Box Score NORFOLK, Va. – Coming off a disappointing loss on Friday at Howard, the Norfolk State volleyball team rebounded with a 3-0 victory over Delaware State in a Sunday matinee at Joseph Echols Hall.

The senior duo of Goda Jankauskaite and Coralie Jarema led the Spartans for the second match in a row, allowing NSU to keep pace in the MEAC Northern Division standings. Jankauskaite had 16 kills with four blocks, while Jarema added 15 kills and hit .440.

Norfolk State won, 25-22, 25-22 and 25-18 to improve to 3-2 in the MEAC and 7-13 overall.

The Hornets made NSU fight for the win, highlighted by a third set in which the Spartans fell behind by a 5-0 score. Delaware State called timeout after NSU won five of the next seven, and Jarema and Jankauskaite added several kills for a 9-8 lead.

A kill from junior Jasmin Flowers started a 6-1 run a little later, and Jarema capped a 4-0 run with back-to-back kills to put NSU up by seven. Delaware State won three straight before NSU took three of the last four points of the match.

Jankauskaite and Jarema each had six kills in the third set.

Sophomore Janay Frazier had five in the first set as the Spartans began the match with an 11-5 lead. Delaware State cut the deficit to two, but Frazier had two more kills during a 5-1 run for the Spartans. They called timeout twice, though, during a stretch in which DSU won 10 of 13 points.

Down 22-21, NSU was the recipient of a pair of errors on the Hornets, and Jankauskaite had a block and a kill to finish out the set.

Edarkis Branch had seven kills in the second set for DSU (1-14, 0-5 MEAC), as the Hornets again gave NSU fits. Delaware State took an early 5-2 lead before Norfolk State chipped away at the deficit. Sophomore Angie Darcus sparked a 5-0 run for NSU with her serve, but Delaware State erased a two-point NSU lead and went back up by one, 14-13.

Several kills from Jarema helped NSU start to pull away, but again the Hornets fought back, getting to within one, 21-20. Jankauskaite had a kill and a block near the end of the second set, and sophomore Jessica Johnson closed things out with a kill for the final point.

Frazier finished the match with nine kills on a .375 attack percentage. NSU hit .257 for the match. Redshirt junior Noelle Eagles added 14 digs, while sophomore Darcy Moore tallied 39 assists in just those three sets with 10 digs.

Branch led DSU with 15 kills. Jessica Russell-Croucher had six kills and eight digs, while Jae Jackson led all players with six blocks.

NSU will host UMES next Friday at 7 p.m. at Echols Hall.