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Winner Truman TSU 16-12, 9-7 GLVC
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Quincy QU 12-17, 6-10 GLVC
Winner
Truman TSU
16-12, 9-7 GLVC
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Final
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Quincy QU
12-17, 6-10 GLVC
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
Truman TSU 28 25 22 25 15 (3)
Quincy QU 30 12 25 23 13 (2)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | Tyler Madsen, Athletics Communications

Volleyball outlasts Hawks behind Heise's career night

QUINCY, Ill. - - Abby Heise's career night helped give the Truman volleyball team a much-needed road victory, as the senior not only became the newest member of the Bulldogs' 1,000 career kill club but also logged the program's first triple-double in nearly a decade during a 3-2 win at Quincy on Tuesday night.
 
Heise, who entered the match with 993 career kills, finished with one of the most versatile stat lines that a player can post, as the Jacksonville, Ill.,-native closed her evening with 12 kills, 31 assists, and 18 digs. She joins fellow senior teammate Ali Patterson (11 kills, five blocks on the night) as the second player this season to surpass 1,000 career kills, while also becoming the first Bulldog since Kelsey Wackerman (Nov. 10, 2006 – NCAA regional semifinal) to finish with a triple-double.
 
As for the match itself, the nearly 2.5-hour long marathon saw almost everything – an extra point first set that went in favor of Quincy, 30-28; a blowout second set that Truman (16-12, 9-7 GLVC) cruised to a 25-12 win; back-to-back nailbiting third and fourth sets, in which both teams posted valiant rallies late to try and flip the script; and a fifth set that meshed a little bit of everything from sets two, three, and four. Truman opened up a 9-2 lead on QU, only to see the hosts fight back and draw even at 11-all. After the teams went to 12-12, outside hitters Jasmine Brown and Kayla Bastian put down a kill apiece to give the purple and white a 14-12 lead. Quincy (12-17, 6-10 GLVC) bounced back with a kill before Heise put the cherry on top of her career night with a match-ending kill for 15-13.
 
While Heise's numbers stole the show individually, three other Bulldogs set new personal-bests on the evening, as redshirt freshman Claire Wandrey moved into a tie for 10th all-time for a single match at Truman with a 32-dig effort. Junior Kayleen Green totaled a new career-high 18 digs as well, while junior Bailey O'Drobinak hit .259 with a new career-best 12 kills. She was one of four Bulldogs to finish in double-figures offensively, as, just three nights removed from finishing with 39 kills as a team in a five-set win against then-No. 18 Lewis, Truman got 16 kills from Bastian, 12 apiece from Heise and O'Drobinak, and 11 from Patterson. Freshman Bailey Mason added eight, and junior Lacey Hill came off the bench to added seven.
 
One match after setting her own new career-high with 33 digs against Lewis, Bastian finished second on the team on the night with 26 digs, while Heise, Green, and senior Kassi Schroeder each tallied 18. Truman hit .202 for the night and held Quincy to just a .100 hitting line.
 
As a team, Truman's 131 digs and 243 hitting attempts both set new 25-point rally-scoring era records. The digs were the most by a Bulldog team since a 135 dig night at Missouri Southern on Nov. 1, 2002, while the hitting attempts marked the largest total since needing 245 in a match against Central Missouri on Oct. 15, 2003. Both of those came in the 30-point rally-scoring era.
 
The win keeps the Bulldogs in the hunt for a Great Lakes Valley Conference postseason bid with two regular season matches to play. Both will come this weekend in Pershing Arena, beginning on Friday night at 7 p.m. against William Jewell. The team will celebrate Senior Night on Saturday at 6 p.m. when No. 7 Rockhurst visits Pershing Arena in the 2015 regular season finale.
 
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