Box Score
The University of Pikeville celebrated five remarkable members of its family on Senior Night and followed it with a 3-0 win over Union Commonwealth University on Friday night.
Two of them,
Lanie Hawley and
Allyah Tokelau, led the way with 12 kills each. Hawley had a hitting percentage of .611 to extend her AAC lead in that column, while Tokelau hit .423.
Junior
Olivia Chapman followed with nine while junior
Cassidy Rivas and sophomore
JLynn Risner added eight with eight each. Senior
Chloie Brinton extended her national lead in assists per set with 42 and also had two service aces.
Freshman
Baylee Moore led the defensive effort with 14 digs. Risner had three blocks, one of them solos, while Hawley had two.
UPike is now 25-3 on the season, and enters tomorrow's regular-season finale with an 18-0 record in league play. The Bears are also on a 19-game win streak.
Saturday's match is against Johnson (Tenn.) University and begins at 11 a.m.
Bears 25, Bulldogs 15: The teams traded points to start the match before UPike scored five straight points. Risner had two kills in the run, the last of which made the score 6-1. A four-point run, half coming on kills by Tokelau, pushed the lead to 10-3. Union didn't come to town to lie down and used a 6-1 run to pull within two at 13-11. The Bears had a 10-2 stretch that saw four players record kills, including Chapman with three, to lead 23-13 before closing it out.
Bears 25, Bulldogs 13: Three straight kills, two by Tokelau, opened the set for the Bears. The separator was a 7-1 run during which Rivas had two kills that pushed the lead to 16-8. A 4-0 run, with three different Bears having kills, pushed it to 21-11 before the Bears scored the final three points to wrap it up.
Bears 25, Bulldogs 12: The Bears opened with an 8-2 run, getting four of them on kills along with a service ace by Brinton. The lead grew to 19-7 after two Hawley kills and a service ace. A Tokelau kill made it 24-11 to set the stage for the finish.
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