CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—The No. 5 seeded Wartburg volleyball team (18-11 overall) defeated No. 1 seed Coe (23-8) 3-1 Thursday night in an American Rivers Conference semifinal match. With the win, the Knights advance to the A-R-C Championship Saturday at the University of Dubuque at 7 p.m. The set scores were 25-23, 25-14, 21-25, 25-20.
Top performers
Notes
- Wartburg moves its series lead to 43-11
- This marked the 35th win in the conference tournament in program history
- This will be the first appearance in the title game since 2021
- This will be Wartburg's 14th trip to the championship game in the tournament's 25-year history
- This will be the third meeting with Dubuque in the Championship
- Two previous matchups were in 2018 and 2019. UD won both 3-1
- This was the second-straight match with 17 kills for Koudelka, which is her career mark
- The Orange and Black had 12 team blocks, which was the second-highest on the season
- Wartburg owned the advantage at the service line with 10 aces
- Digs were even at 65 for each team
- The score in the first set remained close as it was tied for the last time at 8-8, as the Knights built their lead to 13-9
- The Kohawks battled back and later knotted it at 21 all
- After a timeout by the Orange and Black they compiled a three-point run to make it 24-21
- Coe fought off two set points but a service error gave Wartburg the win in set one
- The Knights were down 6-2 early in set two and called a timeout
- The Orange and Black then went on a 5-0 run to make it 7-6 to force the Kohawks to call timeout
- The run continued for another five points to give Wartburg the lead for good
- In the fourth set, the score was 3-3 before the Knights took the 5-3 lead and never looked back
Next event
Wartburg returns to the court Saturday on the road against No. 2 seed the University of Dubuque. First serve will be at 7 p.m.
