St. Louis – The University of Missouri-St. Louis volleyball team had its 15-match winning streak snapped in a 3-1 loss to No. 23 UIndy on Saturday afternoon at the Mark Twain Building. The Tritons drop to 17-6, 9-1 GLVC while the Greyhounds improve to 21-3, 8-1 GLVC.
The loss also snapped UMSL's 24-match GLVC winning streak and its streak of 36 of straight home wins in the regular season.
The Tritons led 19-16 an opening set that went back-and-forth but were unable to close it out as the Hounds finished the set on a 9-3 scoring run to win the opener 25-22. Maddie Berger had two of UIndy's six kills in the deciding run.
The Greyhounds led wire-to-wire in the second frame as they led by as many as six points in the stanza. UMSL made a late run to cut the deficit in half at 20-17 on a kill from
Maggie Johnson but wouldn't get any closer as UIndy scored five of the last nine points to win 25-22 and take the commanding 2-0 lead in the contest.
The Tritons flipped the scripts in set three leading wire-to-wire as it led by as many as 11 in the stanza before settling for the 25-15 victory. UMSL hit .500 in the frame with 14 kills against one error in 26 attempts and was led by Johnson with six kills while
Alayna Santel added three more.
The Tritons appeared to be heading to force a fifth set as they jumped out to a 4-0 lead in set four but couldn't maintain it as the Hounds used an 8-1 run to build a five-point cushion. UMSL wouldn't get closer than four points the rest of the match as UIndy was able to close out the 25-21 set victory.
The Tritons hit .307 for the match with 62 kills against 15 errors in 153 attempts and were led by Santel with 19 kills while Johnson added 16 kills and
Brooklyn Young finished with 10 kills.
Marly Burbach had 50 assists, Young added five blocks and
Skylar Weaver finished with a match-high 21 digs.
The Hounds hit .295 in the contest with 65 kills against 19 errors in 156 swings and were led by Maddie Lynch with 13 kills while Berger and Makenzie Pflederer had 12 kills apiece. Amaree Haralson had 25 assists, Macy Bruton finished with 14 digs and Riley Laine added five blocks.
UMSL begins a three-match road trip to end the regular season on Friday (Oct. 30) as it travels across the Mississippi River to take on McKendree at 6 p.m. at the Melvin Price Convocation Center.
