By: Houston Taylor
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Southern Arkansas’ season difficulties continued as the Lady Muleriders (1-24, 0-5 GSC) dropped another 3-0 (16-25, 
22-25, 18-25) match, this one to Henderson State (10-10, 4-0 GSC), in Gulf South Conference volleyball action Tuesday at the W.T. Watson Athletic Center.
The Lady Reddies’ Robin Law and Tatiana Kuhn combined for 21 kills in leading HSU to the win. Law finished with 11 kills and also added 11 digs, while Kuhn had 10 kills.
Henderson State won the first set handily in taking the 25-16 win, but SAU mounted a comeback to make the second set interesting. Southern Arkansas watched an 11-10 lead slip away as the Lady Reddies went on an 11-3 run for a 21-14 advantage and later held a 23-16 margin. But Southern Arkansas rallied with a 6-1 spree of its own to pull within 24-22 before HSU put it away.
The Lady Muleriders were within 11-12 in the final set, but a 10-4
spurt allowed Henderson State to pull away from there for the 25-18 finale.
The Lady Reddies finished with 35 kills and hit .190, while SAU had 24 kills, but also 22 attack errors, in hitting .016.
Southern Arkansas got seven kills from sophomore right-side hitter Jordan White (Longview, Texas), and five apiece from junior middle blocker Maggie Glover (Waxahachie, Texas) and junior outside hitter Kaci Matthews (Houston, Texas). Junior setter Michaela Scroggins (The Colony, Texas) tossed up a match-high 22 assists and was in on three blocks.
Defensively, freshman libero Crystal Roberts (Hutto, Texas) had 19 
digs, and Glover finished with a match-high five blocks, three solo. Bethany Wright had a match-high 22 digs for HSU.
A bright spot on the night was that the match served as the Lady Muleriders’ “Dig for the Cure” event to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation to raise funds for breast cancer research. Monetary pledges were taken by SAU’s volleyball team for the number of official digs in the contest. With 125 total digs, approximately $1,000 was raised.
Southern Arkansas takes to the road over the next two weeks, starting Thursday when they face Ouachita Baptist in a 7 p.m. match in Arkadelphia. They step out of conference action October 13 at Arkansas-Fort Smith before playing at Harding October 15. The team won’t play at home again until October 20 against Arkansas Tech.
Photos by Aaron Morris
