LAKE CHARLES—Junior outside hitter Kendall Glueck recorded a career high 14 kills and libero Lizzy Low picked up a career high 16 digs to lead McNeese volleyball to its first Southland Conference win of the season over Nicholls Thursday night by a 3-1 (25-21, 21-25, 25-16, 25-14) margin to improve to 7-6 overall and 1-1 in league action. The loss drops Nicholls to 7-7 overall and 0-2 in the SLC.
 
"I'm really proud of the team tonight. All week we preached consistency and that's what we got tonight," said head coach Kristee Porter. " We were aggressive and played low error volleyball especially in the sets that we won tonight. I'm proud of their effort tonight and how they stayed on task."
 
Joining Glueck with double figure kills was Macee Krpec (13) and Regan Stiawalt (12).
 
McNeese ended the match with a .301 team hitting percent and 52 digs on the night. Libero Lizzy Low was solid in the back line for the Cowgirls again tonight, ended the match with career high 16 digs while setters Ceci Harness and Baylee Laskoskie were credited with 27 and 21 assists, respectively.
 
"Our defense gets overlooked at times but our defense does a great job, not only creating blocks and disrupting the opposition but Low (Linzy) back there stabilizes our defense along with everyone else. It's nice when you have a team that makes such good defensive effort and making plays on balls that you can kind of focus on something else. "
 
Nicholls was led by Emily Gauthreaux's 11 kills.
 
McNeese will remain home to host New Orleans at 1 p.m. Saturday.
 
NOTABLES
•- Three Cowgirls (Glueck, Krpec, Stiawalt) recorded 10 or more kills
•- Kendall Glueck led all players with a career high 14 kills
•- Libero Lizzy Low was credited with a career high 16 digs
•- Low has picked up 10 or more digs in 8 of the last 10 matches
•- Jaylin Gordon ended the match with a .500 hitting percent with eight kills, 12 attempts, 2 errors
•- Setters Ceci Harness and Baylee Laskoskie both ended the match with double figure assists. Harness had 27 and Laskoskie had 21
•- Harness has dished out 10 or more assists in 12 of 13 matches this season and it's the third straight match that she has 20 or more assists