Courtesy of Husker Athletics
The Nebraska volleyball team opened the 2025 campaign with its annual Red-White Scrimmage in front of a crowd of 8,414 in John Cook Arena at the Bob Devaney Sports Center on Saturday afternoon.
The Red team defeated the White team 3-1, though the Huskers mixed their teams and lineups around for each set.
Rebekah Allick led all players with 16 kills on .433 hitting with five blocks. It was a strong day for the middle blockers overall, as freshman Kenna Cogill posted 10 kills and five blocks and hit .421, and Andi Jackson had nine kills and hit .412. Freshman Manaia Ogbechie led all players with eight blocks in the match.
Harper Murray tallied 15 kills and nine digs, while Virginia Adriano posted 11 kills with a match-high three aces. Teraya Sigler had a double-double with 10 kills and 10 digs with a pair of aces, and Skyler Pierce contributed nine kills.
Bergen Reilly had 41 assists and 15 digs, while Campbell Flynn had 34 assists and 11 digs. Laney Choboy and Olivia Mauch had 17 and 16 digs, respectively.
Taylor Landfair finished with seven kills, five blocks and five digs, and Allie Sczech posted six kills, five digs and three blocks. Ryan Hunter recorded five kills and four blocks. Keri Leimbach and Maisie Boesiger had six and three digs, respectively.
Red rallied from down 22-19 to win the first set 25-23 with a 6-1 run. Sigler served an ace, and Allick had a kill, while Ogbechie and Landfair had a key block for Red’s first lead of the set at 24-23.
In the second set, Red put together a late comeback again. Trailing 21-16, Cogill had two kills before Sigler added one to cut the White lead to 21-19. Another Cogill and two White errors tied the score 22-22. Ogbechie and Sczech put White in front 23-22 with a block, but Allick terminated to tie the score again and she connected for the winning kill, 25-23.
Set three was a back-and-forth battle with the teams tied at 20-20. Adriano posted a kill for Red, and Allick and Murray combined for a block to make it 22-20. Jackson answered with a kill for White, and the score was tied 22-22 before a White hitting error, an Allick kill, and another White hitting error that gave Red the 25-22 win.
White got on the board in set four with a 25-17 win. Sigler and Allick each had four kills in the set.
The Huskers continue their preseason with the inaugural Alumni Match next Saturday at 6 p.m. The Alumni squad will feature former Huskers Jordan Larson, Kelly Hunter, Lauren Stivrins, Kenzie Maloney, Annika Albrecht, Gina Mancuso, Callie Schwarzenbach, Lindsay Krause, Leyla Blackwell and Ally Batenhorst.
