Red Tops White, 3-1

Lincoln - The Red team defeated the White team, 3-1, in Nebraska volleyball's annual Red/White Scrimmage before 5,148 fans at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday night.

Red won sets one and two by 25-22 scores, then White took set three, 25-19. The teams played a fourth set to 15 with the Red pulling out the 16-14 win. Kadie Rolfzen led the Red team with 17 kills and a .469 hitting percentage. She also added nine digs and four blocks. Freshman Mikaela Foecke had eight kills and 14 digs for Red. Annika Albrecht played the first two sets with Red and the final two with White. She totaled nine kills and nine digs. Cecilia Hall also started on the Red team and switched before the third set. She had nine kills on the night.  Kelly Hunter had 39 assists for the victorious Red team.

For the White, Briana Holman led the way with 12 kills and six blocks. Alicia Ostrander added 10 kills, while Olivia Boender had eight kills and 10 digs. The White ran a 6-2 system with Justine Wong-Orantes (18 assists and 12 digs) and Brooke Smith (14 assists) serving as the setters. Sydney Townsend had 14 digs. 

The White team jumped out in front 5-1 after Holman opened the match with a pair of kills. Kadie Rolfzen's three kills and service ace leveled the set at 6-6. Back-to-back kills by the Rolfzen twins and an error by the White team gave Red a 15-12 lead. Red held on for the 25-22 win, capped by a Hall kill. Kadie Rolfzen had five kills and hit .714 for Red in the set.

The teams went back and forth in the second set, but Red took a 15-12 lead at the media timeout on a blast by Foecke. Boender posted a pair of kills from the left side to give White a 17-16 lead, its first since it was 8-7. Out of a timeout, Ostrander and Holman combined for a block, and Ostrander smashed a kill to make it 19-16 White. Red rallied with a 7-1 run to go up 23-20, thanks in part to consecutive kills by Foecke, Albrecht and Kadie Rolfzen. Albrecht and Hall closed out another 25-22 win with a block to end the set. 

Before the third set, Fien and Haggerty moved to the Red team, while Albrecht and Hall moved to the White team. Ostrander tallied three kills early on, and White took a 12-9 lead after a Tiani Reeves and Holman block and ace from Wong-Orantes. A kill by Hall and back-to-back aces by Townsend made it 19-14 White, and they went on to win 25-19.

The teams predetermined the fourth set would be played to 15, and the Red team escaped with a 16-14 win to avoid the match ending in a tie. 

The fifth-ranked Huskers open the season next Friday against Tulsa at 7 p.m. at the Devaney Center.