Volleyball Sweeps Virginia

Saturday, October 24

Charlottesville, Va.

7:00 PM

University of Louisville

16-4, 10-0

Virginia

14-7, 6-4

Louisville

Virginia

October 24, 2015 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

Cards stay unbeaten in the ACC

By: Nancy Worley

Janelle Jenkins had 12 kills, two aces and a block to lead the University of Louisville volleyball team to a 25-22, 25-12, 225-21 win over Virginia to keep stay unbeaten in the ACC.

The Cardinals move to 10-0 in conference and are 15-4 overall. The Cavaliers are 6-4 in the ACC and 14-7 overall. UofL hit .373 for the match with 11 blocks and eight aces. Aniah Philo led with six blocks, adding eight kills. Erin Fairs and Aniah Philo each had eight kills with Philo adding six blocks as well. UVA was led by Jasmine Burton's nine kills.

"The only difference in the stats in the first set was we had two more kills and three more digs. It was a slugfest," said head coach Anne Kordes. "Hats off to the Cavs, who served us into the worst passing match we have had in a while and for us to hit .373 as a team is a credit to our setter, Katie George, with Janelle Jenkins pacing the way. When the pass is off the net, the pin hitters have to set up and they were scoring which is important for our confidence level. All our servers were great and to come out with more aces than errors was huge. We were just super strong from line. Serving great makes blocking good."
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In the first set, the two teams traded punches with 10 ties and three lead changes. UofL hit .438 and UVA hit .387 with the Cards being led by Janelle Jenkins' eight kills. UofL was down 11-8 early and ran off five straight to go up 13-11. UVA pushed back and took the lead at 17-16 before Erin Fairs scored three straight points to take UofL up 19-17 and spark a Cavalier timeout. UVA tied again at 21 but UofL outscore UVA 4-1 down the stretch.

The Cards had a 10-9 lead in the second set and then when on an 8-0 run, forcing UVA to burn both timeouts to try to squelch the run. Molly Sauer served for four straight points, including two aces to take the Cards to 24-11. UVA scored once but then committed a service error to end the set at 25-12. The Cards had six blocks in the set, led by Aniah Philo's five.

In the third set, UVA went up 11-9 before the Cards tied at 12. The Cavs scored two straight to go up 14-12 and spread their lead to 17-15 and sparked a Cardinal timeout. UofL responded with three straight pints and then continues on to a 22-18 lead. Virginia committed three errors in the last points of the game including a net call for set and match point.

The Cards head to North Carolina Oct. 30 and then on to NC State on Sunday, Nov. 1 as ACC action continues.