Spartanburg, S.C. – Winthrop volleyball defeated USC Upstate on the road Friday night for their third straight win.
Winthrop (12-9, 9-2 Big South) | USC Upstate (10-14, 5-6 Big South)
Nov. 8, 2024 | G.B. Hodge Center
Winthrop 3, USC Upstate 1 (25-22, 25-22, 21-25, 25-20)
How it Happened
Set 1 | Winthrop led 6-3 thanks to four errors by the Spartans. Upstate tied it at 7-7 but the Eagles broke the tie by scoring three straight points, capped off by a kill by
Giselle Little. Upstate then responded with two quick points but five consecutive errors by the Spartans put Winthrop up by six at 15-9. Upstate cut the deficit in half but the Eagles scored seven of the next nine points to go up 22-16. The home team fought back to 24-22 but
Avery Jolley's kill clinched the first set.
Set 2 | The Eagles trailed 4-0 before tying it on four straight errors by the Spartans. Upstate scored the next three points and led 9-6 before Winthrop stormed back by scoring eight of the next 11 points to take a 14-12 lead. The Spartans then went back up by one three plays later and for the next couple of plays the two teams traded points. With Winthrop down 19-18, two kills by Jolley and a kill by
Rachel McCollum vaulted the Eagles into a late two-point lead. This gave Winthrop the lead for good in the set. Upstate fought back to within one on three separate occasions, the last at 23-22. Kills by
Karli Shepherd and Jolley won the second set for Winthrop.
Set 3 | Winthrop found themselves down 9-3 before coming back to take a 10-9 lead via five errors by Upstate. The Spartans scored seven of the next nine points to go back up 16-12. Winthrop then tacked on the next two points only for Upstate to score two straight points themselves to restore their four-point lead. The Eagles cut it to one on the next three plays only for the Spartans to register two more points to their total to go up 20-17. Winthrop continued to battle back, trimming the lead to one but Upstate got on the board in the match by scoring five of the final seven points.
Set 4 | Winthrop led 7-3 early in the fourth stanza before Upstate came back to take a 9-8 lead. The Eagles went on a 14-5 run to take a commanding 22-14 lead. Upstate would fight back to cut the lead to 24-20 but McCollum's kill on the next play ended the match.
Top Performers
Notables
- The Eagles have played 1,823 matches all-time as the program holds a mark of 1,085-738
- Murray is seventh in school history in assists with 2,665
- Jolley now has more than 500 career digs
- Little now has more than 100 career kills
- Little and Rehmann had career highs in blocks
- Matthews and Murray had career highs in digs
- Jolley and Murray had double doubles
- Five Eagles had double figures in digs
- Winthrop recorded 99 digs as a team
- The 99 digs ties a program record for most team digs in a four-set match
- Winthrop also recorded 99 digs in a four-set match vs. Coastal Carolina at home on Oct. 2, 2001
- The last time an Eagle recorded 30 digs in a match was Carlie Skelton
- She had 30 digs at UNC Asheville on Oct. 6, 2018, a 3-1 Winthrop victory
UP NEXT
The Eagles host UNC Asheville tomorrow on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 5:00 p.m. as part of Homecoming weekend.
On that day, the Eagle men's basketball program hosts Little Rock at noon. Free admission will be given to those who show their ticket from the men's basketball game. In addition, the first 100 fans who attend the match vs. UNC Asheville will receive free rope hats courtesy of Atrium Health.
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