3
Winner Shenandoah SU 12-10,7-4 ODAC
2
Randolph Rand 13-13,3-7 ODAC
Winner
Shenandoah SU
12-10,7-4 ODAC
3
Final
2
Randolph Rand
13-13,3-7 ODAC
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
Shenandoah SU 25 13 22 25 15 (3)
Randolph Rand 20 25 25 17 11 (2)
WVB v RAND
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Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Matt McIntosh '23, '26

Women's Volleyball Wins in Five Sets at Randolph

LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Shenandoah University women's volleyball team went five sets against Randolph College on the road in ODAC play on Thursday night and came away with the 3-2 win.

The Hornets (12-10, 7-4 ODAC) won the fourth set to send the match to the decisive final frame. In the fifth, the WildCats (13-13, 3-7) took a 6-3 lead, but the Hornets rallied to take the final set 15-11.

RECAP

The WildCats jumped out to a 7-2 lead in the first, but a Hannah Hylton solo block kickstarted a 7-0 run that saw SU gain the lead. Midway through the set, the teams were tied at 14, and Danica Duncan gave SU the upper hand with a kill. The kill gave the Hornets the lead for the rest of the first, which they won 25-20.

Randolph evened the match with a 25-13 win in the second, before winning the third, 25-22, to take a 2-1 lead in the match.

Myah Watson provided SU with the first point of the fourth as the visitors looked to tie the match 2-2. Three kills from Ashlynn Spence assisted the Hornets in a 10-6 lead, before going up by eight at 21-13 off another Spence kill. The Hornets led by as much as nine in the fourth, winning 25-17.

In the fifth set, the Hornets overcame a 6-3 deficit with a 4-0 run, capped by an Anika Dodge service ace. Five errors by the WildCats and kills from Duncan and Jensen Nutley gave the Hornets the final set, 15-11.

The Hornets had 48 kills as a unit, led by Spence's 11. Amanda Schaffer assisted on 16 of the team's 48 kills. 

Defensively, Hylton had a team-high 23 digs, and Spence led the team with five total blocks.

UP NEXT

Shenandoah ends its ODAC schedule on Friday at 6 p.m. at home against Bridgewater College.

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