CLEVELAND, Tenn. - Sophomore Jasmine Terry was outstanding in leading the Lee volleyball team to their second straight victory of the weekend, a 3-1 (25-21, 21-25, 25-17, 25-19) win over Valdosta State University inside Paul Dana Walker Arena on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Flames improved to 6-6 in GSC play and 10-9 overall while the Blazers dropped to 6-5, 12-11.
Lee will hit the road for three straight tough conference contests beginning in Jackson to face Union University on Friday and then moving onto Memphis to challenge Christian Brothers University on Saturday. The trip ends against league-leading University of Alabama in Huntsville on Oct. 27th.
Terry paced the Lady Flames with 21 kills, a .326 attack mark and four blocking assists. Olivia Reevey continued her solid play in the middle with nine kills and an impressive .412 hitting percentage. At the net, she had one solo block and five assists. Gunny Brock added six kills while Jordyn Butler contributed five kills. Esthefany Rabit was impressive again with five kills (.385 hitting mark), three service aces, four digs, three solo blocks and five blocking assists.
Sydney Sharpe helped her teammates with a double-double, 23 assists and 23 digs. Berra Soyler had 17 assists and a pair of aces while Avery Sample, Mikayla Buhr and Brock had 12 digs apiece. All totaled, Lee had 51 kills and a .219 attack percentage. The visitors had 50 kills and a .120 hitting mark. The Lady Flames came up with 73 digs and the Blazers 65.
Eva LaRochelle paced Valdosta State with 15 kills while teammate Camryn Childers added 10. Avery Mullins had 32 assists while Eimy Negron Domenech had 17 digs, and Kaylie McKinney came up with 12. Maddie Kilmer was her teams blocking assist leader with three.
Coach Christa Fabre's Thoughts:
"Valdosta is a really good defensive team and they shut down two of our best hitters in Payton and Jordyn. But Jasmine and Gunny stepped up today and they along with out middle blockers led us."
