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ROMEOVILLE, Ill.- The ninth-ranked University of Indianapolis volleyball team secured its 33rd win of the season Friday with a sweep over Drury in the opening round of the 2009 Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament. The victory not only earned UIndy its eighth straight GLVC Tourney semifinal appearance but also tied the program record for wins in a season.
With the scored tied at three in the opener, the Greyhounds went on a 10-1 run to take full command of the set. The Hounds had three blocks and three aces in the frame while holding the Panthers to a mere .081 hitting percentage. Outside hitters
Kristina Kerrigan (Muncie, Ind./Muncie Central) and
Lyndsay Callahan (Chicago, Ill./Marist) garnered 20 of the Greyhounds' 34 first-set attack attempts, as the two combined for seven kills.
In the most competitive set of the match, the Panthers didn’t go as quietly in the second. DU scored six straight to turn a 17-14 UIndy advantage in a 20-17 Drury lead. With the Panthers up 21-18, two Callahan kills and a Drury attack error knotted it at 21. Callahan killed another ball to break a 23-23 tie, springboarding the Hounds to a 25-23 set win.
Up two sets to none, Indianapolis squashed all hopes of a Panther comeback by hitting a gaudy .533 (16 K, 1 E, 30 TA) in the third to earn its 22nd sweep win of the season.
Indianapolis received a lot of support from its trio of all-conference first teamers. Callahan had five of her team-high 10 kills in the pivotal second set,
Cheneta Morrison (Fort Wayne, Ind./Ft. Wayne Snider) amassed 33 assists and eight digs, and
Kyleigh Turner (Muncie, Ind./Cowan) led all players with 17 digs.
Other Greyhounds with big statistical matches included
Hannah Kelzer (Bloomington, Ind./Bloomington South), who racked up a career-high seven block assists,
Courtney Anglemyer (Elkhart, Ind./Elkhart Memorial), who hit .727 with nine kills, and
Kourtney Crawford (Indianapolis, Ind./Bishop Chatard), who had eight kills and four block assists.
The Greyhounds (33-1) proceed to the GLVC semifinals to face sixth-seeded Southern Indiana (18-13) Saturday at 6 p.m. EST. In USI’s quarterfinal match earlier today, the Screaming Eagles upset the tourney’s third seed, Missouri-St. Louis, in four sets. The Hounds faced the Eagles in Evansville back on
Oct. 9, earning a sweep win over the home team.
Note: UIndy’s active streak of eight straight conference semifinal appearances is the longest in the league…The Hounds have won 19 consecutive matches.