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Laura Trochinski totaled nine digs, five kills and four blocks against the Eagles.
Laura Trochinski totaled nine digs, five kills and four blocks against the Eagles.

Titans Record Second Win Of Season Over Eagles

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Brooke Brinkman and Katelyn Malcheski combined for 25 kills to lead the UW-Oshkosh women's volleyball team to a 3-0 win over UW-La Crosse on Wednesday (Oct. 15) in Kolf Sports Center.

UW-Oshkosh (20-3, 3-2 WIAC) won the conference match in set scores of 25-20, 25-19, 25-16.

Brinkman led all players with 13 kills on .367 hitting. Malcheski had 12 kills with a .345 attack percentage, while Jessica Fischer added seven kills on 15 swings.

UW-Oshkosh's Lexi Thiel had a match-high 32 assists, 10 digs and three blocks for her first double-double of the season and fourth of her career. Nerissa Vogt registered a season-high seven blocks and Laura Trochinski sent back a career-best four. Mandy Trautmann and Rachel Smith tallied 17 and 10 digs, respectively.

UW-La Crosse recorded more digs (61-58) than UW-Oshkosh, but the Titans held decisive advantages in kills (42-31), hitting percentage (.239 to .053), assists (42-31), service aces (3-1) and blocks (11-4).

The opening set featured a score that was tied 13 times. The last deadlock was at 20, and the Titans broke away from that score with five straight points to win the set. UW-Oshkosh's scoring run included one kill and a solo block by Vogt on set point.

UW-La Crosse (8-14, 1-4 WIAC) had 14 kills, but committed nine attack errors in the first set. UW-Oshkosh recorded 13 kills with just three attack errors to win the hitting battle, .250 to .116.

The Titans raced out to a 10-2 lead in the second set, but the Eagles took advantage of six UW-Oshkosh attack errors to tie the score at 13. Leading 18-17, UW-Oshkosh claimed seven of the set's last nine points behind three kills from Brinkman and a kill and a block by Trochinski on the last two points. The Titans won the kills' column, 15-8, while outhitting the Eagles, .152 to .061.

UW-Oshkosh, which posted a 3-1 non-conference win over UW-La Crosse on Oct. 4, jumped out to a 10-3 lead in Set 3 and held an advantage of six-plus points the rest of the way. The Titans registered 14 kills, including seven by Malcheski, and hit .355 in the final set. The Eagles had nine kills and hit -.026.

Ashley Entinger led UW-La Crosse with eight kills, while Jill Entinger and Stephanie Hank added seven each. The Eagles' Courtney Geisler had a match-high 18 digs.

UW-Oshkosh will play four matches at the UW-Eau Claire Invitational this weekend. The Titans battle the University of Minnesota Morris and the College of Saint Benedict (Minn.) on Friday (Oct. 17) and the University of Northwestern-St. Paul (Minn.) and The College of St. Scholastica (Minn.) on Saturday (Oct. 18).