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'She’s really hard to defend': Special season for Lexi Sun keeps going during win at Iowa

Nebraska outside hitter Lexi Sun had 14 kills on a very good .444 hitting percentage to lead the seventh-ranked Huskers to a mostly easy 25-21, 25-18, 25-14 win against Iowa on Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa.

Sun is having a great second season at Nebraska. She leads the Huskers with 305 kills and has reached double-digit kills in all 14 Big Ten matches. Sun has a .292 hitting percentage, after hitting .195 last season.

“The thing that Lexi is doing is she’s hitting all of the shots,” said Nebraska coach John Cook in a radio interview. “She’s using the whole court, and (hitting off) the block.