#8 Ozark Overpowers Lady Eagles

#8 Ozark Overpowers Lady Eagles

Team Stats

September 20, 2013

The Lady Eagles volleyball team showed improvement tonight in their game with 8th ranked Ozark Christian College, but still came up short, falling 3-1 to the Ambassadors. Faith had faced Ozark earlier in the year at the Spikefest Tournament, and had lost in straight sets. Faith is now 8-5 on the year and 0-1 in the conference.

Ozark jumped on the Lady Eagles quickly in game one, leading 10-3 early on. Faith struggled to make any headway, falling 14-25 in set one. Set two was a different story, however. With the game tied at eight apiece, sophomore Kimberly Post stepped to the serve line. Post proceeded to reel off seven unanswered points to give the Eagles a 16-8 lead. Ozark would not go down without a fight, pulling to within twoat 20-22, but Faith would hang on to capture the set two win 25-23. Ozark proved why they are the 8th ranked team in the nation in set three and the deciding set four. In set three, Ozark jumped up 17-5 on Faith en route to a 25-12 win. In set four, they jumped out to a 15-7 lead, taking the set and the match by a 25-19 final score.

Julia Rocha led the Eagles with 16 kills. JoJo Hodak had seven kills and a team high .263 attack percentage and 13 digs. Kimberly Post added 12 kills and 12 digs. Faith will return to action for another conference game on Saturday (9/21) at 2:00 PM when they will host Calvary Bible College.