MILWAUKEE, Wis. - The Rockford University women's volleyball team lost a hard-fought match 3-0 on the road Saturday afternoon at Wisconsin Lutheran College. Despite what the final score might indicate, the match was extremely close and all three sets could have gone in either direction. The Regents led 22-18 late in the first set, but the Warriors scored the final seven points for the 25-22 win. Rockford was down just 21-19 in both the second and third sets, but could not close the gap, dropping the sets 25-21 and 25-20 respectively. Statistically, the biggest difference in the match was that WLC more than doubled Rockford's kill total (45-to-21).
- Rockford scored 10 of the first 16 points in the match to take a 10-6 lead. Three different Regents had a kill over that span and Alexis Brashaw capped off the run with an ace.
- The set then went back and forth with Wisconsin Lutheran scoring the next 6 points followed by a 5-0 run from the Regents.
- Rockford would extend its lead to as many as 5 points on 2 different occasions, with the latter coming at 21-16.
- Unfortunately, the Warriors closed on a 9-1 run en route to winning the opening set 25-22.
- The Regents again jumped out to an early 10-7 lead in the second set, thanks in large part to 6-0 Rockford run.
- Rockford pushed its advantage to as many as four at 13-9, before WLC began to mount a comeback.
- With the Regents now leading 14-12, the Warriors scored 7 of the next 8 points to take their largest lead thus far in the set at 19-15.
- Rockford was able to get back to within two at 21-19 on Leila Cooks service ace.
- However, WLC scored 5 of the next 7 points to win the second set 25-21.
- The third set had the opposite start to it as the first two, with Rockford falling behind 11-5.
- Fortunately, Rockford scored the next 6 points to knot the match at 11-11. Alexis Brashaw was responsible for more than half of the points, with 3 service aces and a kill over that span.
- With Rockford now trailing 21-19, WLC again closed the set strong, scoring 4 of the 5 points to win the set 25-20 and the match 3-0.
- Amelia Rodriguez led the Regents with 7 kills and 0 errors on only 16 attack attempts. Rodriguez finished with a .438 attack percentage.
- Leila Cooks finished with 18 assists and 15 digs for her seventh double-double of the year.
- Melody Moreno had 8 digs and 6 kills.
- Alexis Brashaw added 7 digs, 5 kills, 5 aces and 2 blocks.
