Box Score
Season Statistics
The No. 4 Lady Blues sent their seniors out with a bang with a 30-20, 30-16, 30-16 win over Southwest Baptist in their regular season finale Friday night in front of 820 fans at Lee Arena. Washburn (33-2) honored seniors
Mandi Cox,
Erica Cowhick and
Tessa Jones during Senior Night ceremonies before the match.
The Lady Blues will now prepare for the MIAA Postseason Tournament, which starts Tuesday with a 7 p.m. match in Lee Arena against Missouri Western, the No. 4 seed out of the MIAA East Division. The Lady Blues repeated as the top team in the West but will have to play at the site of the East Division's top seed if they advance to the second round.
Cox led the team with a career-high .750 attack percentage with 12 kills in 16 attacks with no errors while Jones equaled Cox's team-leading kill total and hit .611 with one error in 18 tries.
The Lady Blues hit .423 as a team with setter
Kate Hampson getting 40 assists. Cowhick had 17 digs to lead the back row and
Molly Smith, who played as libero in game three, had nine digs.
Monica Miesner reached double figures with 12.
Washburn started slowly and was behind early in game one. The Bearcats led 4-2 and then 5-4 before Washburn took over and went on a 6-0 run to lead 10-5. SBU got within two near the halfway point but the Lady Blues took advantage of .000 hitting from the Bearcats and scored nine of their points off SBU hitting errors en route to a 30-20 win.
The Lady Blues hit .515 in game two and led the entire way. Hampson served the first seven points and then the Lady Blues went up by 10 at 13-3 on four straight points. They cruised to an easy win, leading by as much as 17 points.
In game three there were seven ties and four lead changes. The Lady Blues took the lead for good at 9-8 and then built it to 10 points at 22-12.
Jones increased her season kill total to 510 to become the eighth Lady Blue to reach 500 kills in a season. Hampson moved her season total to 1,560 assists, now the second highest single-season total in school history.
