UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. - The Saginaw Valley
State University volleyball team fell to the visiting Grand Valley
State University Lakers by a score of 3-0 Saturday (10/2)
afternoon. The loss drops the Cardinals to 6-6 overall on the
season and 4-4 in the GLIAC while the Lakers improve to 9-5 overall
and 8-2 in league play.
Grand Valley jumped out-front 1-0 with a 25-19 victory in set
one. The second set would be tightly-contested, as the Lakers
pulled-out a 27-25 victory before ending the match with a 25-16 win
in the third and final set.
The Cardinals were led in kills by Annie Buxton
(Aurora, Ont./Aurora SS), who had 13. Chili's "Player of the
Match" Laurel Mattson
(Lake Odessa, Mich./Lakewood HS) helped anchor the defense with six
digs while Laura
Ward (White Lake, Mich./Lakeland HS) had nine. Sam Breault (Bad
Axe, Mich.) had a match-high 25 assists for the Cardinals.
SVSU is back in action tomorrow, October 9, as it hosts Ferris
State University in another GLIAC North Division showdown.
