Volleyball sweeps Georgetown

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MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University women's volleyball team rolled to a 25-15, 25-13, 25-19 sweep of Georgetown on Saturday night at the Al McGuire Center behind 12 kills from Aubrey Hamilton.

Hamilton paced the Golden Eagles (6-7, 2-0 BIG EAST), who picked up their second BIG EAST Conference victory of the weekend after Friday's sweep of Villanova. Hamilton hit .600 (12-0-20) for the second match in a row, and added four digs and a pair of blocks. Middle hitter Carsen Murray hit .625 for MU with six kills and a match-best four blocks.

As a team, Marquette hit .311 (39-7-103) and held the Hoyas to a mark of .083 (28-19-109)

Georgetown (10-4, 1-1 BIG EAST) was led by 10 kills and 10 digs from Peyton Wilhite.

NOTABLE:

MU holds a 22-4 edge in the all-time series and has won each of the last 19 meetings. Over that time, the Hoyas have won just three of 60 total sets.
Hamilton continued her hot start to conference play after hitting .600 with 13 kills on Friday against Villanova.
Jenna Reitsma served MU to a 7-0 run in the opening set, forcing Georgetown to call the match's first timeout with MU ahead 14-9.
The Hoyas had won their previous four matches, including Friday night's sweep of DePaul in Chicago. GU held DePaul to a .076 hitting percentage (30-21-118).
Entering Saturday's match, Georgetown opponents were hitting just .139, a league-best mark for opponent hitting percentage.
GU's Kamryn Lee-Caracci entered the match hitting .399 to lead the BIG EAST and hit just .125 (5-3-16) on the evening.
Head coach AJ Bonetti is in his first season as head coach at Georgetown after five seasons as an assistant coach at Maryland.
MU hit .366 in last year's sweep of Georgetown on Nov. 4 at the Al McGuire Center, led by nine kills apiece from Hamilton and Jenna Reitsma. MU took the three sets, 25-17, 25-13, 25-10.
The lone matchup prior to MU's entrance to the BIG EAST in 2005 was a four-set win by the Hoyas in Sept. 1996.

UP NEXT: The Golden Eagles head outside of Milwaukee for the first time since Sept. 2 with matches on Saturday and Sunday at UConn and Providence, respectively. Both matches are slated for noon Central time.

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