USUE Volleyball opens season at Snow College Invitational; splits four games

Utah State Eastern volleyball opened their 2018 regular season schedule over the weekend in Richfield at the Snow College Invitational.
The Eagles walked away splitting the weekend’s four games with wins over Eastern Wyoming and Central Wyoming.
After three weeks of preparation the Eagles were ready to get the ball rolling on Friday with a game against Western Wyoming which ended in a 3-2 loss.
Sophomore Sarah Mafi led the Eagles in kills with 22 and sophomore Mackenzie Carter had 22 digs with 11 kills against Western Wyoming.
Twenty-five errors were the difference between a win and a loss for the Eagles against Western Wyoming.
“Our serving really hurt us that game and if we could have eliminated those errors and other silly errors the outcome would have been different,” said USU Eastern Head Coach Danielle Jensen.
Quickly the Eagles turned around on Friday and picked up a 3-1 win over Eastern Wyoming.
Against Eastern Wyoming returning conference defensive player of the year Megan Gurr-Wiscombe, led the team with 14 digs.
Early on Saturday morning the Eagles started their day with an impressive 3-0 sweep of Central Wyoming.
Out of the three games in Richfield, the sweep against Central was the only game which USU Eastern had single-digit errors (9). They averaged 22 errors in the other three games.
Carter and Mafi both had great games on both defense and offense with each player notching 13 kills and 14 digs.
Their final game of the tournament on Saturday was a 3-1 loss to a tough Eastern Arizona team.