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Embry-Riddle (FL) ERAU 5-2,0-0 Sunshine State
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Winner Quincy Quincy 9-0,0-0 GLVC
Embry-Riddle (FL) ERAU
5-2,0-0 Sunshine State
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Final
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Quincy Quincy
9-0,0-0 GLVC
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Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Embry-Riddle (FL) ERAU 27 25 22 19 (1)
Quincy Quincy 29 11 25 25 (3)
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Winner Embry-Riddle (FL) ERAU 6-2,0-0 Sunshine State
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North Greenville NG 3-7,1-0 Conference Carolinas
Winner
Embry-Riddle (FL) ERAU
6-2,0-0 Sunshine State
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Final
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North Greenville NG
3-7,1-0 Conference Carolinas
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Embry-Riddle (FL) ERAU 25 27 25 (3)
North Greenville NG 16 25 17 (0)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Kyrin Mayfield | @k_mayfield97

McBride Reaches Milestone; Volleyball Spits Two Matches at Lee Invitational

CLEVELAND, Tenn. - Senior Jaden McBride left her mark in the Embry-Riddle volleyball record books on multiple occasions on Friday at the Lee Invitational. Over the course of the Eagles' two matches, a 3-1 loss to RV Quincy and a 3-0 sweep of North Greenville, McBride managed to record her 1,000th career dig. Additionally, her 36 kills on the day vaulted the St. John's, Florida native from eighth to fifth on the program's all-time kills list in a single day with 1,321 total successful spikes. 

It was the program's first-ever meeting with Quincy whereas it was the third matchup with North Greenville. The Eagles are still undefeated against the Trailblazers with a 3-0 all-time record. 


RV Quincy - 3, Embry-Riddle - 1

Embry-Riddle had to work for its first five points, all of which were a result of kills. Isabella Rujano had three in that span to keep the Eagles within one point at 6-5. Quincy strung together a 5-1 spurt to put ERAU behind 12-8, but soon after, the Eagles went on a 6-1 run of their own to tie the set at 16-16. Later on, Ruby Owen smashed the ball to the court to give ERAU an opportunity to claim the set point at 24-22, but the Hawks scored two straight points. Dana Gibbons and Rujano gave the Eagles another chance to take the set with a stout block to break a 25-25 tie, but Quincy stayed close and eventually took the set 29-27.

That narrow loss lit a fire inside the Eagles as they began the second set on an 8-1 charge, and the sizable lead continued to grow to 13-3. At one point the Blue and Gold was hitting .526 in the set. The lead hovered around 10 until ERAU put another run together by scoring six consecutive points to go up 21-6 and win set two 25-11. Owen was dominant all set, tallying seven kills and a block. The Eagles outblocked the Hawks 4-0 in the set and held them to just eight kills. 

Quincy answered in the third set by taking three of the first four points and later led 8-4. Moments later, Embry-Riddle put yet another 6-0 streak in place to swipe the lead (12-9) led by triple kills from McBride. The set remained close until the score was 22-22 when the Hawks rattled off three points in a row to go up two sets to one. 

The momentum carried over into the fourth set as Quincy began with a 7-1 run. The deficit continued to grow to 18-6 for ERAU when the Eagles battled to keep the match alive by scoring nine of the next 10 points to get within four points (19-15). However, the Hawks closed it out with a 25-19 set win. 

McBride (17 kills, 16 digs), Rujano (17 kills, 14 digs, 5 blocks) and Ashlyn Koerner (28 assists, 12 digs) all earned double-doubles while Owen set a career-high in kills with 12 to go along with four rejections. Lexie Hage chipped in 18 assists while Gabriela Pagan accumulated a team-high 23 digs, the most in a four-set match by an SSC student-athlete in 2024. Gibbons and Haley Manjack led the squad with six blocks each. 

The Eagles outhit the Hawks .204 to .170, which was the sixth time in seven games ERAU held an opponent under .200 in the hit percentage column. The Blue and Gold also set a season-high in digs with 78, which is the second-most by a Sunshine State Conference member in a four-set match this season. Additionally, the Eagles' 55 assists tied for the second-most in the SSC in a match under five sets while their 58 kills tied for the third most. 


Embry-Riddle - 3, North Greenville - 0

After dropping the first point, the Eagles responded by taking seven of the next nine to go up 7-3. ERAU kept its distance, leading 13-9 before going on a four-point streak with a pair of points from both McBride and Rujano. The Blue and Gold later captured five of the final six tallies to take set one 25-16. McBride took control of the set with eight-and-a-half points from six kills, two aces and a block assist. 

Halfway through the second set, Embry-Riddle found itself in a 10-6 hole. From there, McBride sent three spikes to NGU's side of the court to help propel the Eagles on an 8-2 streak. The Trailblazers answered with four unanswered scores due to three Eagle errors, and ERAU soon fell behind 23-18. The Blue and Gold never lost hope, though, because the Eagles scored five straight from another trio of kills by McBride to tie the score 23-23. Embry-Riddle fended off two set points before Owen found an opening for a kill, Rujano and Manjack recorded an emphatic rejection, and Rujano completed the comeback with a precise spike to claim set two 27-25. 

Set three was controlled early on by North Greenville. After Embry-Riddle inched ahead 2-1, NGU took the ensuing seven points with three blocks included to make the score 8-2. The Eagles pushed back with five unanswered points of their own, this time led by two from Gibbons, to get within one point. Now even at 14, ERAU pieced together a 7-1 spurt to go well ahead of NGU at 21-15. Like in the previous set, Rujano capped it off with a kill for the Blue and Gold's fifth sweep of the season. 

Embry-Riddle held the Trailblazers to a sub-.100 hit percentage in each of the three sets and more than doubled up NGU's kill total, 48 to 21. 

McBride set a season high in points with 23 and kills with 19 to go with seven digs and three aces. Rujano contributed 13 kills and five digs. Gibbons saw a season high in kills with seven. Koerner accumulated 22 assists while Hage grabbed 19. Manjack earned five blocks, and Pagan picked up 13 digs.

Non-conference play concludes for the Eagles on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. with a regional match against Lee.
The 2024 Embry-Riddle volleyball season is presented by Radiology Associates.
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