RIVER FOREST, Ill. – Marian University women’s volleyball (14-10, 6-5 NACC) sweeps Concordia University of Chicago 25-15, 25-23, and 26-24.

  • The Sabres jumped out to a quick 6-1 lead to start set one.
  • Marian would not let up the momentum behind a 9-4 to extend its lead.
  • The remainder of set one would see each team trading points with CUC holding the advantage 11-10 but the Sabres took set one.
  • Marian opened set two with a quick 3-0 run but CUC answered on a 4-0 run of its own and take its first lead of the night.
  • After a tie at 10-10 neither team would extend its lead larger than two but the Sabres would take the slim advantage 15-13 to take set two.
  • Set three started off in similar fashion as set two with the teams trading points to start the game 5-5.
  • CUC would jump out to a 13-10 lead behind a couple Sabre attacking errors.
  • The Sabres would climb back in and take the lead at 16-15.
  • Marian ended the game with a slim advantage 10-9 and would take the game behind two Sabre kills.
  • Marian had the advantage in kills 35-29 and hitting percentage .186 to the Cougars .063.
  • The Sabres were held under 10 kills in the first and second set but forced 18 CUC attacking errors.
  • Each team would record seven aces but the Sabres led in every other statistical category.