CHICAGO (Sept. 19, 2024) – The UIC volleyball team (7-3, MVC) battled Loyola (4-6, 0-0 A-10) down to the fifth set, but came up short Thursday night at the McGrath-Phillips Arena, 3-2.
Junior
Ayat Amin (Cairo, Egypt/Al Waha International School) led the attack for UIC, collecting 15 kills, four digs and two assists. Freshman
Antonie Kelnárová (Prague, Czech Republic) tallied a career-high 11 kills and 14 digs. Graduate student
Zahria Woodard (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park and River Forest) contributed eight kills and six total blocks.
The full box score and play-by-play recap against Loyola can be found
here.
SOCIAL MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE
- Amin has now collected double-digit kills in the three of the past four matches. The junior has had 19 double-digit kill performances in her collegiate career at UIC.
- UIC collected 65 digs against the Ramblers, the second-most by the Flames this season. Four Flames tallied double-digit digs: Kelnárová (14), sophomore libero Hannah Howard (Toledo, Ohio/Eastern Michigan/Saint Ursula Academy) had 11 digs, junior Francesca Venturini (Bergamo, Italy/Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi) and sophomore Tamara Kisic (Belgrade/Serbia) each contributed 10 digs.
- Known mostly for setting up her teammates for kills, redshirt freshman setter Mihaela Harizanova (Sofia, Bulgaria) tied her collegiate-high with two kills against the Ramblers. Her last two-kill performance came against North Dakota back on Aug. 31.
- UIC remains in the top three stats categories of hitting percentage (.243), assists (12.48), kills (13.45), blocks (2.12) and points per set average in all of the Missouri Valley Conference.
UP NEXT
The Flames return to McGrath-Phillips Arena Friday night in day two of the Chicago Cup to face-off against DePaul (6-3, 0-0 Big East) at 7 p.m. (CT). The match will be streamed on
FloVolleyball through paid subscription, and live stats will be available at
UICFlames.com. Tickets can be purchased to attend any match at the Chicago Cup through this
link.
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