OKLAHOMA CITY – Senior outside hitter
Hanna Foecker and
Maegan Plunk each broke a pair of NAIA Era records in a three-set sweep on Monday night against Langston as the Mid-America Christian volleyball team is preparing for its final home match of the 2020-21 regular season against Science & Arts on Wednesday.
Hanna Foecker eclipsed both the 1500 collegiate career kills mark as well as surpassed Christiane Costa (844) for MACU's NAIA Era career kills record with 861 with her 24-kill effort. After breaking the program's NAIA era digs record the week before against the University of the Southwest,
Maegan Plunk broke another record as her 12 digs allowed her to pass Shelbi Johnson (625) for the season digs record, putting her total at 629 for the year.
Mid-America Christian vs. Langston
SCORE
- Mid-America Christian 3, Langston 0 (25-16, 25-16, 26-24)
- Mid-America Christian (17-14, 4-5 SAC)
- Langston (2-7, 2-7 SAC)
TOP PERFORMERS
MATCH SUMMARY
- Set One
- Mid-America Christian took a commanding lead early in the first set, scoring on 10 of the first 13 rallies as Hanna Foecker put down three kills while Morgan Van Meir tallied a pair of service aces during the run.
- Langston put together a strong counter, scoring 10 of the next 12 points to take a 13-12 lead from MACU.
- After battling to a 14-all tie, MACU rattled off an 11-2 run to close out the 25-16 opening set victory. Foecker notched kills on six of those 11 rallies, finishing the set with 11 kills.
- Set Two
- Langston jumped out to a 7-3 advantage and held on its four-point cushion until the midway point at 12-8.
- Mid-America Christian strung together 11 unanswered points behind the serve of Maegan Plunk, who put down a pair of aces to go with four Foecker kills as well as a pair of kills from Desiree Brewer to make it a 19-12 Evangels edge.
- The Lions kept it to within six before MACU tallied four of the final five points of the set to secure another 25-16 win.
- Set Three
- Both teams traded runs through the first half of the third set, but Langston utilized a 9-3 run during the midway point to seize a 14-11 lead.
- The Evangels tied it up with three straight behind two Callicoat kills, but LU countered with three unanswered of its own to recapture its advantage.
- Langston maintained its lead for most of the remainder of the set and put the Evangels in dire straits with Antonese Tatum's kill to make it 23-21, forcing MACU head coach Holly McKamie to call a timeout.
- The Evangels managed to tie it up following a Callicoat kill and a Lions attack error, but a service error from Kaylie Walker gave Langston game-point at 24-23.
- Mid-America Christian came up clutch as Foecker slammed down a kill after a long rally to tie it up and Brewer put down a kill on the ensuing rally before the two combined to come up with a block on match-point to secure the 26-24 come-from-behind win.
MATCH NOTES
- Mid-America Christian notched 45 kills on a .193 attack percentage while holding Langston to only 29 kills on a .102 clip.
- Hanna Foecker broke a pair of records during the match, not only setting the program's new NAIA Era career kills record, but her 24 kills also shattered her previously held three-set match record of 21 that was set on Oct. 14, 2019 and then matched against Bethel (Kan.) on Sept. 22.
- Between her two-year career at Mid-America Christian and St. John's River State College, Foecker has now amassed 1510 kills in her collegiate career.
- Libero Maegan Plunk has shattered three different records during the 2020-21 campaign. Before breaking the single season record against the Lions, Plunk surpassed Camera Broadnax's career digs record of 1476 with 28 digs against the Mustangs. With an additional 12 digs against LU, Plunk has notched more than 1500 digs at MACU as she sits at 1508. In a 3-2 victory at Oklahoma Wesleyan on Sept. 15, the Rowlett, Texas native broke Shelbi Johnson's (38) single match digs record with 46.
- By getting a pair of aces, Kaylie Walker became just the third Evangels player to notch 50 or more service aces in a season, joining Hannah Luedtke (56, 2014) and Alexa Bass (52, 2018). Walker is also just the third to reach 100 career service aces as she tied Taryn Walker for second in the NAIA Era.
NEXT UP
- Mid-America Christian will host Science & Arts in a non-conference matchup in its final regular season home match inside the Gaulke Activity Center at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
- If the Evangels can get the win, they'd tie the program's NAIA Era record for the most wins in a single season with 18.
