Oshkosh, Wis. – The Wheaton volleyball team (1-5) competed at a tri-match on Wednesday night at UW-Oshkosh. Edgewood defeated Wheaton 3-0 (25-17, 25-21, 25-19) in the first match of the night for the Thunder. The host Titans of UW-Oshkosh topped the Thunder 3-1 (25-23, 25-17, 25-23, 25-19) in the final contest of the night.
Emily Potts tallied a team-high 13 kills in tonight's matchup with Edgewood and
Ellie Brown registered six kills. Potts posted a .545 attack percentage with just one attacking error on 22 attempts and Brown had a .417 attack percentage with one error on 12 attempts. Jess Bosse led Wheaton with 13 kills in the match.
Katie Rohrer and Potts each had three assisted blocks in the match. Junior setter Kelly Stewart distributed 13 assists and
Alecia Funk had 11 assists.
Wheaton led for the majority of the first set in the matchup with UW-Oshkosh. The set was tied at 10-10 when the Thunder scored the next four points to take a 14-10 lead. The Thunder never trailed following the key run. The Titans cut the Thunder lead to 15-14 when Wheaton responded with four consecutive points to take a 19-14 advantage. The guests maintained the lead to win the opening set 25-23.UW-Oshkosh rallied from the first-set loss to win the next three sets.
Madeline Moore led the Thunder in the matchup against UW-Oshkosh with 12 kills. Rohrer registered eight kills as
Deborah Smith,
Audrey Irwin and Potts each had six kills. Bosse had a team-high 19 digs and
Jackie Boulris added 12 digs. Thornton had 17 assists in the match and Funk recorded 15 assists. Potts registered five assisted blocks and Rohrer had 11 in the match.
Head coach
Stephanie Schmidt said of tonight's performance, "Similar to last weekend, we saw glimpses of really good things. We had trouble jumpstarting our offense against Edgewood because our serve receive wasn't strong. Once we got going, we just weren't able to adjust to their attack, and we weren't solid on the block. I felt much better about our second match. We passed and blocked better, and our hitters made great adjustments and hit intelligently. We just got into a few streaks of errors at bad times. Overall, I'm encouraged by the way our players stepped up, and we're showing good potential."
Wheaton returns to action September 15-16 at the Depauw University Tiger Invitational.
