Lady Eagles open SWAC conference play with sweep

USU Eastern's Malorie White serves up an ace against the Colorado Northwestern Community College Spartans as her teammates watch on. White ended the day with three serving aces and Miranda Parkinson added four more as the Lady Eagles dominated the Spartans Saturday in the three set sweep.

By TERRY WILLIS
Sun Advocate sports reporter

The brooms were out for the Lady Eagles last Saturday when they opened conference play against Colorado Northwestern with a decisive three set victory over the Spartans. USU Eastern won 25-8, 25-15 and 25-12 to start their conference record off at 1-0.

The Lady Eagles made quick work of CNCC in the first set. Midway through the second set, the coaches called a time out to settle the team down as the seemed to lose focus and turn the ball over with unforced errors. But they pulled it back together and finished off the set and went on to take the next to win the match.

Kylie Cordon led the Eagles with 13 kills, Danee Merrell dished 25 set assists and Abigale Ericson scrambled for 11 defensive digs in the three set match.

USU-Eastern will be home again this weekend with a Friday match-up with Snow College at 7 p.m. They will then take on SLCC at 3 p.m. on Saturday at the B-DAC.

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