LEXINGTON – The Washington and Lee volleyball team finished the week a perfect 3-0 after taking down the University of Lynchburg in straight sets 3-0 (25-21, 25-23, 25-22) on Saturday morning.

The Hornets (6-7, 2-2 ODAC) opened the match with three unanswered points and then the two teams would trade points, never more than back-to-back tallies until a 10-10 standstill. The Generals (7-6, 4-0 ODAC) crushed five straight points with Allie Buchholz (portland, Ore. / Jesuit) on the service line to earn the 15-10 advantage. The home team would not trail again despite Lynchburg tying it up at 21-21. The initial set was won with four consecutive W&L points, two LYN attacking errors and a pair of Sydney Heifner (Nashville, Tenn. / Harpeth Hall) kills to prompt the teams to switch sides.

WLU owned a 5-2 advantage to open up the second period before Lynchburg rallied for five and forced the Blue and White to even up the score five times over the next 14 points. All tied up at 21, the two teams alternated pairs of scores until the Generals won set two off an attack error, 25-23.

In what proved to be the deciding set, Washington and Lee scored 12 of the opening 16 points, including 11 in a row. The lead was too great for the visitors to overcome, but the Hornets fought back to put the score within two points of the leaders three times before a 25-22 Emery Goerig (College Station, Texas / College Station) match-point kill secured the perfect week for the Generals. 

Heifner posted 16 kills and 14 digs in the match. Senior setter Ashley Webb (Thousand Oaks, Calif. / Westlake) notched 21 assists and 11 digs as well.

Senior libero Caroline Gard (Naperville, Ill. / Benet Academy) moved into third all time in Washington and Lee history in digs with 1,539 after posting 14 digs against the Hornets. Gard is only 19 digs away from first place in school history.

The Generals return to action on Tuesday, September 27 to take on cross-town rivals, Southern Virginia University at the barn.