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Stogner and Smith
0
Lipscomb Lips 12-11,9-3 ASUN
3
Winner Liberty Lib 17-7,10-2 ASUN
Lipscomb Lips
12-11,9-3 ASUN
0
Final
3
Liberty Lib
17-7,10-2 ASUN
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Lipscomb Lips 12 22 29 (0)
Liberty Lib 25 25 31 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Volleyball Streak Cut Short With Sweep by Liberty

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Lipscomb Volleyball fell to Liberty in a sweep for the Flames on Sunday (25-12, 25-23, 31-29), putting the squad 11-11 on the year (8-3, ASUN).
 
Five members of Lipscomb's team put down kills Sunday afternoon, led by Addi Pelham and Caroline Stogner as both Bisons recorded 12 kills in the match and both recorded a .250 hitting percentage. Fifth-year senior Logan Gish added seven kills of her own to the tally along with an ace and four digs.
 
Libero Delaney Smith and setter Sophia Hudepohl each collected a match-high 18 digs. Kailee Bass led the Bisons for the second match in a row with four blocks, followed by Berkley Mischler and Stogner with three apiece.
 
SET 1
  • The Bisons stuck first with a kill from Caroline Stogner, but the Flames flared bright in the first set with a quick 8-4 lead.
  • Addi Pelham put down three kills to close the gap from five points to two at 13-11 in Liberty's favor.
  • Pelham also put down the final kill of the set for the Bisons before a kill by Liberty and an attack error by the Bisons sealed the first set 25-12 for the Flames.
  • The Flames outswung the Bisons .394-.100 in the first set, despite being just three kills apart at the end of the set (14 for Liberty and 11 for Lipscomb).
  • Lipscomb was neck and neck with Liberty defensively, scooping up 15 and 17 digs respectively.
 
SET 2
  • The Bisons took a 2-1 lead with kills from Pelham and Mischler, and Pelham's second kill in the second frame brought the two squads tied 4-4 after a brief Liberty run.
  • After a rash of Liberty points, the Bisons made a surge to close the gap to two with a kill from Gish and a block by Stogner and Bass to bring it to 10-8 for Liberty.
  • Errors on both sides extended Liberty's lead to seven (19-12), but the Bisons closed the gap to 22-19 with a pair of kills from Mischler, a kill from Stogner, and a pair of block assists from Bass with Stogner and Hudepohl.
  • Stogner's third kill of the night and a block from she and Bass closed the gap further to 23-21.
  • Despite a kill from Pelham to hold off the Flames' first set point, Liberty took the second set 25-23.
  • Midway through the second frame, the Flames led the contest with a .276 hitting percentage to the Bisons' .030
 
SET 3
  • Bisons took a quick 2-1 lead, Flames responded with aggressive kills and serving to take the lead back 6-3.
  • Stogner put up a trio of kills to bring the score tied 7-7.
  • A Gish kill brought the Bisons into a 14-13 lead to change the momentum and Lipscomb pushed a 3-1 run to go to 17-14.
  • The Flames pushed to tie 17-17 and teams trade blows through rest of the set before a service ace from Connelly Renfrow put the Bisons in position for their first set point at 24-22.
  • A shanked pass and a hitting error shrank that lead to a 24-24 tie and the teams began passing the set point opportunity back and forth before the Flames claimed the match 31-29.
  • Lipscomb's squad logged their highest hitting percentage of the match with a .294 in the third set, highlighted by Stogner with her .308 hitting percentage on six kills.
 
HERD NOTES
  • There were eight set point opportunities in the third set, four to each team.
  • The Bisons out-dug the Flames 55-54, led by Hudepohl and Smith with 18 each, a career-high count for Stogner.
  • This match marks team kill leaders Stogner and Pelham's 13th and 12th matches this season with double-digit kills.
  • The two squads both dished out 40 assists in the contest, Hudepohl delivered 33 of the Bisons' assists, just assist behind Liberty's setter.
  • Smith and Renfrow put the pressure on from the serving line as the two back-row only players each logged an ace in the matchup.
 
FROM THE BENCH – HC BRANDON ROSENTHAL
"I thought we got off to a little bit of a slow start in set one and that we never really got into a rhythm. That carried over a little bit into set two, but I liked what I saw at the end of set two. We just kind of dug ourselves a little too big of a hole and then I think set three was just indicative of two good teams playing well.

Unfortunately, they made a couple more plays than we did. I liked what we were doing, though. I thought that we changed some of the momentum and created some good pressure. Ultimately, in that situation, you're trying to push it to four sets to get a little bit more of a chance to build on that and we didn't make enough plays down the stretch.

This is a tough lesson to learn for a number of reasons, but ultimately, that's what this is all about. I have no doubt that we'll learn from this, and we've got another tough week ahead of us, but it's also another week of great opportunities. That's the message to our team, that today wasn't our day and you kind of have to, ultimately, give them credit for being the better team today. We'll come back from this week with something to prove and something to work on. I have no doubt that our girls will grow and be better for this couple of weeks here.

So, it's a tough one obviously for our girls and for us as a coaching staff, but ultimately that's the challenge of the season so after the ride home we'll get focused here on the week ahead."

UP NEXT
The Bisons will one return to Allen Arena to host Jacksonville State on Friday, Nov. 4th. First serve on Lipscomb's Dads & Daughters night will be at 6 p.m. CT.
 
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