Volleyball Defeats Rider in Straight-Sets

Thursday, September 10

Piscataway, N.J.

3 PM

University of Delaware

4-2,0-0CUSA

Rider

1-5,0-0Metro

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Rider	26	16	10	0
Delaware	28	25	25	3

Photo by: Michael Riccio

9/10/2026 8:16:00 PM | Volleyball

Box Score

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - University of Delaware volleyball defeated Rider in straight sets (28-26, 25-16, 25-10) for its third win in a row.

HEN HIGHLIGHTS

Asia Murray had a match-high 10 kills and six blocks while hitting .500.
Morgan Campbell hit .588 with 10 kills.
Anna Logan Gillens tallied nine kills with three blocks.
Kennedi Inman had 29 assists, eight digs, and three blocks.
Thalia Yancey had a team-high 11 digs to go with four aces.
Emily Zgonc had seven digs.
Jayda Gray and Taylor Holly had five digs.

HOW IT HAPPENED
FIRST SET

Set one was the closest of the match, featuring 16 ties and six lead changes. Rider took its largest lead at 10-6, but a 3-0 run with back-to-back kills from Gillens and Murray eventually evened the score at 12.
Rider regained the lead, 19-17, but a kill from Campbell and an ace by Yancey put UD up 20-19. The score was tied at 24-24 and 25-25 before Rider took a one-point lead, then Delaware scored the final three points of the set, with Campbell recording a block and kill during the closing moments, to take a 1-0 lead in the match.
Murray had six kills in the set and hit .556. Inman had 10 assists.

SECOND SET

Delaware never trailed in the second set. Murray immediately made an impact with four blocks to give Delaware an 8-2 lead.
Four straight points gave UD a 15-7 lead, then Inman recorded two kills to make it 18-9. Murray added a kill and a block to make the score 21-11 before UD closed out the set, 25-16 to go up 2-0.
Delaware held Rider to a -.037 hitting percentage and hit .458. Gillens had four kills and Murray had five blocks.

THIRD SET

Rider scored back-to-back points to take a 5-3 lead, but Delaware scored 22 of the next 27 points to win the set and match.
The stretch was highlighted by Delaware's best scoring run of the season - an 8-0 spurt to take a 22-9 lead. Gillens and Murray had a kill, Gillens, Murray and Inman had a block, and Membreno had an ace during the run. Kills by Gillens and Murray ended the match.
Delaware held Rider to a -.065 hitting percentage, its best mark in any set this season, while hitting .333. Murray and Gillens had four kills in the set.

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MATCH NOTES

Delaware's 8-0 run in the third set was its best scoring run of the season. It previously went on a 7-0 run during set one against Marist on August 29.
Campbell's 10 kills were a career-high.
Murray has had at least 10 kills in four straight matches. Over her last three matches, she is hitting .414 with 31 kills and 14 blocks in 11 sets.
Murray's six blocks were tied for the most by a Conference USA player in a three-set match this season. Michaela Dlouhá of Middle Tennessee had six against Boise State and Samford and Rachelle Reed of Sam Houston had six against Kent State.
Delaware has won seven-straight matches over Rider and is 21-2 in sets over that stretch since 1992.

UP NEXT
Delaware plays Rutgers tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m.

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