Final Stats

INDIANAPOLIS – Outside hitters Kendall Kritenbrink and Sydney Dimke combined for 42 kills as South Dakota volleyball topped the defending Summit League champion IUPUI Jaguars 27-25, 24-26, 19-25, 25-23, 15-13 in The Jungle on Friday night.

Kritenbrink had 25 kills in the match while adding 15 digs and four blocks. It's the fourth time in the last six matches she has recorded 20-plus kills. Dimke tied a career-high with 17 kills and had just one attack error on 35 attacks. She set a career-high for attack percentage, ending the match at .457.

Audrey Reeg added 10 kills and 10 digs to the Coyote (10-6, 4-0) effort, while Brittany Jessen had 55 assists and 16 digs, Riley Haug tallied 24 digs and Melissa Firtko compiled seven total blocks.

IUPUI (8-10, 2-1) had four players reach double-digit kills, but was led by Kelly Wachtel's 16 kills. Beth Howard had 21 digs and Alexis Mapes had 33 assists for the Jags.

South Dakota out-killed IUPUI 70-63 in the match and held edges in service aces (6-4) and blocks (12-9).

Kritenbrink and Dimke set the pace for the Coyotes early in the match. Kritenbrink had eight kills, seven digs, and hitting percentage of .467 in the opening set, while Dimke added five kills on 10 attacks. The Coyotes and Jags tied 10 times in the set with kills by Dimke and Reeg giving the Yotes the final two points of the set.

Meredith Farkas led IUPUI in the second set with five kills while Wachtel tallied six kills in the third set. The Jaguars never trailed and led by as many as six during the second set. They followed up by holding USD to just 10 kills in the third set while recording 15 kills themselves.

Dimke, Firtko and Kritenbrink recorded four kills each to lead USD to a 25-23 win in set four. The three combined for 12 kills on 19 attacks during the set. As a team, the Coyotes notched 16 kills and a .343 attack percentage while IUPUI had 12 kills and an attack percentage of .150. The teams tied 14 times during set and neither team had a run longer than three points.

Six kills from Kritenbrink and five IUPUI attack errors gave USD the 15-13 win in the deciding set. Kritenbrink's kills came off of 10 attacks. USD had eight kills and four attack errors during the set while IUPUI had five of each.

South Dakota will play at Fort Wayne (7-9, 1-1) on Sunday at noon before returning to The Den to host Western Illinois (3-13, 1-2) on Oct. 10.