The IUS volleyball team defeated the Cincinnati Christian University Eagles in three sets in the Activities Building on Oct. 4.

The Grenadiers lost their previous match at CCU, 3-2, on Sept. 13.

“[The players] just wanted revenge this time,” Lesley Drury Prather, IUS volleyball head coach, said.

This was the Grenadiers’ third consecutive victory, as they defeated Berea College and Union College on Oct. 1.

IU Southeast dominated the match from beginning to end, allowing the Eagles to score only 13 points in the first two sets.

CCU suffered a loss due to Makayla Graves, starting setter for CCU, having a broken hand, she sustained a few weeks ago.

“We haven’t played well since,” Rick Kerkhoff, CCU volleyball head coach, said.

The Eagles gained their first lead in the match when they went up, 13-12, in the third set.

CCU continued to make mistakes later on and allowed the Grenadiers’ score to go up, 19-18.

This forced the Eagles to take a timeout.

After the timeout, the set remained competitive until CCU failed to set the ball over the net, allowing the Grenadiers to win, 25-23.

“[There] was a difference in their attitude in the third game,” Kerkhoff said.

Kerkhoff said he finally got it through the player’s heads that just because they were playing with an injured player  did not mean they could not compete.

The Eagles  managed to have 10 assists in a game where they never seemed to get things going in their direction.

Katie Johnson, sophomore setter, said the game plan for the Grenadiers was to beat them badly.

“We wanted it and it showed,” Johnson said. “[We stayed] positive and played at our potential.”

Johnson had 24 out of 30 assists.

“Losing to them was a fluke,” Johnson said.

Prather said this is what they need to do from here on out.

The Grenadiers did just that as Taylore Chestnut, freshman outside hitter, had nine kills, and Lindsey Maymon, junior outside hitter, had eight.

The Grenadiers were highly vocal during the match and communicated well.

“They came out, and they were talking,” Prather said. “They were intense.”

Lauren McCartin, senior libero, credited the win to the team’s comfort level, communication and having fun.

“We changed from being uptight to more relaxed and having fun,” McCartin said.

McCartin said the team did not play like they normally did in previous games.

“We weren’t ourselves that game,” McCartin said, referring to the loss on Sept. 13.

Kerkhoff said he blamed many things on the Eagle’s loss, including the team’s passing.

“[We wanted] to try and get our middle hitters involved early,” Kerkhoff said. “That didn’t work out. It wasn’t real stellar”

There were no attendees  present during the game.

By JOSH WILSON

Staff

wilsjosh@ius.edu