TEMPE, Ariz. — Behind a .357 hitting percentage and another strong effort from the service line, the No. 18 Oregon volleyball team notched a straight-set win Sunday over Arizona State (25-21, 26-24, 25-20) in Tempe. Senior All-American Brooke Nuneviller led all players with 20 kills, committing just one error on 37 swings for a .514 hitting percentage.
With the result, the Ducks win their fifth-consecutive match and improve to 15-5 overall with a 9-3 mark in the Pac-12. Oregon now has eight sweeps this season, five of which have come in conference play.
Mimi Colyer joined Nuneviller in double figures with 13 kills and a .310 efficiency of her own. In running the show, Hannah Pukis notched her second double-double of the weekend with 42 assists and 12 digs. Defensively, libero Georgia Murphy picked up a match-high 17 digs in the sweep, and added four assists.
Less than two days removed from a season-high nine aces at Arizona, the Ducks’ serving produced eight aces in Sunday’s match. Colyer and Murphy had two service winners apiece while Nuneviller, Pukis, Elise Agi and Daley McClelland each tallied one ace.
How It Happened: The teams split the first eight points of the match but the Ducks went on a run to go ahead 10-5 with a kill by Nuneviller to force ASU to use an early timeout. The home team got to within one—Oregon leading 14-13—but never regained the lead. With the Ducks leading by two points late in the opener, Nuneviller found the floor to give the team a handful of set points.
On the ensuing would-be rally, Murphy delivered an ace between two Sun Devils to give Oregon the 1-0…
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