Calvin Jensen, Sports Information Director, Utah State Eastern

Photo courtesy of Jeff Barrett

The 12th ranked Utah State Eastern women’s volleyball team picked up their 14th consecutive victory with a road over Snow College Thursday night.  The Badger’s home court has haunted the Lady Eagles who have been unable to pull off a road win against their conference foe…until last night.  Eastern had even more to celebrate with the victory as they had never before pulled off a 3-0 sweep of the Badgers with set scores of 25-15, 25-19, and 25-22.

It was a team effort on the offensive attack with sophomore outside hitter Ajah Rajvong racking up 8 kills in the game.  Freshman right side hitter Lauren Hamilton also picked up 8 kills with an impressive 3 solo blocks on defense.  Sophomore middle blocker Casidy Fried added 7 kills with 2 aces and sophomore middle blocker Rachel West contributed with 6 kills and 3 blocks on the night.  Agata Makowska led in assists with 13 and added 7 digs on defense.   Sophomore libero Paige Shumway had 13 digs  and sophomore setter Jenna Thorkelson added 11 digs of her own defensively.

‘This is a great win for our team,” said head Coach Danielle Jensen.  “They have been putting everything on the court in practice and you are seeing that hard work pay off in these games.  We’ve been dealt a lot of injury this season and the team has been amazing at at making the adjustments as we wait to get our entire team active and healthy again.”

No. 12 USU Eastern (18-5, 2-0) will continue their road trip to Last Vegas as they take on the College of Southern Nevada (6-8, 1-2) on Saturday, September 30 at 2:00 p.m. MST.  Fans can watch the game live on the Scenic West Digital Network.