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FMU player
J.T. Wilcox
3
Winner Missouri Baptist MOBAP21 1-0, 0-0
1
Florida Memorial FMUVB21 0-1, 0-0
Winner
Missouri Baptist MOBAP21
1-0, 0-0
3
Final
1
Florida Memorial FMUVB21
0-1, 0-0
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Missouri Baptist MOBAP21 22 25 25 25 (3)
Florida Memorial FMUVB21 25 18 17 17 (1)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball | | J.T. Wilcox, Sports Information Director

FMU Battles With No. 1 Missouri Baptist, Falls 3-1

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – For more than a few moments in time, Florida Memorial University's women's volleyball team had the nation's No. 1 ranked NAIA volleyball team looking up at them.
 
The Lady Lions took the first set against No. 1 Missouri Baptist University 25-22 but would end up dropping the next three sets (18-25, 17-25, 17-25) to fall 3-1 Thursday night in the first day of the St. Thomas University Volleyball Invitational at the STU Fernandez Family Center.
 
Thursday's game was the season-opener for Florida Memorial (0-1) – after their originally scheduled first two games of the season were canceled – and while the result wasn't what it would have hoped, FMU did stand toe-to-toe with the defending NAIA volleyball national champions.
 
Impressively, the Lady Lions – who will return to St. Thomas University Friday to play a pair of games, against 2020 NAIA national runner-up Midland University (Neb.) at 10 a.m. and Olivet Nazarene University at 4 p.m. – hung with the Spartans (1-0) despite playing with a shorthanded roster. Some players missed the game due to injury while others were unavailable due to undisclosed team reasons.
 
Junior Biancaliz Cruz and graduate senior Sammyra Albarran tied for the team-high with 9 kills each. Albarran also added 3 blocks and 2 assists while tying for a team-high 14 digs.
 
6-foot-2 Transfer junior Kimberlie Correa finished with a game-high 5 blocks and 7 kills in her first game with FMU while her 6-foot-1 sister senior Daphinie Correa added 2 blocks and 6 kills. Alanis Santana totaled a team-high 20 assists and Agustina Busque finished with 14 digs and 13 assists.
 
In FMU's best set, the teams played to a 6-6 tie early before an attack error by the Spartans sandwiched between a pair of Daphinie Correa kills gave Florida Memorial 9-6 lead. The Lady Lions would never relinquish that lead – extending it to as large as five points (16-11) – before Azmabeth Infante and Kimberlie Correa combined for a block to cement the 25-22 win.
 
The next three sets would only see FMU hold a slim margin in the third set after the Spartans won the second set wire to wire. In what would be the decisive set, Florida Memorial played Missouri Baptist to a 7-7 tie early before the Spartans went on a 5-0 run to pull away and opened as large as a 24-13 lead over the Lions before FMU showed its mettle by scoring four straight points before yielding the final point.
 
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