Box Score

RICHMOND, Ky. – Four players had nine or 10 kills each and four players had three or more blocks as Eastern Kentucky University swept Jacksonville, 3-0, on Friday for the Colonels' fifth straight victory.
 
AG Vandagriff led EKU (15-7, 6-3 ASUN) with 10 kills.  Sarah Mitchell, Kambree Lucas and Carson Ledford had nine kills each.  Vandagriff did not commit an error and posted a .556 attack percentage.  Ledford had one error in 18 attempts for a .444 attack percentage.  Lucas hit .318 on the night.
 
Paige Wagers had a match-best eight blocks.  Ledford finished with five while Lucas and Emilee Hill had three each.  The Colonels out-blocked the Dolphins 13-5.
 
EKU won by scores of 25-14, 26-24 and 25-23.
 
The maroon and white jumped out to a quick start by scoring eight of the first nine points of the match.  Lucas made it 8-1 with a kill.  A service ace from Lucas stretched the margin to eight, 13-5.  The Colonels went up by 10, 23-13, on a setter kill from freshman Cooper Abney.  Mitchell's kill wrapped up the opener by a 25-14 score.
 
The Colonels went in front by four, 9-5, early in the second set on a kill from Ledford.  EKU had a 3-point advantage, 17-14, when Wagers and Hill blocked a Jacksonville attack.  The Dolphins (10-11, 5-4 ASUN) answered with a 5-0 run to turn that 3-point deficit into a 2-point advantage.  Cami Kelsay made it 19-17 with a kill.  An EKU attack error put JU up 23-21, before three straight gave the home team set-point.  Two of the three came off Dolphin attack errors and one point was from Hill's kill.  Back-to-back errors, a service error and an attack error, from Jacksonville gave the Colonels a 26-24 win and a 2-0 lead.
 
Neither team led by more than three in the third set until four straight pushed EKU ahead by five, 16-11.  Hill capped the run with a kill.  JU battled back to tie it at 18-18.  However, Ledford and Mitchell responded with back-to-back kills and EKU led the rest of the way.  Hill gave her squad match-point at 24-22 with a kill.  Mitchell finished it off, 25-23, with a kill.
 
The Colonels hit .343 as a team while limiting Jacksonville to a .196 attack percentage. 
 
JU's Breanna McDonough led all players with 17 kills.  She made just four errors in 29 attempts and had a .448 attack percentage.  No other player had more than six kills for the Dolphins.
 
The Colonels will host North Florida on Sunday at 11 a.m.  Sunday morning's match against the Ospreys will feature FREE doughnuts.