The Aurora University women's volleyball team opened the returned to the court for day two of the 2024 Jim Coleman Memorial Classic. The Spartans started the day with a 3-2 victory over #23 Cornell College before dropping the final match of the weekend classic to #21 Wisconsin Stevens Point 3-0. Spartan Erin Henkel was named to the All-Tournament Team for her performance over four matches this weekend.


MATCH ONE SCORE: Aurora University 3, #23 Cornell College 2 (24-26, 25-23, 19-25, 25-20, 15-8)
MATCH TWO SCORE: #21 University of Wis. Stevens Point 3, Aurora University 0 (19-25, 16-25, 22-25)
LOCATION: Thornton Gymnasium - Aurora, Illinois
RECORD: Aurora University 2-2 overall


MATCH ONE:
- The first set saw eight tie scores and four lead changes as the Spartans and Rams battled throughout. AU would drop the first 26-24.
- AU would hold a lead for almost the entire second set and held on to win 25-23.
- Seven Spartans knocked down kills while Hannah Joseph handed out nine assists.
- A late run by Cornell led to a 25-19 third set loss and AU trailed the match 2-1.
- In the fourth set, AU trailed 1-0 and would never trail again with the set seeing the score tied nine times.
- AU closed out the set on a 6-1 run with a pair of kills from Erin Henkel fueling the AU offense.
- The Spartans hit a strong .343 in the fourth set.
- In the deciding fifth set, the score was tied 5-5 when the Spartans took advantage of some Ram errors and three kills from Addyson Timpane to win 15-8 and the match 3-2.

MATCH TWO
- The first set was back and forth early until a 5-0 UWSP run put the visitors in front and they went on to win 25-19.
- Lulu Torres and Henkel had strong hitting in the first set but it wasn't enough to overcome the Pointers.
- AU fell in the second set 25-16 and trailed the match 2-0.
- The Spartans led the third set 17-15 but saw the lead disipate and fell 25-22 to fall in the match 3-0.


MATCH ONE
KILLS: Riley Moreno (12), Lilly Vance (11) and Kate Poellmann (10)
ASSISTS: Hannah Joseph (28) and Trinity Nelson (27)
DIGS: Hannah Evenson (22) and Lulu Torres (13)
ACES: Trinity Nelson (2)
BLOCKS: Riley Moreno (5)

MATCH TWO
KILLS: Lulu Torres (9)
ASSISTS: Hannah Joseph (15) and Trinity Nelson (13)
DIGS: Lulu Torres (9)
ACES: Trinity Nelson and Lulu Torres (1)
BLOCKS: Erin Henkel and Lilly Vance (2)


Next scheduled action for the Spartan women's volleyball team comes on Saturday, September 7 when they travel to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Marty Petersen Invitational. AU takes on St. Catherine University at 11:00 a.m. and #5 University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh at 3:00 p.m. in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.