DURANT, Okla. — Southern Nazarene hit a season-high .387 in a 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-11) win over Southeastern Oklahoma State Saturday night.
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The Crimson Storm (6-5, 2-1 GAC) had just eight errors the entire night with 44 kills on 93 attacks. Eight different players recorded kills as
Courtney Bowie had a game-high 11. She also had two blocks.
Lexie Matthews had eight kills while
McKayla Benner had seven to go with two blocks.
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Elyse Berlin had 31 assists, two aces and six digs while
Abbey Bell had 12 digs.
Bailee Turang also had a pair of aces as the Storm had seven as a team. SNU held the Savage Storm (7-8, 0-3 GAC) to a .194 clip and had 48 digs compared to just 40 by SOSU. Southern Nazarene also had four blocks while Southeastern had three.
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A three-point run in the first set that broke a 19-19 tie, was the key moment for SNU in taking the first set. SNU got bookend kills from Bowie and a Benner kill in between to take a 22-19 lead. The Crimson storm held on to take a 1-0 lead and carried that into the second set. Southern Nazarene hit .432 in the second with just one error and never trailed again in the set after taking an 8-7 lead on a Turang ace.
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SNU opened the third set on an 11-3 run and never looked back as it hit .381 as a team and had five aces and two blocks as well.