SAN FRANCISCO - After a dominating first set, the San Francisco State volleyball team rolled to a 3-1 win over the visiting Stanislaus State Warriors on Tuesday night. The match score was 25-16, 22-25, 25-21, 25-21.

Notables

• SF State (11-11/6-9 CCAA) hit .343 in the contest, which is their best hitting performance since August 25 and their third-best hitting mark all year. The Gators also dropped 63 kills, which is tied-for-the-most this 2018 campaign, and their 81 points are the second-most this season.
• The victory is the third-straight at home and the fourth in the last five contests at The Swamp. 
• The Gators held the Warriors (13-10/6-9 CCAA) to just 39 kills and a .193 hitting mark and held an 8-4 block advantage.
• Jessica Haynie led the way with 17 kills and a season-high .441 hitting percentage (minimum 15 attempts). 
• Olivia Tabron notched 13 kills and three block assists, giving her 71 on the year and is one away from breaking into the top-ten all-time for block assists in a season. Bailey Johnson hit .421 with 11 kills and seven blocks, while Payton Jensen added 51 assists. Marlena Billings tied a season high with nine kills.

Set One

Kills by Morris and Tabron opened up the scoring. Tabron and Johnson later teamed up for a block that widened the lead to 4-1, and the Gators continued to roll as Morris added another kill and Sophie Anderson dropped in an ace to make it 9-5 and prompt a Warrior timeout. SF State scored four of the next six points, featuring big kills by Haynie and Billings to push the lead to seven and force another Stanislaus State timeout. Haynie made it an 11-point lead as the Gators went up 20-9 and Jensen 's ace put SF State up by double-digits at 23-13. Hayne's fourth kill of the night gave the hosts set point which Tabron put away with a kill to the back corner for the 25-16 win. SF State hit a dominating .424 in that first frame with 17 kills and held the Warriors to a mark of .154.
 

A service ace from Jessica Haynie puts the Gators up 14-6 in set one! pic.twitter.com/15MqscTthI

— SF State Volleyball (@SFState_VB) October 24, 2018

Set Two

After a Morris kill to start the second, Stanislaus State rattled off three-straight to take their first lead of the night. Trailing 8-6, a Warrior miscue followed by a Morris ace tied it up at 8-all. After the Purple and Gold took a one-point lead, Sierra Adams tied it up and started a 4-0 run by the Warriors as they went up 14-11. Stanislaus State pushed their lead to 20-15, however SF State bounced back to cut it to one which was capped off by three-straight Haynie swings. The Warriors got a kill by Alana Wilson-Reid to end the run and fended off a late Gator push when Tabron narrowed the deficit to a pair, but Sierra Adams put a kill to the sideline for the 25-22 win.
 

Set Three

The Gators stormed to a 4-1 lead before the Warriors tied it up, and both teams battled back and forth to make it 7-7. Haynie gave the Gators a one-point lead, but Stanislaus State tied it up once again and later took a 10-9 lead that Tabron knotted up at 10-all. Blocks by Johnson & Tabron and Johnson & Morris gave the Gators a two-point cushion, and after a Warrior comeback, SF State pulled ahead 16-13 following kills by Johnson and Haynie and a block by the pair. Jensen dished to Billings for another point as SF State reached the 20-point plateau up two, and an attack error handed SF State set point, which Johnson put away with a kill to the middle for the 2-1 match lead. 

Tabron and Johnson with the block! The Gators take the lead 11-10 in set three. pic.twitter.com/VI2pLUJD0q

— SF State Volleyball (@SFState_VB) October 24, 2018

Set Four

Back-to-back Maura Donovan aces lifted the Gators to a 5-1 lead in the fourth, but the Warriors answered with consecutive aces of their own to cut it to one. Once again both sides were tied up 11-11, however SF State got the next four points by swings by Haynie, Billings and Tabron as well as a Warrior error. Stanislaus State responded as Rachel Klopfer and Adams added three to the scoreboard to tie it up at 17-all, but SF State once again responded with a three-point swing of their own for the 20-17 lead as they looked to close out the match. The hosts wrapped up the night with four-straight points, starting with a kill by Haynie and ending with a kill by Billings, for the win. 
 

Maura Donovan serves up back-to-back aces and the Gators take an early 5-1 lead in set four! pic.twitter.com/7738DUV7lM

— SF State Volleyball (@SFState_VB) October 24, 2018

Up Next

SF State wraps up regular season home action this Saturday, October 27 against Cal State Monterey Bay. Match time is at 7 p.m., and will also be SF State's Dig Pink Night as well as Senior Night.