SPARTANBURG, S.C. - College of Charleston earned its fifth sweep of the season and second of the conference season as the Cougars defeated Wofford, 3-0 (25-12, 25-16, 25-16).
College of Charleston moved to 5-1 on the conference season and 14-8 overall. Wofford fell to 2-4 in the SoCon and 13-8 on the season.
Sophomore Taeler Davis made her first start of the season at setter, notching 29 assists and 11 digs for her first career double-double. Freshman Lizzie Theesfeld led the team in kills with 10 to go with 11 digs. She also hit .360 with just one error.
Senior Elyse Chubb hit a team-best .500 on the match while making nine kills. Freshman Sloane White also made nine kills for the Cougars. College of Charleston hit .301 for the match, marking the third time in conference play that the Cougars have broken the .300 mark.
Redshirt-junior Emily Shelton made a team-best 13 digs and senior Sarah Havel notched six total blocks, as the Cougar defense held the Wofford attack to just .038.
"I was really happy with how well we played after a disappointing match last night against Furman," head coach Jason Kepner said. "We were efficient and played very aggressively. We hope to continue doing that next weekend and throughout the conference season."
The Terriers were led by eight kills from Arden Anderson. Rachel Woodlee and Wendy Burnett each tallied six kills.
In the first set, College of Charleston broke away from Wofford with a 5-0 run to lead 18-10 and finished the set on a 12-2 run to win the first set, 25-12. Chubb was deadly accurate on the slide, making six kills on nine attempts with no errors. Davis had eight assists and four digs and Shelton made eight digs. The Cougars hit .281 while limiting Wofford to a -.143 hitting percentage.
The Cougars were again able to make a mid-set run in the second, breaking open a 14-12 contest and building a 19-14 lead off of kills from Chubb and sophomore Kerstin Koehler. The Cougars scored the last five in a row on the serve of freshman Andi Zbojniewicz and won the second set, 25-16. Theesfeld and White tied for the team lead with four kills apiece and Theesfeld, Davis, Hayley Harrell and Shelton all made at least four digs.
CofC jumped out to a 8-1 lead in the third set and never trailed throughout. The Terriers could not pull closer than four points at 15-11 and Charleston rolled to a 25-16 set win. Theesfeld hit .500 in the third with five kills and the Cougars only made four attacking errors.
College of Charleston will stay on the road next weekend with matches at Samford on Friday, Oct. 14, and Chattanooga on Saturday, Oct. 15.
