ABILENE. Tx.- West Georgia stumbles to Abilene Christian on the road in four sets. Wolves Volleyball will be back in action at home Thursday (Oct. 29) hosting the Austin Peay Governors at 6 p.m.
SET ONE: West Georgia would open the first set taking three of the first five points via a two Grace-Blythe Cornett kills and one from Valiree Schmus. Neither club would take over a two-point lead until Abilene Christian's Alyssa Todd would put down back-to-back kills to give the Wildcats a 17-13 lead over the Wolves. The Wolves would pull within four with another Cornett kill to make the score 24-20, ACU. The final run would not be enough for UWG as they would drop the first set 20-25. Grace-Blythe Cornett would end the set with six total kills herself.
SET TWO: UWG would take an early 3-1 courtesy of two Wildcat attack errors. Milena Cetkovic would put down two service aces' and another Wildcat error extending their lead to 6-2. West Georgia would string a 6-0 run with UAC leader in service aces/set Georgia Mandotti serving. Mandotti would find two service aces this run, three point would come off of Wildcat errors, and one Schmus kill to make the lead 16-6. Two Cetkovic kills would then give UWG an 18-7 lead. Ending the game with another Cetkovic kill and Cornett would end the game for West Georgia, taking the second set 25-16.
SET THREE: The Wildcats would take a 3-1 lead off two service aces by Alyssa Todd, but a service error by Todd and a Cetkovic block would knot things up at three a piece. The two team would once again trade points back in forth, but Abilene would take a two-point lead via a Hannah Gonzalez kill, 9-7 ACU. A 4-0 run by the Wildcats would raise their lead to seven, 18-11 ACU. Abilene Christian would take the third set 25-18.
SET FOUR: Abilene Christian would open the set up taking five of the first seven points, but West Georgia would take the next two thanks to a Valiree Schmus kill and a Wildcat error, 4-5 Wildcats. UWG would find a 3-0 run behind a Cornett and Mandotti kill, making the score 9-10 ACU. Abilene Christian would take the game from there taking the next 14 of 19 points to take the final set 14-25.
Highlights: Grace-Blythe Cornett lead the team with 13 kills on the day while hitting an impressive .433, making her fourth game recording 10+ kills. Valiree Schmus and Brooke McCall would each end the day with 11 kills each. The freshman Milena Cetkovic would tally three blocks, adding a ten-game streak of stuffing one or more. Giorgia Mandotti would record two service aces on the night and submit herself in UWG history. Mandotti is now tied for ninth in UWG history, having recorded 36 service aces this season, she is now tied with Audrey Hipple (2009), Andressa Martins (2012) and Victoria Schmer (2024).
The next West Georgia match is Thursday (Oct. 29) where they will host Austin Peay at 6 p.m. on campus at The Coliseum. Tickets for upcoming home matches can be found here, and as always UWG students get into home matches for FREE with a valid UWG ID!
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