Oct. 1, 2015
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By Cassie Logan | @c4ssielogan
ARLINGTON, Texas - UT Arlington pushed its home win streak to five matches at College Park Center with an exciting 3-1 victory over Georgia Southern Thursday night.
The Mavericks improved to 12-5 overall and 3-2 in Sun Belt play while Georgia Southern has yet to find a win through four conference matches. The Eagles are now 6-10 on the year and 0-4 against the Mavs all time.
UTA powered a late 7-3 run to claim the first set 25-22, but Georgia Southern responded with offensive momentum to take the second 25-15. The Mavs answered by out-hitting the Eagles .321 to -.061 to win the third set 25-13. After trailing by five, UT Arlington stormed back to score seven of the last nine points and grab the final set 25-23. UTA out-hit, out-dug and out-blocked Georgia Southern in the four-set win.
Player of the Match
Redshirt freshman Zhanelle Geathers was an offensive powerhouse for UTA as she scored 14 of the team's points, including a career-high six blocks, eight kills, three service aces and four digs with a .438 hitting percentage. The middle blocker recorded just one error.
Stat Leaders
Senior opposite hitter Stacey Koch contributed a match-high 15 kills and 17.5 points. Junior Cassidy Wheeler notched 45 assists with four service aces and senior Caitlyn Cooney tallied 14 digs.
Quotables
"There are going to be nights like that where you just get in a funk in that one set and you have to hope that your team will respond to it and they did a very good job of responding." -UT Arlington coach Diane Seymour on recovering the second set loss
"It was just more work no matter what. I just had to continue to work on the things Diane is telling me to do. These games are showing that it's paying off and it's fun to realize what I'm learning." -Geathers on her career performance
"[Ashley Jones] is one of their more consistent outside hitters and it did give us a bit of an edge where we were able to put the foot on the gas and run with it and gain some momentum on our side." -Seymour on Jones' ankle injury in the second set
Up Next
UTA hosts Little Rock in the teams' second Sun Belt meeting of the season 1 p.m. Saturday at College Park Center.
How to Watch the Match
Tickets for Saturday's match are available for purchase at UTATickets.com or by calling 817-272-9595.
Saturday's match will be available for stream on UTAMavs.com with Josh Sours and Amanda Kent on the call. Live stats for all UTA matches can be found at UTAStats.com.
