PHILADELPHIA, PA- Madi Tyus (Plano, TX/Bishop Lynch) was named the player of the match and SFU put three into double figures in kills as the Red Flash got into the win column with a four-set victory over the Penn Quakers at the Valley Forge Invite.
 
Tyus finished with 16 kills and 14 digs while Nicole Adams (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa East) had 14 on a 323 hitting percentage. Alexis Lambert (McKinney, Tx./McKinney-Boyd) added 10 kills while Sophia Esposito (Coraopolis, PA/Montour (Gardner-Webb)) led the way with four blocks. The Red Flash won 18-25, 25-18, 25-19, 25-22 in the finale of the Valley Forge Invite for the Red Flash
 
FIRST SET RECAP

• Penn scored the first three points of the match and five of the first seven
• A pair of Tyus kills got the Red Flash even with Penn at six
• The Quakers would see-saw back in front 12-9 but a pair of errors and a Cecilia Esposito (Coraopolis, Pa./Montour) kill got the Red Flash within one at 13-12
• That would be as close as SFU would get as Penn ran off four-straight points to go up five and force an SFU timeout
• A pair of Tyus kills late would get SFU within four, but Penn would score the final three points of the set to take it 25-18

 
SECOND SET

• A pair of Tyus aces got the Red Flash offense going as they ripped off four-in-a-row to take a 4-2 lead
• SFU would maintain the lead and grow it to as many as six early on off a Cecilia Esposito (Coraopolis, Pa./Montour) kill and a pair of Penn attack errors, prompting a Penn timeout
• A pair of Alexis Lambert (McKinney, Tx./McKinney-Boyd) kills stretched the lead to seven at 18-11 forcing Penn to use their final timeout
• Penn would close the gap to four on a mini-run but SFU used their first timeout to stop the momentum
• A Madi Tyus (Plano, TX/Bishop Lynch) block would put the Red Flash on the cusp of tying the match and a kill from Nicole Adams (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa East) would make it 25-19 SFU to knot the match at a set each

 
THIRD SET

• SFU started the third set hot, winning the first four points with Lambert's two kills leading the charge
• The Red Flash took advantage of a pair of setting errors from Penn and a Nicole Adams (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa East) kill to go up 9-1 and force a Quaker timeout
• The Quakers would rally within four, prompting a SFU timeout and a Tyus kill helped the Red Flash build the lead back to six at 14-8
• Penn would again trim the lead to three but a kill from Adams and another by Amelia Metzler (Littleton, Colo./Chatfield) brought the lead back out to six and SFU wouldn't look back
• A pair of Emily Pieper (Paonia, Colo./Paonia) kills late would close the set out for SFU 25-18

 
FOURTH SET

• Again, the Red Flash started quick, grabbing the first four points off an ace, block and kill
• SFU built the lead to 6-1 only to see Penn rally to within one at 7-6
• The teams traded runs as a 4-0 SFU run was matched by a 3-0 Penn run to prompt a SFU timeout at 11-10 Flash
• A Kimmy Sweeney (Broadview Heights, OH/Beaumont School) ace and an Adams kill put SFU back up five at 16-11
• Again, the Quakers would rally, forcing a Saint Francis timeout after knotting the match at 20
• Kills from Tyus and Adams broke a 21-all tie and proved to be the difference
• A Tyus kill put the exclamation point on the victory at 25-22

 
LOOKING AHEAD
The Red Flash close out the non-con as they travel to Miami of Ohio next Saturday for a pair of matches. SFU will take on Oakland of Michigan and Miami