SOU-Corban Boxscore

The Southern Oregon volleyball team continued its hot streak over Corban College with a 25-14, 25-17, 25-20 victory over the Cavaliers tonight at McNeal Pavilion.

The Raiders improved to .500 overall at 7-7 and 5-1 in Cascade Conference play. Corban fell to 3-3 in conference play and 5-6 overall. The victory sets up a huge showdown Tuesday night at 17th-ranked and first place Oregon Tech. The Raiders have now won four straight matches.

SOU has now defeated Corban 17 of 18 times dating back to the 2000 season.

All-Americans Mia Wortel (Estacada, Ore./Estacada) and Lindsey Stone (Ashland, Ore./Ashland) continued to come up huge for the Raiders. Wortel finished with 13 kills and just two errors and Stone finished with 35 assists.

On Friday night, Wortel went for 12 kills and just two errors and Stone had 43 assists.

Despite hitting just .182 in the first set, the Raiders' defense held Corban to a -.130 attack percentage.

The Raiders blew open a close second set with back-to-back kills by Samantha Yutzie and Wortel for a 21-16 lead. Yutzie added another kill to push the lead to 24-16 and Wortel finished off the Warriors with a kill to end the set.

The Warriors took advantage of numerous SOU errors to jump out to an early 4-0 lead in the third set. A kill by Leah Bergstrom (West Linn, Ore./West Linn) cut the Corban advantage to 5-4 and a Corban error evened the set at 5-5.

SOU took their first lead at 7-6 on a Corban error and a kill by SOU's Sarah Holgen (Honolulu, Hawaii/Ashland) extended the lead 8-6 and the Raiders never looked back.

Maggie Rivers (Salem, Ore./McNary) had 14 digs for the Raiders.

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