THE BASICS
Sore: ULM 3, Coastal Carolina 0
Records: ULM (8-19, 2-7 SBC)
Coastal Carolina (17-4, 8-1 SBC)
Location: Conway, S.C.
Conway, S.C. - The ULM volleyball team fell to the Sun Belt Eastern Division leader Coastal Carolina in three sets on Sunday afternoon on the South Carolina coast.
HOW IT HAPPENED
-Set one saw Coastal take control right away as the Chanticleers went on a six-point run before ULM notched their first point of the match.
-The Warhawks pushed back in set two and hung with Coastal at the start. However, after a tie score of eight, Coastal slowly advanced their lead to take the second set.
-ULM stayed close at the beginning of set three but after a tie score of nine Coastal retook the lead and maintained that lead through to the match win.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
-The match held a total of 13 ties and five lead changes. The most contested set of the match was set two, with seven tie scores and four lead changes.
-ULM posted its highest hitting percentage in set two (.189).
-ULM recorded its highest total of kills in set two (10).
-Hope Pawlik led the offense with seven kills in the match and was followed by Mikaela Worley who contributed five kills of her own.
-Albany Schaffer led the defensive effort with 11 digs in the match.
FROM COACH HILTZ
About the match: I thought our block played very well. They made adjustments and forced CCU to hit around us to our back row defense. Unfortunately, our second line found themselves out of position too much and that led to easy points for them. Serve receive was good, not perfect, and we did a pretty good job of trying to establish our offense and then adjust from there. We found some holes in their defense but couldn't stop them enough defensively on our end in order to take advantage of those holes we found.
Looking forward: We need to be more disciplined in all aspects of the game. We just have to keep getting better every day.
UP NEXT
-The Warhawks will take their final road trip of the regular season next weekend when they travel to Texas to face UT Arlington and Texas State on Friday and Saturday.
