Eastern Florida State College Women’s Volleyball Wins Home Opener, Heads into Thursday Match

Titans will play Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA — The Eastern Florida State College women’s volleyball team won its home opener Tuesday evening at Titan Field House.

The Titans, who improved to 4-1 on the season, defeated St. Petersburg College in straight sets, winning 25-10, 25-21, and 25-23.

Freshman Diarra Gaye helped the Titans get off to a strong start, serving seven straight points as Eastern Florida State College jumped out to an early 10-3 lead. Jordyn Cox and Emma Cook each had a good first set with four and three kills in the set as the Titans cruised to a win in the first set.

The second set saw St. Petersburg take an 18-17 lead, their first of the match. But Ada Bayraktar tipped a ball over to tie the match 18-18 and then recorded an ace to give Eastern Florida State College the lead once again. Cox recorded a kill, and Elena Martin recorded a kill to finish off the set victory.

The third set saw St. Petersburg take the lead with four straight points to start the set, but Mikayla Lamb and Madelynne Daugherty recorded kills to get the Titans within one point, and then six consecutive points would give them a 12-10 lead.

Martin had some key kills down the stretch as the Titans would hang on to win in straight sets.

Cox led the way with eight kills, while Martin had six kills, and Cook finished with five. Sophia Iglesias had 20 assists.

Eastern Florida State College will head to Utah for the Crystal “Inn”vitiational at Salt Lake Community College. The Titans will play Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m.

Women’s volleyball team hosts St. Petersburg Tuesday

The Eastern Florida State College women’s volleyball team hosted St. Petersburg College in the home opener Tuesday night at Titan Field House.

Eastern Florida State College went into the matchup 3-1 on the season while this will be the season opener for St. Petersburg.

Freshmen Leyre Arroyo Sanchez and Jordyn Cox had a good weekend at the FSW Tournament and are both among the top five in the FCSAA in kills per set. Sanchez recorded 23 kills in the season opener which tied a school record while Cox had 21 in the five-set win. Teammate Sophia Iglesias is averaging 7.47 assists per set this season which is third in the FCSAA.

Tuesday night’s match was the first of a busy week of matches for the Titans who will travel to Utah for the Salt Lake CC Tournament beginning Thursday.

Admission is free to Titan Field House and fans can watch matches online at the EFSC Titans YouTube page.

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