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Volleyball drops first match of the season to EMU

The Kent State volleyball team headed into Monday’s match against 1-3 Eastern Michigan University with a historic six straight wins to start the season.

The Flashes may have been overly confident, as they fell to EMU in five sets.

“We came out a little overconfident,” sophomore outsider hitter Savannah Matthews said. “We didn’t expect Eastern Michigan to play as well as they did. It threw us off when they threw in a bunch of shots that we hadn’t seen before from any other team.”

EMU won the first two sets 25-11 and 25-21. While KSU would fight back to win the next two sets by four and six points, the Eagles would open the fifth with five straight points to win 15-8.