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Abbie Lynn led the Belles with 10 kills on Friday against Cameron." src="/common/controls/image_handler.aspx?thumb_id=14&image_path=/images/2014/9/9/DM2_0746.jpg" />Angelo State freshman Abbie Lynn led the Belles with 10 kills on Friday against Cameron.LAWTON, Okla. – A slow start by the No. 25-ranked Angelo State volleyball team quickly reversed course and turned into a Lone Star Conference sweep over Cameron on Friday at the Aggie Gym.
The Belles (5-1, 2-0 LSC), who were playing their first road match of the season, trailed the first set 9-4 before righting the ship and pulling out a 25-23 first-set victory. ASU then took the second set 25-17 and closed out the sweep with a 25-22 win in the third set against the Aggies (3-2, 0-1 LSC).
"Cameron came out and really jumped on us early," ASU head coach
Chuck Waddington said. "They were very low error and had a great crowd behind them. I really liked the way we responded to being in that situation. Our kids stayed calm and started chipping away at it. Even though this was just a three-set match, it was a tough one for us. Qi (Wang) is doing a great job with his team and we had to work really hard for the win."
Abbie Lynn led the Belles with 10 kills and finished with a .320 attacking percentage, while
Alexa Johnson supplied 38 assists and led the team with four blocks.
Shelby Wilt contributed 19 digs for ASU's defense.
Mallory Blauser added nine kills and
Daeleigh Castile led the Belles with a .500 attacking percentage and finished with eight kills.
Arielle Bond hit .294 and finished with seven kills and
Zoey Hanrahan and Castile added three blocks.
"Abbie was definitely a go-to player for us and came through big in clutch situations," Waddington said. "Daeleigh made herself available to Alexa and put the ball away for us. It was pretty cool to see them step up like that in a situation like that early here in their freshman season."
Angelo State finished the match with a .222 team hitting percentage and limited the Aggies to a .079 percentage. The Belles committed only 16 errors, while CU had 23 errors in its home opener. The first set was controlled by Cameron until the Belles closed the margin and eventually took their first lead at 20-19. The Aggies retied the set at 22-22 on an ASU attacking error and took a 23-22 lead over ASU on a kill by Kat Evans. The Belles would tie the match and retake the lead at 24-23 on a pair of Lynn kills before a kill by Bond ended the first set. ASU's first-set attacking percentage was .191, but it would improve as the night progressed with a .241 percentage in the second set and a .244 percentage in the close-out set.
Evans led the Aggies with 10 kills, while Shannon DuLaney added 15 digs and Ingrid Boatman had 16 assists. CU led the Belles 8-7 in blocks with Jordan Escobar supplying six blocks and Paige Holt having five blocks.
ASU has now won four straight matches going into a pair of matches on Saturday in Wichita Falls. The Belles return to conference action against Midwestern State at noon and will then venture outside LSC play at 3 p.m. against Harding University at the D.L. Ligon Coliseum in Wichita Falls.Â