GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro College volleyball (23-4, 13-3 USA South) defeated N.C. Wesleyan (6-18, 1-13 USA South) 3-0 on Friday, winning 25-22, 25-20, 25-6. Greensboro closed the match with a 25-6 third set that included a 9-0 run from 8-2 to 17-2.
Greensboro Top Performers
Payton Shiflet
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- Team-high 11 kills
- .400 hitting percentage
- 2 blocks
- 12.0 points
Enjoli Allen
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- Team-high 7 blocks, including 1 solo
- 8 kills with 0 errors on 14 attempts
- .571 hitting percentage
- 12.0 points
Larkin Baxley
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- Team-high 11 assists
- 3 service aces
- 5 digs
- 5.5 points
Morgan Mayfield
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- Tied for team-high 11 digs
- 3 service aces
- 3.0 points
Grace Young
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- Tied for team-high 11 digs
- 1 service ace
Greensboro finished ahead in attack production, recording 28 kills to N.C. Wesleyan's 22 and hitting .156 while N.C. Wesleyan hit -.068 with 30 attack errors. Greensboro also totaled 11 blocks compared with two for N.C. Wesleyan and served nine aces to the visitors' four. A third-set surge featured separate 8-0 and 9-0 Greensboro runs, with one stretch including eight straight service points.
Greensboro broke a 20-20 tie late in the first set on an
Enjoli Allen kill from
Larkin Baxley, then got two
Payton Shiflet kills off Baxley assists among its final points to finish a 25-22 set win. Earlier, Greensboro had rallied from 10-7 down to move ahead 12-10, with Allen and
Payton Bell combining on a block before Allen's kill from
Madison Bozarth closed that stretch.
With the second set tied 17-17, Greensboro won seven of the next eight rallies to move to 24-18. Baxley served four straight points during that push, with Shiflet recording two kills in the run and teaming with
Abigail Leo on a block. Leo closed the set with a kill from Baxley as Greensboro took it 25-20.
Greensboro took control of the third set with extended service stretches, moving from a 1-1 tie to an 8-1 lead behind Baxley and later from 9-2 to 17-2 with Bozarth serving. Shiflet added kills at 7-1, 9-2 and on the final point as Greensboro finished the set 25-6.
Up Next:
Greensboro hosts Brevard College at Hanes Gymnasium on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, at 6 p.m.
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