WARRENSBURG, Mo. – The road to the MIAA Volleyball Championship will run through Warrensburg as No. 3-ranked and top-seeded Jennies volleyball broke out the brooms in a 3-0 sweep of the Missouri Western Griffons in the MIAA tournament quarterfinals Tuesday, Nov. 16, inside the Multipurpose Building. The set scores were 25-20, 25-19 and 25-20.
The Jennies (26-3) will host No. 4 seed and 12th-ranked Nebraska Kearney (25-5) in the first of two semifinal matches Friday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. No. 2 seed and fourth-ranked Northwest Missouri (25-4) will meet No. 3 seed and fifth-ranked Washburn (26-4) in the second semifinal contest at 8:30 p.m. The two winners of the semifinal matches will advance to the championship match at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20.Â
Audrey Fisher, who was voted the MIAA Player of the Year earlier in the day Tuesday, posted a match-best 13 kills on 26 attempts with no errors for a sizzling .500 attack percentage and added a match-high five blocks, while
Kersti Nix also reached double-figure kills with 10 on 23 swings with just two miscues for .348 hitting.
Ally Offerdahl surpassed 1,000 assists for a season for the third time in her storied UCM career after dishing out a match-high 34 assists and added a team-best two service aces.
Rylie Barnum compiled a match-best 23 digs, and
Arley Anderson set a new career-high with 16 digs.
Central Missouri outhit Missouri Western (14-16) in the match, .212 to .142, and tallied advantages in kills (44-37), aces (5-3), blocks (8-5) and assists (39-37), while the Griffons had a 77-74 edge in digs.
Ali Tauchen had eight kills on 19 swings with just one error for .368 hitting, pacing Missouri Western.
Tickets for the MIAA Volleyball Championship semifinals and championship match at the Multipurpose Building are on sale now at UCMAthletics.com.
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