CLINTON, Miss. --- The Mississippi College volleyball team opened Gulf South Conference action with a straight sets win over Auburn Montgomery on Tuesday, Sept. 19. MC improved to 7-5, 1-0 in the Gulf South Conference while AUM falls to 6-5 and 0-1 in the league.
KEY NOTES
Ashton King tallied a career-high 13 kills to lead Mississippi College while
Madison Frazier recorded a season-high 11 kills in the match. The duo also garnered new season-highs in digs as King collected eight and Frazier totaled five.
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Sydney Chandler dished out a team-best 23 assists – one off her season-best – while
Amanda Torres added 13 assists. Torres, a native San Juan, Puerto Rico, also supplied a season-high six kills in the match.
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Julia Martin set a career-best for the third time in a week with 17 digs to lead the Lady Choctaws. The mark surpassed her previous best of 15 set against Grambling State over the weekend.
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Autumn Frost assisted on the defensive side with a season-high five blocks as she topped her previous mark of two set against Arkansas-Monticello over the weekend.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Tied at 10-all in the first set, MC used a 5-0 run to grab a 15-10 advantage led by a pair of kills from Torres as she sandwiched a kill from Mitchell and Frazier. The Warhawks added an attack error to cap the scoring spurt. The Lady Choctaws never looked back in the set as it claimed a 25-18 victory.
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The Navy and Gold rallied in the second set to tie the contest at 21-all on a kill from Torres. The two squads exchanged leads and ties down the stretch, but MC capitalized on two AUM miscues to take a 2-0 advantage in the match with a 25-23 victory.
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MC took control of the third set on a kill and service ace from King to push the score to 15-11. The Black and Orange attempted to rally as it cut the deficit to within a point on four different occasions, but the Lady Choctaws never relinquished the lead and closed the set on a pair of kills from Frazier.
NEXT UP
Mississippi College returns to action on Saturday, Sept. 23 as it hosts the University of West Alabama. First whistle is set for 1 p.m.
