Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM 9-16,5-8 RMAC

Fort Lewis FLC 10-15,6-7 RMAC

Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM

9-16,5-8 RMAC

Final

Nov. 15, 2024

Fort Lewis FLC

10-15,6-7 RMAC

Set Scores
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM	25	23	24	18	(1)
Fort Lewis FLC	16	25	26	25	(3)

Summary
Box Score

Kaitlyn Silva

Junior Ivy Schoditsch (2) returned to Whalen Gym after injury and recorded 5 digs, 3 blocks, and 3 kills

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | 11/15/2024 8:57:00 PM | Angela Roberts, Associate AD-Communications

Skyhawks volleyball earns 3-1 win over Orediggers, claims first win over Mines since 2007

DURANGO, Colo. – For the first time since 2007, the Fort Lewis College volleyball team was victorious over Colorado School of Mines, snapping a 21-match losing streak with a 3-1 win on Friday evening.

Fort Lewis improved to 10-15 overall and 6-7 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play while Mines fell to 9-16 on the year and 5-8 in the league.

The Orediggers held a slight edge in hitting percentage at .180 compared to a .174 mark for the Skyhawks. Fort Lewis had the advantage on defense with 62 digs and 10 blocks versus 54 and 10 on the other side.

Senior Alexis Hobie led the team with 18 kills and six blocks, followed by fifth-year Lauren Shea at 11 kills and nine digs. Sophomore Jordan DeJesus played in the final three sets and reach 10 kills. Junior Ivy Schoditsch was welcomed back to Bob Hofman Court after fighting back from injury and recorded three kills, three blocks, and five digs. Senior Natalia Lambos went for 44 assists, and freshman Emery Pomroy picked up a career-high 20 digs.

Fort Lewis struggled to find rhythm in the first set and quickly found itself down 9-6 with six errors along the way. The Skyhawks pulled within one after a kill from Hobie made it 10-9, but the Orediggers built the lead back up to 17-12. Lambos snuck in a kill for a side out and Mines followed with six-straight points to take a commanding 23-13 lead. Sophomore Alina Nunez and Hobie extended the set with kills on the pin, but errors came back to haunt the Skyhawks in a 25-16 final. The Orediggers sided out at 82 percent in the first set.

The second set looked like it was going to play out much like the first after early errors surrendered the lead, but the Skyhawks worked back and eventually tied the score at 9-9. Freshman Maddy Shumway capped off a service run and gave her team its first lead with an ace, and another run at the line made it 14-10. The teams went point for point from there, but Fort Lewis was the first to 20 thanks to a kill by Shea. Mines made it interesting by pulling within one at 21-20, and the duo of junior Ella Butler and Shea responded with a pair of kills to give Fort Lewis some breathing room. It would become a one-point set twice more before a set-sealing kill off the hand of Hobie closed it out.

Hobie carried the momentum into the third set where she was responsible for the Skyhawks' first five points to make it 5-2. The lead grew to six points thanks to kills from Lambos, Shea, and DeJesus, and the Orediggers countered with three points for an 11-8 score. The teams traded scoring runs, first with a 5-0 burst by Fort Lewis and then with a 7-0 surge by Mines to give the Skyhawks a narrow 19-18 advantage. Butler put away a kill for a two-point difference, and Mines scored the next two to tie it up. Fort Lewis was the first to set point after back-to-back kills from Shea made it 24-22, but the Orediggers extended play and tied it up again. Hobie gave her team set point with her sixth kill of the set, and Schoditsch capped it off with a commanding block. Pomroy's defense was a highlight in the third set where she came away with eight digs to lead all players.

The fourth set saw Fort Lewis with an early lead, and the home team extended it to 11-6 thanks to an ace by Butler. The Orediggers reached double figures with a kill out of the middle but two overpass kills by Hobie made it 17-10. The Skyhawks continued to roll and reached 20 points following an ace from Shea. Mines applied pressure lead thanks to a 4-1 scoring run for a 22-17 score. The Orediggers would earn one more point on the night, and a huge solo block by Hobie on the pin ended the set in a 25-18 score. Fort Lewis had five blocks in the fourth set and sided out at 63 percent—a match-high for the Skyhawks.

Fort Lewis (10-15, 6-7 RMAC) welcomes the conference's top-ranked team, No. 5 MSU Denver, to Whalen Gymnasium to wrap up the regular-season tomorrow. The Roadrunners (23-2, 13-0 RMAC) are coming off a three-set win over Western Colorado University tonight.

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