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BELLINGHAM, Wash. –
Symone Tran put together her 15th double-double of the year, and
Colleen Hannigan recorded her third, but No. 18-ranked Western Washington had the advantage for a good portion of the way to beat Seattle Pacific in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match on Thursday night.
Scores in the Whatcom CC Pavilion were 25-20, 25-22, 25-15.
Symone Tran
Sophomore setter Tran (Portland, Ore) had 33 assists and 11 digs, giving her 28 career double-doubles. Tran's assist total pushed her past 1,800 for her career. She now has 1,815.
Junior outside hitter Hannigan (Brentwood, Calif.) led the Falcons (10-15, 6-11 GNAC) with 11 kills and added 12 digs. All three of her career double-doubles have come this season. She also hit .200, with just three errors on 40 attacks.
Abbey Lautenbach
Freshman middle blocker
Abbey Lautenbach (Portland, Ore.) played error-free, with four kills on eight attacks for a career-best .500 hitting percentage. Sophomore libero
Amanda Ganete (Hillsboro, Ore.) led SPU with 19 digs, one of four Falcons in double digits.
Seattle Pacific hung close to the Vikings (18-7, 14-3 GNAC) throughout the first two games, hitting .208 in Game 1 and .200 in Game 2.
"The first two games, we played pretty well," coach
Chris Johnson said. "We came out aggressive, and I really liked the way we were swinging. Colleen played especially great."
The Falcons wind up their 2016 road schedule at Simon Fraser on Saturday in Burnaby, B.C. The first serve is at 7:00 p.m.
WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE
Western had a 12-9 lead in the first game before SPU went on a 6-2 run to take a 15-14 edge. The Vikings then ran off four in a row and stayed in front the rest of the way.
Seattle Pacific had the upper hand for the first half of Game 2, leading by as many as three. The score was tied at 19-19 when Western Washington put four of the next five points on the board.
Western bolted to a 5-1 lead in the third game. SPU twice cut it to two, the last time at 7-5. The Vikings went on a 7-1 roll, expanding it to 14-6, and took it in from there.
Michaela Hall was the only WWU player in double-digit kills, finishing with 10. But she and five of her teammates had attack totals ranging from14 to 29, with one going for nine kills and three more adding eight apiece.
"Western is a very balanced team that doesn't make mistakes," Johnson said. "They run a 6-2 (system), and all six had double-digit attacks. You can't just pick out one or two – you have to defend all six of them."
The Falcons finished with a .170 hitting percentage (38 kills-15 errors-135 attacks). Besides Hannigan (11-3-40) and
Abbey Lautenbach (4-0-8), two other SPU players –
Hannah Lautenbach (7-3-32) and
Lexi Biondi (6-3-32) – kept their errors within Johnson's goal of 10 percent or less of total attacks.
Western hit .317 (48-9-123), led by the error-free mark of sophomore middle blocker Kayleigh Harper (9-0-16—.562).
NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016
Whatcom CC Pavilion / Bellingham, Wash.
(No. 18) Western Washington 3, Seattle Pacific 0
Game scores – 25-20, 25-22, 25-15.
Service aces – SPU 1 (
Amanda Ganete 1), WWU 3 (Brette Boesen 2).
Kills – SPU 38 (
Colleen Hannigan 11), WWU 48 (Michaela Hall 10).
Assists – SPU 36 (
Symone Tran 33), WWU 46 (Boesel 26).
Digs – SPU 64 (Ganete 19, Hannigan 12,
Hannah Lautenbach 11, Tran 11), WWU 74 (Aubrey Buckner 25).
Block assists / total blocks – SPU 4 / 0 solo (
Abbey Lautenbach 2 / 0 solo), WWU 12 / 2 solo (Hall 4 / 0 solo, Kayleigh Harper 2 / 2 solo).
Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – SPU 38-15-135—.170 (A. Lautenbach 4-0-8—.500), WWU 48-9-123—.317 (Harper 9-0-16—.562.
Attendance – 262.
Records – Seattle Pacific 10-15, 6-11 GNAC. Western Washington 18-7, 14-3 GNAC.
Next match
Seattle Pacific at Simon Fraser
Saturday, 7:00 p.m.
West Gym / Burnaby, B.C.
