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Smith Stutts
Phakhaphum Padmanuja
3
Winner Millsaps MIL 14-13
0
LeTourneau LETU 10-20
Winner
Millsaps MIL
14-13
3
Final
0
LeTourneau LETU
10-20
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Millsaps MIL 25 25 27 (3)
LeTourneau LETU 17 22 25 (0)

Game Recap: Volleyball | | Contact: Matt Kinney, Sports Information Director, Mattkinney@letu.edu

Volleyball Falls To Millsaps At Centenary Halloween Tournament

SHREVEPORT, La. - The LeTourneau University volleyball team was never able to get into an offensive groove as Millsaps University was able to hand the YellowJackets a 3-0 loss in at the Centenary Halloween Tournament at the Gold Dome in Shreveport, Louisiana on Friday, October 27th. 

LETU is now 10-20 overall this season while the Majors picked up their second win of the year over LeTourneau to improve to 14-13. 

In a first set that saw the YellowJackets commit nine attack errors, Millsaps would take an early 3-1 lead and push their lead to 8-4 and force a LeTourneau timeout. The lead would grow to 11-4 and manage to stay around the seven point mark for a majority of the set as LETU would never be able to get closer than six points at 16-9 the rest of the way with the Majors winning the set by a score of 25-17. 

LeTourneau would play better in the second set but still run into issues midway through that would allow Millsaps to take the lead for and find a way to pull away late. Ties early on in the set ended up being a theme as the first 12 points of the set would be traded between the two teams with another set of ties coming at 10-10, 11-11, and again at 12-12. Things would stay neck and neck with the final tie of the set coming at 18-18 on a Millsaps attack error before two straight points by the Majors would force a LeTourneau timeout. Millsaps would take a 24-20 lead before the YellowJackets would fend off two straight set points before finally falling by a score of 25-22. 

The third set would appear to see LeTourneau finally starting to find their offense, jumping out to a 6-2 lead on a kill by Savanna Stutts which forced a Majors timeout. Millsaps would manage to tie the set at 10-10, but see LETU quickly reclaim the lead and manage to hold it until another tie at 18-18. Crunch time would prove to extremely close as neither team would be able to open up a lead of more than three points when the YellowJackets would get to set point at 24-21. A timeout by Millsaps would break the LeTourneau run as MC would fight off three straight set points to tie the match at 24 and score six of the final seven points of the set to take a 27-25 set victory and claim a match sweep. 

Millsaps would claim a 6-4 advantage in blocks in the set while LeTourneau recorded two service aces compared to only one for the Majors. Senior Korissa White led LETU with 20 set assists to go along with 13 digs while Audrey Galindo had a team-high 17 digs. Freshman Hailey Matthews along with Stutts led LeTourneau with nine kills each. 

The final two matches of 2017 for LETU will take place tomorrow at the Gold Dome when the YellowJackets get things going again starting at 3 p.m. Two familiar foes await LeTourneau who will take on Austin College in their first match before finishing their season against Centenary College at 5 p.m. 
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