Sonoma State 3, Dominican 0

ROHNERT PARK -- It was the fourth match of the season and the Sonoma State volleyball team seemed to have things completely in control as they competed against down the road rival Dominican University (0-4) from the Pacific West Conference.    Sonoma State (3-1) won by scores of 25-16, 25-16, 25-20.

While the first two games were won easily it was the third game that was not looking favorable midway through the set.  With the score 17-14 in favor of the Penquins it was a kill by senior outside hitter Calan Seitz, and then a four point serving run by junior middle hitter Morgan Annala who quickly changed the momentum with three aces in five attempts. 

After a quick side out on a kill by defensive specialist Ashleigh Phelps, it was sophomore setter Baelei Wiesner who went on a three point run on her own which included an ace serve and took the score to 23-19.  A quick side out led to the final play of the match where it was the true "sister act" where setter Baelei found her sister Caiti Wiesner on the outside for the kill.
  
The Seawolves out hit the Penquins .265 to .084. Defensively, Caiti Wiesner contributed with fifteen digs and not to be out done was libero Megan Bohorquez who added thirteen more.
    
Coach Grassl: "We continue to play low error volleyball.  We are doing well in the serve and pass game and we are getting contributions from all of our attackers."
  
Sonoma State 3, Holy Names 0

ROHNERT PARK -- In the final match of this weekends play it was the Sonoma State Seawolves (4-1) who took care of business versus Holy Names University (0-4) in straight sets 25-12, 25-22, 25-8.
  
The Seawolves dominated the match in both the first and third games as then Seawolves had fourteen kills with one error on 29 attempts but had to grind through a tough 2nd set with ties at 13-13 and with Holy Names pushing strong at the end narrowing the score at 22-20 and 23-21 only to lose 25-21.  
  
The third set was a wire to wire win with no lead changes as the Seawolves completely the final set.    Senior setter Courtney Seda went on a blistering run of serves eventually serving ten serves in a row.  
 
Seniors Kelsey McIntire and Calan Seitz led the team with nine kills a piece.  The lopsided stat of the evening came from the Seawolves dominating the blocking category 12-2.  

Defensively Sonoma State held Holy Names to a  -.054 average for the evening.  
   
Sonoma State now hits the road to compete in the D2 West Region Showcase hosted by Northwest Nazarene University located in Nampa, Idaho.   Sonoma State has their first match versus Hawaii Pacific University on Thursday September 7th at 4:30 P.M. (PST) with matches against Simon Fraser University, Dominican University and host Northwest Nazarene University to follow the rest of the weekend.