STATESBORO – Hali Wisnoskie tallied 17 kills, five digs and a block to lead Louisiana to a 3-1 (25-15, 25-20, 18-25, 25-19) Sun Belt volleyball win over Georgia Southern Friday night in Hanner Fieldhouse.

Eagles of the Match
Senior Ryan Tuten collected a career-high 16 kills to go along with 10 digs and three blocks. Carly Turner added 15 kills and a block, and Landon Jones posted a match-high 20 digs. Madison Brown finished with 42 assists, nine digs and three blocks for Georgia Southern (6-13, 1-7).

Key Plays
Leading the match 2-1, Louisiana (6-14, 2-5) used a 6-2 run to pull away in the fourth. The score was tied 14-14, but Wisnoskie tallied two kills, Kelsey Bennett served up an ace and the Eagles had two service errors as the Ragin' Cajuns mounted a 20-16 lead. Tuten and Baylor Bumford combined for a block to help cut the margin to 20-18, but a Wisnoskie kill ignited a 5-1 run to end the match and give Louisiana the 3-1 win.

Key Stats
The Ragin' Cajuns served up eight aces, and the Eagles had two.

Quotable from Coach Chad Willis
On Tuten's career night
"I'm really proud of Ryan. We knew that she was going to be an option tonight. We talked about one of the best things about her is that she is someone who just goes in and gets after it. We talk about going high and hard and good things will happen for you, and that was the situation tonight where she just went in across the front and let it loose and didn't really care about the end result, was just going to get after it. That's the kind of effort that we've been talking about all year."

On losing the first two sets
"I think that was probably more indicative of the five-setter we played last night. I had a feeling we might come out a little flat, and so one of the things we talked about was that we're going to have to be low error. Louisiana is a pretty efficient team - one of the more efficient teams in the league. Our contact on the ball was pretty sloppy all the way around in those first two sets, but once we settled into the third and got into the match a little bit, you started to see the potential of what we can be. So now it's just a matter of trying to find that consistency."

Next Up
The Eagles open a four-match road trip at South Alabama Friday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m.