Box Score
UIndy Invitational Central

INDIANAPOLIS -- Junior Kourtney Crawford hit .500 with 10 kills, three blocks, three digs and three assists to help No. 14 UIndy volleyball defeat Midwest region foe Saginaw Valley State, 3-2 (25-18, 25-14, 23-25, 18-25, 15-11), on Sunday morning at Ruth Lilly Center.

The Greyhounds (1-3) also benefitted from 19 kills by all-tournament honoree Kristina Hefferan, while Kristina Kerrigan added 12 kills, 11 digs and hit .370. Freshman setter Meghan Binkerd closed the tournament with 42 assists, eight digs, four kills and two blocks, while junior Amy Oldenburg reached 20 digs with three assists. Senior Hannah Kelzer led UIndy with four blocks and added nine kills.

UIndy hit .247 with 58 kills, while the Cardinals (1-2) were limited to .104 hitting with 53 kills.

The Cardinals jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the decisive fifth set and still led by four, 8-4, before UIndy started to come back. Consecutive errors by SVSU and kills by Binkerd and Hefferan tied the score, but SVSU scored to keep the lead, 9-8. A ball-handling error and two more Hefferan kills gave UIndy its first lead, 11-9, until SVSU tied the set with two points of its own. The Cardinals wouldn't score again as the Greyhounds made sideout on a Hefferan kill and ended the match on a termination by Kerrigan, 15-11.

In the first set, the Hounds broke open a tie match, 5-5, with a 9-2 run to take control, 14-7, after a solo block by Hefferan. The Cardinals couldn't make a serious run and dropped the first set, 25-18, on an error after saving four set points.

The Greyhounds held the Cardinals to .000 attacking in the opening frame with 10 kills and 10 errors.

The Crimson and Gray were even better in the second set by hitting .480 with 14 kills and holding SVSU to .034 attacking with 10 kills and nine errors. With UIndy leading by one, 10-9, after a kill by Saginaw, the team responded with a kill by Crawford and back-to-back blocks by Crawford and Kelzer to ignite to ignite an 8-0 run. Kelzer then ended the set, 25-14, to put UIndy comfortably up, 2-0.

UIndy trailed 11-5 early in the third set, but battled back to take the lead, 21-20, after a kill by Courtney Anglemyer. The Cardinals wouldn't be swept and won the next three points to build enough of a cushion to take the set, 25-23. UIndy hit .400 in the set, but Saginaw had more kills (17-14) and served four aces to only one for UIndy.

The fourth set had nine ties and four lead changes before an 8-2 run by the Cardinals put them ahead, 21-16, to stay. UIndy hit .000 in the fourth with nine kills and nine errors, while SVSU wasn't much better with 11 kills and .138 attack percentage, but it was enough.

UIndy begins Great Lakes Valley Conference play next weekend when it takes to the road for the first time. The Greyhounds travel to Bellarmine on Friday at 7 p.m. and Northern Kentucky on Saturday at 3 p.m.