Nov 03, 2015

Saint Leo downs Florida Tech 3-1

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- The Saint Leo women's volleyball team downed host Florida Tech 3-1 Tuesday night at the Clemente Center in Melbourne, Fla. The Lions had three different attackers hit in the high double-digits, and hit .324 as a team for their highest attack percentage since Oct. 8.

The Basics
Final Score: Saint Leo took down Florida Tech 3-1 (22-25, 25-19, 25-15, 25-20).
Location: Clemente Center | Melbourne, Fla.
Records: Saint Leo 17-8, 8-4 SSC | Florida Tech 11-13, 2-10 SSC

How It Happened

Junior Hope Lemon led the Lions with a season best 19 kills, her second highest career mark. The outside limited herself to three errors, for a .471 attack percentage, her most efficient clip this season. Lemon also added eight digs and and two aces. Lemon collected a match high 21 points.
Anna Siruckova collected a match second-best 15 kills, on 34 attempts for a .353 attack percentage. The senior hit errorless in the final two frames, and hit .833 in the fourth set (5 kills on six swings). Siruckova added five digs, two blocks and one service ace.
Britt Sederholm notched 12 kills and 14 digs, her ninth double-double of the year. Sederholm also added two aces.
Katie Adamson had her most efficient outing since playing Nova Southeastern Oct. 9. Adamson notched seven kills on 13 swings, and was errorless through the first two sets. Adamson added two blocks, including one solo block.
Jillian Stolzenburg chipped in five kills, while Ashlee Hodgskin added one.
Hodgskin dished out 42 assists, her 13th 40+ assist performance this season. Hodgskin added 11 digs in her eighth double-double and added an ace.
Jamee Townsend collected 23 digs and three assists, and added two aces.
Set 1 | The Panthers only recorded two hitting errors at the net and hit .341 while Saint Leo tallied seven errors on 45 attempts. FIT outhit Saint Leo 16-14. The first few points of the frame proved crucial as the Panthers went on a 4-0 run for a 6-3 lead, and the Lions never recovered. A Siruckova kill ended the FIT run, but Saint Leo wasn't able to string together anything of its own. The Lions tied the set 11-11 as Siruckova collected back-to-back kills, but the Panthers immediately answered. FIT led by as many as seven, and at 22-17, the crowd in the Clemente Center assumed the Panthers had taken the first set. With Hodgskin back to serve, the Lions crept back within five, but yet again, FIT had an answer. Lemon collected her fifth kill of the frame, and in subbed Bradshaw to serve at 24-19. Bradshaw and the Lions fended off four match points, but ultimately fell 25-22.
Set 2 | Saint Leo turned in an errorless second set and an efficient .378 team attack percentage. The Lions collected 17 kills, well above their season average of 13.28 kills per set. Saint Leo scored first but it was back and forth until Stolzenburg slammed one down from the middle for a 6-5 edge. Townsend went back to the line and rattled of two serves to give Leo a 8-5 advantage. Saint Leo maintained the buffer until a 4-0 run by the Panthers brought FIT within one at 11-10. Siruckova ended the Panthers run, and Saint Leo extended its lead to 15-10. Florida Tech again snuck back into contention, but a Sederholm and Lemon went back-to-back down the line and put the lions up 19-16. Saint Leo never looked back as Townsend again went to the line. Townsend rattled off four straight points, and Leo won the set 25-19.
Set 3 | Serving made all the difference in the third and the Lions collected three aces and limited the Panthers to a 45% sideout percentage. Sederholm had her best set of the match, collecting four kills for the Lions offense. Once the Lions grabbed a 4-1 lead, they never looked back. Saint Leo led by as many 11, and closed the frame 25-15.
Set 4 | The first points of the set proved vital again, but Saint Leo never allowed the Panthers to earn more than two points in a row the entire set. The Lions jumped to a 6-3 advantage. A FIT service error sparked the Lions 3-0 run, aided by back-to-back Sederholm and Siruckova kills. The Panthers fought back and tied the match at 7-7, but it would be the only tie of the set. Another FIT service error sparked a Leo 3-0 run, this time aided by kills from Lemon and Adamson. Saint Leo continued to stretch its lead, and took its largest at 20-13. Despite a strong defensive effort from the Panthers at the end of the match, Saint Leo closed the set 25-20.

Beyond the Box score

Lemon's 19 kills was the highest mark since Sept. 6, 2013, Lemon reached 19 in five sets. In her freshman season, Lemon also reached her career high 22-kills in four sets.
Lemon has had an ace in each of the past five contests, and at least one in 20 of the season's 25 matches.
Lemon is the first Lion to surpass the 275 kill mark this season, she no has 277 kills this season and 117 against SSC opponents.
Siruckova is just two kills away from the season 250 mark but leads the Lions with 144 kills in SSC action.
Sederholm has passed the 100 kills mark against SSC opponents this season (105), and has 226 this season.
Hodgskin now has 954 assists this season, and is on pace to reach 1000 assist this season to become the first setter since Jaclyn Mailoto totaled 1366 assists in 2013. Mailoto reached 1,003 sets in 25 matches and 86 sets and collected her 1,000th set against Florida Southern, Oct. 29, 2013.
The Lions are now 6-3 in four set matches, and are 3-3 in four set matches when the Lions drop the first set.
The Lions improve to 3-4 on the road.
The Lions are three wins away from a 20-win season. Saint Leo has only had seven 20-win seasons in the 34 years of program history. Head coach Sam Cibrone was at the helm for five the program's seven 20-win seasons. The Lions last 20-win season was in 2013. The Lions finished second in the SSC and reached the NCAA Regional Quarterfinals.

For the Panthers

The Panthers hit .269 as a team and collected 53 kills. Olivia Hersey was the lone Panther to collect double-digit kills with 13.
Ashtin Truesdal dished out 33 assists, and notched a team best 20 digs.
Becca Bower added 16 digs, while Jenna Schaffer added 13 to compine for just under half of the teams digs.

Up next

Saint Leo continues its four-match road swing Nov. 6 at no. 19 Florida Southern. The Lions will then face Lynn Nov. 13 before their last road game at Nova Southeastern Nov. 14.
The Lions have five games remaining in the regular season, and will return home for their final two matches Nov. 20 & 21 when they host Embry-Riddle and Rollins.

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