SDSU BEATS EASTERN WASHINGTON, 3-2

Saturday, September 3

Brookings, S.D.

11:00am

South Dakota State University

3-2,0-0Summit League

Eastern Washington

2-3,0-0Big Sky

Eastern Wash.

South Dakota St.

9/3/2022 4:07:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

South Dakota State volleyball battled to a five-set win (25-21, 25-23, 24-26, 14-25, 15-11) over Eastern Washington Saturday at Frost Arena. The Jackrabbits improve to 3-2 on the year while the Eagles fall to 2-3.

Crystal Burk recorded the 1000th dig of her Jackrabbit career early in the match and ended the day with 18 digs, bringing her career total to 1,017. Burk led all players with 24 kills, three shy of her career high.

Elyse Winter attacked at a .412 clip and put down 16 kills for the Jackrabbits, the best outing of her career. Setter Raegen Reilly gave out 47 assists and led the Jacks with four blocks while adding eight digs and two kills.

Faith Saewert tallied 22 digs and five aces in her first start at libero this season. Katie Van Egdom contributed 10 digs.

Looking to avenge Friday night's five-set loss to the Eagles, the Jackrabbits came out firing Saturday and quickly took a 9-1 lead in game one. SDSU's offense was dominant in that run, notching seven kills to go with two service aces from Saewert. Later in the set, EWU used a 10-1 run to cut the deficit to one at 21-20. The Jacks ended the set with four of the last five points for the 25-21 win.

A pair of kills by Burk gave the Jacks a 4-2 lead in set two before a 7-1 stretch for the Eagles gave the visitors a 9-5 lead. The Jacks strung together a run of their own to regain the edge at 12-10 with help from three Sydney Andrews kills. The sides battled for advantage through the rest of the set with the Jacks finally finishing it off, 25-23, after a kill and a block from Akeela Jefferson.

The Jackrabbits looked on their way to completing the sweep, taking a 14-9 lead over the Eagles in set three. EWU rallied with an 8-2 run to tie the set at 17-all and went on to take a 20-19 lead. The remainder of the game saw five ties and the Eagles needed a few extra points to win 26-24. Set four also went the Eagles' way. EWU jumped out to an 11-5 lead and held SDSU to a negative attack rate for the 25-14 victory, forcing a fifth set.

SDSU opened the tiebreak set with back-to-back kills and a service ace en route to a 5-0 lead over the Eagles. The Jacks extended that lead to 9-2 and then 11-4 before the Eagles made a push to put themselves back in the match. A 6-1 EWU run cut SDSU's lead to just two points at 12-10. Burk added two more kills in the final few points and the Jacks held the Eagles off the rest of the way.

NOTES

Crystal Burk has recorded double-digit kills in all five SDSU matches this season. She has four double-doubles on the year.
Raegen Reilly's four blocks is a new career best.
Jadyn Makovicka brought her career digs total to 969. That total is split between her time at Rockhurst (829) and SDSU (140).
SDSU is 1-2 in five-set matches this season and 1-1 at home.

UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits travel to Sioux Falls Tuesday for a neutral-site matchup with Chicago State at the Sanford Pentagon. First serve is set for 7 p.m.

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