KINGSVILLE – The Angelo State volleyball team extended its winning streak to 11 and claimed at least a share of the Lone Star Conference regular-season championship with a 3-1 (25-12, 27-25, 22-25, 25-22) Lone Star Conference victory over Texas A&M-Kingsville on Saturday at The Gil H. Steinke Physical Education Center.

The No. 9 Belles (24-3, 17-1 LSC) have now won 19 of their last 20 matches with two matches to play and are now one win from earning an outright title – the first since 1992. West Texas A&M, a 3-0 winner on Saturday against Midwestern State, has three conference losses and needs ASU to lose its final two matches to pull even with the Rambelles in the standings.  

“This was a tough road trip against hungry teams,” ASU head coach Chuck Waddington said. “We had to respond to that and I thought we did a good job today. It wasn't our cleanest game but we did what we had to do to leave here with a win.”

Shelbi Goode led the Belles with 18 kills, while Kaelen Valdez had 19 digs and 11 kills in the victory over the Javelinas. Maddie Huth had 15 kills, eight digs and two blocks with Alex Woolsey orchestrating the offense with 52 assists. Shelby Wilt topped ASU with 21 digs, while Katie MacLeay added another 13 digs and Haley Bianco had nine.

Woolsey is now only two assists away from drawing even with Amber Nelson's all-time assists record at Angelo State. The senior setter has 4,784 assists in her career and will be the all-time leader with at least three kills in her next match. She is averaging 12.14 assists per set this season which is the best in her four years at ASU.

Angelo State had a .261 hitting percentage and limited TAMU-Kingsville to a .187 percentage. The Rambelles were out-blocked in the match 6-3 but continued responding to the Javelinas every time they made a surge. ASU finishes the regular season next weekend with two road matches – first a 7 p.m. match on Friday at Texas A&M-Commerce and then the regular-season finale at 2 p.m. at Texas Woman's.