Auggies drop four-set match at Carleton

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NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Jovial King (SO, Caledonia, Minn./Caledonia HS) recorded her second 20-20 performance of the season, with 29 kills and a career-high 24 digs, leading the Augsburg University volleyball team in a four-set Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference loss at Carleton College on Wednesday evening.

THE BASICS 
FINAL SCORE: Carleton def. Augsburg 3-1 (20-25, 26-24, 25-16, 25-18)
LOCATION: West Gym, Northfield, Minn.
RECORDS: Augsburg 6-11 overall (1-1 MIAC), Carleton 3-15 overall (1-4 MIAC)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• King claimed her 12th career assist-dig double-double, and seventh of this season, with her 29-assist, 24-dig performance, adding four kills and four block assists.
• Taliah Triggs (SO, Moorhead, Minn./Moorhead HS) led the Auggie hitters with her first double-double of the season, collecting 11 kills and 10 digs.
• Taylor Hoehns (SR, Cedar Falls, Iowa/Dike-New Hartford HS) recorded six kills and six digs, and Elizabeth Oster (JR, Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji HS) had five kills and four block assists.
• Sierra Washington (SR, Prior Lake, Minn./Prior Lake HS) had two block assists with four kills, and Marley Mitchell (SO, Nevis, Minn./Nevis HS) had two block assists with three kills.
• Libero Maggie Lile (JR, Spring Grove, Minn./Spring Grove HS) had 16 digs.

FOR THE FOES
• Sylvia Dixon led Carleton with 19 kills, adding five digs. Rachel Bingham had nine kills, five service aces, 13 digs and two blocks (one solo).
• Megan Smith had 34 assists, 13 digs, four kills and two blocks (one solo).

UP NEXT
• Augsburg travels to face Gustavus Adolphus College in an MIAC match on Saturday (11/11) at 5 p.m. in St. Peter, Minn.

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