University of Minnesota Athletics
University of Minnesota
4-2
North Dakota State
6-3
Gophers Defeat NDSU in Three
9/12/2015 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
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The University of Minnesota volleyball team swept North Dakota State on Saturday morning to start day two of the Diet Coke Classic. With the win, the Gophers improved to 4-2 on the season after a sweep of UC-Irivne last night.
Daly Santana led the team with 14 kills, and Alyssa Goehner followed close behind with 11. Paige Tapp hit for a team and season-best .667, along with a match-best five block assists. Samantha Seliger-Swenson had a match-high 38 assists along with two aces. As a team, the Gophers out hit NDSU for a season best of .464 to .143, and out blocked the Bison 9-2.
The Gophers will finish out the Diet Coke Classic on Saturday night at 7pm against UCF.
Set Breakdown:
Set 1: The Gophers took a 1-0 lead off a 25-16 set win. Tied at 5-5, Minnesota went on a five-point run to take the lead for good. Santana put the Gopher lead to 12-7 with a kill before NDSU used its first timeout. NDSU pulled within two at 15-13, but the Gophers rattled off three-straight points with a block from Paige Tapp and Santana, a kill from Molly Lohman and a kill from Santana to take an 18-13 lead. After a Seliger-Swenson ace for a 20-15 lead, the Bison called their second timeout. However, the Gophers came out of the break with a 5-1 run to end the set.
Set 2: Minnesota hit .500 in the second set to push the match lead to 2-0, while holding NDSU to just .083. The Gophers led from the get go and never looked back. Minnesota opened the second set with a 5-0 run, capped off on a combined block from the Tapp twins. The Gophers pushed the lead to 10-3 off a Santana kill (from Rosado). That lead forced the Bison to take a timeout, and would come out of the timeout and added a 4-1 run of their own. Minnesota responded and regained control and increased its lead to 19-10. The Gophers later closed out the set for a 2-0 lead off a kill from Lohman, followed by an attack and service error by NDSU.
Set 3: Minnesota added its fourth win of the season when it cruised to a 25-12 third set win. The Gophers hit a stifling .571 in the final set, when they had 13 kills, committed just one error, in 21 attempts. Minnesota opened the set on an 8-1 run, forcing NDSU to its first timeout, and later pushed the lead to 14-6 on a Paige Tapp kill. The Gophers would then get a kill from Lohman at 20-11 as the Bison used their second timeout of the set at a 21-11 deficit. The Gophers would close out the set with a kill from Paige Tapp, a NDSU ball-handling error and two aces by Katie Schau.
