Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 MORRIS, Minn. - The University of Minnesota Morris played late into the night on Friday but got a pair of wins to improve to 6-1 on the year. UMM got the 3-1 win against Mayville State (25-17, 20-25, 25-16, 25-23) and then won a marathon 3-2 win over Mount Marty (18-25, 25-19, 30-28,19-25, 15-12). Kaylie Clark and Emily Auch each set career high with kills against Mount Marty with 21 and 19 respectively. Before the Mounty Marty match Brita Humphrey was honored for reaching 1,000 digs, becoming the tenth Cougar to reach that mark. MAYVILLE BOX SCORE | MOUNT MARTY BOX SCORE

The Cougars started out the first set leading 5-0 before a Mayville State was forced to call a timeout. After the timeout, the Comets came storming back to tie the match at 13. The Cougars responded by going on a 6-1 scoring run, taking a 19-14 lead before another Mayville State timeout. After the timeout, much was the same, as the Cougars would take the first set 25-17.

The second set began with the teams trading points until Morris was forced to take a timeout after the Comets pulled away 12-8. Morris would call their second timeout after the Comets held on to their 21- 17 lead late in the set. UMM would score three quick points after the timeout, but the Comets would win the second set by a score of 25-20, holding off the charging Cougars.

The Cougars started out the third set strongly, with two consecutive aces from Mandy Allman, but the Comets would go on a 4-0 run to lead 4-2. The two teams then traded points until the Cougars broke free and took a 16-11 lead. Minnesota Morris would had a 18-13 lead before the Comets made a push to make it 18-16 forcing a Cougar timeout. After the timeout, the Cougars scored seven straight points to take the third set. All seven of those points would come from Comet attack errors, including the final five which were unforced errors.

Morris would begin the fourth set  by scoring the first four points. After the Cougars pushed their lead to 9-3, the Comets would call a timeout tying to break the Cougars momentum. The Cougars held their lead at 12-6, until the Comets came back  to close within three at 13-10. UMM held on to a 23-19 late, but the Comets would bring it to within two, at 23-21. The lead was 24-22 in favor of the Cougars before a Comet timeout. An Aby Tietz kill would seal the Cougars victory at 25-23.

Kaylie Clark had a team high 20 digs, five shy of her career high. Emily Auch led in kills with 12, followed by Abby Tietz with 11 and Alyssa Haugen with 10.

By Charlie Sorenson

The University of Minnesota-Morris kept their winning streaking going on Friday night, by defeating Mount Marty three sets to two.  Kaylie Clark led the team in kills tonight with 21 a career high, and teammate Emily Auch wasn't far behind Clark's mark, Auch ended with 19 kills herself also setting a career high.

In the first set, the Mount Marty Lancers would take an early lead of 13-7 before the Cougars started to come back, however the Lancers ended up winning the first set 25-18.  Once the Lancers took the lead they never really looked back as there were only three ties, and one lead change in the set.

In the second set, the Cougars would come out ready to win, as they took an early 6-1 lead.  Mount Marty would start a rally of their own but wouldn't be able to pull closer than 3 points, allowing Morris to tie the game back up at one set a piece.  By the end of the second set Clark would already have 10 of her 21 kills, leading the team to the victory.

The third set was a back and forth match up until the finish.  The Cougars would take a early lead of 12-5, but the Lancers wouldn't go away.  They would come back to tie the set up at 19 a piece, and eventually taking a short 21-20 lead.  The Cougars came back to tie it up at 24, and the two teams would go at it until the Cougars finally pulled out a win 30-28 thanks to a kill from Auch.

The fourth set looked like it was going to be another good back and forth set, however with the set tied up at five Mount Marty would take over taking a 12-6 lead, and eventually making it a 21-11 game in favor of the Lancers.  The Cougars tried to pull back in the game, falling short of a comeback and dropping the fourth set 25-19, setting up a final fifth set.

The final set would be a good one, it was back and forth the whole time, the Lancers jumped out to a quick 3-1 lead, Morris would then come back and tie it up and take a small lead from there.  The Cougars would go up 9-6 past the midway point of the set.  The Lancers weren't done yet though they would come back and make it a one point game at 13-12, before the Cougars ended it and picked up the victory 15-12, winning the match up in 5 sets.

The Cougars will now have off until next week, where they will travel to St. Paul for the Macalester Invitational, next weekend, their first opponent will be Dubuque (Iowa) at 4 p.m.

By Zach Bidwell

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