Huntington, Ind. - The Marian volleyball team claimed a 3-0 sweep on the road against Huntington. The win brings their overall record to 18-6 and a 9-5 record in the Crossroads League. 

Marian claimed an early led in set one with a 3-0 run started by Nichole Wilkinson and Madison Brooks both claiming a kill to take the 4-2 lead. The Knights kept pushing with a 9-0 run shortly after highlighted by Khori Dryden's kills and Emerson Evans' service ace to take the easy 14-3 lead. After a few back and forth serves the Knights took advantage of the Foresters errors to claim a 5-0 run to increase their score to 21 points. Marian claimed their last four points of the set from back-to-back kills from Dryden as well as a kill from Sarah Bennett and an attacking error by the home team to claim the final score of 25-10. 

The start of the second set was controlled by the Knights with Bennett and Evans each claiming a kill early. Mikayla Christiansen added fuel to the fire with two kills and Dryden as well as Wilkinson each claimed multiple kills early. Huntington started to push at the Knights lead with crucial kills and missed attacks by the visitors to not only tie the set but take the lead. After a lot of back and forth serves from each side Christiansen and Dryden stepped up claiming crucially timed kills to claim the 26-24 win in set two. 

With the 2-0 lead the Knights started off the third set slowly with some back and forth action from both ends of the court before Marian pulled ahead with a 8-0 run started off by Gabby Fish's kill. The Foresters pushed with two sets of kills in a row before Marian excelled with a 6-0 run started off by an attacking error on Huntington. The visitors clinched the sweep with a kill by Dryden followed by an attacking error on Huntington to claim the 25-9 win in set three and 3-0 win in the match. 

For the match Marian claimed a .252 hitting percentage while Huntington claimed a -.015 percentage. Khori Dryden led the team in kills with 12 while Mikayla Christiansen claimed seven. Emerson Evans led the Knights in assists with 16 while Logan Smith claimed 14. Both Evans and Smith also claimed a service ace for the day. Sarah Bennett led the team in blocks with six while Christiansen claimed four. Emma Lyons led Marian in digs with 18 while Christiansen had 14 on the evening.

Marian will be back in action on Saturday, October 26, as they continue their three-match road trip with a trip to Upland to take on the Taylor Trojans starting at 4:00 p.m..

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