Kirsten Bernthal Booth thought her Bluejays checked all of the boxes in a 25-15, 25-20, 25-19 sweep of St. John’s at Carnesecca Arena on Saturday. Aside from the standard keys to victory that carry over from match to match, the 15th-year head coach wanted to see her team keep their foot on the gas when playing with a lead, and they did just that.
14th-ranked Creighton built 10-2 leads in both the first and second set, forcing the Red Storm to burn through both of their team timeouts early in each game.
“One of our goals was that if we get an early lead in games to really clamp down because we’ve sometimes let teams get back in, and I thought we did a better job of that tonight,” Bernthal Booth said.