SEGUIN, Texas -- Texas Lutheran Volleyball picked up its fourth sweep of the season, knocking off Hendrix, 25-18, 26-24, 25-16, on Friday at Memorial Gymnasium to improve to 9-4 on the season and 3-0 in SCAC play.
The win over the Warriors is just the second in program history with the last coming in 2013.
The Bulldogs were dominant at the net with 12 total blocks, led by a season-high six blocks by
Briana Salvatierra-Moore (San Antonio/Antonian College Prep). Texas Lutheran hit .184 in the match and held the Warriors to a .055 hitting percentage, their lowest of the season.
Salvatierra-Moore finished with four solo blocks and added three kills.
Nadia Dunn (Houston/Pearland) led the team with ten kills, while hitting .333, and added two digs.
Zaria Solis (Burnet/Burnet) finished with nine kills and two blocks and tacked on six digs.
Ella Waterbury (Buda/Johnson) dished out a career-high 20 assists and had eight digs and an ace.
Ava Search (Richmond/Needville), the reigning SCAC Defensive Player of the Week, had a match-high 18 digs and added eight kills, an ace, and a block.
Naomi Gamboa (San Antonio/Warren) added 17 digs and an ace.
Solis led the Bulldogs to a 25-18 win in the first set with a team-high five kills. The Bulldogs jumped out to a big 14-7 lead and closed the set on an 8-3 run to take the 1-0 lead.
Hendrix gave Texas Lutheran all it could handle in the second set, taking a 24-17 lead before the Bulldogs put together an incredible 9-0 rally to win it 26-24 and take a 2-0 lead.
After the furious rally to win the second set, the third set was all Bulldogs as they won it 25-16. It was back-and-forth early and the teams were tied 10-10 before the Bulldogs went on a commanding 11-4 run to go up 21-14. From there, TLU closed out the sweep with a 25-16 win.
Texas Lutheran will conclude its SCAC-opening homestand on Saturday, Oct. 3 as they conclude their crossover weekend with a matchup against Ozarks (AR). First serve is set for 5 PM. The match will be streamed on FloCollege. All streaming and live stats links will be available on tlubulldogs.com.
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