MORAGA, Calif. — Sophomore Shannon Scully put down 12 kills and 13 digs for her eighth double-double of the season to propel the Pepperdine women's volleyball team to a West Coast Conference sweep over Saint Mary's at McKeon Pavilion on Thursday night.
 
The Malibu Roofing Company impressed with 13.0 team blocks, while Hannah Frohling's 10-kills, Alli O'Harra's eight-blocks and Hana Lishman's 17-digs also helped the Waves improve the 2018 record to 16-7 overall and 10-3 in WCC action. 
 
BIG WAVES
Shannon Scully (Huntington Beach, Calif./Mater Dei HS/Utah): 12 kills, 13 digs, .294 hitting %
Hannah Frohling (Edmond, Okla./Edmond North HS): 10 kills, .333 hitting %, 1 ace, 4 blocks
Heidi Dyer (San Clemente, Calif./Saddleback Valley Christian HS): 7 kills, .261 hitting %, 6 blocks, 3 digs
Alli O'Harra (Boise, Idaho/Centennial HS): 4 kills, .364 hitting %, 8 blocks
Tarah Wylie (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral HS): 5 kills, 5 blocks (2 solos), 1 ace, 2 digs
Blossom Sato (Santa Monica, Calif./Santa Monica HS): 30 assists, 9 digs, 1 ace, 1 block, 1 kill
Hana Lishman (Kailua, Hawai'i/Punahou School): 17 digs, 2 aces, 2 assists, 19 service receptions with no errors
Madison Shields (El Dorado Hills, Calif./Oak Ridge HS): 6 digs
 
WAVES VS. GAELS
Pepperdine impressed with 13.0 team blocks compared to Saint Mary's 6.0 blocks, while adding 39 kills on a .277 hitting percentage to SMC's 32 kills on a .066 output.  The Waves amassed five blocks and 54 digs, while the opposition totaled two aces and 57 digs throughout the match.
 
PEPPERDINE ATTACK BY SET
Set       K          E          TA        Pct
1          10         1          29         .345
2          12         4          41         .195
3          17         3          42         .333
TTL       39         8          112       .277
 
SAINT MARY'S ATTACK BY SET
Set       K          E          TA        Pct
1          10         11         42         -.024
2          9          9          45         .000
3          13         4          34         .265
TTL       32         24         121       .066
 
NOTABLES

• Pepperdine leads Saint Mary's with a 48-15 all-time record, dating back to 1987 when the teams first met and the Waves swept the Gaels on the road.  Earlier this season, Pepperdine swept Saint Mary's in Malibu.
• Hannah Frohling has hit for double-figure kills in 13 matches this season and 53 throughout her career.  She leads the team with 3.35 kill/set and 31 aces overall.
• Frohling is currently at the 974 kill-mark in her career.
• Rachel Ahrens has posted 11 matches with double-figure kills this season and has led the Waves' attack in seven.
• Hana Lishman has put up 16 double-figure dig matches this season, with three above 20-digs, and 63 in her career.
• Lishman has amassed 1,162 digs throughout her career thus far.
• Blossom Sato has led the Waves in assists in all but one match this season including a career-high 59 in the home opener against Idaho. 
• Shannon Scully has posted eight double-doubles this season, leading the Waves, including her eighth today with 12 kills and 13 digs against the Gaels.
• On the season, Alli O'Harra leads the Waves with 1.27 blocks/set after amassing 89 total blocks with six solo rejections. Tarah Wylie has marked 63 total blocks, including five solo rejections for 0.82 blocks/set.
• Alli O'Harra had led the Waves in blocks for the last 12-consecutive matches, including six of them with seven blocks or more. 

 
PLAY-BY-PLAY
Pepperdine jumped out of the starting gate to open the first set, amassing a 5-1 run with kills from Alli O'Harra and a block from O'Harra and Heidi Dyer.  Shortly after, the Waves went on a 4-2 run with a pair of aces from Hana Lishman to continue expanding the lead to 9-3.  Late in the set, kills from Dyer and Tarah Wylie and big blocks from Wylie, O'Harra and Hannah Frohling helped the cause en route to an 18-8 spread.  Down the home stretch, the Waves sealed the first set win with a solo rejection from Wylie to win 25-14 and set momentum for the rest of the match.
 
The second set opened closer than the first.  After a 4-1 Waves' lead courtesy of blocks from Frohling and O'Harra, the opposition closed the gap and came within one at the 6-5 mark.  It would be the closest the Gaels would come, however, as kills from Shannon Scully and more blocks from Wylie and Dyer put the Waves ahead 10-5.  Scully and Wylie went back-to-back on the attack front later in the set and O'Harra collaborated on block efforts with Frohling and Dyer to amass a 20-14 advantage.  Late in the set, Wylie and Dyer denied another block and a service error from across the net sealed the deal with a 25-18 set win for Pepperdine.
 
Heading into the third set, Pepperdine was intent on shutting down the Gaels in three, and did just that as the Waves quickly worked to a 5-1 advantage courtesy of a strong service effort from Blossom Sato including an ace and blocks from O'Harra with either Dyer or Frohling. The Waves continued to roll with kills from Scully to force a Saint Mary's timeout.  Although the opposition started to cloes the gap momentarily in the set, blocks from Sato and Wylie and kills from Frohling helped Pepperdine maintain a 17-9 lead.  In the final moments of action, Frohling laid down a big smash and the Gaels committed a service error to result in a Waves' sweep on a 25-19 third set victory.
 
NEXT UP
Next, the Waves continue the road trip with a matchup at Pacific on Saturday at noon.  Follow the Waves on Facebook and Twitter, @WavesVolleyball, and follow the team on Instagram, @peppvolley.  Get all the most recent schedules, results and more on www.PepperdineWaves.com.