August 31, 2019

Bellevue, NE – The weekend action continued for the Southwestern Assemblies of God University (SAGU) Lady Lions Volleyball team in the Gosarpy.com Labor Day Tournament Saturday morning in Bellevue, NE. The Lady Lions (5-2, 0-0) were upended by the Doane College Lady Tigers 3 sets to 2 in scores of 25-16, 14-25, 25-21, 18-25, 15-13.

Lady Lion Review

• The early morning matchup began with the Lady Lions and Lady Tigers playing a tight first set with the score 9-7 in favor of Doane. At that point Doane broke away from SAGU and scored seven of the next nine points to take a 16-9 lead before finishing the set off at 25-16. The Lady Tigers hit .406 for the set while holding SAGU to a .079 hitting percentage.
• The Lady Lions rebounded in the second set and began to exert some force getting 14 of their 25 points off kills and hitting .273 for the set.
• In the third set both squads played virtually error-free volleyball as only seven errors were committed in the set. SAGU hit .286 and Doane .306 with Doane leading in kills 15-13 enroute to a 25-21 set victory.
• Fighting elimination the Lady Lions ratcheted up the defense in the fourth set holding Doane to a .043 hitting percentage. Doane committed 11 errors in the set. With the score tied at 14-14 Doane committed three straight attack errors allowing SAGU to take control at 17-14 and hold off a late charge from Doane to win 25-23 and even the match at 2-2.
• In the decisive fifth set SAGU went ahead 2-0.  Doane tied the game at 3-3 and took a 3 point lead at 7-4 prompting an SAGU timeout. Coming out of the timeout the Lady Lions won the point and fought their way to a 12-12 tie at which point Doane took a timeout. Two quick kills later Doane College claimed the set and match.
• SAGU leaders for the day were Ava Myers (FR/Round Top, TX) , 16 kills and a .333 hitting percentage, Emma Tompkins (Fr/Waller, TX) , 13 kills, and Sophia Ivy (SR/Round Rock, TX) with 45 assists.

Moore’s Musings

• “We got off to a very slow start…again. This loss hurts, but we can learn a lot from this experience. When we pass well, we give ourselves a chance [to win]. Our team competed hard this morning. Unfortunately, we lost our composure at different times during the match.”
• “We have seen some incredible volleyball teams this weekend. Eleven teams at the tournament are in the top 35 nationally. We have matched up extremely well. This is a tremendous experience as we look ahead to conference play beginning next weekend.

The Next Step

SAGU (5-2, 0-0) wraps up the weekend of volleyball action at 1:00 Saturday afternoon against the Gosarpy.com Labor Day Tournament host school Bellevue University Bruins.  Bellevue is the 22 ^nd ranked volleyball team in the 2019 NAIA Preseason Coaches Poll.

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