ELON, N.C. -College of Charleston opened the SoCon season with a 3-0 (25-20, 25-18, 25-16) sweep over Elon on the road on Saturday night.
The Cougars (8-5, 1-0) won their second straight road match while Elon lost its second SoCon match in three days.
CofC hit .370 as a team on the offensive end, the best attacking mark of the season and sixth-best attack percentage in the league so far. The Cougar defense limited Elon to just .155 as no Phoenix players tallied more than seven kills.
Darcy Dorton made 13 kills and eight digs, and Melissa Morello tallied 12 kills and nine digs for the Cougars. Sloane White hit .600 with six kills on 10 attempts with no errors, while Emily Neideffer landed a number of one-timers from the middle with eight kills. Emily Shelton was the only player to reach double-digit digs in the match, tallying 12.
?We played pretty solidly. I was happy with our hitting and our passing,? head coach Jason Kepner said. ?We focused this week on doing all of the little things right, and I thought we did a pretty good job of that tonight. Whenever you earn a sweep in conference and on the road, it?s a successful night.?
Elon was led by the seven-kill performances of Megan Gravley and Kris Harris. Gravley also made seven digs in the three-set match.
College of Charleston made a late push to take set one, going on an 8-2 run to build a 22-16 lead. The Phoenix rallied to pull the margin to 22-20, but CofC won the next three points on Elon errors to take the first set, 25-20. College of Charleston hit .297 in the set, led by the offense of Dorton (5 kills), Neideffer (4 kills) and Morello (4 kills).
The Cougars got out to a hot start in the second set, grabbing a 7-1 lead and eventually leading 16-7. The closest that Elon would inch was a five-point difference at 18-13, but the Cougars called timeout and rallied to a 25-18 set victory. CofC hit .400 in the second frame with only three attack errors.
College of Charleston kept the momentum going into the third set, again jumping out to an early lead at 7-2. After a Dorton kill put the Cougars up 16-9, Elon was never able to cut the lead to less than seven points as CofC eventually won the third set, 25-16. The Cougars hit .433 in the final set with three service aces, including two from Dorton.
The Cougars will play at The Citadel on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.
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