Volleyball Sweeps Virginia 3-0

Friday, November 10

LOUISVILLE, KY

7:00 p.m.

University of Louisville

20-6, 13-2

VIRGINIA

7-19, 3-12

Virginia

Louisville

November 10, 2017 | Women's Volleyball

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Cards' winning streak at home in the ACC moves to seven

By: Nancy Worley

Senior outside hitter Tess Clark had 15 kills, hitting a season-high .652, to lead the University of Louisville to a 25-9, 25-13, 25-19 sweep of Virginia in ACC volleyball action Friday night in Cardinal Arena.

"I thought the offense was crisp. We have changed up a few things in transition, so you saw that tonight," said UofL head coach Dani Busboom Kelly. Tess had an awesome game. It is great when you have been working on something all week and then you see it preformed. Offense was great. Back court defense, ball handing, that is what allows the offense to be great, and those were the main things. Virginia is a really fast team, so it is tough to block them but I though overall our defense did a nice job."

The Cardinals move to 20-6 and 13-2 in ACC play and stay undefeated at home in seven conference matches so far this season. UofL hit .478 with four aces, four blocks and had 20 more kills than the Cavaliers at 47. UofL got nine kills from Jasmine Bennett who added two blocks with Melanie McHenry pitching in seven. Senior Coline Coessens came off the bench and had a pair of kills. Molly Sauer had a match-high 14 digs and Wilma Rivera had 38 assists with three kills and an ace. UVA hit .128 with two blocks and one ace. The Cavs were led by Alex Spencer's nine kills. Kelsey Miller added 12 digs.

"It is always nice when you get to reward players who have worked really hard and give them some time to shine," said Busboom Kelly. "It's cool, Coline's parents are here from Belgium so it was awesome to see her get some kills. She works her butt of in practice so it was cool to reward her tonight."

UofL popped out to a 4-0 lead early In the first set and used .536 hitting to continue to pull away from the Cavs, who called timeout trailing 12-5 and 15-15. Molly Sauer served six straight points to put the Cards up 23-7 and two kills from Tess Clark put the set away 25-9.

In the second set, UofL powered out to a 14-4 lead and this time hit .433 with five kills from Tess Clark, with her fifth taking the Cards up 21-11. UVA scored twice more but committed a service error and had a hitting error by Sarah Billiard to give the set to the Cards 25-13.

Gabbie Wiley served for five straight points early in the third set to put the Cards up 13-4. UVA got a lift from Jelena Novakovic's serving three straight points to bring the Cavs to within six at 19-13. A kill by Coline Coessens gave UofL set point at 24-19 and a kill by Jasmine Bennett from the middle was match point as the Cards rolled 25-19.

UofL stays home and will face Virginia Tech on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Cardinal Arena.