Liberty Sweeps Blue Hens

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Liberty	25	25	25	3
Delaware	17	18	18	0

Liberty

Delaware

NEWARK, Del. - The Liberty volleyball team raced to a 3-0 sweep (25-17, 25-18, 25-18) over Delaware, Saturday at the Bob Carpenter Center.

Liberty improves to 18-7, 6-6 in Conference USA play after a pair of wins over Delaware this weekend. The Blue Hens (7-14, 4-8) have lost each of their last six matches.

Notable Numbers

Liberty outhit Delaware .283-.140 for the match. The Lady Flames led in kills (46-30), aces (6-1) and digs (45-33), while the Blue Hens held an 8-7 edge in blocks.
Paige Overcash and Jenna Otts tied for the match high with 12 kills each, as Overcash hit .476. Carly O'Brien scored 11 kills at a .458 pace. Addie Fielder registered career highs in assists (19) and digs (9). Molly Littlefield collected a match-high 15 digs. Laney Daniell tied her career high with eight kills while adding four blocks. Littlefield and Audrey Heiring both served up two aces.
Sila Ozyurek led Delaware with eight kills, while Asia Murray posted a match-high six blocks. Aubrey Lyssy dished out 15 assists, while Cadence Nguyen collected nine digs.

Turning Point

Although the match featured 17 ties and nine lead changes, Liberty built comfortable leads in all three sets, not letting Delaware reach 20 points in any set.

Quick Hits

Liberty leads the all-time volleyball series with Delaware, 8-4. Prior to this weekend, the last meeting between these two teams was a Blue Hens win in 2009.
This is the first time since Sept. 27-28, 2024 at Louisiana Tech that the Lady Flames won both games of an away CUSA weekend series.
Today was Liberty's eighth sweep of the season and first since posting a 3-0 win over Louisiana Tech, Sept. 27. That was also the last time that Liberty held an opponent under 20 points in all three sets of a match.
Today was the 11^th time this season that O'Brien, Otts and Overcash all reached double figures in kills.
Otts has scored 10 or more kills a team-high 22 times this season, including in each of the last nine matches. Otts also had nine straight 10-kill matches, Sept. 12-27.

Up Next
The Lady Flames head to Springfield, Mo., where they will take on CUSA newcomer Missouri State, Friday and Saturday.

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Otts Jenna

Overcash Paige

O'Brien Carly

Daniell Laney

Players Mentioned

Laney Daniell

Addie Fielder

Audrey Heiring

Molly Littlefield

Carly O'Brien

Jenna Otts

Paige Overcash

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