CARROLLTON, Ga. - West Georgia volleyball dropped its home match, 3-0, to the Jacksonville University Dolphins today at The Coliseum.

UWG (2-13, 0-2 ASUN) tested the Dolphins (11-3, 2-0 ASUN) in the opening two sets, falling 25-19 and 25-21, but were overpowered in the finale, 25-23, resulting in the visitors grabbing their third consecutive victory.

West Georgia was led by Valiree Schmus with 9.5 points. Grace-Blythe Cornett tallied a career-high three blocks.

MATCH DETAILS
Kicking the match off with a 5-1 JU run, the Wolves struggled to get anything going to start. With Schmus securing three early kills and Cornett and Alex Strating adding to the attack, the Pack began to eat away at the Dolphins' lead. Each time the Wolves brought the match within three, the visitors would respond with a couple of quick kills to give themselves more breathing room. This trend continued until JU was able to reach the 25 mark while the Wolves sat with 19. Despite losing the opening set, UWG limited its mistakes to just three errors, resulting in a match-best .286 hitting percentage.

In the second set, both teams traded scores on their way to the ten-point mark. With the game locked at nine apiece, it looked like it could go either way until the Dolphins' 12-1 run gave the visitors a 21-10 advantage. This run was fueled by a combination of Wolves' attack errors mixed with JU tallying points off clean kills at the net. Despite being down big, UWG continued to fight. Flipping the script, West Georgia went on a 10-3 run of their own, tallying points off a flurry of JU errors as well as a pair of kills by Molly Brunell and one by Sanai Young and Schmus. Coming out of a Jacksonville timeout with the match at 24-20, West Georgia scored one more point off an attack error, but it was too little, too late. JU followed up the Wolves' 21st point with a kill, securing the visitors a 25-21 set two win.

Like the previous set, Jacksonville jumped out to a 6-1 advantage in the finale. With the Wolves struggling to string together back-to-back points, JU continued to hold an arm's-length lead over UWG. That was until a 14-6 run by the visitors gave Jacksonville a 25-13 victory, as the Wolves could not get anything going offensively, highlighted by its -.074 set hitting percentage. 

UP NEXT
The Wolves head to Florida next weekend to take on Florida Gulf Coast with a 6 p.m. Friday match (Oct. 3).