CHICAGO (Nov. 15, 2024) – The UIC volleyball team (19-9, 11-5 MVC) couldn't be stopped on the attack, completing a three-set Missouri Valley Conference sweep over Evansville (6-22, 5-11 MVC) in front of a home crowd at Credit Union 1 Area Friday night
Graduate student
Zahria Woodard (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park and River Forest) led the attack with nine kills and a pair of blocks. Three Flames each collected eight kills apiece in the win: graduate student
Natalie Chizzo (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park and River Forest/Northwestern), junior
Cleo Lorenzo (Belo Horizonte, Brazil/Elite) and freshman
Antonie Kelnárová (Prague, Czech Republic).
The box score and play-by-play recap against Evansville can be found
here.
COMMENT FROM HEAD COACH JUSTIN INGRAM
"We had some new personnel that were in there as well and I think they did a solid job with some normal and continued success from our middle attackers. Both Kayanna and Zahria were tremendous! That is a testament to our solid-receive as well. All-in-all we are pretty happy about the performance, of course we love that and on to the next one. "
COMMENT FROM GRADUATE STUDENT ZAHRIA WOODARD
So, I feel like today was a huge team win. I think that we just had conversations before just regard the games we had prior, and we were really able to bring those conversations onto the floor. I think what was most important to us was just have fun and really lean on each other, just play and have fun at the end of the day. We all did that, we all really leaned on each other, and I am really hoping we bring that some momentum into our game tomorrow against Indiana State."
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FLAMES FACTS
- The Flames improve their record at Credit Union 1 Arena to 8-2, winning their past six home matches in a row.
- UIC's sweeping victory over Evansville is the Flames sixth sweep against an MVC opponent and the seventh of the season.
- With two matches left in conference play, the Flames remain in third in the MVC standings, maintaining a two-match lead over Murray State (14-11, 9-7 MVC) and Bradley (14-14, 9-7 MVC)
UP NEXT
The Flames home finale at Credit Union 1 Arena is slated for Saturday, when they host Indiana State (4
-24, 1-15 MVC) for a 6 p.m. (CT) first serve. The match will be available to stream on ESPN+ with live stats available at
UICFlames.com.
It will also be Senior Night at the match, where the four seniors will be honored in a post-match ceremony.
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