Volleyball Defeats Austin Peay at Stacheville Challenge

Friday, August 29

Clarksville, Tenn.

8 p.m. ET

Xavier University

2-0,0-0Big East

Austin Peay

0-2,0-0ASUN

Xavier

Austin Peay

Volleyball Defeats Austin Peay at Stacheville Challenge

08.29.25 | Volleyball

Box Score

Xavier opened the tournament with two wins on Friday.

By: Abbey Curtis, Xavier Athletic Communications

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - The Xavier volleyball team improved to 2-0 on Friday night after taking down Austin Peay, 3-1, in the Stacheville Challenge.

The Musketeers remain the only undefeated team in the tournament and will close out the weekend against Murray State on Saturday afternoon.

After XU hit .250 in the opening set, the Governors responded with a dominant second set where they hit .467 with just one error.

Xavier bounced back in the final two sets, holding Austin Peay to a .014 clip with 23 digs in the fourth set alone.

notables

Emma Grace recorded her 26th career double-double on 10 kills and 10 digs and added two aces.
Charlotte Moriarty tallied 10 kills as well to go along with two blocks.
Margo Kemp hit .444 on nine kills with three blocks.
Anna Taylor had four kills on zero errors and picked up two blocks in just two sets of play.
Catherine Flaharty made her first collegiate appearance to record four kills.
McKinley Boehm registered four blocks, including the game-winning solo block.
Kelsey Niesen tallied 17 digs and two aces in her second start at libero this season.
Jenna Barhorst recorded 10 assists and seven digs in her first outing at Xavier.
The Musketeers recorded 52 digs including 23 in just the fourth set alone.
Xavier ended the final set on a 4-0 run behind two solo blocks and a kill by Boehm.
After dropping the second set, XU held APSU to a 33 percent side out rate in set three.

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Xavier will face Murray State at 12:00 p.m. EST on Saturday. The Musketeers are set to return home to host the Xavier Invitational next weekend at Cintas Center.