CLINTON, Miss. – For the first time on the campaign the Mississippi College volleyball team fell in a five set match as Union (Tenn.) University topped the Choctaws (7-8, 1-3 Gulf South Conference). Union improved to 4-13 on the season and 1-3 in the conference.
MC opened the season with a pair of five-set victories at the Dr. Margaret Downing Invitational.
Mississippi College held a 2-0 lead, but witnessed the Lady Bulldogs rally to claim sets three and four and send the match to a deciding, fifth set.
Game Score: Mississippi College 2 | Union 3
Date: Friday, Sept. 21, 2018
Location: Clinton, Miss. | A.E. Wood Coliseum
Records: Choctaws 7-8, 1-3 GSC | Lady Bulldogs 4-13, 1-3 GSC
TURNING POINT
Union jumped out to an early 6-3 lead, but the Choctaws rallied to tie the set at 11-all. Union's Meghan Delaney halted the MC run with a kill and placed the visiting Lady Bulldogs on 4-0 run to clinch the match.
INSIDE THE BOX
- Senior Jill Brown pulled within five digs of career 500 in the match with a team-best 24. The 20-dig match is third this season for the Elkhart, Ind., senior and her seventh career.
- Freshman Kendall Platt posted her 11th contest with 10-plus kills – a team-best – recorded her fourth double-double of the season (14 kills, 13 digs)
- Freshman Jamie Boros registered her ninth contest in double figure kills – second most on the team.
- Freshman Gwenyth Prenter tied a season-high in total blocks.
- Sophomore Autumn Frost matched a career-high in solo blocks – a mark set on Oct. 14 last season against Nova Southeastern University. The Largo, Fla., native also equaled a career-high in kills set against the University on Montevallo on Oct. 7, 2017.
- The setback snapped a two-match, win streak for the Navy and Gold.
NEXT UP
Mississippi College returns to action on Saturday, Sept. 22 as it travels to Memphis, Tenn., to face Christian Brothers University in GSC play. First serve at Canale Arena is set for 1 p.m.
