Volleyball Downs USF 3-1 Sunday

Sunday, November 3

Memphis, Tenn.

1 pm CT

University of Memphis

14-10,3-9AAC

USF*

7-19,1-11AAC

South Fla.

Memphis

Photo by: Brandon Dill

Nov 03, 2019 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

Bianco, Wallace with second-straight double-doubles over the weekend.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – University of Memphis' Meredith Wallace and Sabrina Bianco both had double-double performances to lead the Tigers to a 3-1 American Athletic Conference volleyball win at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse Sunday.

Memphis won the match by scores of 25-15, 15-25, 25-16 and 25-16. With the victory, the Tigers are now 15-9 overall and 4-8 in the league. USF fell 7-19 overall and 1-11 in the conference.

Bianco and Wallace both posted consecutive double-doubles in the weekend's two matches. On Sunday, Bianco had 42 assists and 13 digs, and Wallace recorded 13 kills and 13 digs. .

Up Next
The Tigers take their final road trip of their American Athletic Conference regular-season schedule next weekend. Memphis travels to Tulsa Nov. 8 and Wichita State Nov. 10.

Tigers Tidbits

Meredith Wallace posted the eighth double-double of her career with 13 kills and 13 digs Sunday. It also was her eighth double-double of the season.
Sabrina Bianco had 42 assists Sunday for her 15^th40-assists match of her career. Fourteen of the 15 performances have come this season.
Sabrina Bianco recorded her 10^thdouble-double (42 assists-13 digs) of the season and the 16^thof her career.
Sabrina Bianco now has 963 assists on the season and needs only 37 to reach 1,000. When she reaches the milestone, it will give Memphis back-to-back seasons with 1,000-assists setters. In 2018, Molly Murrihy had 1,020 assists.
Hannah Flowers is closing in on 1,000 kills for a career. After the two matches this weekend, the junior right side hitter has 940 career kills.
Gigi Crescenzo collected 10 digs versus USF Sunday. The double-figures digs match was her 11^thof the season.
Sunday's match (18 digs) was the 36^thdouble-figures digs match of Gehler's career and her 18^thof the season. Gehler has posted double-digit digs in 16 of the Tigers' last 17 matches.

Statistic	Memphis Leaders	USF Leaders
Kills	Hannah Flowers, 18	Lindsey Pliapol, 10
Assists	Sabrina Bianco, 42	Lauren LaBeck, 27
Digs	Kaitlyn Gehler, 18	Jordan Valley, 13
Aces	Hannah Flowers, 2 Kaitlyn Gehler, 2	Aleia Wilborn, 2
Blocks	Jada Birkel, 3 Hannah Flowers, 3	Ally Barnhart, 6

First Set

Memphis fell behind 1-0, but then raced out to an 11-4 lead on its way to the set win.
Eight of the Tigers' first 11 points came off USF errors.
The Bulls answered and cut the Memphis lead to five at 14-9.
The Tigers, though, put together a 9-3 run to push the lead to double-digits at 23-12.
Hannah Flowers had three kills in the spurt.
Back-to-back kills from Anna Palmer and Jada Birkel scored the Tigers' final two points of the set.

Second Set

The USF Bulls turned the tables in the second set, grabbing an early 2-0 lead and never trailing.
Memphis fell behind 6-3, but three-straight points from Flowers – one kill, two aces – tied the set at 6-all.
USF used a 5-1 run to push out to an 11-7 lead.
The Bulls extended their lead to 19-10 and put the set out of reach.
USF won the set 25-15.

Third Set

The set was back-and-forth early with four ties, the last coming at 7-all.
The Tigers put together a 6-0 run to take a 13-7 lead and did not trail the rest of the way.
Birkel started the spurt with a kill, and Meredith Wallace followed with two kills. Gigi Crescenzo added an ace.
Memphis continued to extend its lead to eight at 19-11 on three kills from Wallace.
Flowers (two kills) and Birkel (kill) closed out the 25-16 set win for the Tigers.

Fourth Set