Fort Lewis FLC 6-9,3-3 RMAC

Black Hills St. BHSU 4-11,0-5 RMAC

Fort Lewis FLC

6-9,3-3 RMAC

Final

Oct. 11, 2024

Black Hills St. BHSU

4-11,0-5 RMAC

Set Scores
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Fort Lewis FLC	23	26	25	25	(3)
Black Hills St. BHSU	25	24	22	20	(1)

Summary
Box Score

Kaitlyn Silva

Senior Natalia Lambos compiled 49 assists and guided five players to double-digit kills in the win over BHSU

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | 10/11/2024 8:54:00 PM | Angela Roberts, Associate AD-Communications

Skyhawks volleyball extends streak to four matches in win over BHSU

SPEARFISH, S.D. – Led by double-digit kills from four players, the Fort Lewis College volleyball team earned its fourth-straight win in a four-set match over Black Hills State University on Friday night.

The win lifted Fort Lewis to 6-9 on the year and 2-3 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play while Black Hills State fell to 4-11 overall and 0-4 in conference play.

The Skyhawks hit .185 for the match compared to a .163 efficiency for the Yellow Jackets. Fort Lewis won the service battle with eight aces and was superior on defense with 74 digs compared to 64 for BHSU.

Sophomore Jordan DeJesus led the team with 16 kills on 35 swings (.343), followed by senior Alexis Hobie who had 12 kills. The trio of JJ Curry, Lauren Shea, and Ella Butler each totaled 10 kills. Shea had a double-double with a team-high 14 digs, followed by freshman Emery Pomroy who came away with 13. Senior Natalia Lambos coordinated the balanced offense and collected 49 assists to go along with 12 digs.

The tightly contested first set began with five tied scores and multiple lead changes as a kill by Curry made it an 8-7 Fort Lewis lead. The Skyhawks held on to the lead with kills by Shea and Hobie making it 12-10. The Yellow Jackets remained within striking distance, though, and used efficient defense to make it 18-17 in favor of the Skyhawks. The defense continued to work for BHSU with a block on the pin tying the score at 20-all. The Yellow Jackets eventually took the lead on a Skyhawks error and extended it to 24-21 after back-to-back errors on the outside. Butler put up a solo block, followed by a kill from DeJesus, but the home team finally put away set point at 25-23.

BHSU held an early lead in the second set before a pair of kills by Butler tied the score at 5-5. Fort Lewis found some separation with a 6-0 scoring run making it 14-10. The run featured kills by DeJesus and Curry, as well as a trio of Yellow Jacket attacking errors. The home team chipped away and pulled within two points on several occasions, eventually overtaking the lead on an attacking error at 20-19. Lambos managed to tie the score with a setter kill, but the Yellow Jackets came back to see set point. Curry extended the set and went on to tie it at 24-all with a block. Shea followed with a block to make it set point, and freshman Maddy Shumway dropped in the team's first ace to seal to win.

The Skyhawks rode momentum into the third set where they jumped ahead 7-2 to force an early timeout. BHSU responded with a run of their own to make it a two-point Fort Lewis advantage. Butler at the service line fueled another scoring stretch that saw the Skyhawks jump ahead 12-6. Despite holding on to the lead, the Yellow Jackets stayed close with just a four-point separation sending the set into the 20-point territory. BHSU took advantage of a few miscues to pull within one at 22-21 as Fort Lewis called a timeout. Shea gave her team the first point out of the break with a kill out of the middle, and the teams traded the next two points to make it 24-22. It was Shea again, this time on set point with a shot through the block, to give the Skyhawks a 2-1 lead.

The fourth set saw the return of the tied scores as the teams knotted up all the way until the 7-6 point. The Skyhawks found some space thanks to Yellow Jacket errors and held it into double digits. BHSU stayed close, though, and eventually dropped in an ace to tie it at 14-14. Fort Lewis scored the next three points with Alina Nunez at the service line to force a timeout with a 17-14 lead. The Skyhawks extended the lead to 20-15 thanks to three kills by Hobie. The Yellow Jackets tallied three more points to make it a three-point difference, but a service error allowed a side out. Curry put away a kill for match point, and a block from Butler and DeJesus ended the match.

Fort Lewis (6-9, 2-3 RMAC) will face South Dakota Mines tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. from the King Center in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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