored the Bulldogs back-line defense with 31 digs, which marks a new single game school record for kills in a three-set match. Borgeaud added 10 digs for fifth double-double of the season while Allie Hoang was just shy of a double-double with 39 assists and nine digs to go along with a team-leading three service aces.
 
SWOSU improves to 6-1 on the year with their second consecutive three-set victory and they will take a five-game winning streak into Friday's doubleheader which includes back-to-back matches against St. Mary's (1:00 pm) and Arkansas-Monticello (4:00 pm).