Camryn Hill Ties Career-High in Kills and Digs as Ladyjacks Suffer Their First Loss of the Season

Friday, September 6

El Paso, TX

4:00 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin

5-1,0-0Southland

Southeastern Louisiana University

1-4,0-0Southland

Southeastern La.

SFA

Camryn Hill Ties Career-High in Kills and Digs as Ladyjacks Suffer Their First Loss of the Season

9/6/2024 8:05:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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By: Amanda Paver, SFA Assistant Director for Strategic Communications

EL PASO, Texas- The Stephen F. Austin volleyball team (5-1) suffered their first loss of the 2024 season at the hands of the defending Southland Conference Champions, the Southeastern Louisiana Lions (1-5) in five sets.

The first set was tightly contested until the Ladyjacks went on a four-point scoring run capped off by a pair of kills from Camryn Hill, 9-5. Later SFA went on another four-point spurt which gave the 'Jacks a 14-7 lead. The 'Jacks did not take their foot off the gas as kills from Katherine Holtman and Hill scored two of the four points in their third four-point run of the set. The Lions tried to keep pace with the high-flying Ladyjacks, but SFA pulled away with a 25-19 first set victory.

With the second set tied at 4 apiece, SFA went on an incredible 8-0 run with a kill from Kyanna Creecy, Caroline Kahle, Izabella Ortiz, and Holtman, 12-4. SLU tried to claw their way back, but as the teams continued to trade blows SFA held their lead and secured another 25-19 set victory.

In the third set, both teams were successful in siding out. However, the Lions went on a 6-1 run as they took a 12-6 lead. SLU continued to slowly extended their lead throughout a majority of the set. SFA attempted to mount a comeback with a four-point run with two kills from Holtman and one from Creecy to cut the lead down to two, 23-21. The Lions won back-to-back points to win the third set 25-21.

The trend of tightly contested sets continued in the fourth as neither team held more than a two point lead until the 'Jacks rattled off three points to take a 12-8 lead. SLU fought back with two three-point runs of their own and finished the set in a dominating fashion winning the final seven points of the set, 25-16.

SFA went into the fifth set for the first time since October 1^st, 2022. With this young roster for the 'Jacks, only the juniors (Hill, Ortiz, and Jayden Flynn) had ever been in a match that went to five sets. Southeastern Louisiana had all the momentum in their favor as they jumped out to an early 8-3 lead. After switching sides the 'Jacks went on a four-point run to rally from a eight-point deficit to a four-point deficit, 13-9. The deficit was too much for the Ladyjacks to overcome as the Lions won the fifth set by a score of 15-10.

Top Players of the Match:

• Camryn Hill: 15 kills (led team and ties career high), 21 digs (led team and ties career high)
• Jayden Flynn: three aces (led team, 1 ace away from 100 career aces), 31 assists (season high)
• Kyanna Creecy: six blocks (led team), 10 kills
• Izabella Ortiz: 10 kills, five blocks
• Katherine Holtman: 14 kills, two blocks

The Ladyjacks will be back in action on Saturday, September 7^th at 1:00 p.m. for a matchup with the UTEP Miners.

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