Blue Devils Sweep Carleton

The Basics
Score: UW-Stout 3 – Carleton College 0 (25-17, 25-17, 25-20)
Record: Blue Devils (8-5, 1-1), Knights (9-6, 1-1)
Location: Johnson Fieldhouse – Menomonie

The Blue Devils rolled to a sweep of the Carleton College Knights Wednesday night. Stout took an early 7-3 lead only to see Carleton pull within one at 10-9. Kills by Brooke McCune and Sloan Horgan sandwiched a service ace from Kennedy Barrett to give Stout an 13-9 advantage. Stout led by as much as nine at 21-12 en route to a 25-17 opening set win. Stout led throughout the second set, holding a five-point edge for most of the set and built the lead to as much as 10 at 18-8 as Stout cruised to another 25-17 win. The third set saw six ties and three lead change. The Blue Devils were down 10-8 and used a 6-2 run to quickly take their own two-point advantage at 14-12. Stout would keep the two-point advantage until they built a 20-16 lead. Sloan Horgan ended the match with her 12^th kill to give the Blue Devils the sweep.

Top Performers

• Sloan Horgan hit .556 with 12 kills and added three blocks.
• Brooke McCune hit .435 with 10 kills and no errors.
• Kennedy Barrett  had 24 assists, 14 digs, three kills and two blocks.
• Emma Barton had four kills and four blocks.

 
Inside the Box Score

• Stout hit .287 as a team and totaled 43 digs, while Carleton hit .089 had 37 digs.
• Stout had 15 kills in the second set.
• Stout had eight total blocks.

Up Next
The Blue Devils will travel to Oshkosh, Wis. to face the seventh ranked Titans on Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.