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Winner St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX 3-0
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Tex. A&M-Kingsville TAMK 4-0
Winner
St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX
3-0
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Final
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Tex. A&M-Kingsville TAMK
4-0
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX 13 25 20 25 15 (3)
Tex. A&M-Kingsville TAMK 25 14 25 21 13 (2)
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Westminster (UT) WC-UT 2-0
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Winner St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX 4-0
Westminster (UT) WC-UT
2-0
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Final
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St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX
4-0
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Westminster (UT) WC-UT 16 14 20 (0)
St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Volleyball | | RattlerAthletics.com

Volleyball Extends Winning Streak to Four

By Heather Kennedy | RattlerAthletics.com

KINGSVILLE, Texas – The St. Mary's Volleyball team kept things rolling with a pair of wins to begin the Emerald Beach Hotel – Javelina Volleyball Invitational on Thursday afternoon. The Rattlers defeated the host Texas A&M Kingsville Javelinas in five sets, 13-25, 25-14, 20-25, 25-21, 15-13 and then swept Westminster, Utah 25-16, 25-14, 25-20 to improve to 4-1 on the season.

Senior outside hitter KK Payne (New Braunfels, Texas) led the Rattlers with 14 kills against Kingsville and then had a double-double with 10 kills and 13 digs against the Griffins, while sophomore Jasmine Sims (Graham, Texas) had 12 kills in each match, which led the team in the nightcap. She also totaled five service aces in the two matches.

"I'm excited with the way the team played today," said Head Coach Stephanie Armstrong. "We did a great job of responding after the first set of the Kingsville match. I thought we served aggressive to get both teams out of system, which allowed our hitters to do a great job. KK and Jasmine both stepped up to lead us with their offense today."

Defensively, sophomore libero Catherine Cruz (San Antonio) posted a career-high 19 digs in the win over TAMUK and she had a team-high 14 digs in the win over the Griffins. Sophomore defensive specialist Gabi Sandoval (San Antonio) also posted a career-high with 12 digs in the second match of the day, as four Rattlers hit double digits in digs.

TEXAS A&M KINGSVILLE REVIEW
The Javelinas jumped out to an early 10-5 lead in the first set, before the Rattlers scored three of the next four to cut the deficit to three, 11-8, however TAMUK scored five of the next six to stretch its lead back out to seven, 16-9. They finished the set scoring nine of the final 12 points for the lopsided 25-13 win.

The Rattlers immediately turned things around, scoring five of the first six points of the second set with two kills by Sims and one by Tolbert for the 5-1 lead. Three of the next four went to the Javelinas to make the score 6-4 and TAMUK battled back to knot the score at 7-7, but the Gold & Blue used a seven-point run to take a 14-7 point advantage. Junior Amara Martinez (Houston, Texas) had a solo block and Payne had a kill during the run. After the Javelinas scored one, the Rattlers used another six-point rally to extend the lead out to 12, 20-8. Payne had two more kills and senior setter Bree Perry (Houston) added an ace and a kill. Kingsville scored four of the next five so the scores were juxtaposed at 21-12, but the Rattlers finished the set with four of the final six points for the 25-14 victory to tie the match at one set each. Sophomore Rachel McDonald (Indianapolis, Indiana) had a solo stuff and Sims added a kill and an ace to round things out.

After the intermission, TAMUK scored the first two, StMU answered with the next three including an ace by freshman Shea Slusser (Denton, Texas) and the Javelinas responded with a four-point run for the 7-3 lead. The teams traded points and the Rattlers used a four-point run of their own to tie things at 8-8. It would again be tied at 9-9, but eight of the next 10 went to Kingsville for the 17-11 score. The Rattlers fought back to score three of the next four to cut it to a four-point set, 18-14, and managed to whittle that down to a two-point deficit at 22-20, but the home team scored the final three points of the set for the 25-20 win.

Set four saw the Rattlers score the first five points and they never looked back. Trailing 6-1, the Javelinas scored the next three to cut it to a two-point set, 6-4, but the Rattlers pushed it back to four with back-to-back points to make the scoreboard read 8-4. The teams traded points to 11-8 when the Rattlers scored three of four, including a pair of kills by senior Savannah Alcazar (League City, Texas) to push the score to 14-9. TAMUK rallied to score four of the next five and close within two, 15-13, but the Gold & Blue immediately answered – scoring five of the next six to regain a six-point edge – 20-14. Slusser, Tolbert and Sims each had a kill during the run. The Javelinas scored five of the next six to again close within two, 21-19, but four of the final six went to the Rattlers with two kills by Sims, a block by Martinez and Alcazar and a solo stop by Slusser for the 25-21 victory.

The fifth set, which only goes to 15 points started with one point to the Javelinas. The Rattlers answered with back-to-back kills by Sims. After a Kingsville point, the Rattlers scored two on a pair of TAMUK errors for the 4-2 lead. A four-point Javelinas run gave them the 6-4 lead, but the Rattlers quickly tied it up. Kingsville regained the edge with a two-point run, but Slusser had a kill and stepped back to the line for an ace to knot the score at 8-8. The score was also tied at 9-9 and 10-10, but the Rattlers scored three straight for the 12-10 lead with kills by Payne and Sims and the clubs alternated points throughout the remainder to give the Rattlers the 15-13 win. Payne added one more kill and Slusser had the final two for St. Mary's.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW
All neutral floor matches for the Rattlers this season have been three-set sweeps including the win over the Westminster Griffins, 25-16, 25-14, 25-20.

After the Griffins scored the first point of the match, the Rattlers rattled off four straight, including kills by Alcazar and Sims and back-to-back aces by Slusser. Westminster answered with a four-point run of its own to take the 5-4 advantage, but Sims notched a kill and then had her first of four aces to give the lead right back to the Gold & Blue, 6-5. WC tied the score at 6-6, but StMU scored four of the next five with kills by McDonald and Tolbert for the 10-7 lead. Four of the next six went to WC 12-11 StMU edge. Back-to-back kills by Tolbert made the scoreboard read 14-11. Westminster closed within one, 14-13. The Rattlers scored six of the next eight to push the lead to five, 20-15 and after a Griffin kill, they finished the set on a five-point run behind the strong serving of Cruz with two kills each by Sims and Payne for the 25-16 win.

The Rattlers leaped out to a 9-1 lead in the second set with three kills by Payne, two by Sims, one by Tolbert and an ace by Perry and Payne each. WC scored two of the next three for the 10-3 tally, but McDonald had back-to-back kills to make it 12-3. The Griffins scored three of the next four to cut it to a seven-point set, 13-6. At 15-7, WC scored three straight for 15-10, but the Rattlers answered with four of the next five to push it to an eight-point lead, 19-11. Sims added two more kills, while Alcazar and McDonald each added one. After two points went to the Griffins, the Rattlers tallied three straight for the 22-13 score and they finished the set scoring three of the final four for the 25-14 victory.

The third set was tied at 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 before the Rattlers pulled ahead scoring four of five with kills by Sims, Tolbert and McDonald for the 14-11 advantage. The clubs traded points to 16-13 when WC scored back-to-back points to pull within one, 16-15. The Rattlers again rattled off four of five with two kills by Payne, one by Sims and a block by Sims for the 20-16 edge. The Griffins scored one and the Rattlers scored the next four with kills by Tolbert and Slusser and back-to-back aces by Sims to bring up match point, 24-17. After three-straight by Westminster, a service error by the Griffins finally gave the match to the Rattlers, 25-20.

INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM NOTES
  • KK Payne had a season-high 14 kills against Texas A&M-Kingsville on a season-high 48 attacks. Against Westminster, she recorded a career-high with 13 digs, surpassing her previous high of 12, which she had done three different times. It was the second double-double of the season and the third of her Rattlers career.
  • Jasmine Sims recorded a season-high four aces and five digs in the victory over Westminster, bettering each total by one.
  • Alissa Tolbert recorded a double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs against the Griffins. It is her third double-double of the year and the 13th of her career.
  • Gabi Sandoval recorded a career-best 12 digs against Westminster. Her previous high was 10 in last season's win over Our Lady of the Lake (Sept. 4).
  • Shea Slusser tallied highs in kills (8), attacks (26), digs (5) and blocks (2) in the win over the Griffins.
  • Bree Perry notched her first double-double of the year with 42 assists and a season-high 15 assists in the win over the Javelinas. It is the 37th double-double of her career.
  • Rachel McDonald tied her season-high with four blocks against the Javelinas and doubled her career-high with four digs.
  • Catherine Cruz tallied a career-high 19 digs against the Javelinas and backed it up with a team-high 14 digs in the win over the Griffins.
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