The Missouri S&T volleyball team opened its 2010 campaign with a 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 25-17) sweep over Montevallo on Friday morning at the Florida Southern/Holiday Inn Classic in Lakeland, Fla. It was the program’s first ever season-opening win.
Erin Bekebrede and Samantha Klump paced the Lady Miner (1-0) offense as they accounted for 25 of the team’s 35 kills and hit nearly 47 percent for the match. Katie Herington added six kills while Jennifer Costello dished out 31 assists and Bridget Williams had 15 digs.
Bekebrede finished the match with a double-double recording 11 digs to go along with her kill total. She had five kills in the opening set and closed out the match strong recording seven kills in 10 chances with no errors in the final set.
Klump had four kills in each of the three sets while committing only one attack error in 20 chances to finish the match hitting 55 percent. She also accounted for two of the team’s four blocks.
The Lady Miners were on fire in the third set recording 14 kills against only three errors to finish the frame hitting 31.4 percent.
As a team S&T hit nearly 20 percent for the match and held the Falcons (0-1) to a .036 hitting percentage and forced them into 24 attack errors.
The match had 19 ties and nine lead changes as S&T was able to pull away late in each of the three sets to earn the victory.
