Mercer Volleyball Falls While The Citadel Remains Undefeated

Friday, October 27

Macon, Ga.

6 p.m.

Mercer University

12-11,8-4SoCon

The Citadel

23-0,11-0SoCon

The Citadel

Mercer

Mercer Volleyball Falls While The Citadel Remains Undefeated

10/27/2023 7:45:00 PM | Volleyball

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MACON – The Bears fought and fell to the conference-leading Bulldogs in three sets at Hawkins Arena on Friday night.

Set one was promising, fighting from a 5-0 deficit to tie the match at 13 and take the lead 14-13. The set was tied up at 20, but The Citadel narrowly took the win by four points. Set two was evenly played until a 10-10 tie. From that point, The Citadel went on a 15-0 run to quickly end the set. The third set was similarly dominated by the Dogs, extending a steady lead from start to finish only trailing the first point of the set.

The Bears will travel to Greenville to play Furman on Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.

MATCH SUMMARY
FINAL SCORE	Mercer 0, Citadel 3 (21-25, 10-25, 14-25)
RECORDS	Mercer 12-11 (8-4 SoCon); Citadel 23-0 (11-0 SoCon)
ARENA	Hawkins Arena (Macon, Ga.)

MATCH REPLAY
SET 1 I 21-25	After The Citadel got off to a quick 5-0 start, the Bears finally got on the board with a service error, followed by a block by Mykole Morgan and Kiera McCarles and a kill by Gia Padilla for two more points. After digging into the lead bit by bit, the Bears took their first lead of the match to send it into the media time out at 15-14. Skyler Bumpers scored her second kill of the night immediately after resuming play. Mercer took a timeout after Citadel took a 20-22 lead but only scored once more before Citadel reached 25.
SET 2 I 10-25	While the Bulldogs scored first, the Bears struck back with an opening point of their own and started set two much closer than set one before falling to 5-8 and calling a timeout. Back-to-back kills by Skyler Bumpers and Mykole Morgan brought the Bears within one. After being tied at 10, the Bulldogs went on a 15-0 run to end the set.
SET 3 I 14-25	For the first time in two days, the Bears were the first team to score to open the set. Mercer stayed down four to six points up to the media timeout at 9-15. Despite some powerful kills and an ace, they could not muster enough momentum to slow down the conference leader.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
KILLS	Aliyah Waldon (9), Kylee Quigley (7), Mykole Morgan (4), Skyler Bumpers (4)
ASSISTS	Kiera McCarles (25)
DIGS	Gia Padilla (13), Aliyah Waldon (10), Kylee Quigley (7)
BLOCKS	Aliyah Waldon (1), Skyler Bumpers (1), Mykole Morgan (1), Kylee Quigley (1), Gia Padilla (1), Kiera McCarles (1), Hannah White (1)
SERVICE ACES	Gia Padilla (1), Kylee Quigley (1)

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