Truman State volleyball had Quincy down 15-10 in the third set Saturday night and let it slip away. The Bulldogs fixed that fast in the fourth.
Tied 3-3 early in the fourth set, Truman State’s Avery Poppe served back-to-back aces. Later, Truman ran off five straight points, four of them with Truman State’s Addy Janssen serving, to turn 15-11 into 20-11. Truman State’s Laci Neece put down the final kill for a 25-20 set and a 3-1 match win over Quincy at Pershing Arena in Kirksville.
Set scores were 25-21, 25-14, 23-25, and 25-20. Truman State is 13-12 and 7-5 in the GLVC. Quincy fell to 17-10 and 4-7.
The third set got away late. After the Bulldogs went up 15-10, Quincy scored six of the next seven points and tied it 16-16. Quincy led 24-22, Truman State’s Autumn Erickson got one back with a kill, and an Erickson attack error ended the set 25-23.
Erickson still had the best night on the floor. Erickson hit .424 with 17 kills on 33 swings and had six blocks, three of them solo. Six of those kills came in the fourth set.
Truman State’s Jessie Julius added 14 kills, 15 digs, and two aces. Neece had 13 kills and 18 digs, and Truman State’s Hannah Hosty had nine kills. Truman State setter Tori Creason handed out 53 assists and served two aces.
Janssen led the back row with 26 digs. Poppe served four of Truman’s 10 aces. Quincy had four as a team.
Truman State took the first two sets on serving runs. Down 14-12 in the first, the Bulldogs scored five straight, four of them with Poppe serving, for a 17-14 lead. In the second, Poppe served six straight points to turn a 3-2 deficit into an 8-3 lead, and Quincy never got closer than three again.
Truman hit .271 to Quincy’s .179 and had 62 kills to 50. The Bulldogs had eight blocks to Quincy’s six.
Quincy’s Selin Turgut had 16 kills, 17 digs, and three aces. Quincy’s Aysem Kocaalp added 13 kills and 17 digs, and Quincy setter Macey Rocco had 41 assists.
Truman State plays at Upper Iowa at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, in Fayette, Iowa.
Final tally: 3-1 Truman State.