Women's Volleyball Falls In Straight Sets Against Webster

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The Fontbonne University women's volleyball team dropped a tough three set outing against rival Webster on Saturday.

Final: Webster 3, Fontbonne 0

(25-20, 25-23, 25-22)

Set Breakdown

Set 1: The Gorloks opened with a 12-5 lead on a kill from Alexis Wolf. Fontbonne continued to chip away at the deficit and got it down to 19-16 on Jessica Molden's service ace.

However, the Gorloks answered with a 3-0 run and held on for the 25-20 win. Webster finished with 10 kills and a .176 hitting percentage in the opener, while Fontbonne had 13 kills and a .146 hitting percentage.

Set 2: In the second set, the Griffins this time around held the early lead throughout with a kill from Kelly Herr giving Fontbonne a 16-13 lead. Webster, though rattled off a 7-2 run with a block assist from Kylie Burke and Hayley Taylor giving them the 23-18 lead.

Fontbonne battled back with a 3-0 run of its own, however, the Gorloks secured the 25-21 win on Jordan Mueller's kill.

Set 3: It was another back-and-forth outing in the third with a kill from Hannah Gallagher tying it up, 13-13. Later, the Gorloks led 22-19 on Alexis Wolf's kill but two attack errors and a kill from Olivia Tallo evened it back up, 22-22.

After a timeout from Webster, the Gorloks closed out the set and the match on a 3-0 run with Kylie Burke's service ace giving them the 25-22 set and match win.

Head-to-Head

• Fontbonne finished with 38 kills and a season-low .092 hitting percentage.
• Defensively, the team came away with 55 digs.
• Webster ended the afternoon with 28 kills and a .117 hitting percentage.
• The team got it done at the service line with 10 aces and at the net with eight block assists.

Fontbonne Leaders

• Hannah Gallagher recorded her third straight double-double with a game-high 11 kills and 13 digs.
• Jadyn Fitzgerald tied Gallagher with 11 kills and just missed on the double-double with nine digs.
• Abby Grumich posted a game-high 18 assists giving her 1,214 in her career.
• Emma Pramik led defensively with a team-high 14 digs.

Webster Leaders

• Alexis Wolf posted a team-high nine kills, to go along with her game-high .368 hitting percentage.
• Lauren Borik filled up the stat sheet with eight kills, nine digs, and three block assists.
• Ali Spohr handed out 12 assists.
• Kyra Gensel led with a game-high 18 digs.

Up Next

The Griffins head on the road Tuesday when they'll visit NAIA University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy. First-service at 7 p.m.

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