Volleyball Drops Decision To ECU

Friday, October 20

Memphis, Tenn.

7 pm CT

University of Memphis

8-13, 1-8

East Carolina

15-6, 7-2

ECU

Memphis

Photo by: Brandon Dill

Oct 20, 2017 | Women's Volleyball

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Kadiku with career-high tying 15 kills.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – University of Memphis sophomore Brianna Kadiku downed a career-high 15 kills vs. ECU Friday, but the Pirates came away with a 3-0 American Athletic Conference win over the Tigers. ECU won the match by scores of 25-19, 25-20 and 25-20.

With the setback, the Tigers fell to 8-13 overall and 1-8 in the American Athletic Conference. The Pirates improved to 15-6 overall and 7-2 in the league.

Up Next
Memphis continues its American Athletic Conference home weekend Sunday, Oct. 22 vs. Cincinnati. Match time is 1 p.m. (CT) at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.

Head coach April Jauregui comments
"ECU is having a great season. They have solid upperclassmen contributing big numbers for them. I knew we were going to have to be on-point with our gameplan. Unfortunately, we started the match rocky. We had spurts where we executed what we we're trying to do, and that was exciting. ECU is having a great season, and sometimes, momentum like they have now is hard to stop.

"Brianna (Kadiku) did a good job tonight. That was our gameplan: go to the middle as much as we could. We were able to do that. Brianna can score at a really high level. Unfortunately, when things broke down in other areas for us, they were able to capitalize. But, we'll keep battling. It's on us coaches to keeping preparing them, keep pushing the right buttons to get us over the hump."

Tigers Tidbits

Brianna Kadiku's 15 kills tied her career-best. She also posted 15 kills vs. USF Oct. 1.
Brianna Kadiku's double-figures kills performance was her fifth of the season.
Faith Myers registered her 14^th match with 20 or more assists this season Friday vs. ECU.
Regan Comperry posted her 13^th match with double-digit assists Friday.
Redshirt freshman Natale Zanellato returned to action after missing the previous two matches due to injury. She had four kills vs. ECU.
Freshman Hannah Flowers missed her fourth-straight match (sick).

Memphis vs. ECU Stats Leaders

Statistic	Memphis	ECU
Kills	Brianna Kadiku, 15 Tai Bierria, 6 Sarah Marlatt, 6	Lael Ceriani, 10 Shelby Martin, 10 Natalie Montini, 10
Assists	Faith Myers, 20 Regan Comperry, 14	Shelby Martin, 34
Digs	Mady Ruhlman, 8 Faith Myers, 7 Alyssa Kronberg, 6	Ashton Mares, 15 Brandee Markwith, 8 Lael Ceriani, 7
Total Blocks	Brianna Kadiku, 2	Bri Wood, 5 Toya Osuegbu, 5

How It Happened

Overall Match
- The match had only five ties and four lead changes.
Set One (ECU 25-19)
- The visitors from Greenville, N.C., took an early 7-3 lead and never trailed.
- Memphis pulled to within three at 13-10 on kills from Tai Bierria and Brianna Kadiku.
- ECU extended its lead to six at 19-13.
- The Tigers got no closer than four points the rest of the way.
Set Two (ECU 25-20)
- Much like the opening set, the Pirates jumped out to an early lead at 7-3 and never trailed from that point.
- ECU extended its lead to nine at 15-6 before the Tigers made a big run.
- Memphis was down 17-8 when it put together a short 5-2 spurt to slice the ECU lead to 19-13.
- Natale Zanellato downed two kills and Kadiku added one in the run.
- Memphis continued its run and cut the Pirates' lead to three at 22-19.
- Bierria (2) and Sarah Marlatt (1) logged kills in the second half of the Tigers' extended spurt.
- ECU then closed the set with a 3-1 run for the win.
Set Three (ECU 25-20)
- The third set saw the Pirates grab the first lead at 1-0 and never trail.
- ECU pushed out to a 7-2 advantage before the Tigers made a run.
- Three Marlatt kills keyed a 5-3 spurt to close the gap to 10-7.
- The Pirates answered with an 8-2 spurt to take an 18-9 advantage.
- Memphis, though, had one final push in the set.
- Down 20-10, the Tigers put together a 10-4 run to pull to within four at 24-20.
- Kadiku added three kills and Regan Comperry logged two service aces in the spurt.
- ECU finished off the set and match with a kill for the win.