Volleyball Knocks Off Army and St. Francis on Saturday

Saturday, September 3

West Point, N.Y.

1:30 PM ET

Temple University

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Army

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Temple

Army West Point

Volleyball Knocks Off Army and St. Francis on Saturday

9.3.22 | Women's Volleyball

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WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Temple volleyball team improved to 3-2 overall with victories against Army and St. Francis (Brooklyn) on the final day of the Black Knight Invitational. Sophomore Taylor Davenport was huge in the two wins as she added back-to-back 20-plus kill matches, including a career-high 27 to finish the day.

Temple 3, Army 1 (25-22, 13-25, 29-27, 25-23)

Chudear Tut led the Owls in set one with seven of her career-high 12 kills, while hitting a perfect, 1.000. Temple hit .452 as a team in the first set compared to the Army's .263.
TU faced a 17-16 deficit, late in the first set, but rallied back to win 25-22.
Army pulled off the win in the second set by the score of 25-13, but the Owls won in gritty fashion, 29-27, to win in set three. Sophomore Taylor Davenport added seven kills, while hitting .300 in the third stanza.
Temple continued to grind, pulling off the victory in the final set. The Owls saw their largest lead of the set, 20-15, shrink to one point, 24-23, but it was Taylor Davenport's 20th kill of the match sealed the match victory.
The Owls and Black Knights hit evenly throughout the match with Temple tabulating a .238 and Army hitting .245. On defense, the teams were also even in the block department. Temple led the match with six, while Army recorded five.
Both teams were bitten by the service errors in the match. Temple recorded 13, while Army tallied 11.
Three Owls, including Davenport (20), Tut (12), and Jelena Prolic (11) tallied double-digit kills. Tut and Davenport set career-highs.
Sophomore setter Patrycja Zielinska dished out match-high 46 assists, the second most of her career.
Sophomore libero Falanika Danielson led the team with 12 digs and two service aces.

Temple 3, St. Francis (Brooklyn) 2 (25-20, 22-25, 25-20, 25-27, 15-11)

Temple turned around 40 minutes following the Army victory to face a scrappy St. Francis (Brooklyn) team.
In set one, with the score was tied at 19 all, Temple would go on a 5-1 run to finish SFCU, 25-21, with the help of back-to-back Taylor Davenport kills.
Both teams were knotted at 17-17 points apiece in set three, but that was as close as the Terriers would get. The Cherry and White outscored SFCU, 8-3, over the final 11 points to earn the set victory.
Jelena Prolic recorded five kills in three of the five sets, including the fifth set. Prolic tallied had 16 kills in the match and on defense, the Subotica, Serbia native added 10 digs, marking her first double-double of her career.
The match featured 27 tie scores and 13 lead changes.
The Terriers tallied 12 team blocks, while TU countered with 11.
The Owls improved to 2-0 in five-set matches this season.
Davenport adjusted her career-high in kills to 27.
Patrycja Zielinska dished out a career-high 57 assists, including 15 in set one and 13 in sets three and four.
Defensive specialists, Nikki Shimao and Nalani McBride added a career-highs with 14 and 11, respectively.

Quotable: Head Coach Linda Hampton-Keith

On the play of Taylor Davenport: "She's huge from the standpoint this is only her fifth match ever playing the position (outside hitter). I am so proud of her for the resiliency because she's learning on the fly and she's doing it in a way that she's showing herself to be fearless in that process." noted Hampton- Keith. "She's a huge part of our team moving forward and as she gets better and gaining confidence, she's going to be force to be reckoned with."

Up Next

Temple will be on the road next week as at the Cornell Tournament to face Providence, Cornell, and UAlbany. The action gets underway on Friday against UAlbany and then two more matches on Saturday against Cornell and Providence.

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