Volleyball Falls in Four Sets to ETSU

Tuesday, October 7

Johnson City, Tenn.

5:00 p.m.

Middle Tennessee

6-12

ETSU

8-11

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Middle Tennessee St.	25	14	14	15	1
ETSU	20	25	25	25	3

10/7/2014 6:51:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - The Blue Raider volleyball team (6-12, 2-2 C-USA) fell in four sets to East Tennessee State (8-11, 2-1 SoCon) Tuesday evening at Brooks Gymnasium.

Junior Chelsea Ross led with a game-high 18 kills, while senior Ailime de Frietas posted a team-best 18 assists to go along with 10 digs for her second consecutive double-double, and freshman Jacqueline Lux notched 15 digs for a team-high.

MT pieced together a 9-2 run with the first set tied, 10-10, to pull ahead 19-12. ETSU would respond with a run of its own going on a 10-3 run to cut the lead to two, 22-20. MT stopped the comeback, scoring the next three points while an ace by junior Rachel Shaughnessy gave the Blue Raiders a 25-20 set-one win.

ETSU jumped out to a 5-2 lead in the second frame and never looked back as the Bucs stretched the lead to eleven, 22-11, and eventually claimed the set 25-14.

The Bucs started the third set much like the previous stanza with a 15-7 lead to start the frame. MT couldn't get any momentum going as ETSU never trailed while capturing the third set, 25-14, and going into the fourth set with a 2-1 lead.

A 6-0 by ETSU started the fourth frame before MT scored six of the next nine points to cut the lead to three, 9-6

Senior Eseta Maka and de Freitas started the run with a combined block before consecutive kills by Ross and three attack errors helped MT pull within reach. However, ETSU's 8-4 run stretched the lead to seven, 17-10, before the Bucs went on to win game four, 25-15, and the match.

The Blue Raiders will return to conference play this weekend with a pair of home matches against Rice on Friday at 7 p.m., before squaring off against UTEP at 1 p.m., for the annual dig pink game for breast cancer awareness.