BUCKHANNON & GLENVILLE, W.Va. – In a morning-afternoon double-match day, the Wheeling Jesuit volleyball team added a pair of Mountain East Conference victories in 3-0 sweeps of West Virginia Wesleyan and Glenville State.
 
Starting the day, the Cardinals scored a 25-8, 25-15 and 25-14 set wins over the Bobcats (8-13/2-6 MEC), before they coasted past the Pioneers (1-19/0-8 MEC). With the two wins, No. 7 WJU (20-3/8-0) posted its 20^th win on the year, the 14^th year in a row for 14^th-year head coach Christy Benner's team to reach the 20-victory mark.
 
Katie Campbell paced WJU with 15 kills with only one error in 18 total attacks for a .777 attack percentage.
Seniors Emily Blank downed eight kills, four in each match, and Jessica Thobe totaled 21 digs and three kills. Alexa Brown chipped in a pair of kills, Julie Henderson recorded 10 set assists and Abby Moffit dug nine attacks.
 
WJU will return home for three matches next week. It starts Tuesday night, Oct. 20, against regional power Clarion in a 7 p.m. first serve.
 
No. 7 WJU 3, West Virginia Wesleyan 0 (25-8, 25-15, 25-14)
In the sets…
With a 9-4 lead in set one, Sydney Obringer and Haley Kindall killed two points apiece as part of an 8-0 run to open a 17-4 margin. Blank downed two of the final Cardinal points for the 25-8 final.
 
West Virginia Wesleyan went out to a 6-2 early lead in the second set. WJU answered with another eight-point run to turn the tables in its favor, 10-6, with two Emma Schleucher kills. The visitors won the rest of the set 15-9 where Campbell killed the final point in the 25-15 win.
 
WJU started the third set with an 8-3 lead and never let Wesleyan in the set. Campbell ended her second consecutive set, 25-14.
 
By the numbers…
For the Cardinals
•Kindall – 8 kills, ace
•Andrea Thobe – 40 assists, 6 digs
•Schleucher – 8 kills, ace, 3 digs
•Jessica Thobe – 13 digs
•Campbell – 8 kills, .700 pct. (1 E, 10 TA), BS
•Moffit – 8 digs
 
For the Bobcats…
•Stacie Baumann & Hannah King – 8 kills
 
No. 7 WJU 3, Glenville State 0 (25-12, 25-9, 25-7)
In the sets…
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By the numbers…
For the Cardinals
•Campbell – 7 kills, .875 pct. (0 E, 8 TA), 4 TB
•A. Thobe – 30 assists, 10 digs, 2 aces
•Maddy Kassan – 6 digs
•Brown – 2 kills
•Sydney Obringer – 8 kills, .889 pct. (0 E, 9 TA)
•Henderson – 10 assists, ace
•Allegra Shippy – 3 kills, 3 TB
•Lauran Graves – 7 kills, .875 pct. (0 E, 8 TA)
 
For the Pioneers…
•Rachel Morris – 7 kills