DENTON, Texas – The fun was back for Midwestern State Thursday night at Kitty Magee Arena as the Mustangs swept Texas Woman's University, 28-26, 25-21, 25-17.
"We played like we did early on in the season," MSU coach
Venera Flores-Stafford said. "Our serve receive was better than it has been and we were more aggressive on our serve, but our enthusiasm was back. We enjoyed ourselves and we had some fun. That's the key to what we do."
The Mustangs, who improved to 24-8 on the season and 8-4 in Lone Star Conference player, close the season at Texas A&M-Commerce Saturday afternoon with a first serve at 5 p.m.
Midwestern State frustrated the Pioneers into a sluggish attacking game as the Mustangs recorded 66 digs to limit TWU to a .152 team attack percentage.
Senior setter
Allison Schreiber notched her 11th double-double of the season as she finished with 38 assists and led defensive efforts with 16 digs, while junior middle blocker
Alysha Pritt recorded her second double-double of the campaign with 10 kills and 10 digs, but also added four total blocks.
Senior libero
Shay Velasquez also contributed to the dig party with 15, while freshman defensive specialist
Kiara Jordan added nine digs.
Offensively,
Jessica Ransom turned in a big night for the Mustangs as the senior outside hitter committed just one error while recording 10 kills for a .391 kill percentage.
Junior middle blocker
Sesley Graves added nine kills while hitting .333.
The Mustangs notched seven service aces as Pritt had three followed by Jordan and Velasquez, who added two apiece. The Mustangs committed just one reception error.
Texas Woman's was paced by Kandis Schroeder and Sharon Schaffner with 11 and eight kills, respectively.
The Pioneer fell to 18-12 overall and to 7-5 in LSC play.
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