STATESBORO – Iva Durdanovic tallied 17 kills, 17 digs and a block to lead South Alabama to a 3-0 (25-21, 25-15, 25-21) Sun Belt Conference volleyball victory over Georgia Southern Saturday night in Hanner Fieldhouse.

Eagles of the Match
Carly Turner posted eight kills and eight digs, and Baylor Bumford finished with six kills and three blocks. Haley Fuller notched five kills and 11 digs in two sets of action.

Key stats
South Alabama hit .240 for the match while holding GS to .106.

Key moments
South Alabama (11-6, 3-1) used a 6-1 run to take control of the first set and opened the second frame with an 8-2 spurt. The Eagles (6-9, 1-3) trimmed a four-point deficit to 21-20 in the third, but the Jags capped the match by scoring four of the next five. 

Quotables from head coach Chad Willis
"South Alabama did a really nice job pressuring us from the service line. We came out flat, our passers struggled early and we were never able to get in a rhythm offensively. In turn, we didn't attack well from the service line, and they had all their options available. So, it was the story of first contact."

"We are going to keep preaching the same things this week in practice. I think our team is discovering in these losses that what it boils down to is if you can control serve and pass, you put yourself in a pretty good position to win so that will still be the priority. We have to try and clean up some things defensively as well. I thought our effort was kind of lackluster on the defensive side of the ball today, so we'll address that this week in practice."

Next up
GS travels to the Lone Star state to take on UTA (Friday) and Texas State (Saturday) next weekend.