#2 Wayne State held of Minnesota State University Moorhead this evening, 28-26, 25-11, 18-25, 25-16, winning in four sets on the road. The 'Cats improve to 23-1 overall and 14-0 in the NSIC. MSUM drops to 11-12 and 4-10 in the league.
The first set was a back-and-forth battle, seeing 12 ties and a pair of lead changes. WSC was only able to gain a three-point lead at the 8-5 mark before the Dragons tied it up and nine and stayed within two points the remainder of the opening set. WSC would finally finish off MSUM 28-26 to take a 1-0 set lead.
Sophomore
Delaney Miller lead with eight kills while hitting .400.
The second set started similar as the first, going back and forth before the 'Cats went on a 9-0 run to take set two 25-11.
Channatee Robles put down seven kills in the set as WSC hit .424 and held MSUM to .147.
MSUM took control in the third set where they were able to build four- and six-point leads forcing WSC to take both their timeouts. They were able to take the set 25-18.
Chloe Hanel,
Mia Berg, and Miller each had three kills in the set.
In set four, Wayne State jumped out to a six-point lead at the 9-3 mark and forced the Dragons to use a timeout.
They would hold onto their lead and forced another MSUM timeout at the 16-8 mark before finishing off the contest with a pair of kills from Hanel to win 25-16.
Miller added six more kills in the set and Hanel followed with five as WSC hit a game high .516 in the final set.
Miller led all players with 19 kills, followed by Hanel with 14, Robles with 13, and Berg with 10.
Molly Romano finished with 51 assists, tying her season best. Sophomore
Mattie Kamery led with 16 digs followed by Robles with 11.
Anna Borner recorded nine digs and Reeser Johnson added eight.
The Wildcats close out their NSIC road trip Saturday with a 2 p.m. game at Minnesota Crookston.
