SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Pacific volleyball forced CSU Bakersfield into 12 service errors and 23 attacking errors en route to a three-set (26-24, 25-19, 25-21) sweep of the Roadrunners on Saturday morning at The Nest.
Resulting from the high number of errors forced, the Tigers (6-5) defense limited CSU Bakersfield (3-9) to a .133 hitting percentage, the fifth time this season Pacific has held its opponent to a sub-.175 hitting percentage (4-1 record in such games). A large reason behind the strong defense was Pacific’s 16 block assists. Led by graduate Valentina Varani’s six, four student-athletes recorded multiple block assists. Included in those four was sophomore Alessia Couchond, who posted a new-career high three block assists. Her contributions didn’t stop at blocks, however, as her first dig of the match was the 100th of her career and finished with five at the end of the match.
Sticking with digs, one day after setting a career-high, redshirt freshman Mila Stojakovic topped that previous high and reached ten digs for the first time in her career. However, she was not the only Tiger to reach double figure digs in the match as graduate Olivia Keller also recorded ten…