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  • Kentucky Volleyball clinches share of SEC championship with sweep at Missouri

    COLUMBIA, Mo. – The No. 11 Kentucky volleyball team clinched the 2018 Southeastern Conference Championship on Sunday afternoon with a 3-0 sweep (25-17, 25-22, 25-18) of No. 23 Missouri at Mizzou Arena behind its second-best offensive effort of 2018, hitting a staunch .460 for the match.

    “Just an amazing offensive performance with a championship on the line,” head coach Craig Skinner said. “This team continues to impress us with their relentless commitment to improve. We still have a way to go, but we won this championship with our work ethic and drive.”

    It is the seventh SEC crown for Kentucky in program history and first time winning in back-to-back seasons since 1987-1988.

    Sunday marked the eighth-straight sweep for Kentucky, who improves to 21-4 overall and remains perfect at 16-0 in the SEC. Mizzou falls to 22-7 and 12-5 in league play.

    Junior Leah Edmond, who passed Whitney Billings to become UK’s all-time kills leader in the 25-point rally-scoring era during today’s match, led the way with 22 kills on 41 swings for her second-best hitting percentage of the season at .439 and her seventh match in 2018 with at least 20 terminations. Edmond set her career-best total earlier this season against Missouri with 26 kills at home on Sept. 30. She has posted a combined averaged of 6.9 terminations per set against the Tigers in the two meetings.

    Freshman outside hitter Alli Stumler matched her career best with 15 kills for the second time in three matches. It’s the third time she’s posted the number this season. Stumler compiled a red-hot .438 clip, which is also her second-best effort of 2018, with just one error, guiding her to three straight matches with at least 10 kills.

    Sophomore setter Madison Lilley notched her ninth double-double of the season and 20th of her career after posting 40 assists, 10 digs, two blocks, two kills and an ace. It’s her second double-double in the last three matches and 13th time she’s posted 40 assists this year. Sophomore libero Gabby Curry led UK with 12 digs and matched her career high seven assists.

    Senior middle blocker Brooke Morgan added six kills on nine swings and five blocks, giving her 11 matches in a row with at least three rejections. Sophomore middle blocker Kendyl Paris and junior opposite Caitlyn Cooper both came up with four kills.

    UK will look to win the league outright on Wednesday night in Columbia, South Carolina, against the South Carolina Gamecocks. The match will have a first serve of 7 p.m. ET. Kentucky wraps up its regular season with a home match against Auburn on Saturday for Senior Night.
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