Mizzou coach Dawn Sullivan holds flowers and welcomes senior players to the court for Senior Night on Sunday at the Hearnes Center. The team motto this season was “LFG,” which stands for “Love, family, grit.”
The Mizzou volleyball team applauds during introductions before a match against Alabama on Sunday at Hearnes Center. The Tigers celebrated their seniors after the match.
Mizzou freshman Eva Smith spikes the ball Sunday at the Hearnes Center. Mizzou won the third set of the match 25-11.
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Mizzou freshman Eva Smith spikes the ball Sunday at the Hearnes Center. Mizzou won the third set of the match 25-11.
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Mizzou coach Dawn Sullivan holds flowers and welcomes senior players to the court for Senior Night on Sunday at the Hearnes Center. The team motto this season was “LFG,” which stands for “Love, family, grit.”
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Mizzou senior Grace O’Reilly (40) returns the ball Sunday at the Hearnes Center. Mizzou defeated Alabama 3-0.
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The Mizzou volleyball team applauds during introductions before a match against Alabama on Sunday at Hearnes Center. The Tigers celebrated their seniors after the match.
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Mizzou junior Nina Mandovic (0) sets the ball during warmups Sunday at the Hearnes Center. The Tigers' next match is Friday at South Carolina.
Mizzou volleyball capped its home stand with a dominant 25-13, 25-21, 25-11 sweep over Alabama for its third straight win.
The Tigers (11-8, 4-3 Southeastern Conference) took three out of four in their time at home, with wins over Auburn, Mississippi State and Alabama after a loss to Florida.
Paige Felder continued her stellar season with her 10th performance of double-digit kills. Against the Crimson Tide (9-8, 1-7), Felder killed 15 balls on 29 attempts with just two errors for a .448 hitting percentage. She also notched two blocks and four digs.
With that boost to the team's hitting percentage, the Tigers hit at a .376 rate as they avenged last season's 3-1 loss in Tuscaloosa. Missouri had 41 kills in 85 attempts while also recording nine errors.
Kimani Johnson had eight kills in 17 attempts Sunday and has found a groove since Missouri's match against LSU, when she had 15 kills, recording at least eight in each match since then. The fifth year senior also tallied a block and a dig.
To start the match off, the two teams briefly went back-and-forth before Missouri scored six straight points to make it 8-2. It cruised to a 25-13 Set 1 win from there, ending the set with five points in a row.
Set 2 was the most competitive of the day, as the two teams played within two to three points of one another for most of the set. Mizzou led 15-13 when, out of a media timeout, Nina Mandovic's back-to-back service aces and another service winner put the Tigers up by five. Despite a late 4-0 run from Alabama, Missouri held on for a 25-21 win.
Just one set from back-to-back sweeps after Friday's win over Mississippi State, Missouri wasn't planning to allow Alabama to make the match interesting. The Tigers scored the first five points of Set 3 and didn't let up from there. Missouri got up to a 20-9 lead and forced Alabama to call its second timeout of the set. The Tigers took a 25-11 win from there after four straight errors from the Tide closed the match.
The Tigers seem to have figured it out behind the service line, as they recorded eight service aces with just three errors. Mandovic led the team with three aces, while Lauren Larkin and Ainoah Cruz both recorded two.
Missouri next heads to the other Columbia, which starts a two-week road trip, for a meeting with South Carolina (9-9, 2-6) at 6 p.m. Friday.
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