The Georgia volleyball team defeated Vanderbilt in four sets on Friday, October 24 in Nashville, Tennessee, to continue its six-straight winning streak in conference play. The set scores were 25-23, 22-25, 25-17 and 25-19, and the Bulldogs now have a record of 6-3 in SEC matches.
Sophomore MK Patten recorded a career-high 17 kills in the match and posted a .519 attack percentage, opening the first set with eight kills. Third-year player Bianna Muoneke had 15 kills, and the Bulldogs totaled 57 kills. Senior Estelle Haugen and reigning SEC Defensive Player of the Week Kendal Kemp, also a junior, each had eight kills.
Georgia posted its best attack percentage of the conference season at .357, the third-highest in a four-set match in program history. The Commodores had 50 kills, 11 of them from graduate student Mia Soerensen.
Freshman Chloe Elarton recorded her seventh “double-double” late in the second set, finishing the four sets with 24 assists and 14 digs. Haugen had a team-high 15 digs that night, while sophomore Makena Lim added 12.
The match had 24 ties and 15 lead changes, 14 and six respectively in the first set, and only one lead change in the fourth set.
Georgia is now 2-2 against Vanderbilt in history, having last met in 1979 in Athens, Georgia. The Commodores are now 1-8 in SEC games.
The Bulldogs will continue conference play on the road Sunday against Missouri.
