Pride roll to second straight sweep with Friday night victory over Wildcats

DUBUQUE, Iowa - Sporting only two losses in Heart of America play, the Clarke University women's volleyball team added another notch to the win column Friday night at the Kehl Center with a clean 3-0 sweep over Culver-Stockton College.

The first and third sets played pretty close with the second set going handily to the Pride as the scores finished at 25-21, 25-6, and 25-21 for CU to earn their second sweep in as many matches, returning home for the first time since Sept. 21. 

As a team, Clarke hit for an impressive .374 hitting percentage with only 11 errors on 99 attacks, finishing the match with 48 total kills as a team. Individually, no front row player for the Pride finished with a lower hitting percentage than .250 with Jada Kroning having the most efficient night for CU at .545 with seven kills on 11 attacks with only one hitting error.

Amber Cooksley and Maddy Melvin finished the match with the highest quantity of kills with 13 coming off the hand of Cooksley and 10 coming from Melvin. Gianna Garza finished with eight kills, Rebecca Shroeder had seven of her own, Lily Himmelmann added two, and Alana Cooksley had a kill from the setter position.

Amber Cooksley finished with 10 digs also for a double-double as the back row for Clarke had their fair share of action, finishing the match with 47 digs with libero Rylie Bohanan matching Cooksley's match-high of 10 digs.

The next match for the Pride will be on next Tuesday when they travel to Des Moines, Iowa to take on No. 24 Grand View University for their second meeting of the season after the Vikings took the match in the Kehl Center 3-0 earlier this season.