Two-Three Bust Lady Jags gather a few wins during the Jackson State Invitational

The Southern University women’s volleyball team endured an arduous tourney during tournament weekend.
From October 16-17 at Jackson State University at T.B. Ellis Gym in Jackson, Mississippi, Southern played a five game journey and returned home with a 2-3 split.
First, Southern faced the past champions, Alabama State and took 3 sets to 1 (25-18, 15-25, 25-17, 25-11).
The days went too far in between since the last bout with Alabama State and retribution was in sight when Southern took the second set by an overwhelming 10 points. Southern was in a nine point lead in the beginning of the affair and kept the lead. ASU could not hoist the Lady Jag onslaught until the end of the bout. By the end of the night, the former champs took their glory once again on the Jaguars.
In the next affair, the Lady Jaguars went against Alcorn State in which four days prior in Clifford Seymour Gym; Southern captured the 3-1 victory.
Odds were against Southern as Alcorn reversed the decision 1-3 (22-25, 21-25, 25-17, 22-25).
Jamie Selleneit, who sealed the deal, gaining three points and errors supplied by Alcorn, did not make the sweep imminent.
Heads lowered with two losses on the belt, Southern carried the Jaguar spirit while facing Mississippi Valley State and on October 17, retribution doesn’t taste any sweeter than a sweep (25-12, 25-20, and 25-20).
Melodie Malone and Chinasa Ekweariri both escaped with team highs of eight kills, while Keandra Williams straggled with seven kills and four blocks under her belt.
Mississippi Valley attempted to collapse the deal in the second and third set, but Southern consecutively collected points at the end of the soiree.
Halle Gayten captured six kills and two blocks and Ilaisha Hale captured 5 kills and single block for the high for Mississippi Valley.
With their first victory, the next sweep was imminent.
However, Southern was the victim towards the onslaught as Alabama A&M took their way into the match and capsized Southern (25-17, 25-17, 25-21).
Southern saw no relief in the relying momentum that the Lady Bulldogs had to offer in the first set but Southern took control in the second set only for a brief moment and then the points continued to rain.
The third set however, saw the absolute fight from the Lady Jaguars until Ashundria Mitchell took the (17-17) tie and set the kill and mandated that the sweep was therefore completed.
Mitchell lead the Lady Bulldogs with 21 kills and a single block inside of the game as her presence was made known in the tournament.
Southern settled with only a single win took the win from Jackson State at their home 3 sets to 1 (25-21, 25-18, 24-26, 25-18).
The sweep was insured for Southern but a kill by Alexiss Ford and an attack error by Shauntia Carr eliminated that chance from the books.
Instead Southern picked up the last set with a seven point edge and closed the tournament weekend to sail back home back to the nostalgia of homecoming.
Southern (5-17, 2-1) etches their claws into University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff in Pine Bluff, Arkansas to extend the SWAC season and return home to championship stakes.