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Western Colo. WC 1-16,0-7 RMAC
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Winner Fort Lewis FLC 12-4,6-1 RMAC
Western Colo. WC
1-16,0-7 RMAC
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Final
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Fort Lewis FLC
12-4,6-1 RMAC
Winner
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Team 1 2 3 F
Western Colo. WC 23 10 18 (0)
Fort Lewis FLC 25 25 25 (3)
Alina Nunez
Kaitlyn Silva

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Angela Roberts, Associate AD - Communications

Skyhawks secure sweep over Mountaineers, 12 players tally kills

DURANGO, Colo. – Skyhawks volleyball earned its seventh sweep of the season and improved to 12-4 on the year with a decisive win over Western Colorado University on Tuesday night.

Fort Lewis sits at 12-4 overall and 6-1 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) while Western Colorado fell to 1-16, 0-7 RMAC. The Skyhawks have surpassed their win total overall and in conference play from 2024 with nine matches remaining in the regular season.

Fort Lewis hit .267 on the night, digging themselves out of an early hole after hitting just .105 in the opening set. The team went on to hit .462 in set two and .297 in the final set to earn the win. Western Colorado was limited to hitting just .055—the second lowest efficiency allowed for Fort Lewis this season.

Every active player on the Fort Lewis roster saw court time, and the team earned kills from 12 Skyhawks. Junior Alina Nunez led the team with nine kills on 18 chances (.398) while freshman Cambria Freymuth contributed nine kills to go along with six digs. Senior Ella Butler was efficient with six kills on eight swings, including a 5-for-5 second set.

Freshman Arianna Reyna tallied 23 assists while sophomore Addie Garn dished out 13. Freshman Alyx Daugherty went off for 11 digs, four assists, and two aces. Junior Ellie Ames led the net defense with a pair of blocks.

The first set started strong, but untimely errors had Fort Lewis down for the majority of the set. In total, the Skyhawks committed 14 errors throughout the set but managed to string together points late to take the lead. The team's first lead since the 6-5 mark came at 22-21 when Ames dropped in an ace to cap off a three-point run. Butler dropped in a kill, followed by a Mountaineer error for set point. Western Colorado extended the set with a kill, but Freymuth put it away with her fifth kill of the set.

Set two opened with a three-point run, followed by a nine-point run with Daugherty at the service line to make it a 12-2 lead. Fort Lewis used another run later on, this one with Reyna at the service line to take a commanding 19-7 lead. Freshman Caleigh Sommers gave her team 20 points with a cross court kill, and an ace by Freymuth made it 22-9. Western Colorado scored one more point in the set before kills from Kiya Wilson and Butler ended it in a 25-10 score.

Western Colorado opened the third set with a lead, but kills from freshman Caroline Munson, senior Ryli Kalahiki, and Wilson gave Fort Lewis an 8-5 lead. Daugherty went to work with another serving run, this time rattling off six points for a 15-7 edge. The Mountaineers used their block to reach 15 points before a kill from senior Ivy Schoditsch made it 24-15. The visitors showed fight with a trio of points before Freymuth pounded a kill through the block for the win.

Fort Lewis (12-4, 6-1 RMAC) returns to play on Friday against Colorado School of Mines (12-4, 3-3 RMAC). Fort Lewis ranks second in the conference after tonight's win while the
Orediggers are in a three-way tie for seventh.
 
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