Box Score The Buena Vista volleyball team took the court on Senior Night against Martin Luther on Wednesday night, and the Beavers kept their perfect home record in tact after a four-set victory over the Knights inside of Siebens Fieldhouse.
It was all BVU in the opening set, as the Beavers stormed out to an 18-8 lead. BVU had 14 kills in that opening set, while Martin Luther had seven kills and five errors, as the Beavers won the set, 25-12.
Martin Luther jumped out to the quick 5-1 lead in the second, but BVU did fight back to tie things up at 8-8. The Knights, however, rolled off two straight points on consecutive attack errors by BVU, and they never looked back while hanging on for a 25-19 win to even the match at 1-1.
BVU then took control over the next two sets, combining for 24 kills and just three errors, while forcing 13 attack errors by the Knights, as they captured a pair of 25-12 victories to close out the match and capture their eighth straight win.
Senior Ali Grein turned in a match-high 18 kills with fellow senior Jade Schaap right behind with 15 kills and a match-high 22 digs. Senior Jamie Navinskey, who's coming off a career night at Coe on Tuesday, followed up with 11 more kills and added to her league-lead in serving aces with four more in this match. Mackenzie Gropel dished out 40 assists and Summer Goss had 19 digs and two ace serves.
BVU finished with a .276 attack percentage while holding Martin Luther to just .125.
The Beavers improve to 18-9 overall and wrapped up the regular season home schedule at 7-0. The team then packed up and began its trip out east to New York where it will play a pair of matches on Saturday against St. Joseph's of Long Island and Brooklyn (N.Y.)