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Shiloh Jones 2025
0
Wharton County Junio WHARTON
3
Winner Blinn College BLINN CO
Wharton County Junio WHARTON
0
Final
3
Blinn College BLINN CO
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 F
Wharton County Junio WHARTON 21 19 21 (0)
Blinn College BLINN CO 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

No. 10 Blinn outlasts pesky Wharton County for Region 14 home sweep

The Buccaneers have won 12 consecutive matches and are 28-1 overall

In a hard-fought Region 14 matchup, the 10th-ranked Blinn College volleyball team outlasted Wharton County Junior College and picked up their 22nd sweep of the season.

The Buccaneers (28-1, 4-1 Region 14) also earned their 12 consecutive win and eighth sweep in a row.

The Pioneers came into the match just 7-8 overall and 1-3 in the region standings but gave Blinn a fight from start to finish.

Wharton County had a 17-15 lead late in the first set before the Bucs got on track on a Pioneers violation and a service ace from sophomore hitter Olivia Stringer.

After Wharton County took its final lead on a kill, Blinn sophomore hitter Kaliko Schilling answered with a kill of her own. Back-to-back Pioneer errors then put the hosts out front 21-19 and the Bucs stayed there.

The set concluded on a kill from freshman hitter Annika Brooks and two straight hitting errors by Wharton County.

"We're happy to get the win, but I definitely don't think this was our best match. We usually come out with a lot more energy than we did tonight," Bucs sophomore setter Camden Bizot said. "We still have some little things we need to clean up and I think getting into a regular routine now that tournament season is over will allow us to focus on those things."

Blinn faced its biggest deficit of the match when Wharton County raced out to a 9-4 lead in set two.

The Bucs fought back with an 8-3 run, capped by a kill from sophomore middle blocker Jana Cetkovic to make it 12-12. 

After the teams traded points en route to a 17-all tie, Brooks put her team on top for good with a kill. Sophomore hitter Shiloh Jones added a kill, and after the Pioneers pulled within one, Jones sandwiched two more kills around a service ace from Schilling.

Jones finished with a team-high 12 kills.

"It's late in the season now and I just want to continue to step up for my team in big moments," Jones said. "I'm just trying to connect well with our setters and find my groove, and hopefully I can build off this game." 

A Wharton County violation and a hit out of bounds ended the set.

Jones kept her hot hitting going as she recorded three consecutive kills to give Blinn a 3-0 lead in the final set.

After a Blinn violation capped a Pioneers rally and tied the set at six, the Bucs found space via a 6-1 spurt.

Wharton County later used a 5-0 run to stay on Blinn's heels at 16-13 before Schilling ended the move with a kill.

The Pioneers would remain close for the rest of the match and were hanging on at 23-21 before Stringer and Schilling knocked down back-to-back kills to put the game on ice.

Brooks totaled eight kills for Blinn, while Stringer and Schilling had seven apiece.

Sophomore Leah Hoss had a team-high 19 set assists, followed by 13 for Bizot. Bizot also had two of her team's five aces.

The Bucs got a team-best eight kills from Stringer, with freshman libero/defensive specialist Zoey Montgomery chipping in seven and Schilling tacking on eight.

At the net, Cetkovic tallied four block assists, Brooks had three, and Jones and sophomore middle blocker Karolina Karabasz finished with two apiece.

Up next, a region road tilt at Coastal Bend College awaits the Bucs at 6 p.m. on Thursday in Beeville, Texas.

Blinn has competed in intercollegiate athletics since 1903 and captured 53 national championships since 1987.
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