Liz Madden led SOU with 16 kills
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PORTLAND – The Southern Oregon volleyball team overcame a 2-1 set deficit to defeat Concordia 3-2 (25-16, 21-25, 21-25, 25-23, 15-12) Friday night in a Cascade Collegiate Conference match at Bob Riehm Arena.
Southern Oregon improves to 13-7 overall and 9-1 in conference play with its 13th consecutive victory over Concordia, while CU falls to 9-8 overall and 6-4 in the CCC. Both teams return to action Saturday, with the Raiders hosting Warner Pacific at 7 p.m. and the Cavaliers facing Oregon Tech in Klamath Falls.
Liz Madden led SOU with 16 kills. Mona Goudarzian added 14 kills for the Raiders, while Caryn Westrick finished with 33 assists and 17 digs. Angela Spieker also posted a double-double, finishing with 23 assists and 11 digs, and Renee Yomtob tallied a match-high 44 digs.
Jackie Stein posted a match-high 20 kills for Concordia in the loss. Melanie Miller added 12 kills while Mariah Raudsepp tallied 11 in the loss. Lindsay Mangan led both teams with 55 assists and Kelsey Kai totaled 41 digs.
The Raiders dominated the opening set, building an early 12-6 lead and stretching it to 17-9. Southern Oregon hit .306 as a team in that set while limiting Concordia to an .048 attack percentage in putting away the 25-16 victory.
Southern Oregon started strong in the second set, scoring the first three points and building an 8-4 lead, but Concordia used a 10-1 run to take a 16-10 lead following a block by Stein and Raudsepp. Southern Oregon scored four straight points to pull within three before a three-point CU run gave the Cavs a 23-17 advantage. The Raiders scored the next four points to make it 23-21, but a pair of SOU errors gave Concordia the 25-21 set win.
The third set featured seven tie scores and three lead changes. Southern Oregon led by as many as three points, holding a 20-17 advantage late before a kill by Stein sparked a seven-point CU run that gave Concordia a 24-20 lead. Nikki Keller picked up a kill to pull SOU within three, but a block by Amanda Goringe and Melanie Miller closed out the set.
Concordia scored the first four points of the fourth set, but following an SOU timeout the Raiders used a 12-3 run to take a 12-7 lead. The Cavaliers hung close throughout the set, pulling as close as 23-21 after a four-point run. Goudarzian gave SOU a set-point advantage with a kill, but CU scored back-to-back points to make it 24-23 and threaten to push the set to extra points. Goudarzian made sure that wasn’t the case, picking up the set-winning kill to tie the match at two sets apiece.
The Cavaliers opened the final set with three straight points and built a four-point lead at 7-3 following a kill by Ashley Jibby. Southern Oregon responded with a 5-1 run to tie it up at 8-8, and the Raiders took their first lead of the set when a kill by Keller gave SOU a 12-11 advantage. Concordia tied it up on a kill by Hogan, but back-to-back kills by Madden and Jordan Crossley made it 14-12, and a set error for CU sealed the set-and-match victory for the Raiders.