Auburn stays perfect with sweep of North Florida

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It may well not have been a Sunday stroll by means of the park but Auburn Volleyball (8-, -) made rapid work of North Florida (1-7, -) in sweeping manner, 3- (25-18, 25-16, 25-19).

Contemporary off her finest overall performance as a Tiger, Chelsey Harmon stored her momentum rolling into Sunday. Two kills early in the set permitted Auburn to continue to keep the Ospreys at arm’s length.

While the Orange and Blue reset blocking information a working day earlier, it took Kendal Kemp and Jackie Barrett midway as a result of the to start with established to file the team’s initially of the working day. When the Tiger obtained rolling, on the other hand, the block bash was in whole swing.

Four rejections, which includes two from Harmon gave Auburn the separation it wanted to end off the first frame, especially with Madison Scheer grabbing 4 kills at a clip of .571.

Akasha Anderson and Madison Scheer seemed to have taken anything personally in the 2nd set. Both attained the 7-destroy mark by the close of the second with Scheer hitting a crew-superior .462. The Eureka, Missouri was 1 of two Tigers to strike north of .400 with Harmon shut at the rear of at an even .400 entering the third.

Head mentor Brent Crouch’s crew also cranked up the serving hard work in the 2nd stanza. Cassidy Tanton and Jackie Barrett each added aces, enabling Auburn to run off 3 and four-position streaks while the two have been serving.

Barrett, the junior from Highland, California was accomplishing just about every little thing on Sunday. The setter claimed two aces as a result of the to start with two sets along with a few blocks and completed with her 1st double-double of the time (28 assists, 10 digs).

Defensively, the Tigers have been equal pieces sturdy at the internet and in the back row. The mixture of Kemp and Harmon leading the charge in the entrance with Morton, Fallan Lanham and Zoe Slaughter in the back held North Florida to just .030 hitting in the 2nd set and gave the Orange and Blue a commanding two-established lead.

Anderson impressively located an additional gear to begin the third set. Immediately piling up seven kills, the freshman suddenly experienced a match-superior 14.

In the meantime, the Osprey’s had no intention of returning to the Sunshine Condition soon after finding swept. A mini-operate at the services line gave UNF a a few-stage direct at the midway level.

A very well-timed timeout in the 3rd from Crouch reset the focus on blocking and the Tigers put the pedal to the steel. Back-to-back blocks from Kemp tied up the set and Auburn hardly ever looked again. When the dust settled, each Scheer and Anderson reached the double-digit kills mark with 15 and 12 apiece, although 9. staff blocks led to the defensive holding the Ospreys to just .073 for the match.

The 3- sweep designed it the team’s fourth of the period and held its ideal commence (8-) rolling.

MATCH NOTES

• Auburn is now 8- on the year, matching the 2012 Tigers and one particular earn from matching the program’s very best commence (9-, in 1990).
• Sunday marks Auburn’s fourth sweep of the period, the 13th considering the fact that Crouch as been on the Plains and the 48th of his occupation.
• The Tigers held their opponent to under .100 hitting proportion for the third time this year.
• Jackie Barrett (28 helps, 10 digs) recorded her initial double-double of the year.
• Sarah Morton achieved the double-digit dig mark for the fifth straight match and the seventh time in her profession with 16 digs.
• Akasha Anderson (15 kills) has arrived at double-digit kills in three straight matches.
• Madison Scheer (12 kills) has achieve double-digit kills in 3 straight match Cassidy Tanton’s two aces match her profession-finest.

CROUCH’S Remarks

“I assumed this was a really good serving group and they put rather a bit of stress on us from the line. Our superior-ball hitters on the still left really helped us out when we had been out of technique. Madison [Scheer] and Akasha [Anderson] are bodily and they are dealing with the cases that we will need to thoroughly clean up. That was a major component of the acquire right now.

“The other piece we preach all the time is protection, protection, defense. We held them below .100 hitting efficiency for the match and that is what we want. We talked about it through the middle of the third set. We were being down 16-13 at the time and we just confirmed them their hitting efficiency. They responded just like they did yesterday. When they are capable to make changes on the fly and react to what we are chatting about bodes definitely nicely for the long term.”