SMSU vs Lewis (Ill) Box Score
SMSU vs Wisconsin-Parkside Box Score
ROMEOVILLE, Ill.— The fourth ranked Southwest Minnesota State volleyball team bounced back in its final match at the Lewis University Invitational by sweeping the Wisconsin-Parkside Rangers 3-0 Saturday afternoon. SMSU dropped its first match of the season earlier in the day to Lewis (Ill.) University 3-1.
SMSU vs No. 18 Lewis— No. 18 Lewis University moved to 3-0 on the season and handed No. 4 Southwest Minnesota State its first loss of the year in earning a 22-25, 27-25, 25-22, 25-19 victory at the Flyer Invitational on Saturday afternoon.
Lewis was able to earn the victory despite a near-record setting match by SMSU's
Taylor Reiss. Reiss finished the match with a career-high 35 kills, which is the third highest in team history, three shy of the school single-match record of 38 kills set by Beth Elliott in 1990. Reiss closed the match with a .392 hitting percentage and also added 13 digs.
SMSU (2-1) finished the match hitting .234, but struggled behind the service line, committing 16 service errors.
Eisha Oden was the only other Mustang to reach double figure kills finishing with 10, while
Kaylee Burmeister added seven kills.
Amber Messner led the SMSU defense with 23 digs, while
Megan Larson added 13 digs and dished out 55 assists.
After earning a victory in set one, SMSU held a 14-12 lead in set two, but the Flyers rallied to build a 22-17 lead. The Mustangs countered with a 7-2 run to tie the set at 24, but the Flyers closed the set with three of the next four points to secure the win.
Lewis then jumped out to early leads in both the third and fourth sets to pick up the four-set win.
SMSU vs Wisconsin-Parkside— The Mustangs rebounded strongly in their final match of the weekend defeating the Wisconsin-Parkside Rangers 25-9, 25-19, 25-21 to move to 3-1 to begin the season.
Sarah Parker and
Eisha Oden each had 9 kills while
Kaylee Burmeister added another 8 kills to the SMSU attack, finishing with a hitting percentage of .377 as a team. Burmeister also contributed a team leading 11 digs for the Mustangs.
Taylor Reiss followed up her huge match earlier in the day with another solid performance, adding 11 kills and six digs.
The loss drops Wisconsin-Parkside to 1-2 on its season after hitting just .092 against SMSU.
The Mustangs will now head to Denver, Colo. for the Colorado Premier Sept. 9-10 to play four non-conference matches beginning with a match against Colorado School of Mines on Friday at 1 p.m.
