Boise State Gets Record Victory in Sweep at Santa Clara

Thursday, September 6

Santa Clara, Calif.

7:00 PM

Boise State

6-0

Santa Clara

4-4

Boise State

Santa Clara

Photo by: Boise State Photo Services

Boise State Gets Record Victory in Sweep at Santa Clara

9/6/2018 9:48:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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Broncos remain undefeated at 6-0 to secure school record season-opening win streak.

By: Courtesy: Boise State Athletics

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (9/6/2018) - Boise State volleyball was impressive on the road Thursday night as the Broncos cruised past a good Santa Clara team with a sweep 25-21, 26-24, 25-16. The victory in the opener of the Santa Clara Invitational extended Boise State's season-opening win streak to a school record six straight.

S3 (BSU 3-0) | Roberts' 13th kill of night clinches victory 25-17 and the match sweep 3-0 at Santa Clara

Boise State wins its 6th straight to open season!!!!

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— Boise State VB (@BroncoSportsVB) September 7, 2018

Sabryn Roberts led Boise State once again tallying a team-high 13 kills while hitting a season-high 46.2 percent. Roberts is now 13 short of reaching 1,000 career kills. She added one assist, six digs and two blocks for a team-high 14 points against Santa Clara.

"I'm really happy with the team's performance overall and we had a lot of individuals contribute to this victory," said Boise State head coach Shawn Garus. "Santa Clara is a good team and took a set frame defending national champion Nebraska last week in Lincoln. For us to sweep them is big, but we are so young and have things to work on. We have to remember to take each match one at a time. I thought Sabryn (Roberts) was big for us in the fourth and sparked our run. Kiley (Lewis) was just as big in the second clinching the win with our last three points in a tight set. Overall, it was a good win for us, but we have anther good team to play tomorrow in UC Davis."

On the night, Boise State was solid with a balanced offense as six of the eight Broncos recorded kills and five had five or more as the team recorded a combined 40 kills in the victory. The Blue and Orange also hit a season-high 32.7 percent with Morgan Hughes hitting a team-best 60 percent (6-0-10) followed by Roberts.

The Broncos' Mountain West leading defense tallied 11 blocks and held Santa Clara to 9.7 percent hitting and 32 kills.

Kiley Lewis hit 27.3 percent for a team-second-best seven kills to go with three blocks, including a block solo to bring home the second set 26-24 to give Boise State a 2-0 advantage in the match.

In addition to her team-best hitting percentage, Hughes added six kills, three digs and four blocks.

Freshman Jessica Donahue was consistent in the victory recording six kills while hitting 33.3 percent, she also had six blocks giving her the team-high for the fifth time in six contests this season.

Janell Walley returned to the starting lineup at outside hitter where she tallied five kills, four assists, two service aces, eight digs and three blocks.

Junior setter Cassedi Simon dished out a team-high 33 assists with three kills, one ace, seven digs and three blocks.

The freshmen tandem of Jessie Brigham and Hannah Kochl anchored the defensive back line with Brigham recording a team-high 10 digs, while Kochl added five digs and one service ace.

Boise State opened the match strong hitting 33.3 percent in the period as the Broncos beat Santa Clara by four points 25-21.

The second set was close as Boise State' held on for the win powered by Lewis down the stretch. The sophomore outside hitter recorded the blue and orange's final three points of the frame and clinched the 26-24 win with a block solo. The Broncos hit a match-high 38.5 percent and held Santa Clara to 10 percent in the period.

The final set was close until the midway point when Boise State pulled away. Up one at 15-14, Boise State rolled off a 6-1 run - powered by three Roberts kills - to take control and a 21-15 advantage. The Broncos closed the match on a 10-3 run to win th final set 25-17, the final point came on Roberts' 13th kill.

Boise State will now face UC Davis (5-2) Friday evening at 6 p.m. (Mountain) time at the Leavey Center on the Santa Clara campus. NOTE, the start time has been moved up one hour from 7 p.m. (MT) to 6 p.m. (MT).