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Score: Kennesaw State 3, North Alabama 0 (25-16, 25-16, 25-10)
Records: Kennesaw State (8-0, 8-0), North Alabama (1-6, 1-5)
Key Players: Lauren Chastang (11 kills, 5 digs), Dani Ballou (5 kills, 2 blks), Claire Parsons (4 kills, 8 blks), Jessie Cohen (26 assts, 3 blks, 2 digs) and Karlee Groover (14 digs, 3 aces).
 
THE STORYLINE 
The Kennesaw State volleyball team capped off the weekend with its second straight sweep of North Alabama (25-16, 25-16, 25-10) Sunday afternoon to improve to 8-0 on the season.

SCHUNZEL QUOTES
On the team's all-around performance…
"Our serve, our block and our defense were outstanding. We really controlled UNA throughout the match. And then I was really happy that we inserted a lot of players and a lot of people contributed and did some really nice things. I thought all around we did a lot of really good things as a group."

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Owls came out fired up to open the match racing out to an 8-2 lead. The Lions managed to cut the lead down to three, 10-7, but KSU responded with a 7-1 swing to take a 17-8 lead. KSU pushed its lead to as high as 22-11 holding UNA to a -.077 hitting percentage in the set. The Owls cruised to a 25-16 set victory as Claire Parsons logged a solo stuff, her third block of the set, to seal the win.
 
After UNA took a 3-1 lead to open the second set, the Owls buckled down with a 4-0 run to re-take the lead 5-3. The Lions kept it close as a 3-0 run pulled them within one, 9-8, but the Owls were undeterred, ripping off a 6-1 run capped off by a kill from Emma Schurfranz to lead 15-9. After trading points, KSU earned set point 24-15 behind a 7-2 swing. Parsons capped it off once again with a kill to earn the 25-16 set victory and give KSU a 2-0 lead heading into intermission.
 
The third set was all Owls as KSU hit .429 in the set compared to -.222 for UNA. The Owls seized control following a 6-0 run capped off with back-to-back kills by Lanie Vantrease to lead 8-4. Following a service error, KSU would go on to record the next eight straight points featuring two aces from Karlee Groover as well as Parsons combining for blocks with Vantrease and Jessie Cohen. The Owls kept their foot on the gas as Vantrease recorded a 3-0 run of her own with a kill and two aces to make it 21-8. Another 3-0 run gave KSU set point, 24-9, before a service error sealed the straight set sweep.

NOTES
- Claire Parsons recorded a career-high eight blocks in the match.
- The Owls finished with 11 total blocks to mark the second time this season they have logged 10 or more blocks.
- Lauren Chastang led the team with 11 kills, her 13th straight match with 10 or more kills dating back to last season.
- Karlee Groover recorded her second match this year with three or more aces, finishing with three.
- The Owls held UNA to a -.068 hitting percentage, the second time this year they've held a team to a negative hitting percentage.
- Sophomore Chelsey Abel earned her first career start finishing with three kills, three blocks and a .375 hitting percentage.
- Emma Schurfranz logged four kills on seven swings for a .429 hitting percentage, her third match this year hitting .400 or better.
- As a team, eight Owls recorded at least one kill, 10 recorded at least one dig and six recorded at least one block.

UP NEXT
The Owls are back in the Convocation Center this Friday (Mar. 5) and Saturday (Mar. 6) for their final scheduled home matches of the season, welcoming Liberty at 7 p.m.