BELLINGHAM, Wash. ---
Hannah Hair had 24 kills in two matches combined, but Seattle Pacific dropped both ends of a doubleheader at Western Washington on Saturday to wrap up its spring volleyball schedule.
The Vikings won the opener in four sets, 25-21, 23-25, 25-22, 25-20. It was another four-setter for WWU in the second match, this time by scores of 25-23, 27-25, 23-25, 25-23.
SPU, which swept Western Washington on Friday night for the first time since 2009, concluded its season with an 11-7 record.
Match 1
Hannah Hair
Freshman middle blocker Hair slammed 11 kills and had just two errors on 25 attacks for a .360 hitting percentage. Senior outside hitter
Maddie Batiste and junior outside hitter
Erin Gould added nine kills apiece. But Seattle Pacific hit just .093 as a team.
Redshirt freshman outside hitter
Lindsay Rosenthal came up with a team-leading 19 digs, just one shy of her career high. Batiste had 14 digs.
Hair also was busy on the block with five total, including a solo.
Match 2
Hair was even more on target in the second match than she was in the opener. She led the way with 13 kills with just one errors on 21 attacks for a .571 percentage.
Redshirt freshman opposite
Maddie Pruden added 10 kills and hit .233.
Sophomore setter
Lindsey Lambert logged her team-high ninth double-double of the season, this one with 37 assists and 17 digs.
Hair finished the season with a .340 hitting percentage. That ranked No. 2 in the conference, just six percentage points behind the .346 of Western Washington's Olivia Fairchild.
It was the highest hitting mark by a Falcon since 2012 when freshman Jackie Arnold hit .362.
With nine total blocks on Saturday, Hair finished with the top average in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. She had 90 for the season (seven solo) for an average of 1.34 per cent. WWU's Fairchild averaged 1.31 per set.
NCAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Carver Gymnasium / Bellingham, Wash.
MATCH 1
Western Washington 3, Seattle Pacific 1
Game scores – 25-21, 23-25, 25-22, 25-20.
Service aces – SPU 5 (Batiste 2), WWU 6 (Payne 3).
Kills – SPU 43 (Hair 11), WWU 53 (Heilborn 14, Honrud 14).
Assists – SPU 38 (Lambert 28), WWU 51 (Payne 46).
Digs – SPU 66 (Rosenthal 19, Batiste 14), WWU 69 (Woodruff 18).
Block assists / solo – SPU 16 / 1 solo (Hair 4 / 1 solo), WWU 16 / 2 solo (Maracich 4 / 1 solo).
Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – SPU 43-29-151—.093 (Hair 11-2-25—.360), WWU 53-25-156—.179 (Honrud 14-4-33—.303).
MATCH 2
Western Washington 3, Seattle Pacific 1
Game scores – 25-23, 27-25, 23-25, 25-23.
Service aces – SPU 8 (Shuckhart 3), WWU 6 (Davenport 2, Aleaga 2).
Kills – SPU 59 (Hair 13, Pruden 10), WWU 59 (Honrud 17).
Assists – SPU 56 (Lambert 37), WWU 55 (Payne 50).
Digs – SPU 83 (Lambert 17, Rosenthal 15), Batiste 10, Antoniak 10), WWU 70 (Lologo 23).
Block assists / solo – SPU 12 / 0 solo (Hair 4 / 0 solo), WWU 16 / 3 solo (Roetcisoender 6 / 2 solo).
Hitting (kills-errors-attacks) – SPU 53-23-162—.222 (Hair 13-1-21—.571), WWU 59-17-168—.250 (Heilborn 16-1-53—.283).