BABSON PARK, Fla. (September 19, 2020) – Coming off of a nail-biting five-set victory over its Crooked Lake rival Warner University three days before, the Webber International University women's volleyball team kept its momentum going and earned its fourth win in a row with a 3-1 (25-22, 26-24, 16-25, 25-18) victory over Florida Memorial University on Saturday night inside the Sabbagh Athletic Center.

The win propelled Webber's record on the season to 4-1 overall and 2-1 in The Sun Conference while Florida Memorial, which was picked to finish second in the conference in the league's preseason coaches' poll, fell back to .500 both overall and in The Sun Conference at 2-2 and 2-2.

The Warriors showed very early on that they were there to play as a 7-0 run with Amanda Vega serving for the home team put Webber up 8-3 in the first set.

Webber then went up by six at 10-4 after a kill by Nora Burgos-Heredia and a service ace by Madelyn Glouner, and then went up by six again at 13-7 on a kill by Kelsey McKinley followed by back-to-back attack errors by the Lions.

The Lions got back to within two three times at 15-13, 16-14 and again at 18-16 before three straight kills by Hannah McCarty, McKinley and Glouner gave the Warriors some breathing room up 21-16.

Then with Webber up 24-22, Svenja Koenig gave the Warriors the first-set victory with a kill on the assist from Camryn Brown.

Unlike the first set, the Warriors needed a comeback effort to win the second set as Webber trailed 8-4, 9-5 and 14-10 early on and did not come back to tie it until at 17-17, but the Lions answered back with three straight points to go back up 20-17.

Back-to-back kills by McCarty and Nadia Reid got Webber back to within one at 21-20, and then Webber took its first lead of the set at 24-23 after a 3-0 run that was finished with back-to-back kills by Burgos-Heredia.

Lastly, after a service error by the Warriors tied it at 24-24, a service error by the Lions followed by a big kill from McKinley on the assist from Vega gave Webber the 2-0 set advantage.

After a rough third set in which Webber hit only .024 percent and allowed the Lions to finish the set on a big 11-4 run, the Warriors came out in the fourth set ahead 11- 5 after a 5-0 run featuring kills by Koenig, Yanileb Figueroa, Burgos-Heredia, and an ace by Koenig.

After FMU tied it at 12-12 thanks to an 8-1 run, Webber would close out the set on a 13-5 run as three straight kills by Glouner, McCarty and Burgos-Heredia made it 23-17 Warriors before Burgos-Heredia recorded the final point of the night on a kill assisted by Vega to win it.

In all, Webber hit a very strong .435 percent in the fourth set and recorded 14 kills in the frame.

Leading the Warriors in kills with a career-high 12 kills and a very strong .526 attack percentage was Burgos-Heredia, a freshman middle blocker from Doral, Florida.

Koenig and McCarty both finished with seven kills while Koenig had a very effective .429 attack percentage. McKinley finished with six kills, and Sara Weisrock added five.

Dishing out the passes to the Warriors' hitters were Brown and Vega, who finished with 20 and 19 assists, respectively, while Brown also finished with a double-double by adding 14 digs.

The Warriors' leader in the digs category was Kiersten Tisdale with 24, which was good for a new career-high for the freshman libero from Punta Gorda, Florida; while Abby Darress had nine digs and Figueroa and Vega both added eight.

It was a career-high in digs for Figueroa, a freshman from Kissimmee, Florida, was a career-high in kills for McCarty, a sophomore from Rock Falls, Illinois, and was a career-best in digs for Darress, a junior from Mars Hill, North Carolina.

For Brown, a junior from Canada, it was a career-best in both assists and in digs and was her first career double-double; and for Vega, a junior from Puerto Rico, it was also a career-high in assists.

Webber's Head Women's Volleyball Coach Gretchen Hand said, "Our underclassmen have really stepped up to the plate for our Warrior program so far this season, and I could not be more pleased with how quickly they are progressing. We will continue to develop players and depth on our side, and we expect to see great things happen for us the rest of the season."

Next up for Webber women's volleyball will be a nonconference home match against Florida College starting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, inside the Sabbagh Athletic Center.