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Winner Centre Centre 5-1,1-0 SAA
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Sewanee Sewan 3-1,0-1 SAA
Winner
Centre Centre
5-1,1-0 SAA
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Final
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Sewanee Sewan
3-1,0-1 SAA
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
Centre Centre 24 25 25 24 15 (3)
Sewanee Sewan 26 18 17 26 7 (2)
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Covenant COV 3-3,0-0 USA South
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Winner Centre Centre 6-1,1-0 SAA
Covenant COV
3-3,0-0 USA South
0
Final
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Centre Centre
6-1,1-0 SAA
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Covenant COV 23 21 14 (0)
Centre Centre 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Kyle Piercy, Assistant Athletic Director for Communications

Five-set SAA thriller highlights Saturday sweep for Centre

SEWANEE, Tenn. – Centre volleyball had much to celebrate Saturday, earning a pair of wins against Sewanee (3-2) and Covenant (3-0) inside Juhan Gymnasium.
 
The Colonels improve to 6-1 with the two victories and are 1-0 in Southern Athletic Association action following their first win over Sewanee since 2017.
 
GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
- Centre defeated Sewanee 24-26, 25-18, 25-17, 24-26, 15-7 in Saturday's opener.
- The two sides see-sawed back and forth across a tight opening set, but the hosts claimed the final two points to take an early advantage, 26-24. The Colonels rallied to take set two, hitting .429 as a team while overcoming a 15-11 deficit midway through.
- Centre took control of set three early, leading by as many as eight points to swing the match and put Sewanee on the brink of defeat.
- The Tigers responded in the fourth. The Colonels led 17-10 and seemed poised to close the match out, but Sewanee finished on a 16-7 run to force the decisive fifth set.
- The Colonels left little doubt in the fifth, hitting .500 overall while getting multiple kills from Katie Hall and Brooke Palmer to put Sewanee away.
- Hall led the team with 16 kills on a sharp .324 attack percentage, adding three block assists. Palmer followed with 10 kills, turning in a double-double with 13 digs, and Isabel Thornton had a season-high nine kills.
- Madi Barron paced the Colonels with 18 digs, followed by Lily Hendricks's 13.
- Meredith Phillips neared a season high with 44 assists.
 
GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
- Centre defeated Covenant 25-23, 25-21, 25-14 to complete the Saturday sweep.
- The Colonels got another double-double from Palmer, who had a team high 11 kills to go with 11 digs.
- Eleanor Davis followed with eight kills, adding a pair of block assists, and Thornton provided seven kills.
- Barron racked up 20 digs, marking the third 20-plus effort of the season and first in a three-set match.
- Centre totaled a season-high 14 services aces – the most by the program since Sept. 14, 2019. June Padilla had three while Barron and Palmer finished with three apiece.
 
UP NEXT
Centre returns home Sept. 14 to take on Berea at 7 p.m.
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