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ORLANDO, Fla. - The University of Cincinnati volleyball team closed out the 2015 road schedule with a 3-0 (25-22, 25-9, 26-24) victory over UCF on Sunday afternoon in Orlando. The offense was balanced by three players with double-digit kills while freshman setter Jade Tingelhoff (Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville South) dished out 38 assists.
// NOTABLES
- With the victory, Cincinnati improves to 19-10 on the year and 11-7 in the American Athletic Conference while USF falls to 14-16 and 8-10. The Bearcats hold a firm grasp on third place in the league.
- It was the eighth sweep of the season for the Bearcats, the most since recording 13 3-0 victories in 2011.
- Cincinnati held UCF to just nine points in the second game, marking the first time it has kept an opponent under 10 points in a set since Sept. 28, 2012, when it beat Pittsburgh 25-9 in the first set.
- Freshman Jordan Thompson (Edina, Minn./Edina) notched a team-high 14 kills while freshman Carly Nolan (Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake South) and senior Morgan Allred (Carrolton, Texas/Hebron) had 13 and 12 kills, respectively. It is the 11th time this season that at least three Bearcats players have recorded 10 or more kills and UC is now 8-3 in those matches. Additionally, all three of those players hit at .300 marks or better (.387, .310 and .391, respectively) which makes UC 7-1 this year when that occurs.
- Tingelhoff finished her 15th-career double-double with 38 assists and 13 digs. She currently ranks fifth on the All-Time Freshman Assists list with 915 and needs 282 more to pass Caylin Mahoney (2011) for fourth on the list.
- Freshman Abby Williams (Loveland, Ohio/Ursuline Academy) notched a match-high 16 digs and has recorded double-digit digs in all but one match this season. She possesses third place on the All-Time Freshman Digs list with 482 in her first season at UC. Melissa Zenz set the freshman (and school) record with 627 digs in 2005.
- Thompson finished with 14 kills and has hit double-digit kills in 24 matches this season. She has 428 kills this season, good for third on the All-Time Freshman Kills list. She needs 28 more to pass Lise Hissink (1998) for second place.
- Nolan finished with 13 kills and sits in seventh on the All-Time Freshman Kills list with 344 while Becky Stahl owns the record with 467 kills in 2001. She also chipped in three digs and is 10th on the top-10 list with 303 on the season.
- Junior Lise Alaiwan (Villeneuve Loubet, France/Kedge Business School) again led the Bearcats at the net with four blocks while Thompson and sophomore Cortnee Bowser (Kent, Ohio/Theodore Roosevelt) added three apiece.
- Cincinnati topped UCF in most statistical categories, including kills (46-38), assists (45-35), service aces (5-3), digs (46-36), blocks (7.0-6.0) and hitting percentage (.337-.186).
- The Bearcats did not record a service error in the match, doing so for the first time since Sept. 13, 2013, against Navy.
// ALVEY'S ADDITIONS
"What an exciting sweep of road matches this weekend" said head coach Molly Alvey. "We have talked about playing a high-level of volleyball for a longer period of time and we definitely did that today. All three of our pin attackers, Morgan Allred, Carly Nolan and Jordan Thompson, had double-digit kills and attacking percentages of over .300. Alison Kimmel once again came into the match and single-handedly scored set-winning points for us. In the third set, she served three serves in a row and came up with a big dig to finish the match. She continues to excel in her role. I am very proud of this team and what great teammates they are to each other."
// SET BREAKDOWN
Set 1: UC 25, UCF 22
- The teams played evenly to open the first game until the Bearcats scored four-of-five points to take a 15-13 lead. Allred and Tingelhoff each recorded kills in the rally while UC capitalized on a pair of errors from UCF's Jale Hervey.
- A kill by the Knights' Abbie Fleenor tied the score at 19-19 before Cincinnati scored the next three points with kills by Allred and Nolan and a block from Alaiwan and Tingelhoff to go ahead 22-19.
- The Knights again got within a point at 23-22, forcing Alvey into a timeout, but Tingelhoff and Nolan teamed up for back-to-back kills out of the break for the 25-22 UC victory.
Set 2: UC 25, UCF 9
- Cincinnati dominated every facet of the second game, holding UCF to just six kills and a -.079 attacking clip.
- UC scored seven in a row early, behind the strong service game of Williams, to go ahead 8-2. Thompson scored four kills during the run for the Bearcats.
- Another seven-point scoring run, this time with Tingelhoff serving, saw the UC lead increase to 19-7 with the help of two kills apiece from Nolan and Thompson and two kills by Bowser.
- Redshirt junior Alison Kimmel (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) added a service ace while kills by Thompson and Allred closed out the set 25-9.
Set 3: UC 26, USF 24
- Cincinnati saw an early seven-point lead slip away as the Knights worked to tie the score at 18-18 and proceeded to take a 20-18 lead off a kill from Taylor Gallart and a UC error, forcing a Bearcats' timeout.
- Kills by Alaiwan and Nolan immediately re-tied the score at 20-20 and invoked a timeout from the Knights.
- UCF had a pair of set-point opportunities fall by the wayside as a kill by Thompson and an attacking error from the Knights tied the score at 24-24.
- From there, Kimmel took control, serving her second ace of the match to give her team match point, and coming up with a crucial dig that led to a Thompson kill to give the Bearcats a 26-24 come-from-behind win in the third game.
// UP NEXT
Cincinnati returns to Fifth Third Arena for its final two matches of the 2015 season on Nov. 25 and 27. The Bearcats will host Houston at 7 p.m. on Wednesday before facing Tulane at 2 p.m. on Friday. The final match also will symbolize Senior Day for Cincinnati as the team will honor Allred, Emma Roberson (Brooks, Ky./Evansville), Amelia Wegman (Aurora, Ill./Rosary) and student manager Hannah Quinlan in a post-match ceremony on the court.
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