SHAWNEE, Okla. – The Harding volleyball team stayed perfect in Great American Conference action Thursday after defeating Oklahoma Baptist 3-1 (25-23, 10-25, 25-18, 25-19). Oklahoma Baptist was in second place in the GAC standings coming into Thursday's contest.

Thursday's win also marked Harding's 19th straight win dating back to August 27th. Harding broke the previous record of 17 that was accomplished twice with the first being in 2002 and the second in 2005 last Friday after defeating Southwestern Oklahoma 3-1.

Harding stays in first place in the GAC standings and improves to 21-1 overall and 10-0 in the GAC.

Oklahoma Baptist falls to 14-9 overall and 8-2 in the GAC.

FIRST SET

Leading 8-7 in the first set, Oklahoma Baptist went on a 5-0 run to take a 13-7 lead. Harding battled back and tied the set at 23. A service error and a Harding block gave the Lady Bisons the set 25-23. The two teams combined for 17 attack errors in the set. Harding had 12 kills and Oklahoma Baptist had 13.

SECOND SET

Oklahoma Baptist jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the second set and didn't look back as it won the set 25-10. Oklahoma Baptist had 12 kills and hit .333 in the set.

THIRD SET

Trailing 6-5 in the third set, Harding went on a 7-1 run on five kills to lead 12-7. Harding had set point four times before a kill by Skyler McKinnon gave Harding the set 25-18. Harding had 18 kills in the set and hit .341.

FOURTH SET

Harding jumped out to a 5-2 lead in the fourth set before Oklahoma Baptist tied the set at six. Harding then went on a 9-3 run on five kills to lead 15-9. Leading 23-19, Harding had back-to-back kills to win the set 25-19. Harding had 15 kills and hit .268 in the set.

STATS

Harding

-          Harding had 52 kills and hit .177 in the match.

-          Skyler McKinnon led Harding with 13 kills and Kelli McKinnon also had 12.

-          Harding had nine blocks by six different players. Skyler McKinnon and Jacey Lambert each had three blocks.

-          Sarah Morehead had 48 assists in the match.

-          Harding had 79 digs in the match and was led by Grecia Soriano and Emma Winiger who each had 18 digs. Cam Hinton also had 11 digs.

Oklahoma Baptist

-          Oklahoma Baptist had 48 kills and hit .175 in the match.

-          Oklahoma Baptist was led by Jill Leslie and D'Erricka Frierson who each had 12 kills.

-          Maci Langford led the defense with 23 digs.

 UP NEXT

Harding will be back in action Friday when it travels to Bethany, Oklahoma to take on Southern Nazarene at 4 p.m.