CLEVELAND, Tenn. - Featuring a balanced up-front attack, the Lee volleyball team posted a 3-0 (25-22, 25-18, 25-14) victory over visiting King University on Thursday afternoon inside Paul Dana Walker Arena. The non-conference win improved the Lady Flames to 13-10 while the Tornado dropped to 11-15. Lee will return to GSC play on Saturday afternoon for an important contest at Trevecca Nazarene at 3 p.m.
Payton Danley, Olivia Reevey, Gunny Brock and Jasmine Terry were the leaders in the Lady Flames victory. Danley had 11 kills and a .375 attack mark. She also had three blocking assists. Reevey and Brock knocked down nine kills each. Reevey had an outstanding .500 attack percentage while Brock hit at .333. Terry was all over the net with eight kills, one block, and one blocking assist.
All totaled, Lee had 45 kills and hit for .326 while holding the visitors to only 22 kills and a .082 attack mark. Avery Schwieger had five kills for the losers, and Isabella Statzer countered with one block and three blocking assists.
Sydney Sharpe set her teammates up with 17 assists and countered with one block. Emmi Black, in her first start of the year, dished off 13 assists. Brock went to the backcourt for 10 digs while Mikayla Buhr followed with nine digs. Terry completed her solid afternoon with three service aces.
The first two sets were hotly contested. The Tornado took the lead at the media break at 15-14. Lee rallied back behind the solid hitting of Terry, Reevey and Danley to grab a 20-13 lead and forced a King time out.
The visitors showed no quit and rallied back to tie the contest at 22 and Coach Christa Fabre ordered a TO for her Lady Flames. Lee scored the final three points to put the set away.
The second set was more of the same. King owned its biggest lead of 13-10 before the Lady Flames came back and cut the lead at 14-13 at the media timeout. From that point on, Lee went on a pair of five-point runs, forcing the final Tornado timeout, when the Lady Flames led 22-16. It was all Lee the rest of the afternoon.
