EDMONTON — Fifth-year Panda Kory White was stellar on Friday night, recording 14 kills on just 17 attempts, with no errors in a 3-0 Pandas win over MacEwan (25-12, 25-15, 25-12), Friday night at the David Atkinson gym.
With her 14 kills, White now has exactly 1,300 for her career, 21 behind the Canada West record of 1,321 set by former Panda Meg Casault.
The Griffins are now 0-13 this season, while Alberta improved to 12-1.
The young duo of Erica Bolink and Mariah Bereziuk led MacEwan with six kills each, while Bereziuk also chipped in with three digs.
Third-year outside hitter Lauryn Tremblay had nine kills and eight digs for Alberta.
The Griffins fell behind big early in the opening set as Alberta jumped out to a quick 7-1 lead.
MacEwan would cut the Pandas lead to 8-4, but then the Pandas turned up the heat and went on 8-0 run, courtesy of an ace for Erin Corbett and some supreme blocking from fifth-year middle Vanessa Jarman and Tremblay.
Through the three sets, MacEwan would commit 20 attack errors, to just 18 total team kills.
Volleyball is a game of momentum swings, and MacEwan got off to a better start in the second set as they battled back and forth in the early stages, but once again the Pandas ripped the momentum away and just simply didn’t give it back.
MacEwan trailed just 8-6, but then allowed Alberta to go on a 13-4 run, and that big hole was simply too deep to overcome.
The third set was similar to the opening set as Alberta jumped out to another 7-1 lead and they controlled the play the rest of the way. A big kill from Dunbar made it 18-8, but the Pandas went on a 7-2 run to close out the set, thanks to some strong serving from Corbett, who led Alberta with four aces.
MacEwan will wrap up their cross-town rival series against Alberta, on Saturday at 5 p.m. MT at David Atkinson gym, or can be viewed on canadawest.tv.
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