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UAA volleyball stays hot with 3-1 win over Billings

It was a happy homecoming Saturday night for the UAA volleyball team.

Playing in front of a crowd of 1,070, the Seawolves opened their Great Northwest Athletic Conference home schedule by cruising past Montana State-Billings in four sets at the Alaska Airlines Center.

Julia Mackey led UAA with 13 kills, Erin Braun had 10 kills and Kayla McGlathery had eight kills and a game-high .800 attack percentage in the 25-17, 25-17, 16-25, 25-17 victory. Quinn Barker came up with a team-high 17 digs and Morgan Hooe dished 37 assists.

UAA came out flying, racing to a 6-0 lead to start the first set en route to an easy 25-17 win finished in style by Mackey, whose service ace punctuated the frame.

The Seawolves won the second set by an identical score before dropping the third set 25-16.

Mackey finished the fourth set just like she did the first, knocking a serve cleanly past the Yellowjackets' defense for the match-winner. UAA finished the set on a 7-2 run.

The crowd was the second biggest in program history, second only to the turnout of 1,200 earlier this month for the grand-opening of the Alaska Airlines Center. The Seawolves (9-2 overall, 3-0 GNAC) are in the midst of a stretch of four GNAC games in seven days that ends Monday when they host Seattle Pacific at 7 p.m.

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