St. Thomas University Athletics issued the following announcement on Oct. 13.
The St. Thomas University (STU) Women's Volleyball team (13-6, 6-2 SUN) fell to the Ave Maria University Gyrenes (13-7, 5-3 SUN) is a well fought four set battle on the road Wednesday night. Ave Maria took sets one, two and four 25-18, 27-25, 25-22, respectively. While St. Thomas took set three 26-24.
Bobcat Starters
Bianca Grassi – libero
Match Notes
The last time these two teams met, St. Thomas swept the Gyrenes 3-0 from the Fernandez Family Center.
Bianca Grassi came into the match wining her fifth SUN Defender of the Week honor.
The first set seemed to be all in favor the Gyrenes as they hit a match high .462 as a team.
Ave Maria went on a 10-2 run to close out the first set.
The second set was more evenly matched as both teams hit over .200.
A couple of Bobcat errors fell in favor of the Gyrenes that gave them the edge to take the set 27-25.
Set three was a big turnaround set for St. Thomas.
The back-and-forth battle helped guide them to a 26-24 set win.
After starting down 8-2 at the start of the set, St. Thomas slowly worked their way back into it and went on to take the lead 17-16 after a 15-8 run.
The Bobcats were a point away from being swept but resilience kicked in and the team went on a 4-0 run to take the set.
Tyran Chenault had three of the last four points with two blocks and a forcing set-winning kill.
St. Thomas used the third set momentum to work their way onto in the fourth set.
More costly errors in the end would result to the fall of the match to Ave Maria as they worked their way back on top.
St. Thomas is now tied in the standings with Florida Memorial University, 6-2, for the top spot.
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