The No. 24 North Carolina volleyball team couldn’t have asked for a more promising start to the season.
The Tar Heels (3-0) defeated Notre Dame, San Francisco and Middle Tennessee State this weekend to win the Blue Raider Bash tournament in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
North Carolina swept both Notre Dame and Middle Tennessee and dropped just one set to San Francisco.
USF won the first set Saturday morning, but the Tar Heels rallied to overcome a 1-4 deficit in the second set and take the match in four games.
Sophomore outside hitter Leigh Andrew said the team utilized San Francisco’s errors and elements of the game they could control to pull out the win.
“We struggled at passing in the beginning and we recognized that so we tried to capitalize on other areas of the game,” Andrew said.
Andrew was named the MVP of the Blue Raider Bash and was one of three Tar Heels named to the all-tournament team.
Coach Joe Sagula said all of his team’s hitters were equally effective.
“At the end of the weekend, looking at the three matches combined, all of our six hitters – the two outside hitters and the four middle hitters – all were within a couple of kills of each other for totals over the weekend, which is phenomenal,” Sagula said.
