Volleyball: Racers Finish Undefeated at Racer Rumble

ELIDA, OH - UNOH Volleyball wrapped up the Racer Rumble on Saturday, August 27, with two more wins over Fisk and Miami-Middletown. The Racers opened day two by dropping their first set, but went on to win six straight and extend their winning streak to five.

Against Fisk, Logan Thomas (SO/Johnstown, Ohio) led all players in points for the fifth straight match. Thomas recorded 20 points off 18 kills and two service aces. Hope Fetherolf (JR/London, Ohio) and Abigail Martin each finished with eleven points in the match. Fetherolf had seven kills and no errors off 16 attacks, adding two service aces and two solo blocks. Martin scored all her points on eleven kills with four errors. Taylor Reust (JR/Huntington, Indiana) filled all the stat columns with eight kills, two digs, one assist, one service ace, one solo block and one block assist. Hannah Colquitt (FR/Cleveland Heights, Ohio) earned a career high ten points with eight kills, a solo block and two block assists. Casey Thomas led the team in assists with 23 in the match. Savanna Reed (FR/Columbia City, Indiana) showed her decision making abilities earning 19 assists and nine kills with no errors on seven total attacks.

As a team, the Racers hit .319 with 58 kills and just 13 attack errors.

UNOH finished the weekend 4-0 after taking down Miami-Middletown 3-0 (25-15, 25-15, 25-16) in match two of the day. Taylor Reust led the team with 11.5 points scoring six kills, four service aces, a solo block and a block assist. Logan Thomas put up eleven points for her sixth double-digit total in as many matches. All of her points came off eleven kills with only two errors on 22 total attacks for a career high .409 hitting percentage. With 110 kills on the season, Thomas sits 8th in the country and third in kills per set (4.78). Her 125.5 points is eighth in the nation and she sits second in points per set. Savanna Reed led all players with 20 assists and Casey Kingsland (SO/Blanchester, Ohio) recorded 15. Defensively, Aubree Ricketts (JR/Plainfield, Illinois) led all players with 12 digs.

The Racers had just nine attack errors and hit .349 as a team, both the program's best since October 2019. Another eleven aces in the match gives UNOH 68 on the season, good for sixth in the country.

"We had two more big wins today," said Head Coach Josh Kreiner. "We really locked down defensively, forcing the other teams to make a lot of mistakes while keeping ours at a minimum. I think you would be hard-pressed to find a better back court in the country than when Bailey [Gregory] and Aubree [Ricketts] are there. Every attack I know we're going to get a piece of the ball and it'll be on target. Now we get a week off to recover from a long weekend before we get back into it. We need the rest, but I can't wait for this team to take the floor again next weekend."

UNOH will carry their winning streak into the Racer Classic next on September 2-3. The Racers face Huntington and Goshen on Friday before finishing with Stephens and Montreat on Saturday.