South Dakota State volleyball picked up a 3-1 (25-23, 21-25, 25-17, 25-23) win over North Dakota State Tuesday night at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse. The victory gets the Jackrabbits back in the win column after a five-match losing streak.
SDSU moves to 11-13 on the season and 5-7 in the Summit League. NDSU’s loss is only its third of the conference season as the Bison are now 7-3 in league action (17-8 overall).
The biggest difference in the final stats came at the serving line, where the Jackrabbits recorded 10 aces compared to just one by the Bison. Ella Thompson led all played with four aces, then the Jacks got two apiece from Crystal Burk, Masa Scheierman and Elyse Winter.
The rest of the box score was fairly even. NDSU had the edge in kills (57-56), assists (54-51) and digs (81-64) while SDSU led in total attacks (173-159) and total blocks (11-10). The Jacks committed four serving errors and two blocking errors compared to three serving errors and one blocking error by the Bison.
SDSU’s offense was powered by a match-high 22 kills from Burk, who also had 14 digs and two blocks to go with her two aces. Scheierman added 10 kills, three digs and a block, followed by Thompson’s nine kills, five blocks and four digs.
Sydney Andrews paced the defense with six blocks on the night. She also had four kills and an assist. Elyse Winter also took part in five blocks while chipping in seven kills.
Jadyn Makovicka notched 19 digs for SDSU. Burk’s 14 was next, followed by eight digs for Katie Van Egdom and six for Alia Schlimgen. Setter Raegen Reilly gave out 37 assists and chipped in five digs and two kills.
