WASHINGTON – Gallaudet University's women's volleyball team toppled the Tigers of Trinity Washington University, 3-0, here Thursday night on Padden Court in the Field House.
The match was originally scheduled to be played at Trinity Washington but got moved the day before to GU's campus. The Bison (15-9) defeated Trinity Washington (0-3) by the scores of 25-4, 25-5, 25-4 in a dominant one-hour long match.
First-year opposite hitter
Aliyah Medearis (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and first-year defensive specialist
Sirrah Wilding (Santa Fe, N.M.) topped Gallaudet's kills list with seven each. First year
Zami Thompson (Austin, Texas) totaled nine digs in the match to lead the team. First-year setter
Gracie Gloster (Clark, N.J.) led all players with 16 assists.
Gallaudet finished with 21 kills and a .283 hitting percentage while limiting Trinity Washington to four kills and a -.357 hitting percentage. From the service line, the Bison were electric, as they tallied 21 aces and only two service errors.
Each set in this match had an incredible individual serving display from a player. Graduate Student
Adriana Jimenez Bonilla (East Elmhurst, N.Y.) opened set one with a 7-0 service run. In Set 2, Medearis stepped to the line at 11-5 and didn't leave the line until the set was over, serving the remaining 14 points of the set. Set 3 opened with a hitting error for each team. Gloster went back to serve at 1-1 and served 17 times to bring the score to 17-1 before pushing a ball long.
Trinity Washington was paced by Trinity Bennet who had two kills, one ace, six digs. Gilary Matos-Jacinto led the team in digs with 10.
BISON TRACKS
- Gallaudet's 21 aces are the most they have had in a match this year.
- The two service errors were their fewest in a match this season.
- Gallaudet has swept Trinity Washington the last three times (2022, '24, '26), coincidently on even calendar years.
- First year Nirveli Smith (Henrietta, N.Y. ) posted a career high in kills with three
- Wilding had her first kill of her career and finished with a career-high (seven).
UP NEXT
The Bison will be back on the road Saturday, Oct. 24, at noon taking on the Nittany Lions of Penn St.-Brandywine in Media, Pa., in another important conference match.
