WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Concord University volleyball team dropped a hard-fought, five-set match in to Winston-Salem State (25-17, 27-25, 19-25, 19-25, 15-10) in non-conference action Tuesday night at Whitaker Gymnasium.
WSSU (13-6) won the first two sets of the match by scores of 25-17 and 27-25. The second set included a 10-5 run to take a commanding 2-0 set lead.
However, the Mountain Lions (7-21) battled back to win the third set 25-19. After leading 19-17, freshman middle hitter
Brooke Heck and junior middle hitter
Lauren Richardson each came up with two kills while sophomore middle hitter
Alexis Elliott recorded a kill to lead CU to a third set win.
The fourth set would go back-and-forth between Concord and the Rams before CU rattled off an 8-2 run to win the fourth game 25-19. A host of WSSU errors coupled with a kill each from Elliott, Richardson and freshman middle hitter
Lindsay Lannen allowed the Mountain Lions to even the match 2-2.
Winston-Salem State jumped out to a 10-3 lead in the fifth set en route to a 15-10 win.
Elliott matched her career-high with 16 kills while also contributing 15 digs, tying her personal-best in digs as well. Heck added 15 kills and five blocks in the match.
Freshman outside hitter
Alexi Pranckus contributed 12 kills and 12 digs for the match. Freshman setter
Jayden Jacobs had a 30-assist match by handing out 31 assists.
Concord jumps back into Mountain East Conference play 7:00 p.m. Friday at home versus West Liberty.
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