It was the weekend of sweeps for the Lady Govs as they took care of the Eastern Illinois Panthers and Southeast Missouri Redhawks with 3-0 victories. On Friday, Oct. 23, the Lady Govs had no trouble on the offensive against the Panthers with 47 kills among eight players.
The beginning of the first set consisted of APSU trading kills with EIU, but when the Lady Govs reached the ninth kill, the offense turned up. APSU would not let EIU score another point until the score was 14-10.
This could be credited to the defense pressure that APSU produced with five blocks by senior Kirstin Distler.
Even though the Panthers started to improve, it was not enough to match the scoring tear by the Lady Govs, winning the set, 25-19.
The Lady Govs defense allowed the Panthers a good first set, but then eight different players got a kill in the victories of the second and third set to seal the win, 25-14 and 25-15, respectively.
Saturday, Oct. 24, was similar for APSU against SEMO, as they posted 52 kills and a .288 attack percentage in the sweep of the Redhawks.
Senior Stephanie Champine led the team, keeping the SEMO defense busy with her 22 kills and .419 attack percentage.
Distler added another accolade to her shelf when she became only the ninth Lady Gov to record 1,000 kills, but the sixth APSU player to be a part of the double grand club with 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs.
According to APSU Sports Information, coach Mike Johnson was proud of the efforts Distler is achieving.
“She’s here when the program wasn’t really great her freshman year, and it’s developed to being okay now. She’s had a huge part of that. It’s a tremendous accomplishment,” Johnson said.
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