Volleyball Defeated By San Jose State

Saturday, September 7

Iowa City, IA

1 PM EST // 12 PM CST

University of Delaware

2-3,0-0CAA

San Jose State

4-0,0-0Mountain West

San Jose St.

Delaware

Photo by: University of Iowa Athletics

9/7/2024 2:49:00 PM | Volleyball

Box Score

IOWA CITY, IOWA - University of Delaware volleyball lost to San Jose State in straight sets (18-25, 19-25, 20-25) on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024 to close out the Hawkeye Invite.

HEN HIGHLIGHTS

Savannah Seemans had a team-high nine kills and 10 digs, and added four aces.
Lily Rogers had 24 assists, seven digs, and two blocks.
Jayda Redd had five kills and five digs.
Gha'Naye Whitfield-Moss had seven kills and two blocks.
Kirah Johnson recorded five kills and two blocks.
Cadence Nguyen had nine digs.
Taylor Holly had seven digs.
Mackenzie Sobczyk recorded her first kill of the season.

HOW IT HAPPENED
FIRST SET

Seemans had three kills for Delaware's first five points of the match to take a three-point lead. San Jose State would come back to take a 9-8 lead, but Delaware scored six of the next seven points to go ahead 14-10.
San Jose State retook control and went up 21-16 before winning the set.
Seemans had five kills on a .500 hitting percentage and six digs in the opening set.

SECOND SET

The second set had seven ties and four lead changes, all early in the set, before San Jose State took the lead for good at 9-8.
Whitfield-Moss had two kills at the start of the set, and Redd recorded her first career kill to cut San Jose State's lead to 10-9.
Redd had Delaware's next three points in a row on kills to cut San Jose State's lead to 23-17, and back-to-back kills by Whitfield-Moss and Seemans made it 24-19 before San Jose State closed the set out.

THIRD SET

A kill and back-to-back aces by Seemans put Delaware on a 4-0 run and they took a 9-6 lead in the third. Another 4-0 run and kills by Redd and Whitfield-Moss had UD up 13-7.
San Jose State eventually took a 23-16 lead. Whitfield-Moss and Sobczyk both had kills and an ace by Seemans brought the score to 24-20, but San Jose State won the match.

MATCH NOTES

Seemans played in her 100th match of her career. She had played in every possible set of every match since arriving at Delaware as a freshman during the Spring 2021 season.
Seemans had had at least 10 digs in four of the five matches to start the season.
Seemans recorded her 900th kill of her career during the match. She currently sits at 908 career kills.
Rogers recorded her 900th assist of her career during the match. She currently sits at 923 career assists.
Redd made her collegiate debut during the match.
Holly has 33 digs through her first five career matches, the most by a Delaware player since Rogers had 41 and Seemans had 50 during the Spring 2021 season.
Delaware has opened the season with five consecutive road games, their most since beginning 2017 with 13 straight road games.

UP NEXT

Delaware plays at home for the first time in 2024, as they host the Blue hen Invitational against Marist on Friday, Sept. 13 and Howard on Sunday, Sept. 15.

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