CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – A balanced offensive attack that had nine Tigers finishing with at least one point led the Clemson Volleyball team (11-19, 3-16 ACC) to a four-set victory (25-22, 19-25, 25-23, 25-23) against Boston College (14-17, 7-12 ACC) on Wednesday afternoon. Senior Azyah Dailey led the Tigers with 20.5 points, while graduate Indigo Young clocked a season-high 12 kills.
Young and Kate Hansen proved to be deadly in the middle of the court with the two combining for 19 kills and only four errors on 37 total attacks. The duo added eight total blocks as Young finished with one solo and five assisted, and Hansen finished with two block assists. Sophomore Kennedy Wagner added 11 kills with a .526 hitting percentage to trail only Young, who notched a .611 hitting percentage.
Additional stat leaders included Katherine Sandt, who had 43 assists added to seven digs, three blocks, two kills and two aces. Senior libero Devan Taylor notched her 26th double-digit dig performance of the season with 18, while Mia McGrath added 10 digs.
The first set was all Clemson out of the gate, as the Tigers jumped out to a 13-7 lead behind kills from Dailey, McGrath, Young and Sandt, as well as an ace from Neea-Maria Joki, her team-high 27th ace of the season. BC closed the gap down to three points, but it was Young and Hansen that continued to provide a spark in the middle of the court for the Tigers with kills and block assists. Dailey added a couple more kills before McGrath closed out the set, 25-22, with a kill.
The match was flipped in the second, as Boston College took advantage of Clemson attack errors. Young and Sandt came up big with back-to-back block assists, and Dailey brought her kill count to nine at the end of set two, but the Eagles even things as a set each with a 25-19 second set.
The Tigers battled their way back in the third after getting behind, 11-4. Stringing together six points off an ace from Taylor, two kills from Wagner and a joint block by Mia Moore and Hansen, the Tigers closed the gap to one point. Clemson leveled it at 16-all behind an ace from Sandt, and continued to apply pressure with kills from Moore, Dailey and a solo block from Young. Clemson closed out the set win, 25-23, behind Wagner’s sixth kill of the set.
The offensive production looked to continue in the fourth set, but BC strung together five points to take a 14-8 advantage. A kill from Dailey, as well as a joint block by Dailey and Hansen helped cut the lead down, but Clemson’s true comeback came with Moore clocking three kills within a four-point span immediately followed by Wagner adding back-to-back kills to tie things at 20-all. Dailey and Young gave Clemson a one-point advantage, and it was Sandt who secured the 25-23 win with her second ace of the match.
Up Next
Clemson concludes the 2024 season on Friday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. inside Jervey Gym when the Tigers play host to North Carolina. Admission is free and open to the public. Fans are encouraged to arrive early and park in Lot 5 (directly adjacent to Memorial Stadium) due to Clemson men’s basketball playing a home game against Florida A&M at 7 p.m. in Littlejohn Coliseum. Note that Avenue of Champions and the McFadden Lot will be unavailable due to required parking passes for men’s basketball games.
