Indiana State women's volleyball held their last non-conference game in front of a crowd of 188 last Tuesday night in the ISU Arena.  ISU fell to the IUPUI Jaguars 0-3, final set scores 19-25, 20-25, and 19-25.  The Sycamores' final record for their non-conference season ended 14-15.  

"We were pretty confident, but obviously it was not the outcome we had expected.  We are just really trying to get ready to fight for the 6th place in the conference tournament," said sophomore outside/rightside hitter Molly Murphy.     

Set one started out in the Sycamores lead.  A kill by junior middle blocker Shea Doran followed by a kill by Murphy put ISU in a lead of 0-2 to start the game out.  The score became tied at 9 before the Jaguars took a lead of 11-15 with a 5-2 run over the Sycamores.  A Murphy kill stopped the run and brought the score to 12-15, IUPUI.  ISU got one more point before IUPUI took off with an eight point rally, putting them in the lead 13-23.  But the Sycamores did not give up.  They fought back with a six point rally bringing the score closer at 19-23, but the Sycamores could not quite hang on.  IUPUI finished out the set with a two point rally, final set score 19-25, IUPUI.

"We have seen ourselves in this position before where we are trying to crawl back, and it was really a lot of our mistakes.  We just have to clean up our game and everybody just has to bring their game," Head Coach Traci Dahl said.

Set two did not start out well for the Sycamores, IUPUI jumped to a 3-11 lead over ISU.  A Murphy kill followed by a kill from sophomore setter Loni Mackinson put the score at 5-11.  IUPUI kept moving up, but ISU did not give up.  A kill by junior outside hitter Christie Fullenkamp brought the score to 18-21.  IUPUI finished out the set by scoring four of the final six rallies.  The Sycamores last point came from a Murphy kill.  Final set score ended at 20-25, IUPUI.

"We just did not wanna give up.  We wanted to show we weren't just gonna roll over, and we wanted to show our energy and our fight," said Murphy.      

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SU took their first lead in set three with a Murphy kill to break a tie at 12 and bring the score to 13-12, ISU.  ISU kept it up with a three point rally, putting them in the lead 16-13.  Set three tied eleven times, and the final time at 19 was broken by a 6 point rally by IUPUI.  IUPUI took the set at 19-25 and the game 0-3.     

Murphy led the team with 16 kills followed by Doran at 7.  Senior setter Shelbi Fouty led the team with 30 assists and defensive specialist Kiya James led with 21 digs.

ISU returns to the Arena on Saturday to take on Illinois State Redbirds.  The game begins at 7 p.m.