JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – UConn volleyball swept Jacksonville, 3-0, on Saturday at Swisher Gymnasium to close out the Dolphin Volleyball Classic with its second win of the season.<\/p>\n
In set one, the Huskies used a strong serving run from Grace Maria<\/a>, who recorded two aces, to build a 7-3 advantage before Jacksonville responded. UConn continued to pressure the Dolphins from the service line, with Maja Daca<\/a> adding an ace before Hazuna Akishige<\/a> followed with back-to-back aces to extend the lead to 15-10. Akishige then helped spark another UConn run with a kill and an assist on Daca’s kill, pushing the Huskies ahead 17-10. UConn maintained control down the stretch, with kills from Olivia Grenadier<\/a>, Helena Einarsdottir<\/a> and Daca helping the Huskies close out the set, 25-17.<\/p>\n The Huskies battled through a back-and-forth second set before pulling away late to take a 2-0 match lead with a 25-19 victory. Jacksonville opened with a 6-2 advantage, but UConn responded with a kill and two service aces from Einarsdottir to take a 12-9 lead. Daca continued the momentum from the service line, adding back-to-back aces to extend UConn’s advantage to 15-11. Kills from Daca and Courtney Grayson<\/a> helped UConn build a 22-16 lead. Jacksonville trimmed the deficit late, but UConn closed out the set, 25-19, with Daca delivering another service ace.<\/p>\n Jacksonville came out strong in the third set, racing out to a 7-0 lead before UConn began to chip away at the deficit. The Huskies responded with kills from Grayson, Isabella Sohl<\/a> and Sydney Borowy<\/a>, cutting the margin to 9-6. UConn continued its comeback behind strong serving from Daca, who recorded back-to-back aces to help the Huskies even the set at 12-12. Daca and Grayson each delivered key kills as the Huskies built a 22-19 advantage. Borowy delivered back-to-back kills to close out the match, giving UConn the 25-23 set victory.<\/p>\n Borowy led UConn with 11 kills, while Daca added 10 kills and a team-high seven service aces. Akishige recorded a team-high 10 digs and added two service aces, while Sohl paced the Huskies with 24 assists.<\/p>\n UP NEXT: The Huskies return home for a home stretch beginning with Bryant for the home opener on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the UConn Volleyball Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – UConn volleyball swept Jacksonville, 3-0, on Saturday at Swisher Gymnasium to close out the Dolphin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-392031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}