pensacola, fla. - aggressive serving played a key role in concordia's friday evening downing of #15 west florida (1-2). Senior sadie kessler served up four of the team's nine aces and helped keep the argo offense out of system all night, leading to the 3-0 win by scores of 25-10, 25-15 and 25-14. The golden bears, now 2-0 on the season, resume play at the uwf comfort inn-vitational tomorrow morning against #12 central missouri. box score
the golden bears set the pace of the game early on, acing west florida passers for four of the first ten points of the match, including three straight aces from kessler to force a timeout. The serving attack stifled an early 3-0 argos lead and set the golden bears on track for the quick win.
concordia also had a very strong offensive match, hitting .362 on the evening with megan carlson once again leading the way. She hit .417 in the win with 14 kills and completed her second double-double with 11 digs. emily palkert had an outstanding night at the net, going the entire match without a hitting error. In 19 attempts, palkert terminated 12 balls for a .632 hitting average. Freshman cassie haag displayed ferocity at the net as well, putting down eight kills in 11 attempts (.727). Both palkert and haag came up with a solo and two block assists from the middle of the net.
the argonauts of west florida struggled to get anything positive going all evening. Finishing with a team average of .090 on offense, the squad never strung together more than three points in a row. Conversely, the golden bears had a number of big runs, including a nine-point streak in the final set that moved the team from a 13-13 tie to a 22-13 edge. mary slinger took control from the line, serving effectively throughout the run.
the golden bears had 49 digs on the match, including ten from kessler, following carlson for the team lead. maggie mcnamara had 36 assists. The team also had seven blocks.
concordia's win streak now climbs to 39 matches, stretching from the second match of the 2008 season through tonight's win.
