Volleyball Head Coach Hampton-Keith Earns 100th Career Win With Sweep of Marist

Saturday, September 21

Villanova, Pa.

4:30 PM

Temple University

6-6,0-0AAC

Marist

0-10,0-0MAAC

Marist

Temple

Volleyball Head Coach Hampton-Keith Earns 100th Career Win With Sweep of Marist

9.21.24 | Women's Volleyball

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VILLANOVA, Pa. – Temple volleyball head coach Linda Hampton-Keith earned her 100th career win as freshman Sydney Jones led the Owls with 16 overall points, including a match-high 10 kills, four service aces, and seven digs. The Owls improved to 6-6 on Saturday afternoon by sweeping the Marist Red Foxes (0-10) to close out the Villanova Wildcat Challenge, 25-14, 25-20, 25-18 at Nevin Fieldhouse.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Jones earned also four blocks, second behind senior Chelci Banks' five and also tied sophomore Lexi Yoza with a match-high four service aces.
As a team, Temple combined for 11 team blocks, holding the Red Foxes to a .012 hitting percentage.
Helping out the offense was the Owls' serve game which totaled 14 service aces in the sweep.
Sara Dasic and Taylor Miller combined for 12 kills, six kills each to lead the Foxes in the loss.
Following the match, freshman Christiana Greene and Jones were named to the all-tournament team for their play in the two-day tournament.

SET 1 (TEM 25, MAR 14)

Temple forced Marist to all an early timeout as Owls' hitter Sydney Jones connected with a pair of kills to push Temple to a 5-2 lead.
The Owls pushed their lead to nine points (16-7) when they went on a 7-2 run with the help of service aces from Lexi Yoza (2) and Taylor Davenport and a pair of block assists from Chelci Banks and Christiana Green.
The Owls' setter Yoza finished the set with three of her four service aces in the match to help the Owls pull away and win by 11 points.

SET 2 (TEM 25, MAR 20)

The Owls and the Red Foxes traded the lead 10 lead changes and 14 ties during set two.
Marist scored back-to-back points to retake the lead by one point, 18-17, but the Cherry and White pulled away by winning eight of the final 10 point. Jones, the Havertown, Pa. native collected a kill, a block, and a service ace to end the set.

SET 3 (TEM 25 , MAR 18)

Temple won eight of the first 10 points, including a 6-0 run. During the Owls' rally the freshman Jones earned a pair of kills and a block assist.
TU increased its lead to nine points with another run that saw it reel off five straight points with a pair of aces from Jones and kills from Davenport and junior Alyssa Finister.
The Red Foxes went on a 4-0 run to close the lead to four points, 15-11, as Sara Dasic connected with two of her team-high six kills in the match.
Later in the set, Marist cut the Temple lead to three points on two occasions, but couldn't get any closer. The Cherry and White closed out the final set on a 4-0 run behind Jones' fourth ace, her 10th kill.

TEMPLE LEADERS
Kills: Sydney Jones – 10
Assists: Lexi Yoza – 25
Digs: Sydney Jones - 7
Aces: Lexi Yoza and Sydney Jones - 4
Blocks: Chelci Banks – 5

UP NEXT
Temple will start American Athletic Conference play next week, Sept. 27 and Sept. 29 as its travels to Wichita State and Tulsa.

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