River Forest, Ill. – The Dominican University Women's Volleyball team returned to the Igini Sports Forum after playing their last non-conference match of the season on Tuesday night.
Match Results:
Dominican: 0
RV Aurora: 3
How It Happened:
-The Stars jumped out to a 3-1 lead thanks to Freshman
Valeria Garcia earning back-to-back service aces.
-This jump started the Spartans and allowed them to go on a 5-0 run that brought the score to 8-4.
-AU kept their foot on the gas after a kill bySenior
Kathryn Ksiezak stopped the initial run. Aurora then went on a 6-0 run that made the score 14-5.
-The Spartans finished up the first set by scoring 10 of the final 11 points to win the first set 25-8.
-The second started in a similar fashion, with DU jumping out to a 3-0 run. Ksiezak collected a kill in these first three points.
-Garcia collected another ace, while Sophomore
Karolina Stonkus added a kill to give DU a 5-2 lead early in the second set.
-Aurora then scored 7 of the next 8 points to take a 12-7 lead.
-The two schools then traded points for a while, with Freshman
Kaitlyn Stanek, Garcia and Senior
Jaylynn Miller all earning kills.
-The score was 15-12 in favor of Aurora, and AU wrapped up the second set from there, scoring 10 of the final 12 points in the set to win 25-14.
-The Spartans kept that run rolling into the third set, jumping out to a 7-1 lead.
-Dominican crawled back into the set, scoring 7 of the 9 points in the middle portion of the set. During this run DU got help from some errors by AU, but also Junior
Ella Murray and Stonkus added kills.
-Aurora would then put their foot back on the gas by scoring 13 of the final 16 points and won the set 25-15.
-The Stars had 5 blocks in the match with 29 digs.
Shining Stars:
-Senior
Kathryn Ksiezak led her team in blocks with 3 of them in the match, including 1 solo block. Ksiezak also earned 2 kills in the match.
-Freshman
Valeria Garcia collected 2 service aces, 1 block, and 2 kills.
-Sophomore
Karolina Stonkus brought a spark to this DU team tonight, earning 5 kills with 4 assists and 4 digs.
-Freshman
Gracelynn Perry led the team in digs with 10 of them.
Leading the Way:
Kills: Stonkus (5)
Aces: Garcia (2)
Blocks: Ksiezak (3)
Assists: Abu-Shukhaidem (6)
Digs: Perry (10)
What's Next:
Dominican University Women's Volleyball falls to 0-22 on the season. Dominican will be back in action on October 24
th, as they hit the road. The Stars will travel to Wisconsin Lutheran to take on the Warriors. The first serve is set for 12:00 p.m.
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