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Volleyball Falls In Four to North Carolina
10/18/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Oct. 18, 2009
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CHAPEL HILL, NC - Setter Kelsey Jones notched a career-high 20 digs and dished out 40 assists but North Carolina took a 2-0 lead and held on to defeat the Wake Forest volleyball team in four sets Sunday afternoon at the Dean E. Smith Center.
The win (25-21, 25-16, 21-25, 25-20) improves the Tar Heels to 10-9 on the year and 6-2 in the conference while the loss drops the Deacons to 7-13 overall and 5-4 in the ACC.
Ingrid Hanson-Tuntland led the Tar Heels with a match-high 14 kills while Suzanne Haydel chipped in a double-double with 10 kills and 14 digs. Libero Kaylie Gibson collected a match-best 27 digs as setter Cora Harms dished out 42 assists for UNC.
Wake was led by Jones' ninth double-double of the season with her 40 assists and 20 digs. She had previously recorded a career-high of 19 digs on three separate occasions. Jones also finished the match with four kills and three total blocks.
Jones was one of five different Demon Deacons to record double-digit digs on the afternoon. Junior libero Megan Thornberry led the team with a season-high tying 24 while fellow junior Kristen White chipped in with a career-high 16. Sophomore Cambrey Oehler came off the bench to record 15 digs and senior Abby Miller added 10. Miller is now just 21 digs shy of 1,000 for her career.
Offensively, freshman Andrea Beck and sophomore Carlin Salmon each recorded 10 kills while Kadija Fornah and White each chipped in with nine. Beck and Salmon also finished the afternoon with four blocks apiece.
As a team, the Deacons finished with 89 digs on the day which is the second-most all season and the most for any four-set match this year. In addition to out digging the Tar Heels (89-74), Wake also held the blocking advantage at the net 10-9.
Carolina however, hit .189 for the match compared to just .127 for the Deacons who also had 30 errors. The hosts also had seven service aces to three for Wake.
The Demon Deacons got two kills from both Beck and Fornah to open-up an early 7-3 lead in the first set. After a 4-0 run by the Heels tied the score at 7-7, the Deacs again went on another 7-3 run to take a 14-10 advantage. But this time, Carolina went respond with a 5-0 run to take a 15-14 lead and would eventually take an 18-15 lead.
The Deacons would cut the lead to one at 19-18 but UNC finished the set on a 6-3 run to take a 25-21 victory. Fuller had six kills in the first set for UNC while White posted five kills and seven digs to lead the Deacs.
With the score tied at 3-3 in the second, Carolina got a kill from Hanson-Tuntland that sparked an 8-2 run to give the hosts an 11-5 advantage. A couple of UNC blocks and a pair of Wake Forest errors would allow the Tar Heels to build a seven-point lead at 14-7.
UNC held that seven-point advantage until a kill by Beck and two Carolina errors allowed Wake to creep to within four at 18-14 but the Heels would then go on a 5-0 run of their own to take a commanding 24-14 lead thanks to a couple of kills and a pair of service aces from Kaylie Gibson. After a block from McIntyre and Beck made the score 24-16, Heather Brooks finished off the set with her fourth kill of the match.
Tuntland had four kills in the set for Carolina while Wake had just seven kills and nine errors in the second set.
The teams traded 2-0 runs throughout most of the early part of the third set until a 6-1 run by the Deacs gave them a 17-14 lead. Salmon and Jones each had a kill and teamed-up for a block during the spurt. Carolina would respond with a 5-2 run of its own to tie the score at 19-19.
That's when a kill and a block by Beck along with a service ace from Oehler gave the Deacons a 23-19 lead and two kills by McIntyre then finished-off the set 25-21. Beck put away four kills on six attempts in the set while Thornberry collected eight digs.
Carolina then came out in the fourth-set on a 7-3 run but back-to-back kills from White sent Wake on an 8-2 run that gave the Deacs an 11-9 advantage. Wake extended the lead to 15-12 but a kill from Hanson-Tuntland and back-to-back kills from Brooks evened the score at 15-15.
Two more kills from Brooks helped the Heels go on a 6-1 run to take a 21-16 lead. Kills by Oehler, White and Salmon pulled Wake to within three at 22-19 but Carolina would finish off the set and the match 25-20.
Hanson-Tuntland finished with five kills in the final set while Salmon had six kills and hit .889 for the Deacs.
Wake will return to action next weekend as it travels to Georgia Tech and Clemson. The Deacs will take on Georgia Tech at 7 pm on Friday night and then will face Clemson in a 6 pm tilt on Saturday.
