Blue Devil Volleyball Drops Five Set Heartbreaker

The Basics
Score: UW-Stout 2– College of St. Scholastica 3 (25-27, 25-12, 25-12, 23-25, 15-17)
Record: Blue Devils (9-7, 1-2), Saints (9-9, 1-2)
Location: Johnson Fieldhouse – Menomonie, Wis.

The Blue Devils dropped a five-set heart breaker Tuesday night to the College of St. Scholastica. The Blue Devils dropped a hard-fought first set, 27-25. The set saw six tied and three lead changes. Tied at 12, Stout went on a 5-0 run to open up a 17-12 lead. Stout lead 20-15 and 23-20, but couldn't close out the set, falling 27-25. Stout responded in a big way in the second set. As a team, they hit .391 and built a 17-4 lead en route to a 25-12 win. Tied at four early in the third, Stout went on a 15-6 run to take a 20-10 lead and again took the set 15-12 to take a 2-1 lead. The fourth set was again back and forth, with 10 ties and five lead changes. The Saints took a 16-12 lead but Stout rallied to tie at 21 and 23, but CSS scored the final two points to push the match to a deciding set. In the fifth, Stout held leads of 9-5 and 14-10 but was unable to close out the match and the Saints scored seven of the final eight points to win 17-15.

Top Performers

• Brooke McCune had 18 kills, 12 digs and two blocks
• Brynn Hessel had a career-high 12 kills, while hitting .571 and had five blocks.
• Sloan Horgan had 10 kills and five blocks.
• Kennedy Barrett  had a season-high 47 assists, a career-high nine aces, nine digs and five kills.
• Terrah Moshier had 24 digs and five assists.

 
Inside the Box Score

• Stout hit .200 as a team and totaled 86 digs, while CSS hit .108 had 77 digs.
• Nine of Stout's 12 service aces came from Kennedy Barrett

Up Next
Stout will travel to Stevens Point, Wis. to face Augustana College on Friday, Oct. 11 at 5:30 p.m. and Wheaton College on Saturday, Oct.12 at 11 a.m.