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[Volleyball] Falcons Top Sterling, Fall to McPherson

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STERLING, Kan. -- The Friends University Falcons Volleyball took down the Sterling College Lady Warriors, 3-2, on Friday at the Gleason Center in Sterling. The Falcons fell in its second match of the season against the McPherson College Bulldogs, 3-0.

Sterling took advantage of a slow Falcon start and jumped out to a 16-4 lead in the first set. The Lady Warriors would go on to win the opening set 25-14.

The Falcons jumped out to an 11-7 lead but the Lady Warriors kept it close the rest of the way. Key kills by Rheagan Hoover (SO/Pratt, Kan. ) and MacKenzie Glasse (SR/Dexter, Kan. ) gave the Falcons the 25-23 win and knotted the match at one game apiece.

The defense came alive for the Falcons in the third as they recorded five blocks en route to a 25-19 set win. 

In the fourth set, the Lady Warriors took a 21-13 lead, the Falcons rallied behind kills from Remyngton Green (JR/Nickerson, Kan. ) and Sarah Lazar-St. John (JR/Rose Hill, Kan. ) that cut the lead to 23-20. Sterling was able to weather the storm to take the set 25-21.

The Falcons finished off the match with a 15-13 win in the fifth set to knock off the Lady Warriors. 

Lazar-St. John tallied a team-high 16 kills followed by Hoover with 15 kills of her own. Abigail Knittel (SR/Ponca City, Okla. ) led the Falcons with 40 assists.

Alyssa Arnold (SR/Goddard, Kan. ) finished the first match with a team-high 18 digs while Rachel Taylor (JR/Hays, Kan. ) added 15 digs and Raquel Gonzales (JR/Las Cruces, N.M. ) chipped in with 14 digs.

In the second match, the Falcons got off to another slow start and dropped the first set 25-9.

The Falcons would lose the next two sets 25-13 and 25-18.

Hoover led the Falcons with 7 kills in the second match while Lazar-St. John, Glasse, and Tiffany Hurd (SR/Gilbert, Ariz.) added two apiece. Knittel finished with 13 assists.

The Falcons are back in action for a triangular at Bethel on Oct. 10. The team will square off against Ottawa at 3 PM before its second match of the season with Bethel.

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