Volleyball Earns Road Sweep of JU

Saturday, February 20

Jacksonville, Fla.

7 p.m.

University of North Florida

3-6,2-1ASUN

Jacksonville

2-3,0-1ASUN

North Florida

Jacksonville

Photo by: Todd Drexler

2/20/2021 8:50:00 PM | Volleyball

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Ospreys Win Fifth Straight Against Crosstown Rival

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - UNF volleyball (3-6, 2-1 ASUN) held JU (2-3, 0-1 ASUN) to just .124 hitting as the Ospreys swept the Dolphins at Swisher Gymnasium Saturday, February 20.

UNF has won five straight against JU while adding another barrel point for UNF to the 2020-21 River City Rumble total.

Kailey McKnight paced UNF with 9 kills on .318 hitting while Julianna Askew put up 30 assists, six digs, three kills, two aces and two block assists.

UNF 3, JU 0 (26-24, 25-19, 25-17)
Inside the Sets

Set 1: Kailey McKnight had five kills and UNF out-hit JU .241 to .189 to secure the first set … UNF had four fewer kills but committed four-fewer errors to help its cause.
Set 2: North Florida started off the set on a 6-0 run … Askew had two aces during the stretch … JU closed in on the Ospreys towards the end of the session but a four-kill advantage to go with the statistical upper hand on the service line and with blocks gave UNF the win.
Set 3: The Ospreys saved its most efficient set for last, hitting .321 with two aces to complete the sweep.

Leaders By the Numbers
UNF

McKnight | 9 kills, .318 hitting %, 5 digs, 3 aces, 2 block assists
Askew | 30 assists, 6 digs, 3 kills, 2 aces
Moro | 15 digs, 3 assists
Walp | 8 kills, 5 block assists

Madison Rayam | 6 kills
Camryn Honn | 26 assists
Avery Perosa | 13 digs

Notes

UNF improves to 23-17 all-time against JU.
The Ospreys have won five in a row against JU.
Head coach Kristen Wright is 5-0 against JU.
It was McKnight's third double-digit kill match of the year.
UNF picked up its second sweep of the year.
Logan O'Brien had her second double-digit dig match of the season.

Wright's Words
"I thought we did a nice job executing when we needed to and our serving was great tonight, averaging two aces per set. When you have freshmen like Kailey and Logan leading the way it's a great sign, especially in the type of environment the River City Rumble presents. I'm very grateful to our crowd, our AD, men's basketball team and beach volleyball team; they made a huge difference tonight. It was good to sweep night number one, but we need to clean up some things on our side of the net despite holding them to a .124 attack percentage. We did bail JU out a number of times when we had one-on-one situations, but I expect to be a lot more proficient tomorrow. This series isn't over and we'll expect a fight tomorrow night. We'll be prepared!" - Head coach Kristen Wright

Up Next
UNF and JU will do it again tomorrow night at 7 p.m. from Swisher Gymnasium.