TAMUI Box Score
Incarnate Word Box Score
Season Stats

 
The Lady Blues improved to 10-0 in season openers under Chris Herron as they won their two matches Friday at the Midwestern State Hampton Inn-vitational. They topped Texas A&M International, 3-0 (25-13 25-8, 25-16) in the opener and then defeated Incarnate Word, 3-1 (27-25, 25-13, 23-25, 25-11).

Fifth-ranked Washburn (2-0) will continue action Saturday at the MSU Invite with a 10 a.m. match against Nova Southeastern and a 12:30 p.m. match against host school Midwestern State.

The Lady Blues had little trouble in the opener. Jessica Fey had nine kills and no errors in 12 attacks for a .750 attack percentage. Breanna Lewis and Mollie Lacy each had seven blocks. Washburn hit .370 as a team in the entire match with a .667 percentage in the second set (8 kills, 0 errors, 12 attacks).

Washburn took a 3-0 lead in the opening set and then a kill from Fey pushed the lead to four at 6-2. The Dustdevils later got within one but a 12-3 run gave Washburn a 10-point lead at 21-11. A kill from Hughes closed out the set for WU.

Three separate 5-0 runs and then a set-clinching 6-0 run helped Washburn win easy in the second set. The final set stayed closer until a 6-0 run gave the Lady Blues a 22-13 lead.

Amanda Guess led the Lady Blues against TAMUI with 14 assists and Abby Wittman added nine and a team-high seven digs.

Lewis had 20 kills and hit .400 against Incarnate Word while Lacy added 12 kills and Hughes had 10. Wittman had a career-high 35 assists and added a double-double with 19 digs. Hughes also had a double-double with 16 digs.

The Cardinals played Washburn tough in the first and third sets but attack percentages above .340 for the Lady Blues in the second and fourth sets doomed them.

Incarnate Word opened the match on a 4-0 run and then Washburn answered with its own 4-0 run. There were four more ties after that before the Lady Blues built a four-point lead at 8-14. The Cardinals later tied the score at 25-25 after a WU attack error but Lewis and Fey closed out the set with kills to give WU a set-one win.

The second set went all Washburn's way after a 5-0 start. The third set saw eight ties and six lead changes. UIC was about to put the Lady Blues away, up 24-19 before Washburn scored four straight. The Cardinals got a kill to clinch the set.

Washburn left little doubt in the fourth set as they opened on a 12-0 run and led 18-2 later on. UIC couldn't put anything together better than a 4-0 run as the Lady Blues clinched the match.