AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State volleyball team made it to a season-best five-match winning streak Tuesday night as the Cyclones defeated the South Dakota Coyotes 3-0 (25-14, 25-22, 25-22) in Hilton Coliseum. The win moves Iowa State to 15-6 overall and the loss dropped South Dakota to 18-9.
In spite of being a non-conference opponent thrown right into the middle of the Big 12 schedule, South Dakota showed it was worthy of being on the same court as Iowa State right off the bat. With the score at 13-11, Tory Knuth put away one of her patented quick-set kills, and allowed herself, the Big 12’s best server to head back to the service line to fire off four consecutive points, which included a service ace.
After the Coyotes reeled off two straight points, Iowa State put together another 5-0 run, this time on the serving of Mackenzie Bigbee and the attacking prowess of Ciara Capezio. After that the Cyclones were up 23-13 and out of sight in the first set.