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PULLMAN, Wash.—Alabama State volleyball fell to 0-6 on the season dropping two matches on the first day of the Cougar Challenge at Washington State University.
 
ASU fell 3-0 to the host Cougars in the first game of the day and fell 3-0 to Weber State in their second game.
 
Weber (2-3) defeated the Lady Hornets 25-15, 25-14 and 25-19.  In the final set of the game the Lady Hornets only trailed 20-19, but Weber scored five consecutive to end the match.
 
Overall for Weber Rebecca Fuchs and Audrey Biggs led Weber with six kills each during the three sets and Whitney Hunt had 11 assists.
 
Myla Marshall finished the day with seven kills in only nine attacks as she finished with a hitting percentage of .667.  Anniiya Robinson and Brooke Beasley shared setting duties and finished with 11 and six.
 
“I think Anniiya Robinson did a good job of taking over some of the setting responsibilities and I think Myla Marshall really had a good presence out of the middle,” Head Coach Penny Lucas-White said.  “Myla is such a good blocker and she reads really well it is just a matter of time until she is technically sound.”
 
With ASU continues to fight through their inexperience and the speed of Division I volleyball, the coaching staff thinks the team may be coming along some in that area, but it took most of the day to get it.
 
“Honestly, I think they may have started to figure it out in the last set of the last game today,” Lucas-White said.  “I don't think they really understood until that last set and it is absolutely something to build on.”
 
ASU started the day facing the host Cougars of Washington State.  The match did not go ASU's way as WSU (2-2) pulled away for a 3-0 (16-25, 9-25, 9-25) win.
 
The game saw a scrappy, but outsized Lady Hornets jump on top in two of the three games before WSU's tall front line, all standing 6'-1” or taller, took control of each game.
 
WSU hit .516 as a team and it was a team effort as their leading hitter Marcelina Glab had nine kills.  Rachel Todorovich had eight and Jaicee Harris had seven.  WSU had 37 total kills, but only committed five errors.
 
The Lady Cougars had nine blocks (2 solo, 14 assists) making hard for the ASU hitters during the match.
 
ASU finished with 19 kills, but had 23 errors for a -.053 hitting percentage.  Amber Bennett, Anniiya Robinson, Rachel Smith and Chelsey Scott all had three kills each.
 
Brooke Beasley had 10 assists and Luiza Griz finished with eight diges.
 
The Lady Hornets will complete their play in the Cougar Challenge tomorrow (Saturday) when they face Seattle University at 7 p.m. (CT).