The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's volleyball team opened Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play with a 3-1 win at UW-Oshkosh Tuesday night. 

Neither team was efficient offensively in the first set, but the Warhawks came firing back hitting .417 in set two and .393 in set before ending the night with a .273 hit percentage. The difference in the match came at the net defensively where UW-W enjoyed a 10-3 advantage in blocks. 

The Warhawks had the advantage early in set one forcing a Titan timeout with UW-W leading 7-3. From there, Oshkosh turned the tables to take a 14-10 lead, but the Warhawks battled to keep it close. Whitewater ended up holding set point but UW-O scored three in a row to take set one 26-24. 

Set two was a different story as the Warhawks started to cruise midset leading by as much as nine, 21-12, in the set. UW-W held off the Titan comeback with Erin McNeil (Crystal Lake, Ill./Prairie Ridge) sealing the 25-19 win with a kill. 

UW-Whitewater rattled off the first five points of the fourth to set the tone. Kirsten Anderson (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) was huge for the Warhawks at the end of the set teaming up for back-to-back blocks to force match point before pounding down a kill for the win. 

Jenna Weinfurt (Waukesha, Wis./Catholic Memorial) led all hitters with 16 kills hitting .324 in the match. She added 14 digs and five blocks including three solo in the match. McNeil joined Weinfurt in double figures with 14 kills. She committed a single error in 27 attempts for an attack percentage of .481. 

Anderson was a force both offensively and defensively at the net. She tallied eight kills in 15 attempts with just one error, an attack percentage of .467 on the night. She added a match-high six block assists and three aces. 

KellyAnn Sotiros (New Berlin, Wis./West Allis Hale) and Emma Bludgen (Aurora, Ill./Metea Valley) ran the offense from the setter position combining for 47 assists. Morgan Jensen (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) led a contingent of three Warhawks with double digit digs registering 21 in the contest.