Story Headlines
- The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi volleyball team split a pair of Friday matches while playing in two different states.
- The Islanders played the first match in Las Cruces, N.M., and then traveled 47 miles Southwest to El Paso, Texas, for their second match of the day eight hours later.
- Texas A&M-Corpus Christi opened the day with a sweep over the University of New Mexico, 3-0, on a neutral floor at New Mexico State.
- In the second match, the Islanders battled but fell in a tough 3-2 matchup to UTEP at Memorial Gym in El Paso, Texas.
Match One Key Statistics
- The Islanders hit .364 for the match while holding the Lobos to a .167 attacking percentage.
- New Mexico had 14 attacking errors but just 31 kills to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's 48.
- The Islanders' best set came in the second, hitting .441 with 18 kills and three errors. The set featured five ties and two lead changes.
- A&M-Corpus Christi led the first set wire-to-wire, holding New Mexico to just a .139 attack percentage.
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Chloe Simon had a team-high 13 kills, hitting .393 with just two attacking errors. She recorded a double-double with 13 digs defensively.
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Rachel Young hit .647 with 11 kills and no attacking errors. She also recorded a block.
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Madison Green had 40 assists with five digs, four kills and a block.
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Carissa Barnes had 14 digs to lead the Islanders. She also had a service ace in the match.
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Kaylee Payne added eight digs defensively.
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Sam Dumity had eight kills, two digs and two blocks.
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Eloise van Velthooven added seven kills with two blocks and two digs.
Match Two Key Statistics
- Green recorded her first triple-double of the season with a team-high 15 kills to go along with 29 assists and 11 digs. She had one service aces as well while hitting .520 for the match with just two attacking errors in five sets.
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Kylie Filipiak had 11 kills with three digs, three service aces and one block. She hit .231 for the match.
- Barnes recorded 16 digs and had three assists at libero.
- Young had four kills, two blocks and two assists.
- Dumity recorded six kills with seven digs, two assists and a block.
- Simon had four kills to go along with four digs, two assists, a block and a service ace.
- The Islanders jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, taking the first set, 25-18, and winning the second, 25-15.
- In the first set, A&M-Corpus Christi hit .241 with 12 kills and five errors
- The second set featured 12 Islander kills and just four errors, hitting .258 to go up, 2-0.
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Up Next
- The Islanders will face Coppin State in a neutral site match on Saturday, Sept. 7, at 11 a.m. CST. Live stats for the match can be found
HERE.
