MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Mississippi College volleyball team opened the
Shawna Laurendine Era with a thrilling, 2-0 start to the 2018 campaign. Freshman
Kendall Platt tied the program's single-match record with a team-best 20 kills to pace the Lady Choctaws to a 3-2 win over Cameron (Okla.) University. MC logged a five-set win over the University of Texas at Permian Basin to open the day.
Platt, a native of Anaheim, Calif., joins Clare Prichard with 20 kills in a match. Prichard set the benchmark on Oct. 5, 2007 at LeTournau University. Platt used the kill total to register her second, career double-double as she logged 15 digs against CU.
Game Score: Mississippi College 3 | Cameron (Okla.) 2
Date: Fri., Aug. 24, 2018
Location: Magnolia, Ark. | W.T. Watson Center
Records: Choctaws 2-0 | Aggies 0-2
TURNING POINT
- Tied 12-all in the decisive, fifth set, Platt and Autumn Frost registered a block to halt a 3-0, Cameron run and turn the momentum back in favor of the Navy and Gold to close out the match on its own 3-0 run. Frost and Jamie Boros closed out the match combining for the teams' seventh block.
INSIDE THE BOX
- Boros and Shelby Grace Mays joined Platt in double figure kills with 11 and 10 respectively. Boros tied her season-high from the match against Texas-Permian Basin.
- A quartet of Lady Choctaws recorded double-digit digs in the match led by Jill Brown with 16. Julia Martin and Rylee Markham recorded 10 digs apiece.
- Mays, Boros and Frost each totaled three blocks in the outing.
- Lexie Laurendine posted her second match with 20-plus assists. The Clinton, Miss., native added 23 in the match after posting 25 against UTPB.
Game Score: Mississippi College 3 | Texas-Permian Basin 2
Date: Fri., Aug. 24, 2018
Location: Magnolia, Ark. | W.T. Watson Center
Records: Choctaws 1-0 | Falcons 0-1
TURNING POINT
- After trailing 2-1, Mississippi College rallied to take the fourth set 25-20 and push the season opener to a fifth and deciding set. Tied 13-all in the final set, the Lady Choctaws gathered a kill from Shelby Grace Mays with the match-winning, kill coming from Lexie Laurendine.
INSIDE THE BOX
- Mays recorded a career-high with 18 kills in the season opener. Mays' previous high was 15 against Arkansas-Monticello last season.
- Kendall Platt registered a double-double in her collegiate debut with 13 kills and 12 digs.
- Brandi Bundy registered a career-high 14 digs against UTPB. Her previous mark was 10 against North Alabama last season.
- Hannah Rue finished the match with a career-high 10 kills as she surpassed her previous high of eight last set at Valdosta State last season. The Muscle Shoals, Ala., sophomore also tallied a career-high three digs.
- Platt, Jamie Boros, Laurendine, Rylee Markham, and Grace Rich each made their collegiate debuts against UTPB.
- Jill Brown registered 27 digs in the match – two off tying her career-high.
- The decision gives head coach Shawna Laurendine her first at the helm of the Lady Choctaws.
NEXT UP
Mississippi College returns to action on Saturday, Aug. 25 as it faces Quincy University at 11 a.m. The Lady Choctaws wrap up the Invitational against the host Southern Arkansas at 7 p.m.
