MONTICELLO, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas Volleyball team picked up their second-consecutive Great American Conference win on the road in a 3-0 victory (25-12, 25-21, 25-10) over Arkansas-Monticello as senior setter Taylor Reaume logged her fourth double-double of the year with 37 assists and a season-high 14 digs, while two trios of Lady Muleriders recorded double digit kill and dig totals.
 
Southern Arkansas (7-7, 2-2 GAC) produced their highest attack percentage of the year as they posted an average of .402 and set season-high marks for kills and digs in a three-set match with 37 and 62 respectively. It was also the highest attack percentage for a Lady Mulerider team in conference play under the six-year leadership of head coach Steven Gream.
 
By far their most dominating win of the season, the Lady Muleriders produced early and often as they generated the highest attack percentage of any opponent that had faced the Blossoms so far this season. UAM (6-5, 1-3 GAC) was the GAC leader in opponent attacking percentage by holding opponents to an average of .155 through 33 sets played.
 
In the first set, SAU jumped out to a 5-2 lead with help from a pair of kills by junior Serena LeDuff and sophomore Alli O'Banion. UAM would knot the opening frame at 5, before a 20-7 Lady Mulerider run gave SAU the match lead. Southern Arkansas attacked at .571 in the first set and committed only one error as the Lady Muleriders recorded a season-low eight errors over the three sets; the first time they've committed less than 10 errors this year.
 
Up 16-11 in the second set, Southern Arkansas weathered a 6-0 Blossoms run that gave UAM a 17-16 advantage before senior Shelby Lauterbach along with LeDuff and O'Banion put away UAM down the stretch courtesy of six assists from Reaume as SAU took the momentum and a 2-0 match lead.
 
It was all Southern Arkansas in the final set as the Lady Muleriders held Monticello to a match-low .029 attack percentage and only four kills, while an 8-0 SAU run midway through the third set came courtesy of five kills and three Gillian Newman service aces.
 
Defensively, junior defensive specialist Hannah Rice led three Lady Muleriders in double digit digs with 16, while Reaume added a previously mentioned 14 digs and junior Paige Mays collected ten. Newman added nine digs and LeDuff was a pair of digs shy of a double-double as she logged 15 kills. Lauterbach produced 12 kills, while O'Banion added 11.
 
The Lady Muleriders return to action and to the W.T. Watson Athletic Center where they look to pick up their first GAC win at home when they take on Harding on Thursday, October 1. First-serve is set for 7 p.m. and the public is encouraged to attend pregame festivities, while students can participate in the "Can the Bison" can drive, where each can good brought to the game gives students a chance to win an iPad or Keurig.
 
Be sure to visit muleriderathletics.com for all Lady Mulerider pregame and postgame news and updates as well as the coach's show with Head Volleyball Coach Steven Gream.