Women's volleyball team has tough first day at Salt Lake tourney

The Eastern Florida State College women's volleyball team lost a couple of matches Thursday at the Crystal 'Inn'vitational at Salt Lake Community College in Utah.

The Titans lost to the host Salt Lake Community College in four sets, 25-14, 19-25, 22-25 and 17-25.

After getting off to a fast start the Titans rolled to a dominating win in the first set. But Salt Lake Community College came up big late in both the second and third sets to take the lead and won the fourth to take home the win in the first match of the day.

Freshman Leyre Arroyo Sanchez led the Titans with 13 kills while Jordyn Cox and Diara Gaye each had nine in the match.

The Titans were back on the court against the College of Southern Idaho and the first set was a classic that ended up being the difference in the match.

Eastern Florida State College was trailing 24-20 but rallied back Emma Cook and Cox each had kills and then Angelis Figueroa had back-to-back aces to tie the match 24-24. From there the two teams traded point after point until CSI scored three straight to take the first set 34-32.

The second set was all CSI and then they won the match in straight sets.

Eastern Florida State College will play Western Wyoming Community College at 11 a.m. and then finish the tournament against Western Nebraska Community College at 4 p.m.