PINEVILLE, LA - The LeTourneau University volleyball team would lead from the start and never look back in a 3-0 sweep of host Louisiana College in an American Southwest Conference match at H.O. West Fieldhouse in Pineville, Louisiana on Saturday, October 21st. 

LETU improves to 10-19 overall and 4-11 in the ASC with the victory after winning their third straight game to finish the week with a 3-1 overall record. 

A quick start to the match saw the YellowJackets win the first three points of the set and jump out to an early 8-4 lead and manage to build their lead to 12-7. The Wildcats would fight back to pull within a single point at 14-13 and force a LeTourneau timeout, but a 5-1 run by LETU would push the lead back out to 19-14 following a kill by Lauren Egby-McNeal. Looking to close out the set, LeTourneau would take their largest lead of the set at 23-17 and go on to take the set by a final score of 25-20. 

Louisiana College would manage to keep things a tad closer in the second set as the Wildcats managed to take an early lead before the two squads would trade leads. Trailing 13-10, would take their first timeout of the set, but it would do no good as LC would extend their lead to 15-11. The YellowJackets finally found their offensive touch midway through the set to battle back and tie the match at 17-17 and force an LC timeout before scoring five of the next six points out of the timeout. Louisiana College would make one last push to close the gap before LETU would claim a 25-21 set victory. 

LeTourneau would have a harder time getting Louisiana College to relinquish the lead in the third set as the Wildcats would stake early leads of 5-3 and 9-7 before taking a 13-8 lead on a kill by Jaslyn Bright. Freshman Torie Langston would manage to bring LETU back to tie the match at 14-14 with six straight points starting with a kill and then five points while at the service line. The set would become deadlocked again at 17-17 before three straight points by LeTourneau gave the YellowJackets some breathing room at 20-17. 

The lead would get extended to 23-19 in favor of LeTourneau and just two points away from winning the match when LC would score three straight points to close the gap to 23-22. Two of the final three points ended up going in favor of LeTourneau however, as the YellowJackets closed out the match with a 25-23 set win to sweep their fifth match of the year. 

LETU outhit Louisiana College .231-.185 in the match while forcing the Wildcats into 12 attack errors. A 9-6 advantage in service aces would go in favor of LeTourneau while LC collected five blocks compared to two for the YellowJackets. 

Senior Elyse Wright led all players in the match with 13 kills while Hailey Matthews had a double-double with 12 kills and 18 digs. Cam Taylor would also add a double-double with 19 set assists and 16 digs while Langston (3), Matthews (2), and Audrey Galindo (2) all recorded multiple service aces. 

The final week of the regular season will start on Tuesday, October 24th for the YellowJackets when they play their ASC finale at the University of Texas-Dallas. First serve in Richardson is scheduled for 7 p.m.