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Eagles win 1 in New Mexico

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Last weekend Acting Head Coach Whitney Roth and the Eagles volleyball team traveled to New Mexico to play against New Mexico Highlands University and Western New Mexico University.

In the first game against Western New Mexico Rudy Leasau, junior of LaMesa, California, and Gaby Varela, sophomore of Dorado, Puerto Rico, tied for the most kills in the three set match. Both Leasau and Varela had 10 kills a piece giving them 20 out of the team’s 35 kills. Varela also led the team in aces with two. Sina Mauga, senior of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, also contributed one ace giving the Eagles three aces on the night. Madison Webb, freshman of Loveland, Colorado, played a major role offensively by giving the Eagles 25 assists out of the team’s 32 total assists.

Sierra Winkle, freshman of Tucson, Arizona, had a good game defensively giving the Eagles a lift with 11 digs, Leasau also contributed nine total kills and Webb had four kills together the trio had 24 kills out of the team’s 38 digs.

Even though the Eagles fought hard and showed improvement from various players, it wasn’t enough to pull out the win against the Mustangs, eventually losing 3-0.

In the second game of the weekend, the Eagles dominated just about every statistical category on the box score against the Highlanders.  Offensively, Lelalelei Nomura, senior of Pago Pago, American Samoa, led the Eagles with 11 kills in the three-set match. Also giving a much needed boost offensively was Webb, who had a total of three aces. Nomura and Varela also had aces giving the trio five out of the teams seven. Webb again led in the assist category with 34 out of the team’s total 40 assists of that evening.

Defensively, Chrisman led all players with seven blocks. Nomura contributed with five blocks and Mauga had four. Winkle and Nomura tied for the digs with 14 a piece to not only lead the Eagles in digs that night.

The Eagles came out aggressive and it showed by the way they dominated the game from start to finish, the Eagles were too much for the Highlanders, eventually winning the match 3-0.