MANKATO, Minn. - The Minnesota Morris volleyball team embarked on a trip to Mankato Tuesday for their second UMAC triangular of the season and they are coming back to Morris with two victories as they topped Martin Luther and Bethany Lutheran, both in four sets.
UMM and Martin Luther played the first three sets to the wire with the Cougars taking two of three. The Cougars easily took the fourth, however to claim a 25-23, 23-25, 25-22, 25-15 victory.
After splitting the first two sets, the Cougars used a late rally to take the third set from the Knights. Trailing 22-18, the Cougars rattled off seven straight to claim the set and take a match lead.
UMM used the momentum from the third set to take an early edge in the fourth. Kills from
Layne Herrmann and
Jenna Howden closed out the match.
Brenna Tinjum led the Cougars in both kills with 17 and digs with 12. Herrmann had 48 assists and five aces.
Like against MLC, the Cougars dropped the second set against Bethany Lutheran before taking the third and fourth sets to win the match, 25-11, 18-25, 25-18, 25-18.
Tinjum led the Cougars again in kills with 15. Herrmann led with 39 assists and four aces.
Allison Yang reached 20 digs.
Minnesota Morris (7-7, 3-1 in UMAC) heads to Superior for another UMAC triangular Saturday to face Crown and UW-Superior.
