RIVER FALLS, Wis. – The UW-Stevens Point volleyball team (17-11, 4-3) rallied for a reverse sweep, 3-2, win at UW-River Falls (20-7, 3-4) in the regular season finale.
Carly Thomka (Muskego, Wis./Muskego) led a trio of Pointers in double figures with a match-best 19 kills.
Ella Trieloff (Park Ridge, Ill./St. Viator) had 11 and
Lauren Shaw (Gurnee, Ill./Warren Township) added 10 kills.
Tessa Erlandson (Kenyon, Minn./Kenyon Wanamingo) led UWSP in digs with 18.
Hannah Strege (Shakopee, Minn./Shakopee) and
Abby Nevins (Muskego, Wis./Muskego) were also in double digits with 13 and 10 digs, respectively.
Strege posted her fifth-straight double-double with a match-high 40 assists.
Thomka and
Samantha Kempinger (Oshkosh, Wis./Fox Valley Lutheran) had two kills each as UWSP trailed, 13-10, in the first.
Savanna Moe (Saint Paul, Minn/St. Croix Lutheran Academy) had an ace late to tie it up at 20-20. A late kill by Kempinger was no enough as UWRF took the opening set, 25-23.
Thomka had three kills in the second and Shaw added two.
Delilah Hyland (Glen Ellyn, Ill./IC Catholic Prep) and
Danica Lenz (Andover, Minn./Andover) posted a kill each as UWRF rolled to a 25-11 win to go up 2-0.
Shaw recorded a kill and a block as UWSP jumped ahead, 6-2, to begin the third. Thomka added three kills in a 5-0 run as the lead grew to 11-4. Trieloff and Thomka combined for seven kills as the Pointers won the third set, 25-17.
Erlandson served an ace early in the fourth set. Trieloff had a pair of kills and Hyland posted consecutive blocks as UWSP went up, 13-8. Thomka had three kills late and a set-ending ace as UWSP forced a fifth set with a 25-17 win.
Trieloff, Thomka and Shaw combined for four kills and two blocks as the Pointers jumped out to a 7-2 lead in the fifth. Lenz had two kills in a 6-0 run to end the match as the Pointers own the fifth set, 15-8.
The Pointers and Falcons will face each other again in the WIAC Tournament quarterfinals on Tuesday (Nov. 10) at 7:00 p.m. in Berg Gym.
