RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU Volleyball picked up the program's first victory over Arkansas Tech at Tucker Coliseum on Friday night, downing the Golden Suns 3-0 for their fourth consecutive victory.
 
SWOSU controlled the game from the outset, recording at least 14 kills and hitting above .200 in each set while limiting ATU to an attack percentage of .082 on the night. The Bulldogs pulled away midway through the first set, breaking a 13-all tie with a kill from Emily Wood that jumpstarted a 7-1 run that put the Dawgs in position to close out the set. Maicee Morgan and Jenny Tackett each had kills in the final stretch and Morgan added service ace before SWOSU closed it out at 25-16 on a bad set by ATU.
 
The Bulldogs used the momentum gained in the first set and carried it over into the second, jumping on top by scores of 6-1 and 15-6 while never looking back. Wood would close out the set, scoring each of SWOSU's final four points by kill to end it at 25-15 and give her team a 2-0 lead heading into intermission.
 
Closing out the Golden Suns would be no easy task and SWOSU was facing a 16-10 deficit midway through the set before scoring six straight to tie things up following kills from Morgan and Sofia Gruden. The back-and-forth battle went back in the direction of ATU at 19-17, but the Golden Suns missed their next serve and opened the door for SWOSU, who responded with four straight points to make it 21-20. Tackett and Wood ran two kills back-to-back and ATU had an attack error and a bad set to give the final two points of the math to SWOSU.
 
Leading the way for SWOSU was Emily Wood, who put down 12 kills with seven digs while committing just one attack error and hitting .440 for the match. Jenny Tackett and Maicee Morgan had 11 kills apiece while also hitting effectively with a combined five hitting errors. Allie Hoang was just shy of a double-double with 34 assists and eight digs and Kaitlyn Dillon led her team with 25 digs while Sofia Gruden and Brylee Burroughs had two blocks apiece.
 
The victory is the fourth straight for SWOSU, with the Dawgs now improving to 10-8 on the year and 6-2 in Great American Conference play heading into a matchup with Harding on Saturday morning in Searcy. First serve is set for 11:00 am from Rhodes-Reaves Field House.