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SEATTLE – With back-to-back sweeps, one might expect that Abbie Wright would be quite pleased with how things went on the volleyball court for Seattle Pacific this week … and she was.
 
But Saturday's victory against Montana State Billings felt especially good to the Falcons' head coach.
 
Hannah Lautenbach and Symone Tran each recorded double-doubles, and Gabby Oddo hit a career-high .474, leading SPU past the Yellowjackets in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference match in Brougham Pavilion.
 
Scores were 25-19, 25-16, 25-14.
 
Coupled with Tuesday's victory at Saint Martin's, the Falcons have put consecutive 3-0 wins into the book for the first time since September 2016, against Humboldt State and Cal State Dominguez Hills in the D2 West Region Showcase.
 
They needed just 69 minutes to take care of Billings.
 
"This was a team win tonight, more so than others," Wright said. "Some of the things we've been working on in practice translated over into the match. It makes me happy to see that direct correlation, and hearing our bench calling out what we needed to do.
 
"Not only did we get better physically (as the match progressed), we were also mentally checked in," Wright added. "And seeing the girls having fun out there, that was great."

 

With six matches remaining, SPU (12-10, 7-7 GNAC) now has surpassed last year's overall win total, when it finished 11-17.

Senior middle blocker / opposite Lautenbach had 11 kills and 11 digs for her 11th double-double of the season and 21st of her career. Junior setter Tran came up with 30 assists and 13 digs. It was her third straight double-double, 13th of the year and 42nd of her career.
 
Sophomore outside hitter Oddo had 10 kills and just one error on 19 attacks for her .474 hitting mark. That was her first time in the .400s, her previous best being .385 (10-0-26) in a sweep of Western Oregon in Brougham on Sept. 16.
 
The Falcons never trailed in the match, and were tied just eight times – six in Game 1, and twice in Game 2. They used a 4-0 run in each of those games to go ahead for good.
 
Coming back from the intermission, SPU quickly built a 9-3 advantage in Game 3 and was never seriously threatened by the Yellowjackets (7-17, 3-11 GNAC).
 
SPU racked up another eight service aces on Saturday to go along with season-high 11 it had at Saint Martin's on Tuesday. Junior libero Amanda Ganete, who returned to action after missing three matches with an injury, sent three of those across the net. That included two straight near the end of the opener to set up game point, which the Falcons promptly converted.
 
"Once we got into a rhythm, it was good to see," Wright said. "It was cool to see them have confidence in that area."
 
BY THE NUMBERS
-- Of the 18 points Ganete served, Seattle Pacific scored on 12 of them. The team leader in digs, she came up with nine.
-- The Falcons hit .265 (42 kills-15 errors-102 attacks), their second-highest mark of the season. The only one better was .275 (75-25-182) in a five-game win at Alaska Fairbanks on Sept. 21.
-- Along with Gabby Oddo's .474, Hannah Lautenbach hit .258 (11-3-31), Colleen Hannigan was at .250 (9-4-20, the 9 kills tying her season high), and Symone Tran was at .750 (3-0-4), with her 14th error-free match of the season.
-- SPU limited Billings to just .053 hitting (21-16-95), as the Yellowjackets had just half as many kills as the Falcons' 42. That was the lowest percentage by any opponent this fall.
 
UP NEXT
Seattle Pacific is on the road this coming week, visiting Central Washington in Ellensburg on Thursday at 7:00 p.m., and Northwest Nazarene in Nampa, Idaho, next Saturday at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time. NNU won in five games, and Central prevailed in four earlier this month in Brougham Pavilion.

 
NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017
Brougham Pavilion / Seattle, Wash.
 
Seattle Pacific 3, Montana State Billings 0
 
Game scores – 25-19, 25-16, 25-14.
 
Service aces – MSUB 2 (2 players with 1), SPU 8 (Amanda Ganete 3).
Kills – MSUB 21 (Taylor Sherman 5), SPU 42 (Hannah Lautenbach 11, Gabby Oddo 10).
Assists – MSUB 19 (Kylee Clarke 9), SPU 39 (Symone Tran 30).
Digs – MSUB 40 (Izela Alvarez 14), SPU 50 (Tran 13, Lautenbach 11).
Block assists / solo – MSUB 8 / 1 solo (Miranda McConnall, Hali Ehresmann, and Maddi Vigil all 2 / 0 solo), SPU 8 / 1 solo (Shaun Crespi 2 / 1 solo).
Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – MSUB 21-16-95--.053, SPU 42-15-102--.265 (Gabby Oddo 10-1-19--.474).
Attendance – 101.
 
Records – Seattle Pacific 12-10, 7-7 GNAC.  Montana State Billings 7-17, 3-11 GNAC).
 
 
Next match
Seattle Pacific at Central Washington
Thursday, Nov. 2        7:00 p.m.
Nicholson Pavilion / Ellensburg, Wash.