Alverno College

MADISON, Wis. – The Alverno volleyball season came to a close on Wednesday evening, as the Inferno dropped a three-set match to the Edgewood Eagles at the Todd Wehr Edgedome. Senior Alex McMath recorded a team-best four service aces on the match, to finish her season with 57 to set a new single-season record in Inferno history.
 
McMath, who played in her final appearance in an Inferno uniform saw time in 98 career matches with 324 sets played, placing her ninth on the all-time sets played list. She finished with 386 kills (10th all-time), 1,465 assists (second all-time), 143 service aces (second all-time), 734 digs (seventh all-time), and 46 total blocks (seventh all-time).
 
McMath entered the third set without a service ace on her ledger, but started service for the Inferno with three consecutive aces to tie and eclipse the previous mark set by former teammate Cailey Jeske '19, who tallied 55 aces during the 2016 season.
 
Sophomore Rolin West led the Inferno with eight kills on the match to give her 320 for the season, falling just 15 shy of tying the program's single-season mark of 335 set back in 2004. West now has 530 kills for her career and is currently in eighth place on the all-time kills list at Alverno. West also had three assists and eight digs on the match.
 
Also collecting seven kills was freshman Natalie Onozie, who added a pair of assists and five digs to go along with her pair of blocks on the match. Classmate Breann Flannery led Alverno with a dozen digs to give the freshman 313 digs on the season, good enough for ninth on the single-season digs list.
 
Junior Selena Upshur led the Inferno with three blocks to give her 49 on the season, placing her seventh on the single-season list, to go along with one kill and a pair of digs. Freshman Lynnica Harley rounded out Alverno's offense with one kill and chipped in with a block. Sophomore Izzy Gianniou had six assists and five digs. Freshman Sharisty Kooch had Alverno's first service ace on the match of the team's seven, as classmate Jalea Taylor rounded out the lineup with all three sets for the Inferno.
 
After dropping the opening set, 25-11, the Inferno stormed back with a much stronger showing in the remainder of the match. The Inferno took a 3-0 lead to open the second set before Edgewood scored seven of the next eight points. The Eagles continued to go on runs to eventually take a 21-13 lead.
 
After an error by Edgewood, Gianniou picked up an ace before a kill by West pulled Alverno within six at 22-16. McMath got a seven-point run going for the with a kill, while the Inferno behind strong service from Flannery continued the run. Alverno tied the set at 23, but Edgewood collected the final two points to win the second set, 25-23.
 
The Inferno opened the third set with an 8-1 run behind the four service aces by McMath, including the record-setting one to put the Inferno up 4-1. Edgewood chipped away at the early Alverno lead and tied the set at 14. After the Inferno regained a one-point lead at 15-14, the Eagles scored eight of the next nine to take a 22-16 lead before putting the set away, 25-19.