Score: Kennesaw State 3, Georgia Southern 2 (20-25, 25-13, 21-25, 25-21, 15-13)
Records: Kennesaw State (4-0), Georgia Southern (2-3)
Key Players: Kristi Piedimonte (50 assists and seven digs), Anaiah Boyer (18 kills hitting .341 and 10 digs), Katarina Morton (21 digs and two service aces)
 
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Athens, Ga. – Trailing 2-1 in the match, the Kennesaw State volleyball team rallied in the fourth and fifth sets to move to 4-0 on the season.
 
In the intense fifth set, neither team blinked until KSU took an 11-8 lead. Coming out of a timeout, the Eagles responded with a 4-0 run to take the lead back at 12-11 lead. After trading points and the match tied at 13, Kennesaw State closed out the match with two straight points.
 
In the fourth set, with the score tied at 10, the Owls used a 5-1 run to take a 15-11 lead. The Owls were the first to 20 and then closed out the set 25-21.
 
After each team won the first two sets to have the match even at one, the third set was much more back and forth. The Eagles finally stretched out a lead to 18-13, before the Owls went on a 5-0 run of their own to even the score at 18. Southern responded after that with a 4-0 run going up 22-18 and taking control to go up 2-1.

Coach Schunzel on the Five-Set Thriller
"I'm so proud of our group for the resiliency that we showed in a long back and forth match. A couple of times in the match, our team could've had some reasons to get down on themselves, but they constantly stayed positive and kept competing and quickly turned around those poor times into some really good volleyball. Anaiah had a huge bounce back game and was super aggressive today offensively. Our passers kept us in rhythm and our setter did a great job of passing the ball around. We're excited about another big in-state rivalry game tomorrow.
- Kennesaw State Head Coach Keith Schunzel
 
Notes
- With the five set win, Kennesaw State moves to 4-0 on the season matching the best start in school history. With a win against Mercer tomorrow, the Owls will have the best start in school history in its 10^th season as a program.
- The five set match against Georgia Southern was the first one for the Owls in 2015. In Schunzel's time here as a coach, his team's are 10-6 overall in five-set matches with the win today.
- Anaiah Boyer picked up the team's first double-double of the season with 18 kills and 10 digs. In her freshman season in 2014, she led the team with nine double-doubles.
- Kristi Piedimonte had 50 assists against the Eagles. That is her fifth 50-assist match in an Owls uniform.
 
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