Racers Sweep SEMO, Clinch Share of OVC Title

Saturday, November 7

Racer Arena

2 p.m.

Murray State

23-2, 13-1OVC

Southeast Missouri

10-17, 6-8OVC

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Southeast Missouri	18	23	17	0
Murray State	25	25	25	3

Photo by: Dave Winder-Murray State Athletics

11/7/2015 4:05:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

The Murray State volleyball team picked up a home sweep Saturday afternoon as the Racers defeated Southeast Missouri 25-18, 25-23 and 25-17. The win pushes MSU's program record home winning streak to 18 matches.

Audrey Lewis led the Racers (23-2, 13-1 OVC) with a career-high 12 kills and hit .500. Lewis also added a team-high 11 digs and had two total blocks. Scottie Ingram became just the eighth member of both the 1,000-kills and 1,000-digs club in the match as she tallied 10 kills and nine digs. Ingram needed just four digs to become the 18^th member of the 1,000-digs club after reaching the 1,000-kills club last evening.

Alyssa Lelm and Taylor Olden added nine kills each in the win while Sam Bedard had 41 assists, six digs, five kills, a team-best two aces and two blocking assists on the day. Ellie Lorenz notched 10 digs in the match.

MSU hit .215 as a team on the day and had four service aces and a sideout percentage of 62 percent. SEMO (10-17, 6-8 OVC) hit .172 as a squad, had just one ace and recorded a sideout percentage of 48 percent.

With Belmont's loss this evening at Tennessee Tech, the Racers have clinched a share of their second consecutive OVC regular season title and will host the OVC Tournament Nov. 19-21.

The Racers return to action Wednesday as they travel to face Austin Peay in a 7 p.m. match.