CLEVELAND, Tenn. – The Shorter volleyball team played two matches on Friday afternoon at the Lee Invitational at Lee University. Shorter defeated King University 3-1 and then defeated Kentucky State University 3-0.

After Friday's matches, Shorter is now 6-4 on the season.

Shorter vs. King (Shorter wins, 3-1)

The Lady Hawks fell 25-22 in the first set, but came back and defeated King 25-19 in the second set, 25-17 in the third set and 25-20 in the fourth set.

Lacee Glover led the way for the Lady Hawks offensively in the first match and had 17 kills. Annie Smith had 20 assists for Shorter. Madison Sprosty added in 15 digs while Reilly Swierbut

added in 14 and Taryn Cycholl added in 13.

As a team, Shorter had 48 kills, 14 aces, six block, 45 assists and 63 digs.

King overall had 34 kills, nine aces, seven blocks, 33 assists and 56 digs.

Shorter vs. Kentucky State (Shorter wins, 3-0)

Shorter defeated Kentucky State 25-6 in the first set, 25-13 in the second set and 25-15 in the third set.

Casey Raschen and Katherine Patrick led the way for Shorter offensively each with six kills. Glover had five kills in this match. Smith had 16 assists while Sprosty added in nine digs and Bethany Truong added in seven digs.

The Lady Hawks overall had 33 kills, 11 aces, seven blocks, 30 assists and 35 digs against Kentucky State.

As a team, Kentucky State had 16 kills, two aces, three blocks, 15 assists and 34 digs.

Up Next

The Lady Hawks return to action for their first home match of the season on Wednesday, September 22 against Augusta University. The match is slated to start at 6 p.m. in the Winthrop-King Centre.