Scores: Kennesaw State 3, FGCU 1 (25-22, 17-25, 25-23, 25-21)
Records: Kennesaw State (19-8, 9-5), FGCU (21-11, 10-4)
Key Players: Anaiah Boyer (18 kills and four digs), Kristi Piedimonte (41 assists and nine digs), Katarina Morton (26 digs), Kelly Marcinek (13 kills hitting .375)
 
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With a chance to clinch a birth in the Atlantic Sun tournament finals for the first time in school history, the Kennesaw State volleyball team closed out Florida Gulf Coast in four sets in a complete team effort.
 
With the Owls leading 22-20 in the fourth, Anaiah Boyer and Kelly Marcinek each picked up kills before Boyer finished off the Eagles with her 18^th kill of the night.
 
In the first set, FGCU grabbed a quick 4-0 lead, but the Owls clawed back to tie the score at six all. KSU went on a 5-0 run in the middle of the set forcing FGCU to take the first timeout of the game trailing the Owls 16-13. The Eagles came back to tie the score at 21, but Kennesaw State closed the set with a 4-1 run to go up 1-0.
 
Trailing 1-0, Florida Gulf Coast came out and took an early lead in the second and never gave the Owls a chance to take back the momentum as they went on to even the match up 1-1 as the team's went in to the locker room.
 
The third set was back and forth as there were 16 ties and nine lead changes. The largest lead in the set was two points for both teams. With the score tied at 23, the Eagles had two attack errors to put the Owls up 2-1 in the match.

KSU used their emotion and momentum from winning the third set to taking a 15-10 lead. They extended their lead to 19-13 and Gulf Coast started their comeback. They cut the lead to 21-19 and 22-20, but didn't get closer than that as the Owls closed out the match 25-21.
 
Tomorrow, the Owls will appear in their first ever Atlantic Sun Championship match against Lipscomb at 4 p.m. It will be broadcasted on ESPN3.

Coach Schunzel on the Semi-Final Win
"In three years being in this program, we've played extremely hard a lot of times, but I don't think we could've possibly played any harder than we did tonight. We had a fearless attitude all night long, and I'm so proud of the mentality that our kids played with tonight. We certainly know that tomorrow is going to be a dog fight, but we have a group of young women that didn't just come here to play in the final."
 - Kennesaw State Head Coach Keith Schunzel
 
 Notes
- Tomorrow will be the first ever A-Sun Championship that the Owls will play in. KSU will face off against Lipscomb, where they split the regular season with as each team beat the other on their home court.
- Boyer finished with 18 kills on 40 attacks with only one error. She hit .425 in the match.
- Kelly Marcinek and Sydni Shelton also had double-digit kills as Marcinek had 13 and Shelton had 10.
- Libero Katarina Morton led the team with 26 digs.
- The Owls defense held FGCU to a .169 hitting percentage in the match.
 
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