Azusa Pacific 3
Alliant International 0

30-23, 30-20, 30-18

AZUSA, Calif. -- Jenny Brickner and Chelsea Morgan combined for 26 of Azusa Pacific’s 51 kills to lift the Cougars to a 3-0 non-conference win over visiting Alliant International Thursday night in the Felix Event Center.

With the win, Azusa Pacific improves to 15-8 overall.

Brickner picked up right where she left off Tuesday’s match when she had 19 kills in a win over Hope International. In the first game alone, she tallied nearly half of her match-high 15 kills getting 7 on 13 attempts (1 error), hitting .462. Meanwhile, the Cougar defense put down 4 of their 6 blocks and limited the Mountain Lions to a -.029 hitting percentage.

The Cougars scored 7 of the game’s first 10 points before the Mountain Lions rallied to get within 10-8. The Cougars answered with a 10-3 run of their own to take full control of the game and eventually the match.

Morgan finished with 11 kills but had just 3 in the opening game.

Game 2 was tied 11-11 when Brianne Huff took serve and reeled off 5 straight points to give the Cougars a 16-11 lead. Alliant scored the next 4 points to get within one (16-15), but Morgan put down a pair of kills in a 6-1 Cougar run that opened up a 22-16 lead they did not lose. The Cougars totaled 20 kills and hit .372 in the game.

The Cougars led 5-4 in game 3 when Huff took serve and delivered 7 straight points to open up a 12-4 lead. The Mountain Lions got no closer than 4 points (13-9 and 19-15) the rest of the way as the Cougars closed out the match.

Morgan and Brickner each finished with 4 blocks apiece. Huff finished with 8 kills. Colleen Walker had 7 kills, 10 digs and 2 aces. Alison Pattison had 23 digs.

The Cougars finished with 10 service aces and hit .237 (51-19-135) while Alliant hit .087 (32-22-115).