Box Score

Alabama State's volleyball team traveled up I-65 to Birmingham to face the University of Alabama-Birmingham and ran into a hot Blazer team as they dropped a 3-0 (16-25, 15-25, 17-25) decision to UAB.

The Lady Hornets could only muster a .157 hitting percentage against the taller team from Conference USA. Amber Bennett led the team with eight kills and Tiara Kelley had seven.

Ellyn Jones and Brooke Beasley combined for 25 assists with Jones leading the way with 14. Rachel Smith, Dragana Cvoric and Luiza Griz had six digs each.

ASU (16-14) had six blocks with Bennett leading the way with three (1 BS, 2 BA).

UAB (18-9) was able to use their size advantage and finished with a .392 hitting percentage. UAB had 46 kills and only committed eight attack errors in 97 total attacks.

The Blazers were also able to use their size advantage defensively, finishing the game with eight total blocks (2 BS, 6 BA) and had 38 digs.

"UAB is a very good team," Head Coach Penny Lucas-White said. "I thought we did a lot of good things in this game, but they were able to get to everything and their height was a very good advantage for them tonight. It was good for us to get back on the court after we spent yesterday working on correcting some mistakes that we had been making over the past few games. We have some more work to do but we will get there."

The Lady Hornets will be back on the road to begin their second round of Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) action Saturday, Nov. 2, when they face perennial SWAC power Jackson State at 3 p.m. The two teams met in Montgomery back on Oct. 11 with the Lady Hornets winning 3-1.