SAN ANGELO – The first day for the Belles at the 14^th Annual Kathleen Brasfield Invitational featured the highs and lows of volleyball, with Belles starting the 2022 campaign with a season-opening sweep of Southern Nazarene before the Belles fell in their nightcap to CSU Pueblo 3-1.

The loss to the Thunderwolves snaps the Belles' 27-match winning streak at their invitational, having last lost in it in 2014.

An electric first set against the Crimson Storm in match one saw the home team hit .342 in the opening frame, with 19 of their 25 points coming off kills. The Belles would nearly match themselves in the third set, recording 18 kills and hitting .341 as a team.

Elsa Lamphere led all players in the match with 13 kills; she also recorded 12 digs to tally her first-career double-double.

Sydney Mundkowsky, in her first career start for the Belles, turned in a memorable performance, burying 11 kills and only recording one attacking error en route to a .667 hitting percentage.

Joining Lamphere and Mundkowsky with double-digit kills was Hannah Kinnison. The Coloradan recorded a double-double in her ASU debut with ten kills and 12 digs.

Defensively, Caleigh Enax recorded a game-high 18 digs, and the Belles as a team recorded three blocks and 52 digs to hold the Crimson Storm to a .190 hitting percentage.

Laney Dale led the squad with 26 assists, while freshman Kayla Baer assisted ten times off the bench.

Freshmen Cate Boldrick and Kaila Garnett recorded two kills in their collegiate debuts, while Ireland Ferguson claimed a service ace and three digs in limited action.

Match two against the Thunderwolves saw the Belles continue their form from match one as they hit .407 as a team to claim set one 25-19.

CSU Pueblo recovered to only record nine attack errors in the following three sets combined, while the Belles owned a negative attacking percentage in the final two frames.

Lamphere accrued another double-double with 13 kills and 13 digs; Enax added another 14 digs while Kinnison recorded 12.

Dale led the team with 17 assists, with Katy Motz following not too far behind with 10.

The Belles start their season off with a 1-1 record. They are back in action tomorrow at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. against New Mexico Highlands and East Central on day two of the Kathleen Brasfield Invitational.