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Tampa, Fla. – The No. 5 Jennies volleyball team finished the Tampa Spartans Classic with back to back wins. First Central Missouri beat No. 13 Ferris State, 29-27, 25-14, 25-21, and then they swept Tusculum, 25-21, 25-10, 25-9, to close out the first weekend of the season.

Central Missouri battled through the first set, with eight lead changes and 12 tie scores. Neither team had a significant lead through the set. The Bulldogs caught the Jennies for the eighth time at 27-27, but the Jennies then scored three points in a row to end the set. Central Missouri led Ferris State for a majority of the second and third set. The second set had two lead changes early in the set, but the Jennies eventually took a 15-7 lead and the Bulldogs were never able to close the gap. Ferris was only able to tie the score twice in the final set but were never able to take the lead.

Carly Sojka had her first double-double of the season, with a team-high 14 kills and 11 digs. Haley Thompson earned the most points on the team, 16.5, with 13 kills, three block assists, and two aces. Kourtney Thompson had 37 assists, four kills and an ace. Shelby Winkelmann reached double-digit digs, 16, and had six kills and a block. Annie Reilly also had double-digit digs, 23, and had an ace in the match.

The Jens made quick work of Tusculum, allowing only one tie score and lead change early in the second set. The Pioneers scored more points in the first set than in the second and third set combined. As a team, the Jennies hit .302 in the match, and had 42 kills and five blocks.

H. Thompson had a team-high 11 kills, and hit.429, with three blocks in the match. Thompson had the team-high kills in three of the Jennies four matches at the Classic. Sojka had 10 digs, nine kills, and three blocks. Jessica McDougald and Becca Blaise both had six kills, while Winkelmann, K. Thompson, and Lauren Dudgeon had three kills each. Reilly had five aces and 18 digs through three sets.

Next weekend the Jennies will travel to Denver, Colo. for the Colorado Premier Classic, before conference play begins the following week.