Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Box vs. SAU | Box vs. MSU

THE RUNDOWN
AUSTIN, Texas – The St. Edward's University volleyball team moved to 4-2 on the season with a home-opening sweep of Southern Arkansas (25-19, 25-13, 25-16) Friday morning and a loss to Midwestern State (26-28, 25-20, 25-17, 25-15) in the evening at SEU's Recreation and Convocation Center.


In match one, ALEXA MCANDREW's 12 kills led all players for the Hilltoppers while NICOLE PETERS' nine kills came on an impressive .750 hitting percentage. The junior recorded no attacking errors on 12 attempts. JULIA HARTLEY added a double-double with 22 assists and 10 digs, and the SEU defense held SAU to a .037 hitting mark.

The Hilltoppers battled back from down 22-17 in set one to MSU to take a 28-26 win in the opening frame, however, the Mustangs turned the tide in the final three sets, out-dueling SEU 59-38 offensively in the kills category. SEU managed a season-low .075 hitting percentage and tallied a season-high nine receiving errors. In the losing effort, KATE HENDRIX matched a career-high with 15 kills for the Hilltoppers and Hartley recorded her fourth double-double in six matches with 18 assists and 13 digs.

HILLTOPPER HIGHLIGHTS VS. SAU
•    NICOLE PETERS' season-high nine kills vs. SAU came with a .750 hitting percentage with no attacking errors on 12 attempts.
•    MADISON MCCLURG hit .412 with seven kills, including no attacking errors on 17 attempts.
•    JULIA HARTLEY posted her third double-double of the season vs. SAU and the 18th of her career with 22 assists and 10 digs.
•    Hartley's 22 assists vs. SAU marked the 11th time in her career she went above the 20-assists mark in a match.
•    ALEXA MCANDREW surpassed the 200-career digs mark in the match with SAU.
•    KATE HENDRIX's three blocks vs. SAU put her past the 100-career blocks mark.
•    MORGAN BECKHAM's 20 digs vs. SAU pushed her past the 1,200-career digs mark and gave her 27 career matches with at least 20 digs

HILLTOPPER HIGHLIGHTS VS. MSU
•    Hendrix matched her career high with 15 kills (last achieved 10/22/16 vs. St. Mary's), which also helped her pass 350 career kills; It was her seventh career match with double-digit kills.
•    Hartley had her fourth double-double in six matches (19th of her career) with 18 assists and 13 digs; she passed the 750-career assists mark in the loss.
•    MIKAYLA PARKER had a season-high seven blocks giving her 15 career matches with at least five.
•    KATIE MARTIN had three kills in the match to give her 650 for her career.
•    MORGAN BECKHAM led all players with 22 digs, and it marked the 28th career match for her with at least 20 digs.

STAT OF THE GAME I
.750 – NICOLE PETERS' hitting percentage in SEU's win over Southern Arkansas was .750; the junior transfer had nine kills on 12 attempts with no errors in the Hilltopper win.

STAT OF THE GAME II
9 – Nine receiving errors helped doom SEU's fate in a four-set loss to Midwestern State.

TOP QUOTES
SEU Head Coach Mary DeJute on the home-opening win over Southern Arkansas …
"It was great. It was loud, which was nice. Having the addition of the pep band and the cheerleaders; that was really nice to start off the home season. The ladies played well; I definitely saw some young players do some great things; we also had some returners that had some really nice games."

DeJute on the loss to Midwestern State …
"Our offense was not effective at all. We slowed things down, which is not our norm. I don't feel like we tried to take control of the net at all. I am a little disheartened on serve reception. They took us out of our system totally. Hats off to them. We definitely have to do a better job tomorrow."

WHAT'S NEXT
SEU closes the Hilltopper Classic with matches against UT Permian basin at Noon and Black Hills State at 4 p.m.