Ashlee Brackett

Box Score

Elon Elon 6-5,0-0 CAA

Southern Miss. USM 3-6,0-0 Sun Belt

Elon Elon

6-5,0-0 CAA

Final

Sep. 14, 2024

Southern Miss. USM

3-6,0-0 Sun Belt

Set Scores
Team	1	2	3	4	5	F
Elon Elon	26	25	23	24	15	(3)
Southern Miss. USM	24	20	25	26	13	(2)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | 9/14/2024 2:10:00 PM | by Ashlee Brackett, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

A Full Team Effort Leads Volleyball To Victory Over Southern Mississippi

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College of Charleston

9/21/2024 | 12:00 PM

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Sep. 21 (Sat) / 12:00 PM

College of Charleston

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MACON, Ga. – The Elon University volleyball team fought hard all the way through to defeat the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles in five sets.

Elon 3, Southern Mississippi 2 (26-24, 25-20, 23-25, 24-26, 15-11)
HOW IT HAPPENED

With the score tied 4-4, Elon went up two with back-to-back kills from Sydney Love and Catherine Rucker. The Golden Eagles quickly tied the score back at 7-7 and from there it was a battle to the finish. Each team traded points, with Elon holding the biggest lead with two at 12-10. Again, Southern Mississippi tied the score at 13-13 and later would go up 18-16 to force an Elon timeout. Elon then went on a 5-1 run to go up 21-19. The Golden Eagles knotted the score at 23-23 but eventually, a Caroline Berlekamp kill ended set one with the Phoenix on top 26-24.
Neither team could pull away to open the second set. With Elon up one at 8-7, Southern Mississippi went on a 4-1 run to gain a two-point lead at 11-9. The Phoenix quickly responded with four straight points to regain the lead at 13-11. Elon was able to stretch their lead with a 3-1 run to extend their advantage to 17-14 and force a Golden Eagle timeout. The teams traded points out of the break, but two straight points for the Phoenix saw their lead at four up 22-18. The Phoenix only allowed two more points and a block from Cameron Lanier and Rucker ended the second set, Elon winning 25-20.
Elon came out to a 3-0 lead that was quickly tied to 3-3 from three straight Southern Mississippi points. The Phoenix won two consecutive points thanks to an opponent error and a Rucker kill but again was quickly tied at 6-6. The teams then traded points with no team leading by more than two until a kill from Love and Rucker, along with an ace from Caroline Doyle gave Elon a 13-9 advantage. Southern Mississippi won three straight points to cut the Phoenix lead to one at 13-12 but a 3-1 run from Elon put their lead to three at 16-13. The Golden Eagles tied the score at 18-18 followed by back-to-back aces to gain a 20-18 lead. The teams traded kills, but back-to-back kills from Love knotted the score at 21-21 forcing a late Southern Mississippi timeout. Out of the break, Rucker and Love recorded kills to gain a 23-21 lead. The Golden Eagles went on a 4-0 run to take set three 25-23.
Southern Mississippi pulled ahead 6-3 early in the fourth set. Elon got within one at 6-5 thanks to a pair of errors from the Golden Eagles. From there the teams traded points and back-to-back kills from Clara tied the score at 8-8. It was a back-and-forth until five straight Elon points, capped by three consecutive aces from Annabelle Schall gave Elon a four-point advantage at 16-12. Each team then went on 3-0 runs but kept Elon's lead to four late in the set at 19-15. The teams went back and forth until a kill from Lindsey Harris gave Elon a set point with the score 24-19. The Golden Eagles fought off five match points to tie the frame at 24-24, followed by two straight points to win set four 26-24 and force a fifth set.
The teams battled it out to start the fifth set with no team leading by more than one. With the score knotted at 3-3, the Phoenix went on a 3-0 thanks to kills from Lanier and Love to go up 6-3. A Golden Eagle attacking error allowed the Phoenix to extend their lead to 8-5 and switch sides. A kill from Clara LaRue, an ace from Shannon O'Laughlin, and a block from Berlekamp and Harris gave Elon their biggest advantage of the set at 11-6. The Golden Eagles went on a 3-1 run to get within three at 12-9 but a pair of kills from Love gave Elon the momentum to go up 14-10. Southern Mississippi rallied three match points but another block from Lanier and finished the set with Elon on top 15-13.

NOTES

Sydney Love eclipsed 20-plus kills for the third time this season with a team-high 21 kills. Cameron Lanier followed with a season-high 15 kills.
Catherine Rucker reached double-digit kills for the first time in her Elon career adding 10 and recorded a career-high in blocks to lead the team with five.
Annabelle Schall paced the team with 33 assists and was third on the team in digs with 10, to add her fifth double-double this year. Schall also led the team with four aces, one shy of her career-high.
Palmer added 22 assists which is her sixth match with double-digit assists this season.
For the second consecutive game, Caroline Doyle recorded double-digit digs to lead the team with 21. Love followed with 11 digs to tally her third double-double of the season.
Caroline Berlekamp added four blocks while Lindsey Harris and Lanier recorded three apiece.
As a team, Elon outnumbered the Golden Eagles in kills (68-61), assists (62-56) and digs (64-51).

UP NEXT

The Phoenix return home to Schar Center to open their conference slate against Charleston on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday's match will start at noon and Sunday's match will begin at 1:00 p.m.

-- ELON –

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