Jones and Davenport Combine for 46 Kills in Midday Match Versus Binghamton

Wednesday, October 9

Philadelphia, Pa.

12 P.M.

Temple University

8-9,1-3AAC

Binghamton

12-7,2-1America East

Binghamton

Temple

Photo by: Zamani Feelings

Jones and Davenport Combine for 46 Kills in Midday Match Versus Binghamton

10.9.24 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

PHILADELPHIA – Outside hitters Sydney Jones and Taylor Davenport combined for 46 kills on Wednesday, helping the Temple volleyball move to 8-9 overall on the season as it defeated the Binghamton Bearcats, 22-25, 25-13, 25-14, 14-25, 15-13 inside McGonigle Hall. The freshman Jones had a match and career-high of 25, while the graduate student Davenport tallied 21.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The duo of Jones and Davenport hit .286 or better with Jones hitting .327 on 55 hitting attempts while Davenport hit .286 on 49 attempts.
Tsvetlina Ilieva earned a Bearcat-high of 21 kills while hitting .296.
Both teams on the day hit over .200, but it was BU that hit a match-best .265 and Temple followed close behind with at .248.
Owls' libero Hikialani Kaohelaulii dug a match-best 20 balls.

SET 1 (BU 25, TEM 22)

In the first set with the Binghamton extending to its largest lead of six points at 22-17, the Cherry and White rallied to score three straight points behind kills from freshman Christiana Greene and Davenport, forcing a Bearcat timeout.
The Owls cut the deficit to one point, 23-22, but it wasn't enough as Misa Dlouha connected on her team's set-high sixth kill to help her team to the set victory.
Dlouha hit .750 on eight attempts.
Jones and Davenport had seven and six kills, respectively.
Both teams came out firing in the first set with Binghamton hitting .395 and Temple swinging .325.

SET 2 (TEM 25, BU 13)

There were three ties and one lead change in the second set, but Temple led all the way throughout except for 1-0 score.
TU held the Bearcats to a .030 hitting percentage with just eight kills. On the other hand, Temple came out of the set hitting at .379.
The Cherry and White held BU's top hitter Llieva to a .000 hitting percentage in the set with four errors.
Davenport and Jones had five kills apiece of the team's 15 kills.

SET 3 (TEM 25, BU 15)

The Owls jumped out to a 9-2 lead and never looked back. On the Avery Luoma serve, the team used an 8-0 run behind the Columbia, S.C. native's Davenport three straight kills to begin the run.
Just like set two, there was just one lead change.
Jones continued to dominate the Bearcats' defense with five kills and a .400 hitting percentage with Davenport hitting .273 and four kills.

SET 4 (BU 25, TEM 14)

With the set tied 11-11, Llieva tallied two of her set-high nine kills to help Binghamton extend its lead to four points before the Owls were able to sideout.
The Bearcats used another 4-0 run to help seal the set win as they got kills from Llieva and Ella Schabort.
The opposite happened in set four with the Owls managed to hit just .030 while BU forced the fifth and final set with a .542 hitting percentage.

SET 5 (TEM 15, BU 13)

In just 28 points of play in the fifth set, the teams combined for five ties and three lead changes.
With the score 3-3, Temple gained the advantage and never allowing the Bearcats to go ahead.
The Havertown, Pa. native Jones came up big for her team three kills of the Owls final four points.

TEMPLE LEADERS
Kills: Sydney Jones – 25
Digs: Hikialani Kaohelaulli - 20
Blocks: Christiana Greene – 4
Aces: Avery Luoma – 3

UP NEXT
Temple begins second AAC road trip of the season as they head south to UAB on Friday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. ET and then Memphis on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 2 p.m. ET.

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