CHICKASHA, Okla. – The Mid-America Christian volleyball team opened up the second half of Sooner Athletic Conference play on a high note, sweeping Science & Arts in straight sets inside the USAO Fieldhouse on Wednesday night for its sixth straight win.
 
Mid-America Christian at Science & Arts

• SCORE
  • Mid-America Christian 3, Science & Arts 0 (25-17, 25-18, 25-13)
    • Mid-America Christian (17-6, 8-3 SAC)
    • Science & Arts (8-12, 1-10 SAC)
• TOP PERFORMERS
  • Hanna Foecker – 18 Kills, .375 ATK%, 7 Digs
  • Cloie Mitchell – 12 Kills, .333 ATK%
  • Maddie Callicoat – 9 Kills, .278 ATK%, 3 Blocks
  • Lena Stockhammer – 36 Assists, 8 Digs, 3 Kills, .429 ATK%
  • Maegan Plunk – 17 Digs, 7 Assists
• MATCH SUMMARY
  • Set One
    • The opening set was close in the early going as a 3-1 Drovers run tied it at five before a Hanna Foecker kill ignited a six-unanswered run by the Evangels, as a kill from the right side by Maddie Callicoat gave MACU an 11-5 edge.
    • Mid-America Christian extended its lead to 13-6 before Science & Arts came storming back, scoring on seven of the next nine rallies to trim the MACU advantage down to 15-13.
    • A dump kill by Lena Stockhammer followed by three Foecker kills during a 4-1 run allowed MACU to extend its lead back out to five before USAO notched a pair of kills from Samiya West to bring it back to 19-16.
    • The Evangels ended the set with a powerful streak, scoring five of the final six points following a Drovers service error as Foecker's ninth kill of the set ended it for a 25-17 win.
  • Set Two
    • Science & Arts grabbed the momentum to start the second set by tallying six of the first nine points before the Evangels swung back with three in a row, getting kills from Cloie Mitchell, Callicoat and Vanessa Moreira to draw it back even at 6-6.
    • The Drovers briefly reclaimed the lead after the Evangels committed a pair of errors, but MACU got back on-track in a big way, as a Callicoat kill jumpstarted a string of five straight to make it an 11-8 MACU advantage.
    • USAO briefly thwarted the run by taking two of the next three rallies, but the Evangels once again surged for four straight as a Moreira service ace pushed the edge out to 16-10.
    • The Drovers clawed their way back, outscoring MACU 8-5 over the next 13 rallies, but a Mitchell kill allowed the Evangels to finish strong by taking the final four points. The Evangels capped it on back-to-back Foecker kills to secure the 25-18 win.
  • Set Three
    • The Evangels and Drovers battled evenly through the first 10 rallies once again before MACU grabbed the advantage with a 7-2 run wrapped up on a Mitchell kill to bring the score to 12-7, forcing USAO to call a timeout.
    • Science & Arts briefly stopped MACU as a service error out of the break brought serve back to the Drovers, but MACU responded with a nearly unstoppable run, scoring 11 of the next 13 points to put the set out of reach at 23-10.
    • The Drovers scored three of the next four to try to cut into the MACU lead, but it ended up being insurmountable as an attack error on the final rally gave the Evangels the 25-13 victory.
• MATCH NOTES
  • Mid-America Christian was dominant in both the attack and in the defense. The Evangels finished the match with 49 kills on a .321 hitting percentage while the Drovers could only muster 23 kills on a .061 clip. The 49 kills the Evangels registered in the match was just one shy of the program's three-set match record of 50 recorded at John Brown in Oct. 25. 2016.
  • In just three sets, the Evangels had three players record 10 or more points. Hanna Foecker led the attack with 18 kills on a .375 attack percentage to go with seven digs while Cloie Mitchell registered a career-high 12 kills on a .333 attack rate. Maddie Callicoat narrowly missed double-digits with nine kills, but also finished with three assisted blocks on the defense for 10.5 points.
  • Lena Stockhammer once again tied her own third-best mark for most assists in a three-set match with 36 dimes, while also recording eight digs in defense and three kills on a .429 hitting clip.
  • Maegan Plunk led the backline defense with 17 digs while Allison Porter finished with three blocks at the net.
  • Mid-America Christian won its 14^th straight match against Science & Arts since the Drovers started their volleyball program in 2016 and picked up their 12^th straight-set sweep against USAO in that stretch.

UP NEXT

• Mid-America Christian will wrap up its four-match road trip on Friday as the Evangels will be face John Brown for a 7 p.m. match inside the Bill George Arena in Siloam Springs, Ark.