MALIBU, Calif. — Three players with double-doubles helped propel the Pepperdine women's volleyball team towards a straight-set sweep over North Texas on Saturday night to close out day two of the 21^st-annual Pepperdine Asics Classic. 
 
Blossom Sato led the team with 36 assists and added 10 digs, while Rachel Ahrens and Shannon Scully marked 10 kills and 10 digs and 11 kills and 10 digs respectively for their double-doubles. 
 
BIG WAVES
Hannah Frohling (Edmond, Okla./Edmond North HS): 15 kills, .351 hitting %, 2 aces, 5 digs
Rachel Ahrens (Trabuco Canyon, Calif./Tesoro HS): 10 kills, .529 hitting %, 10 digs
Shannon Scully (Huntington Beach, Calif./Mater Dei HS/Utah): 11 kills, .435 hitting %, 2 aces, 13 digs, 2 blocks
Blossom Sato (Santa Monica, Calif./Santa Monica HS): 36 assists, 1 ace, 10 digs, 2 blocks
Hana Lishman (Kailua, Hawai'i/Punahou School): 12 digs, 3 assists, 1 ace
Alli O'Harra (Boise, Idaho/Centennial HS): 4 kills, 3 blocks, 2 digs
Tarah Wylie (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral HS): 4 kills, 1 block
 
WAVES VS. MEAN GREEN
The Waves outperformed the Mean Green in all areas of play, marking 45 kills on a .327 success rate, while giving up only 27 smashes on a .089 effort from across the net.  Pepperdine also tallied 43 assists, six aces, 60 digs and 4.0 team blocks.  North Texas posted 24 assists, three aces, 46 digs and 2.0 team blocks.
 
PEPPERDINE ATTACK BY SET
Set          K             E             TA           Pct
1              13           2              36           .306
2              18           2              29           .552
3              14           6              42           .190
TTL         45           10           107         .327
 
NORTH TEXAS ATTACK BY SET
Set          K             E             TA           Pct
1              8              9              44           -.023
2              9              2              23           .304
3              10           6              45           .089
TTL         27           17           112         .089
 
NOTABLES

• This was the first match between Pepperdine and North Texas all-time. 
• The Waves had three players with double-doubles including Blossom Sato, Rachel Ahrens and Shannon Scully.  The team also had three Waves hit for double-figure kills with Ahrens, Scully and the team-leader Hannah Frohling.  Four players marked double-figure digs with Scully, Sato, Ahrens and Hana Lishman leading the pack.
• Shannon Scully has posted five double-figure kill matches this season with three double-doubles.
• Hana Lishman has put up four double-figure dig matches, with one above 20-digs this season, and 51 in her career.
• Blossom Sato has led the Waves in assists in all matches this season including a career-high 59 in the home opener against Idaho.

 

PLAY-BY-PLAY
The Waves came out with high energy to open set one, amassing a 5-1 lead with back-to-back smash efforts from Tarah Wylie and Hannah Frohling.  The Waves continued to pound down with no let up for the Mean Green, reaching the 18-10 mark late in the action.  After a pair of blocks from Shannon Scully and Alli O'Harra helped the cause and a service ace from Blossom Sato and final smash from Scully put the set away with a 25-12 win.
 
In the second set, Pepperdine went back-and-forth with North Texas throughout, seeing ties at the 8-8 and 17-17 marks throughout.  In the final moments, Frohling went on fire with three kills from the outside and a block from O'Harra and Sato put the Waves in a position to close.  A second ace from Frohling and a big kill from Scully put the set away 25-18 and put the Waves ahead heading into the third.
 
Pepperdine took the early lead in the third set, pulling ahead 6-3 early on kills from Frohling and O'Harra, but the opposition countered with an attack effort of their own to make it an 11-11 tie.  A big block from Wylie and Scully gave the Waves the next advantage and the home team used it to pull ahead 17-13.  After smashes from Scully and O'Harra, Pepperdine had the lead heading into the final moments and shut the door with a big kill effort from Ahrens and some costly errors from the opposition.  With the 25-22 third set win, the Waves earned the team's second sweep of the season.
 


NEXT UP
Pepperdine closes out the Asics Classic tomorrow in Malibu with a matchup against CSUN at 2 p.m..  The Waves will also host a match between Idaho and North Texas at 10 a.m.  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.